Status update ?

[Mat Colton]

Am Montag, 28. Oktober 2002 00:09 schrieb Christoph Cullmann:
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> Hi,
> would it be possible to come to an conclusion about the "which design to
> choose"  question this week ?
> All people had now sure enough time to update their drafts and modify them.
> Could now finally be some hints given which one to choose ?

If it's about the basic one or two sided layout, I go for the one sided layout 
with navigation on the right side. So I go for Jason and Neils design. 
If your question is about the design, I go for Jason and Neils. :)  
All layouts are development releases I guess, but Jason and Neils Job is the 
one closest to what a good web design should be about IMO, the others are 
screen designs (also IMO). 

Design notes:
- None of the designs will really works all too well on older browsers, so why 
half-hearted XHTML 1.0 transitional in all designs but Jason/Neils? IMO we 
can even use XHTML 1.1, which is basically XHTML 1.0 Strict.
- Only Jason/Neils design are easy to use, all others want to show every link 
on every page. But it does seem that Jason/Neils design shows 
usability.kde.org  as an example and root66's designs show the kde.org front 
page as an example. So what's the master plan for the kde.org front page and 
category pages? Keep in mind that all of you are internet pros. Do the Mom 
check: ask your Mom to find a specific link within 15 seconds after the page 
loaded. If she finds it, you've done well. If not, make the navigation easier 
to use. Just IMO of course.
- Using the <link media="print"> thingy is not to clean IMO since it causes 
unneeded file system overhead on the server. No matter if the CSS is used, it 
is loaded. So why load three different files? Use one CSS file and @media 
statements.

I have a lot of suggestions for better markup, but since all the drafts are 
quick and dirty jobs I'll wait until we settle for one layout and then 
comment on that. 
Though I do have my personal faves let me say that IMO all have done nice jobs 
with their drafts.
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Bye,
Mat