US website theme RFC & request for screenshots

[C K]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Benjamin Turner <b.g.turner at gmail.com>wrote:

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>  News post
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>> https://picasaweb.google.com/jorge.g.mare/UbuntuStudioArtwork#5595278554459506242
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>> User profile
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>> https://picasaweb.google.com/jorge.g.mare/UbuntuStudioArtwork#5595278554875022562
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>> Blog post
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>> https://picasaweb.google.com/jorge.g.mare/UbuntuStudioArtwork#5595284881897234786
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>> Jorge
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> Jorge -
> I think that this theme is coming along wonderfully.  There are a few
> things that you may still be working on, but I thought I would give my 2
> cents. The main elements of page adhere to a pretty good grid system (the
> green lines in the link below). There are some things that don't really
> follow the grid that you are beginning to establish (red lines).
> It seems that perhaps these elements are part of the 'main content' or
> something like that, and that they are structured more like a directory tree
> - great for viewing files - but somewhat breaking from your design grid.
>
> Overall, I think that your font choices are doing their jobs - I can tell
> that 'UbuntuStudio Live Recording' is the title of the article, and that the
> 'view edit unpublish' are navigational. However the 'Home' from the main
> menu and the 'home' in the content area feels a little redundant, or perhaps
> unclear as to what each instance does. Perhaps if you are trying to
> establish where the user is, you could hi-light the 'home' in the menu area?
>
> I've uploaded a screenshot with a few annotations to hopefully clarify what
> I mean:
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> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9k0EVSEZ-UoHpjegBBjN-iHR1PMKhI6HfAFTAPr0k3A?feat=directlink
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> Thanks for all the great work you're doing!
> - Benjamin
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I wanted to point out that this is a perfect example of critique. Very clear
and well thought out.

We need more of this.

-- 
-Cory K.
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