US website theme RFC & request for screenshots

[Jorge G. Mare]

Howdy,

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Benjamin Turner
<passionsplaydesign at gmail.com> wrote:
> On a first walkthrough I found that I wanted to navigate the homepage's info
> carousel by clicking on the images below the text held in the unordered list
> with id="flowtabs".
>
> To a certain extent this section of the page feels like an accordion
> interaction, so when I couldn't click on the images I had to find out *how*
> to interact with it - ie. click the text.
>
> In the grand scheme of things, not to big, just something that *feels* like
> it should be interactive.

Yes, I am using sliding tabs in what looks like an accordion. So while
I like the way the front page preface area looks, I am not completely
happy with the user interaction. I will see if I can come up with some
visual cues as to how to interact with the sliding tabs (don't really
know how, though); if that does not work, I may just replace the
script to a standard accordion script.

> Text looks awesome! I like the line spacing, and the subtle grey border
> below the h2 tags. There is only one thing I might play with in regards to
> text, and that is the post's meta content. The way it is currently looks
> beautiful, but the content isn't as *scan-able* By that I mean that when I
> scroll down the page the individual post titles (h2) stand out, but the
> content of the post doesn't stand out from the meta - ie. author, post date,
> etc...
>
> In terms of a solution - Hmmm... the quick thing would be to make the meta
> smaller. Another possible solution would be to not have it on the home page,
> or to have a limited amount showing, when the viewer clicks through to the
> single post they would get more details. I'm not as thrilled with that
> solution, but it could work.

I agree with your observation. However, I am pretty sure that the
content that will in the end be shown in the front page underneath the
preface area will change quite a bit from what you see now, so I will
not bother with this for now. I will keep it in mind for when the time
comes, though. ;)

Cheers,

Jorge