Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the new-and-improved dept.
Joseph writes "Red Hat looks like it put those Atomic Vision folks to work with a new site design. More hype before their IPO?" I'm just glad to see a simpler, more elegant
design.
I can understand using a relatively smaller font for the subcategories, but the proper way to do that is not SIZE=2. It should be SIZE=-1. That way, someone who has limited vision or a high-resolution display can set their fonts to a large size, and the subcategories will still be relatively smaller, but remain large enough to see.
Absolute font sizing is a Bad Thing. Unfortunately, it is still done quite often.
It looks like other site because its a simple design. Making a site more useful is not selling out, not that a commercial company can sell out... By definition they have already sold out. This redhat bashing is senseless. What have they ever done that is wrong or is against the community. They pay programmers to work on Free Software projects. Those Bastards! They GPL their code. Corporate Sellouts! Oh wait, I know what their fault is.. They're sucessful, and are gaining mainstream acceptance. gasp! So Linux is loosing alitle bit of its mystery and your elitism is being threatened. So sad, you'll have to go find another counterculture OS to identify with. Me, I use it because it works. An OS is not a lifestyle, its a tool.
Why does everyone designing these so-called portal sites insist on setting all their table widths to 600 pixels? It's really annoying on those of us who have monitors 17 inches and bigger. I mean, it's stupid to run my SGI monitor in anything less than 1280x1024, so i get to see this itty-bitty table in a massive browser window.
Folks, the trick is to do then specify everything else in percentages as well. It'll look the same on browsers with windows limited to 600 pixels, but those of us with bigger monitors won't think you're idiots. (Well, at least not as much.)
>/rant off
REDHAT Get a DESIGNER, an ARTIST I say
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Ok, I am a bias fool, (I am a designer) but the design is not engaging. You get lost very fast as there is no central navigation design. Granted you have the top bar that takes you to the top of the specific section, but it is not effective It really looks to me that Redhat is trying to do a portal of sorts.
Think about what a portal does. You go to once place and you find links to deep level pages on other sites or with the same network(think go.com or msn.com or Netcenter). My big gripe is that if Redhat wants to be the leader in the whole Linux/open source movement, well the should look the part. Blazing fast the site maybe, but will anyone stick around to find the info they want without a little eye candy? I doubt it.
Return visitors will be hard pressed to see a change in the content within the golden 5 second window. after complete load) My two cents to Redhat buy the services of a company that can take there corporate image and turn it into something that is engaging and meets the basic rules of (web)design.
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I can understand using a relatively smaller font for the subcategories, but the proper way to do that is not SIZE=2. It should be SIZE=-1. That way, someone who has limited vision or a high-resolution display can set their fonts to a large size, and the subcategories will still be relatively smaller, but remain large enough to see.
Absolute font sizing is a Bad Thing. Unfortunately, it is still done quite often.
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It looks like other site because its a simple design. Making a site more useful is not selling out, not that a commercial company can sell out... By definition they have already sold out. This redhat bashing is senseless. What have they ever done that is wrong or is against the community. They pay programmers to work on Free Software projects. Those Bastards! They GPL their code. Corporate Sellouts! Oh wait, I know what their fault is.. They're sucessful, and are gaining mainstream acceptance. gasp! So Linux is loosing alitle bit of its mystery and your elitism is being threatened. So sad, you'll have to go find another counterculture OS to identify with. Me, I use it because it works. An OS is not a lifestyle, its a tool.
Folks, the trick is to do then specify everything else in percentages as well. It'll look the same on browsers with windows limited to 600 pixels, but those of us with bigger monitors won't think you're idiots. (Well, at least not as much.)
>/rant off
Ok, I am a bias fool, (I am a designer) but the design is not engaging. You get lost very fast as there is no central navigation design. Granted you have the top bar that takes you to the top of the specific section, but it is not effective It really looks to me that Redhat is trying to do a portal of sorts.
Think about what a portal does. You go to once place and you find links to deep level pages on other sites or with the same network(think go.com or msn.com or Netcenter). My big gripe is that if Redhat wants to be the leader in the whole Linux/open source movement, well the should look the part. Blazing fast the site maybe, but will anyone stick around to find the info they want without a little eye candy? I doubt it.
Return visitors will be hard pressed to see a change in the content within the golden 5 second window. after complete load) My two cents to Redhat buy the services of a company that can take there corporate image and turn it into something that is engaging and meets the basic rules of (web)design.