Aral Balkan

I'd been meaning to lighten up the wonderful OSFlash web site design donated to us by Niko for some time now to improve readability, etc. and finally got some time today to do so. Take a look! I have to say that I was more than a little inspired by the clean layouts of my Brighton buddy Andy Budd (of Clearleft) and the work of folk like 37 signals. Of course there's a huge difference between being inspired and creating something even half as good ;) The links are still signature Sean Inman :) More updates to come as I find time...

Comments

• Aral-
  Just a quick thought: how difficult would it be to allow sorting the projects by "date created" and "last updated." I realize "last updated" might not be the easiest term to define and keep track of, but I think any data would be more helpful than none. As someone who only managed to peek on the site every few weeks, I find myself looking at the alphabetized list of similar-sounding abstractly-named projects and thinking "hmmm, now what was that one about?" and "so which projects have been added or changed sinced last time?"

  by jedwood on 2005-11-30 14:02:04

• Hi Jed,
  
  Very good suggestion. The current separation between the wiki and the source code hosting, etc. is far from ideal. I'm looking into solutions to this at the moment :)

  by aral on 2005-11-30 14:27:05

• Hey Aral! The site design just lacks one feature:
  
  body { background-color: white }
  
  My win theme uses another color for panel background (gray), so it looks like this:
  http://vaclav.vancura.org/data/2005/11/aral.png
  (what is not exactly what you do want, huh? :] )

  by Vaclav Vancura on 2005-11-30 17:36:23

• (and this "feature" is the main reason i had never used yahoo...)

  by VV on 2005-11-30 17:37:23

• I usually just take a look at the Recent Changes page. That usually gives me an idea of what's new. ;)
  
  I'm not sure I'm keen on the new design Aral. While you made it more readable, I don't know if the new style reflects the OSFlash community. When I think of Flash, I think of sleek, cutting-edge sites. Similarly, the name Open Source Flash makes me think of the technology behind Flash. This new design feels bulky and overly... I'm not even sure of the right word. Playful, I guess. OSFlash is a fun topic, I'll admit, but the design doesn't convey the full message I feel it should.
  
  One other thing I'd like to note. As a development wiki, the design should take up the full width of the visitor's screen. There are many pages with a lot of information that needs to breathe a bit more.

  by Josh Tynjala on 2005-11-30 17:43:27