Re: Mockups for the new main page and top level topic pages

Great! (Thought we weren't supposed to use HTML, but definitely a great
improvement.)

Wish we could make the Summary section go away. Or move it - below?

Having the real map of what's available above the fold might help people
move faster to their desired destinations.

J


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-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
Organization: W3C
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 7:28 AM
To: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>
Cc: "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Mockups for the new main page and top level topic pages
Resent-From: <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Resent-Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 7:28 AM

>Hi, Chris-
>
>Great job! Big improvement.
>
>Regards-
>-Doug
>
>
>On 12/5/12 10:25 AM, Chris Mills wrote:
>> I have spent a fair bit of time today creating some mockups for a new
>> look for the main pages, and the top level topic pages. I thought I'd
>> share these first two with you, before going ahead and making any
>> more, so I can get feedback
>>
>> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:main_page
>> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:html
>>
>> In each case, the crazy floated boxes have placeholders for where
>> icons will appear (the red/blue squares), and the descriptive text
>> for each subpage. I will fill in those with real content as soon as
>> it is available, and obviously this is fairly rough for now, but
>> there is a limit to what you can do when messing around with inline
>> styles ;-)
>>
>> The idea would be to use the exact same structure seen on the HTML
>> page, for all other subpages, to give the whole site a nice degree of
>> consistency.
>>
>> For now, can you let me know what you think?
>>
>>
>> Chris Mills Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera
>> Software Co-chair, web education community group, W3C Author of
>> "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design"
>> 
>>(http://my.opera.com/chrismills/blog/2012/07/12/practical-css3-my-book-is
>>-finally-published)
>>
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>
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