[haiku-web] Re: Drupal 5 + Design considerations

Howdy,

Austin Bales wrote:
On a separate but related thread, I showed haiku-os.org <http://haiku-os.org> AND http://web.archive.org/web/20060615003835/haiku-os.org/learn.php to the people in our studio this afternoon. We also looked at some of the websites that I mentioned before (CakePHP was called a Thanksgiving festival, prototype was dubbed sterile, and codeigniter was "fine". Happy Cog was a universal favorite.)
The current site got a negative responses on color below the header, on information density, and typographic hierarchy. People seemed generally impressed with Kurtis's design for it's simplicity.
I agree that the design of the old website was simple, and that was nice. But the new website offers so much more in terms of participation, collaboration, community building, possibilities for expansion, scalability, etc., that from a broader perspective, what we have now is order of magnitudes better.
IOW, good design is definitely desired, but it is far from the determining factor in the success of a website. And I say this in spite of being a marcom person. :) 

Cheers,

Koki

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