[haiku-web] Re: New Template for Haiku's site

  • From: Adriano Foschi <disfido@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:24:47 +0200

Hi! My first template project was this:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7269/haikuos.png

After the suggestions of mmadia I decided to remake it. He suggested to make
a theme that reintroduces the desktop of Haiku, but maybe I exaggerated ;)
However we can decide how to modify the interface :)



2010/9/22 Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Adriano Foschi wrote:
>
>> Hello! I'm a new user in the Haiku OS Community. Thanks to suggestions
>> from Mmadia and Barrett, I released a template preview for the official
>> website of Haiku OS. The theme reintroduces the desktop of Haiku (windows,
>> icons, colors, etc.). So I decided to suggest my work as a replacement for
>> the actual template.
>>
>> Preview:
>> http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7444/templateg.png
>>
>> Bye! ;)
>>
>
> Hi Adriano,
> Welcome to Haiku!
>
> Note that Barett posted the link on IRC so i initially saw the screenshot
> out of context, whithout knowing hat it was.
>
> My very first impression (first seconds) was, "Wow! beautiful rework of the
> 'About Haiku"' application!" :)
> My second impression was, "Ah very nice design, but this kind of ui might
> be better suited for a documentation site (think bebook with a searchbox)."
> (at that point i was looking only at the content of the window).
> Then it took me a couple of minutes to realize that the whole screenshot
> was the web page. And this is where i have a problem, in my opinion i don't
> think that web site should disguise into an operating system. This is very
> troubling for my brain :) but i'm open to discussion.
>
> Other than that issue, i think that you have pretty good design skills (you
> got me twice) and thanks for your contribution.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex
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