[wp-design] Thoughts?

[Joen Asmussen]

Subtraction is nice, yes, but I dare say Black is such an integral part 
of that design that it doesn't count. Black on White IS the design.

Oh yes, more community. That, and the backend design was what got me 
into it, so I like the way the admin area is presented.

J

khaled Abou Alfa wrote:

> See I think Subtraction is a brilliant design, and that's all about 
> the black baby :). As for the above there's one thing from a content 
> pov I think you should be emphasising more. The single greatest asset 
> to wordpress, I literally wrote about this yesterday, but it's the 
> community. You should highlight the community surrounding the program 
> more, because for me as a beginner that was the deal clincher.
>
> I like the design, but as mentioned more colour :).
>
> On 9/7/05, *Joen Asmussen* <joen at noscope.com 
> <mailto:joen at noscope.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for clarifying, I was gonna bark at the colors.
>
>     Basically, the guy who said Black on White looks good should be
>     neutered.
>
>     In fact, I very very rarely use black at all. That's not only for my
>     online material, but for my offline things as well. The problem
>     is, you
>     can't go darker than black, so everything is just up there, screaming
>     it's lungs out.
>
>     In other words, shade of grey!
>
>     Oh, and nudge the logo slightly left. Right now it's placed so
>     that the
>     symbol is not quite right aligning with the sidebar, and the
>     logotype is
>     not quite left aligning with the main contents. My co-worker would'a
>     pointed and screamed TANGENT! That means the dynamic is dead.
>     Either the
>     logo should be nudged 5px to the right, or like 100px to the left to
>     break the tangent and create the dynamic.
>
>     That said, I really really like what he's done with the logo. Slap on
>     some nice colors, and it'll look really nice! (Oh, and a shade of grey
>     or some color instead of the white background might also do wonders).
>
>     Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>
>     > Bryan Veloso wrote:
>     >
>     >> Well, I miss the colorful logo and I think the boldness looks
>     weird
>     >> on it (don't mind me if this is something that can't be changed).
>     >> Overall though, it looks very product-like. Nice and open and full
>     >> of  content. But then I look at the header again, and it seems
>     kind
>     >> of  empty, like it needs something there.
>     >
>     >
>     > I should have clarified, this is just for layout and shapes, no
>     colors
>     > yet. Thanks for the feedback! This is version 1.
>     >
>
>
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