[Seattle-editorial] site redesign: comments from evan

[Sheri Herndon]

hi everyone,

this is from evan.  i asked him for his feedback.  i think we should 
take his strong critique with a grain of salt as he suggests and he 
knows that this was a quick mockup.  but he has some good suggestions 
in terms of looking at these other sites and getting some feedback 
with some of these designers.

we build from here!  i think it's a great beginning and that's where 
we need to start.  i will check with evan about any contacts he might 
have for those sites.  we used to have imc-presentation where we 
could discuss these issues of site design.  that list has been "dead" 
for a while and was never utilized.  i think sharing these kinds of 
skills and best practices and design tips/support would be great. 
very well put together sites really help in terms of getting people 
to use the site, stay on the site, come back to the site.

just a few thoughts.

sheri
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>First off i want to say i've been in a really critical mood lately. This
>probally comes across as more harsh than i mean. I think it's great you
>are working on a redesign!
>
>Honestly? The fonts change randomly and there are to
>many different types, colors, and faces. There are some randomly thrown in
>colors and the color scheme doesn't hold together. Things aren't lined up.
>Some things are centered, other left aligned, other right. There also isnt
>enough white space giving visual seperation between elements on the page.
>
>The best designed imc sites are Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy,
>Barcelona, Melbourne, Portland, Austria, Maritimes, Minneapolis/St Paul,
>New York, and San Francisco.
>
>Perhaps you could bring somebody in from one of those imc's to help your
>redesign process. We could really use somebody to get together the
>indymedia webdesigners to help fixup all the ugly imc sites which don't
>have designers locally.
>
>-evan
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>On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Sheri Herndon wrote:
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>>  http://www.deepmedia.org/imc/
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