[Seattle-editorial] site design - comments from belgium

[anarch3m]

Me too!   It goes back to feedback about the black and red pages.  unreadable and.... well, you know those colors have baggage....

I'm wondering about the images selected for the banner montage.  Colors?  no one will back pink, right?  I have no other preferences except readability.  We have yet to go pastel, less extreme perhaps, more insipid perhaps...ah 

There must be a better entry to the semiotic analysis of race and sex etcetcetc as expressed in web design.

Not knocking the thought, just having trouble thinking how to think about this.  How to translate to a design...

walt
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--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Mon,  3 Nov 2003 13:03:19
From: Sheri Herndon <sheri at speakeasy.org>
To: Seattle Editorial <seattle-editorial at indymedia.org>
Cc: 

>an excerpt from an email to the women's list from a woman in a new collective in belgium:
>
>They (the techies) name basic courtesy and respectfull communication as an important 
>point to create an environement  where everybody can feel comfortable 
>in, and feeling comfortable in a group is a reason for people to stay, 
>especially people who face exclusion in one form or another. But that 
>doesn't solve the problem of attracting diversity, they formulated a 
>number of other proposals to deal with that.
>
>They will  work on the "look" of the site, logo and colour will be made 
>more appealing to a larger public, as lots of imc-sites do use strong, 
>aggressive colours and violent images, breathing some kind of  machismo 
>that will make a lot of people click away from the site at firsts sight.
>
>end quote:
>
>i like this way of thinking about how to "redesign the site"....
>
>xo
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