Re: Default Template discussion

@Murray,

> > How about putting them under the "G'day" link?  That's where the
> > person's name always is anyway.
>
> Hmm. I kinda like that idea. I keep meaning to mention a change I
> make to the template that you might like: I add a small icon to
> the left of the greeting, a little person whose colour changes
> depending on status. Anonymous they're slightly blushing, asserted
> but not logged in a slight bit green, and if logged in their face
> is clear and they wave at you. You can see this on the CeryleWiki at
>
>     http://purl.org/ceryle/wiki/
>
> Happy to donate the icons and supply the patch if you want to add
> it to the CVS. Would save me from making the change each time if
> you do... :-)
Murray,
Why not add the ceryle skin to the default distribution ?
It's a great looking skin.


> I still like them myself. I probably hit Edit from the bottom 50% of
> the time, especially on long pages. It depends on whether I know I'm
> going to edit the page before I've read it or after.
One more vote on bottom-page actions ;-))

> >>   - the More... button should really become the last TAB, which becomes
.....
> I really prefer it the way it is now. The only thing I'd suggest is
> maybe make it look like a menu somehow, maybe putting a line border
> around it with a down arrow at its right, ala Java Swing and Mac OS?
> My only problem with the current top right stuff is that we currently
> have a link (Welcome), an action (Edit), another action (Login), and
> a menu (More...) that all look the same. I think we can lose the
> Welcome as redundant with the Favorites, that Edit and Login should
> probably look the same, but somehow Menu... needs to look like a menu
> a bit more, some kind of visual clue to differentiate it from the
> actions.
Agree.
Currently, the page-actions have an orange-background block when you
hover over them.
I'll check out some different 'button' look&feel to make this visually
more clear.


dirk