Design natter

[branchandroot]

I think I may crosspost this, if only because my flist over here is small as yet.

But the question /is/... what image would IJ (and its users) like to have? There's the Facebook option, which is Clean and Professional. There's the Myspace option (only better coded, please [DEITY]), which is Bold and Bright. LJ is kind of in between those--the color palate is C&P, while the number of flashy, tacky or just high-contrast content widgets is B&B.

As it stands, IJ itself is kind of in-between... at least the default is. The alternative schemes are kind of half and half either way.

So, okay, maybe that means we should be working toward a sort of compromise scheme. So, probably not the intense blue background. But also perhaps not the pure white background. Light yellow is probably a bit to "soft". Perhaps some kind of geometrical wallpaper for the header and a white background. Something that leaves Tweak on white and then transfers, one way or another, to the topbar-orange as it moves to the left.

Have to make sure the logged in info is still readable on it.

*pokes at this idea some more* Maybe make /all/ the menus the same gold-orange, and save the darker accent colors for that header paper...

Comments

[qem_chibati.insanejournal.com]

There are a lot of people who want something C&P - because it is readable and low attention. If you could make something with a white background - I really think that there are a few hundred people that would kiss you.

http://asylums.insanejournal.com/ideas/33139.html


http://asylums.insanejournal.com/ideas/31034.html
- the general consensus there is muted colours.



I was originally using anime, but stopped because the links were unreadable on the support board ( http://www.insanejournal.com/support/help.bml ) - then I switched to new tweak - because I don't like using black backgrounds late at night... Then I don't know what happened but I switched to brown then honeycomb because the problem didn't bother me any more.

[branchandroot]

*claps hands* Oh, excellent! Okay, white background it is. My first draft is over here (http://www.alltrees.org/IJ/IJ-althome.html) if you want to have a look. I'm messing with the colors a lot.

*grins* Divs, check, ids, check. I'm making this as styleable as possible.

I like the idea of a differently colored tweak for different color combinations. If Squeaky would go for that, that would definitely make for more flexibility. *wry* I gotta admit, orange is hard to match blocks of background color to.