[maemo-community] Maemo.org design and usability ideas

[From: Tim]

Nice ideas... I'm not too hip on the header, though: seems constrained
in the "box" -- could use more head-room.

I like the colors.

Tim



On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:41:22 +0300
"Kamen Bundev" <bundyo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I spent some time to design and animate an inspired from the current
> maemo.org theme mock-up with some ideas i had in mind lately. You can
> check them out and tell me what do you think (keep in mind that they
> are WiP, i just wanted to get them out before the Summit)?
> 
> http://bundyo.org/maemo/site/
> http://bundyo.org/maemo/site/index2.html
> 
> The first one is more-dynamic oriented with every panel separately
> downloaded and controlled. There are some panel controls if you click
> on the title. This one is slower on a tablet (as expected :))
> 
> The second one is a "dropdown breadcrumbs" kind of navigation that
> seems to me is easier to navigate than the normal breadcrumbs and is
> more flexible (hopefully). The More crumb is kind of a look-ahead one
> - using it i removed the side navigation completely. If that's a good
> idea is for you to tell me :) I'm posting a similar post in ITT for
> discussion here:
> 
> http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=224819
> 
> The first one is more javascript oriented, the second one is just
> HTML/CSS (excluding the menu). The two are part of the whole idea,
> but i just wanted to test if no javascript is going to be faster.
> 
> Regards:
> Bundyo
>