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Hi Andreas,


On 11.10.08 05:24, Andreas Mantke wrote:
Hi all,

the new extensions-site is in a test-mode since some weeks now. We have already
worked on a header graphic for the site. This is online now. But maybe there are some
ideas for improvements of the sites layout. I hope to get some proposals / mockups
from the "design-experts" here ;-)

You can find the site here at the moment:
http://extensions-test.libreoffice.org

Regards,
Andreas

I'd be happy to chip in a mock-up soon, but could you do me one favour in advance;

(I'm sorry to sound like a stubborn and difficult Designer, even though I am, but ...)
could you reinstate the original extensions logo?
...this one: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/7/7e/ExtensionsLogo_110712NS.png

I realise you modified the placement, size (and indeed the very shape) of the triangles to attract /attention/, and you've succeeded: but for some wrong reasons...

The triangles are attracting "bad" attention because they are mis-aligned with the text (vertically). This is the same as when you see one street-pole bent and the others are intact. It isn't desirable. And the ability to discern the "X" created by the negative space between the triangles is lost when you remove the "X" from the context in which it would usually occur (i.e. at the same hieght as the neighbouring letters).

Believe me, the colour-contrast will be sufficent in attracting attention, the size-difference right now is unnerving.
And the inconsistencies in shape look unprofessional.

Also, the sharp corners of the new triangles conflict with the soft corners of the document symbol nearby. And the radial gradient now employed doesn't suggest modularity like the broken conical gradient did.

I'm being nit-picky. I'm sorry. I'll be quiet now.
-Nik

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