[Thunar-dev] New mockup for the Thunar Website

[Henrik Andersen]

On 6/11/05, Henrik Andersen <simsalabimladen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/11/05, David Feldman <mailing-lists at interfacethis.com> wrote:
> > A couple quick usability-related comments:
> > - I'd consider making the text a point size larger. Small text is,
> > unfortunately, very "in" these days, but going with 12px or larger
> > type will make the site easier to read and navigate.
> > - In a similar vein, maybe use a darker blue for the links? They're a
> > little hard to read.
> >
> > Overall, looks very nice and clean.
> >
> > --Dave
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Thunar-dev mailing list
> > Thunar-dev at xfce.org
> > http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
> >
> 
> I've got the promised logo attached in this mail, both as a PSD and a
> PNG. It's a 3D-ish image of Mjölner made in Photoshop by Simon
> Andersen (my brother :-). Just so it's said, there are two different
> versions, one concept image and one "complete" image.
> 
> I've been converting the latest design into semantic, accessible
> XHTML/CSS (it's not complete, though), and although I normally use
> relative font sizes (like most accessibility guides will tell you to
> do), I've at long last come to not bother because of problems with
> font size interoperability across OSs. So IE visitors won't be able to
> resize the text.
> 
> I agree that the font size should be make larger. What I'm going to
> try is to increase all the font sizes on the site.
> 
> I don't think using the Viking would be a good idea. We'd have to ask
> the one who made it, whose website appears to be Italian, and even
> then it would be questionable to use the third Google Image result for
> Thor for our website, IMO. :-)
> 
> --
> "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of
> people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
> -Douglas Adams
> 
> 
> 

Oops, files too big.

Here are links to the images:
http://www.freewebs.com/halol/thunar/thunar.png (both versions)
http://www.freewebs.com/halol/thunar/thunar.psd
http://www.freewebs.com/halol/thunar/thunar2.psd

-- 
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
-Douglas Adams