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Jennifer Diane Reitz wrote:Skatche wrote:Well... the interface looks very nice and has a lot of character, but the thought of actually using it to navigate around brings me no joy. The inconsistency is one problem (clicking the news link brings me to an entirely different and unfamiliar interface). Another is that all the labels are together below all the buttons (rather than one label underneath each button), which is bad UI design. Potential easy fix for the latter: just make it so the labels are also links; a little redundancy never hurts. As for consistency, what would make the most sense to me would be if the different items (news etc.) loaded in the same Kamishibai panel where the comics will be displayed.
Hmmm... I am conflicted here.
I am aiming to achieve the emotional effect of a child trying to choose a candy they want in an original 1930 Kamishibai show (This? This? How about that???) as a feeling applied to navigating the interface. My hope was that initial confusion would give way to confident choice, but that the initial confusion would exist, if even for a moment.
I comprehend that this is bad interface design from a purely utilitarian view; the real question is whether my violation of utility is so terrible that it makes the site painful, rather than thematic and emotive. I am fearful that attaching links to the menu names will be so obvious and convenient that no one would think to click on the candies, and miss out on the very effect I am trying to achieve - which is read the candy menu, then actually select the treat.
I also wanted to have each location (rather like an adventure game, in my thoughts) have a slightly unique way of interaction - though following a general rule that the odd item out is the way back - in the news area it is the fan on the wall, in the omake area, it is the hanafuda card next to the go-board; each the odd item out.
I wanted to give a bit of the feeling of navigating locations: the Kamishibai bike in the park, the alcove in the wall of the home of the kamishibai-ya, the floor of the Kamishibai-ya's house, and so on.
I don't want to annoy, but I do want to achieve something more daring than easy utility.
Thoughts?
Jennifer Diane Reitz wrote:Alfador wrote:As it is, the forum topbar shows 3/4ths of Chou and Uni at the far right on my gargantuan widescreen.
Zombie Jesus.
I made that Chou and Uni bar to be beyond anything I can actually see at one time. The Takozushi site is likewise beyond my screen capability at 1440 across. I can't even set my screen that high; I did it for Stephen who has a fancier monitor than me.
If I make things any bigger, they will rapidly exceed 200K in size, which is the largest object I have allowed myself, due to trying to make it possible for folks with slower connections to be able to see the site at all. As it is, Takozushi presents problems for Anna in Germany, and I am trying to shrink things to make it easier for her and others.
It is problematic.
Plasman wrote:Alfador wrote:you might want to make some kind of repeating background at the far right, so those of us with monitors that are What-a-HUGE won't have whitespace at the far side
I've probably said this before, but gah-WUH?!? How big IS your screen?...
Can you... can... can you see us?!(waves experimentally toward screen)
Alfador wrote:Plasman wrote:Can you... can... can you see us?!(waves experimentally toward screen)
1680x1050. *waves back*
Alfador wrote:it might be a good idea to have one decent-looking image that looks at your resolution the way you want it to, at the file size you want, and then a small, tesselatable image to be repeated off to the right so the background looks continuous...
Anna wrote:Ahm, Jennifer, would you be so kindly and change on the standard background from black into a kind of grey or grey blue or so,
getting a black page is a bit... hm, shocking? frightening? wondering? strange?
Anna wrote:Ahm, Jennifer, would you be so kindly and change on the standard background from black into a kind of grey or grey blue or so,
getting a black page is a bit... hm, shocking? frightening? wondering? strange?
Jennifer Diane Reitz wrote:Anna wrote:Ahm, Jennifer, would you be so kindly and change on the standard background from black into a kind of grey or grey blue or so,
getting a black page is a bit... hm, shocking? frightening? wondering? strange?
I have made the background the dominant color of the page now, in the case of the bike, the sky. Tell me what you think.
Anna wrote:My Monitor is also 1680x1050. But my browser does not fill the whole place.
I don't like to read my prefered news sites always at the left corner of my screen.
Anna wrote:My Monitor is also 1680x1050. But my browser does not fill the whole place.
I don't like to read my prefered news sites always at the left corner of my screen.
Jennifer wrote:Finished basic archive background and method. Archive is based on 'chops' or personalized signature stamps. Result is kind of moody, as befits an archive, I think.
Plasman wrote:Jennifer wrote:Finished basic archive background and method. Archive is based on 'chops' or personalized signature stamps. Result is kind of moody, as befits an archive, I think.
I see what you did there; you've made it so that the "grid" is also tile-able, ie. you can expand it so you can add extra cells. Well done!
Also like the new BGColour (which still makes black text readable before the page graphics load properly).
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Cardboard Box wrote:
A la peanut butter sandwiches:
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That should help. Hopefully.
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