Organizing layouts

[denise]

We've been talking a bit about how the Select Style page should be categorized and laid out as we get more and more styles added (and OMG, I am loving the styles that we've been adding!), so it is time to discuss how we should categorize things.

afuna and I have already been talking about a few options, but I wanted to throw it out to the community at large to see what you guys think first, before we talk about what we've been thinking, to see if anyone has any great ideas that we would have missed!

To that end, a poll:

Poll #1158 Layout choice

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 313

View Respondents

When looking for a design for your journal, how do you expect to be able to browse/select one?

View Answers

By color family
171 (54.6%)

By color contrast
37 (11.8%)

By font size
23 (7.3%)

By base layout
282 (90.1%)

By header image content
66 (21.1%)

By something else (explain in comments!)
15 (4.8%)

Discussions, ideas, pros-and-cons, and other thoughts go in the comments. :)

Comments

[ratcreature]

I don't mean so much the features as aspects of the look. Like the number of columns, colors, etc, what you now want to sort by, only that I don't have to pick one and then browse through a lot, but can check some boxes and whittle things down on more criteria at once. Also maybe smaller things, like for example to have your icons on the left rather than the right, in two newish layouts I have tried so far I had to add CSS to position it there. So where to put your icon is not a "feature" that all have, but some do.

[av8rmike]

If there's a small change like user icon position that you were able to effect through Custom CSS, then that should be the kind of thing that should exist in all layouts. If you can remember which ones didn't allow you to change that (or other things), you should probably file a Support request so we can get that information into Zilla.

[ninetydegrees]

+1