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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote in [site community profile] dw_styles2009-09-04 02:35 am
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Organizing layouts

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.

[personal profile] 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

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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. :)
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phoenixsong: An orange bird with red, orange and yellow wings outstretched, in front of a red heart. (techchick)

[personal profile] phoenixsong 2009-09-04 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Agree with the above responses re: tagging. When I moved one LJ account to Wordpress a couple years ago, this was one thing in particular that I liked: being able to say I wanted a two-column, green layout, and had the results presented to me in a nice format. Wish I could screencap it from work, but logging into WP seems to be...problematic on my end.

I think in general I find the current display for any number of styles/layouts to be kind of crowded and small. I would definitely prefer to see the basic layouts as the default "Select Style" page, with a larger thumbnail and more information on what that style offers next to or underneath the style. I understand the need for crediting, but really, I'm not looking for a style based on the name or who made it.
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[personal profile] turlough 2009-09-04 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I would definitely prefer to see the basic layouts as the default "Select Style" page, with a larger thumbnail and more information on what that style offers next to or underneath the style.

I like this idea A LOT!!
piranha: red origami crane (Default)

[personal profile] piranha 2009-09-05 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
do you know you can click on the upper right corner with the magnifying glass and it will show you your journal in that style? so there is already a quick way to see the full layout.

but a larger preview and more information about the layout, that might be good anyway.

as the current preview maker, i find the 150x110 incredibly small, and it's very fiddly to have the preview actually represent the layout reasonably well (none of the previews are ever just reduced screenshots). the preview is in fact so small that it cannot show the rounded corners on an upcoming new layout, thereby losing what makes that layout special (unless i basically paint it by hand). i wonder whether we couldn't make the preview a bit larger without eating up too much screen real estate.
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