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

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


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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[personal profile] piranha 2009-09-05 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
*nod*. this has become really clear to me in the last couple of weeks since i now have every existing layout and style in use, and the list is ... basically not useful. as somebody said above, everything blurs together and while they do all look different they all start to look weirdly alike. and i _know_ these styles intimately. i can only imagine how confusing this looks to somebody who doesn't.