Help, Styles Team II!

[ninetydegrees]

There are several submitted styles which need testing and have needed it for ages and the few people doing that in dreamscapes can't do it all on their own. Baggyeyes and Turlough have been beyond awesome but it's just two people and we need more feedback, more resolutions, more font sizes, more browsers, etc. so please, if you can, help out.

Hopefully, this post will get more answers than my last one. :/

Edit: What's involved?

* We currently have four styles which need testing: http://dreamscapes.dreamwidth.org/tag/needs+testing
One of them, Strata, has a link to a preview. You can click on the link and navigate through the various pages to see if anything looks odd (boxes overlapping, text not displayed correctly, something odd with colors, etc.). Then comment to report what you've noticed or tp say that everything looks fine to you. It's always a good idea to mention which browser/resolution (and sometimes font size) you saw the layout in.
Otherwise you need to install the layout. I can explain if you're not familiar with this process.

* We routinely need people to test color themes. What's really important is to make sure text is always visible; it can happen that there isn't enough contrast to make it easily readable and it's ok to politely say that to the designer; it doesn't imply that you expect them to change their style. Some will, some won't.

Comments

[foxfirefey]

Sounds like we should figure out what we have covered and word something to go up in the dw_news updates next week to drum up some more people!

I have access to:

* Latest versions of Mac: Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, Camino
* Not-so-latest but not ancient versions of Firefox on Ubuntu
* The latest versions of IE and Firefox on Windows, could also expand this to include Opera and Chrome

I can go all the way up to 1080p HD-level resolution (my TV can hook up to my computers).

If I absolutely, absolutely have to, I can find a computer running IE6.

The easiest things for me to check are definitely the Mac ones, though, since I am pretty much bonded to my laptop like a cyborg.

I hereby swear to resubmit the search module today for review and commit. After that I need to figure out community imports and persistent style=mine, but after that, I will dedicate more time to styles conversions!

[ninetydegrees]

A post in dw_news would be awesome. I mean conversion isn't necessarily hard but you can't get started on it if all issues haven't been identified/cleared up so we're kind of stuck right now, especially since so few people are active in style dev.

[foxfirefey]

Okay, I'll see what I can do to round up some people to mentor in styles! I'll make a post to dw_styles about it before next Monday, have denise link to it in dw_news, and have prospectives comment so we can sort them out. I'll also review our documentation and see what could be added.

I'm figuring we need two levels:

1. People watching dreamscapes that just comment on whether or not a style works for them on their browser.
2. More people converting themes and styles.

[ninetydegrees]

I'm figuring we need two levels:

Exactly!