"Simon de Vet" wrote:
> Rune wrote:
>
> > Hmm, I must admit I think the design is quite unoriginal. For example
the
> > menu to the left could easily be made more interesting without loosing
> > speed, nor user-friendliness.
>
> The coolest layout I've seen in a very long time can be found at
> http://www.scifi-art.com/
>
> Simple, but very original, and beautiful.

Well, it's a bit difficult to say something about the design there, because
it's different in the different sections. That alone is by some people
considered bad design. The design simply isn't consistently enough, and the
user must get used to new ways of navigating the site all the time, because
the design change all the time. When you say you think the design is cool,
exactly which page there are you referring to?

Greetings,

Rune

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> > It's too small on my 1280x1024.
>
> And it's too big on my 800x600. That's much worse!

It's even too big for 1024x768!

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> > > It's too small on my 1280x1024.
> >
> > And it's too big on my 800x600. That's much worse!
> 
> It's even too big for 1024x768!
> 

Well, the site doesn't seem to be completed yet so perhaps this will
be taken care of eventually.
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"Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote in message
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> Just went to the POV-Ray page looking for links, and it happens to have
> a new design !

    Well, I for one like what I see so far. I can understand the arguments
against the Poser girl, but, really, just what is the problem with her ?
    It looks to me to be a good advertisement for POV. Well I, for one, at
least, would be happy if I could get POV to output anything that looked that
good (I don't have Poser though, so I don't know just how easy something
like that would be).
    Actually, what I think would be really neat is if that image changed
regularly, each time demonstrating different aspects of POVRay - one week a
nice Poser girl showing mapping features, the next a teddybear showing the
power of media, and so on...

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Rune wrote:

> "Simon de Vet" wrote:
>
> > The coolest layout I've seen in a very long time can be found at
> > http://www.scifi-art.com/
> >
> > Simple, but very original, and beautiful.
>
> Well, it's a bit difficult to say something about the design there, because
> it's different in the different sections. That alone is by some people
> considered bad design. The design simply isn't consistently enough, and the
> user must get used to new ways of navigating the site all the time, because
> the design change all the time. When you say you think the design is cool,
> exactly which page there are you referring to?

I was impressed by the opening, splash page. The rest is average, really...


Simon

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"Phil Clute" <pcl### [at] tiacnet> wrote in message
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| > > > It's too small on my 1280x1024.
| > >
| > > And it's too big on my 800x600. That's much worse!
| >
| > It's even too big for 1024x768!
| >
|
| Well, the site doesn't seem to be completed yet so perhaps this will
| be taken care of eventually.

Had no problems with it, and it looked okay to me.  1152X864 display here, I
didn't see any horizontal scroll bars and the browser was even windowed.  I
feel like I've been catered too  ;-)
Everyone know about changing text size with the Ctrl key and mouse wheel
(assuming you have one of those)?  That might help but I think the page width
is fixed.  Oh well.
I think more of a leather-like reddish-brown color scheme would be better
though, but I don't know how background image tiling would go over with the
creator(s).
The java is still there doing the swirl effect to display "Frosty".  I looked
at the source and apparently Netscape is being dropped in favor of Internet
Explorer due to "bugs" of some kind.  I guess style sheets are being used too.
I must have missed seeing the debut of the new look of the povray.org site by
a mere hour or two earlier today.
Thanks to whomever is authoring the web pages.

Bob

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>- I'm not too happy with the colours which are a tad dark,

i dislike the design..
although traditional and thus easy to navigate it lacks personality and
looks like one of thousands home-made homepages spread all around net.
but that is only my point of view :)
i'm not too happy with the poser girl, either, but that's just because i
happen to dislike poser anyway..
some traditionally modelled character or 3d-scanned face closeup would be
nice :)

i would prefer more collage art style of design (pieces and closeups of
famous pov-pictures etc.. with strong one-color lines)

-alt

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I'm not took keen on the site, I think that it does load faster, but the
brown is er how do you say nicely, 'out' and comic sans should have never
made past the drawing board in my opinion.  And what about frames?  Is there
still such a large audience that use non-frame-enabled browsers, as
everytime you click a link you are reloading the links - and the page could
fit seamless frames with ease as their appears to be no cross over.
Obviously though compatibility is of extreme importance - change the
background colour (lighter!) and I think people wil be far happier.

Even better why not someone finish off this POV-logo business and replace
the er not so nice one.  I mean no harm in this a lot of work has obviously
gone into the site, I just think that a good site is a part of making POV
audience (though obviously the sheer quality of the prog does er help).

Pete

www.petecracknell.co.uk

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> Just went to the POV-Ray page looking for links, and it happens to have
> a new design !
> It looks like it's still a work in progress. I hope that there will be
> new things in the "under construction pages".
> First remarks:
> - It certainly loads faster (javascript gone) which is better.
> - I'm not too happy with the colours which are a tad dark, and with the
> Poser girl, which I find too Poseresque (that hair, ahem..) and not a
> good demo for the mapping abilities that should be in Povray 3.5.
> What do people think ?
> G.
>

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If you're running Windows (95 and over) you can press alt+tab to switch
applications easily. If you're running a Macintosh, you can do the same,
except it's command+tab.

Bruce L wrote:

>  No matter what resolution I'm running, my browser is never
> full-screen since I like to be able to easily flip back and forth.

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"Simon de Vet" wrote:
> > > The coolest layout I've seen in a very long time can be
> > > found at http://www.scifi-art.com/
> > >
> > > Simple, but very original, and beautiful.
> >
> I was impressed by the opening, splash page. The rest is
> average, really...

OK. I personally would anytime prefer good design on the actual pages
instead of good design on the splash page...

Greetings,

Rune

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