Re: re-skinning the jdbc.postgresql.org

On 05/09/2018 23:24, Dave Cramer wrote:
> I'm have someone who can work on the jdbc site and the idea is to make
> it look more or less like the current postgresql.org
> <http://postgresql.org> site.
>
> Does anyone have an objections or other ideas ?
>
> Dave Cramer

Hi Dave,

I personally don't like the look of www.postgresql.org  - Found most of
my objections was due to the fact I was viewing it enlarged, as I needed
to with the old layout.  Now I viewed it at the normal size it looks
better, but it would look much better if headings were not in all upper
case (IMnsHO!).

I have a 42" monitor, but I seldom display a browser to take up the
whole screen, even when I had much smaller monitors.

Just looked at jdbc.postgresql.org

With the size of browser displayed, I instantly saw all I needed to know
about the latest JDBC driver without scrolling, but with the main site I
find the large picture of the elephants distracting.

The JDBC site could do with a little bit of imagery to attract people
attention, but not going overboard like the main site. Probably more
important to increase the size of the fonts.  I can read the fonts as
is, but I find it more comfortable when I get my Palemoon browser to
increase the size of what is displayed twice, using  <Ctrl>+.

I value a web site by how easy it is to find out what I want to know,
rather than how trendy it looks.  PLEASE put Functionality ahead of Fashion!

Years ago, I used to use GNOME 2 as my desktop environment, but it
caught the Apple disease and became a 'Triumph of Fashion over
Functionality'.  I fled from GNOME 3, and now use the Mate desktop
environment.

Oh, and if you ever specifically cater for mobile phone displays, please
don't ruin the desktop experience by trying to have the same look and
feel for both mobile & desktop (Firefox suffers a bit from that)!

Cheers,
Gavin