[Bf-webcontent] Suggestions for Website

[Nkansah Rexford]

I disagree with @cal.

See here: http://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-3ds-max/overview

Is the page bright? The Blender website, is IMO 10x better than the
previous. At least using the white bg is a great improvement.

I'm surprised you comparing blendtuts ( a tutorial site ) to blender ( a
software suite site ). Dark backgrounds don't work for all sites like
blender. To maintain a professionally looking site for an organization like
blender, the convention is white, with the theme color(s).

Refer to the autodesk website instead and not a tutorial website.

For me I see no problem with the current design. Its nice, clean, a bit of
flat ui there, color consistency better and fun.

Too many clicking? If a visitor doesn't want to click but have everything
done automated, then I'm sure the visitor isn't a user, but rather a bot.

There is room for improvement.

In fact I disagree with all the points
On Nov 6, 2013 8:04 AM, "Cal McGaugh" <cal at cal3d.com> wrote:

>   Hi Ton & everyone,
>
>  I just saw the new website for Blender.org. My initial reaction was,
> "What happened???"
>
>
>  Here is a thread at Blenderartists.org
> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?292306-Blender-gets-new-website&p=2509543#post2509543
>  ( I don't know if you are following it)
>
>
>  Here is the text of my post at BlenderArtists.org , starting with a quote
> of what "burnin" wrote earlier:
>
>  burnin wrote:
>     no...
> - when you realize that one came to visit for info on software, news,
> maybe new gallery images, proper feature list, wiki, tutorials, dev & tech
> achievements, so on... this page sucks big (compared to previous)
> - big images are for gallery, header is called a header for a reason (it's
> not a whole page),
> - writings over images are disrupting & confusing (mainly for movie arts)
> - too bright (monitors are not made of paper) wish for a darker theme (at
> least an option - my eyes hurt with bright themes, even worse at night...
> this forum theme is nice, but would prefer also other options (orange, red,
> blue, cyan, green, magenta... on light, medium or dark grey)
> - i just lost interest... to much clicking & moving around
> - ehhh disappointment...
>
> ... thankfully relieved by this forum (blenderartists.org)
>
>
>  (my post follows)
>
>  Sorry, but I also agree. We seem to be in the minority, and I don't want
> to be overly critical, but
> the new site is WAY TOO BRIGHT.......somehow it just doesn't seem right
> for Blender.org
>
> There is too much text, the banner is too big, the Blender logo is tiny!
>
> The layout is not logical & user friendly.
>
> Needs a "Home" link on each page.
>
> Text links need to have better contrast vs content.
>
> Would like to see real buttons with a nice gradient & rollover effect
> instead of just text for the all of the main navigation links, e.g.
> Features, Download, About, etc.....the tall font seems strange.
>
> You may miss the links for "What's New" & "Older Version".
>
> Personally, I would like to see a darker warmer color scheme, e.g.
> http://blendtuts.com/
>
> Highly recommend the great little book, "Don't Make Me Think!" by Steve
> Krug......a classic on website useability.
>
> I'm disappointed, but if the majority likes it, fine.
>
>  I hope you will accept my criticisms and suggestions as constructive. I
> appreciate the work that has
>  gone into it, and only want to make it more useable and inviting.
>
>  In the end, "You can please some of the people all the time, and all the
> people some of the time, but you
>  can't please all the people all the time" to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln.
>
>   Sincerely,
>  Cal McGaugh
>
>
>
>
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