Comments on: Site Design Feedback?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:05:17 +0000

Markus, I didn’t fill in any main content text because I know that will show just fine … I’ll use a dark font color over a white background. I am really only worried about the Main Menu, the Pathway bar, and the Sidebars.

What Mambo is:
Mambo is an open source CMS (Content Management System). It’s designed to allow easy publishing of news, info, articals, etc. without the need to modify any code. WordPress can only really go so far … as a personal / business blog, it’s the best! But it’s not ment to be a CMS. I believe that I will most likely keep WP running for my blog and run my site with Mambo, even thought Mambo has a blog addin.

My logo is suppose to be a Black Box … LMB^Box stands for Lord Montauge’s Black Box. I was toying with other ideas, but just hit problems … I don’t want my logo to look like all the others out there that use a box, but I want it to still be clean and clear … so it’s back to the drawing board!

About the cross cursor, it’s what came with the original theme that I based my theme off of. I kind of like it because it’s just different then everything else …

As for you, WordPress should be fine to do what you want! You will create WordPress in your document root / web root folder and install Gallery in a subfolder. Create a WP catagory for news and anything else you what … add links to your gallery … you’ll have to edit the index.php theme file to show only posts from the news catagory by using the news catagory’s ID (look at the Codex for WordPress).

Thanks for your input and options! I too hope that I get more feedback / comments …

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:32:13 +0000

Forgot to say:
The cross, instead the normla pointer (arrow) I do not really like, sorry
Markus

By: Markus

Markus — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:30:30 +0000

ok, for me it is quite good, as it is now, the design.
I like the good contrast for the font. I saw a lot of very good designs…. but I could hardly read the content, because the sentences have been very bad to read.
In such cases, even the best design is bad.
Your new logo is a bit special, well, to be honest, I do not know now, do I like it or not.
Also I do not know, what it is (thougth this in fact not necessary).
Hm, I hope, you will get still some other comments.
Mambo, will you then WordPress integrate in Mambo? Or is in Mambo another kind of blogg?

I would like also to have ONE site as a kind of portal (even if only private).

-I want to have integrate a news section to say the very most important things.
-Then I would like to have a blogg with a calendar
-Then I want integrate a photo-Gallery.
-Different sections, like gaming, hobbies or so, I could integrate easy, I guess.

But my target would be: ONE main-page, where I can see the most importants things, and then I could go to a lot of places in this portal without having a lot of different designs.
Well, although, this was also once an idea from me: The design could change, depending where I am (like in Gallery, blogg…).
But finally I think, it would be better to have one design.

I wonder, Thomas, what you will do once .
Go ahead with your good work!
Markus