Timeline for Design for Database Administrators
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| Aug 15, 2011 at 14:58 | comment | added | jcolebrand Mod | FWIW @Leigh, Jin is working on a design for that. See the chatroom ;) | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 11:53 | comment | added | Leigh Riffel | The logo in particular, is something that SO has that makes up a lot for the lack of other design elements. Of course that may be the most difficult part of the design. Thanks again for your efforts and kind consideration. [2/2] | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 11:52 | comment | added | Leigh Riffel | @Jin Thank you for considering my comments. I see what you are saying. SO and the other sites you mentioned do also have a plain designs. SO is such a success because of the vast superiority of the intelligence behind it not because of and perhaps in spite of the graphical design. Many of the SE sites have nicer visuals. Tweaks along the lines of 1-5 will improve things dramatically and should bring the design to the level of the other sites with simple designs. [1/2] | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 4:17 | comment | added | Jin | [2/2] Compare SO's design to the SE sites you mentioned, one can say that SO doesn't look professional either. Also for the other sites I used a serif typeface so maybe that's why they appear to be more "authoritative." I can certain improve the design based on your point #1 - #5. But as for the last one, I do not think the design looks childish. Please keep in mind, I often tweak the design post site launch too. I'm definitely up for some tweaking based on community feedback after they use the new design for a bit. | |
| Aug 15, 2011 at 4:12 | comment | added | Jin | @Leigh appreciate the feedback, many good points. The design goal is to make the site simple and clean, like Stack Overflow. Some of the other SE sites I've created have more clear visuals people identify with, e.g. cooking, gaming, apple etc, so they're a bit more graphical, while others do not, e.g. math, theractical computer science, unix etc. For the latter type of sites, I typically just keep the design simple. There isn't a strong imagery for DBA.(except for the cylinder symbol and others you suggested). As far as looking "professional" goes, only the content determines that. [1/2] | |
| Aug 14, 2011 at 19:56 | comment | added | Leigh Riffel | It is specifically the other stackexchange sites that I am comparing this design to. Check out security.stackexchange.com, diy.stackexchange.com, english.stackexchange.com, apple.stackexchange.com, tex.stackexchange.com, webmaster.stackexchange.com, or even cooking.stackexchange.com. To me they all look more professional. Perhaps it is the color intensity, color cohesion, logos, gradients, distinctive backgrounds, or specialized text. I don’t know it is just my impression. Beating other database QA sites is good, but taking it to the next level would be even better. | |
| Aug 14, 2011 at 3:33 | comment | added | jcolebrand Mod | I like the idea about removing the bottoms of the tabs. Maybe just on the active tab? Thinking how a tabbed interface looks here. Next up, the logo: I'm not good enough to come up with a logo either :\ so I don't know what to say there. But I agree, having a unique logo would help. I'm not sure how this site doesn't look professional tho. Maybe I'm just too used to the stacks. I'm pretty sure the competition here is the OSQA for ask.sqlservercentral.com and a couple other forums, so I think this theme already beats those. Hmmm... | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 13:17 | history | answered | Leigh Riffel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |