On 10/27/2024 12:45, Bart Schaefer wrote:
Yeah, I couldn't quite get the shadow to end inside the box. The one from the current page is so low-resolution that it didn't scale well at all,even if I could convert it to a dark mode. I can experiment a little. I'm a little worried about licensing if I just grab something off the web. Maybe a lighter robe, and feathered oval background, even possibly a close upOn Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 9:28 PM Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:There's still a lot of work to do, but before I put in that effort, I'd like some feedback on the new organization and look. https://zsh.clintonbunch.name/Looking at this in Firefox on a MacBook, for now ... my overall impression is good, so thank you for the effort, and pardon that the rest of this is mainly criticism. I personally find the photorealistic wizard to look out of place, perhaps in part because the background color doesn't match the page background in "Light" mode, so you can see the rectangular edges. It's better in dark mode where the background disappears, but it still doesn't "feel" the same as the rest of the appearance, and the black robes tend to fade into the background. Something more like a pencil sketch might work, although I'm not sure how to make that visible in dark mode.
I was using a web-friendly serif font for the main headers. We could just go to the browser's default serif font, though in many browsers that looks kind of skinny.The serif font in the "Welcome to Z Shell" banner also looks off. Are you trying to stick to "web friendly" fonts? If not, "Arial Rounded MT Bold Regular" (https://online-fonts.com/fonts/arial-rounded-mt-bold) is the closest match I found to the custom font used in the logo graphic. Try using that (maybe also increase size from 3rem to 4rem), assuming not license restricted.
The news section just grabs the first 4 of the News "database" (JSON file) I've also moved the mirrors list and release information into JSON files.Overall the layout is clean and appealing. Navigation is fine. Nit: The news items from 2021 about the DNS issue and chat move are already on the "Older News" page and should be removed from the front page.
I don't recall messing with the font size on the Development page, but I'll take a look.I do not see the excess white background Jun T. reported around the zsh logo in dark mode. You mentioned that you have not yet done small screen styling, but as a note, on Android/Chrome, the front page and Documention page banners are much larger (and wrapped) than the banner on the Development page.