Feedback on new skin
Dear askbot community,
I finally managed to get my new template into a more-or-less functional state. It's more focused towards a community and uses strong typography, clear gutter, a consistent icon set and some neat UI tricks I've learned over the years. It's about 90% complete, with a few things missing. Here's a screenshot
You can get the skin as my github fork (branch to skin-suave). Please leave your comments, and suggestions (either here, or at the github issue site), and feel free to fork and fix stuff yourself! Here are two more details:
Enjoy Manuel
Comments
Looks awesome!
I like that, looks nice. I would suggest that you put the quesion's tags at the bottom, in the same line of the "post a comment" button, since it makes the question more readable. Keep up the good work.
Wow, really cool! What are the 10% missing? And how long did it take you to get the skin to 90%, Manuel? What problems did you come across? (just to know what to expect if we try to create our own skin, too :-)
Look great, I like the hover effect on avatars
Good suggestion. I thought about it earlier, but in fact if there already are any comments the button won't be in line anyway. I might move it up to the row with the vote buttons (and just give it a little "comment" icon instead of text) - will make it slightly harder for new users, but remove clutter for everybody else. What to you think?
Main Problems:
My approach was to simply wipe the CSS file and then work myself through the templates one by one like Casanova in the nunnery, redoing the CSS and the template simultaneously.
Missing stuff:
As for how long it took me: hard to tell, has been my evening project for a couple of weeks. Once the general design idea was set, I reckon about 30 hours.