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I chose it specifically because of its neon-radioactive hue. It's incredibly distinctive, and yes, a bit sharp, but that does give the whole a unique identity that would be lost (in my view) with a softer green. Still, this is one of the easier aspects to play with, and of course, actual wider testing on different displays may easily reveal it's simply *too sharp*.



I dislike plain white as a background colour - I find it unpleasant on my eyes. On my displays, there's more than enough contrast in the current mockups, but again, this may be different for other displays or people with eye issues.

Luckily, the text is actually a dark grey, so I could make it black instead, like so:

http://postimage.org/image/ds7xv1ahv/

Does that improve things? I really want to avoid going all-white for the background :/.



I just can't get the current logo to look right on the smaller size I require it - so I went with all text instead. I'm indifferent about it, though - if an actual designer can get the logo to look right at the same size as the text 'logo' is now in the mockups, it could easily work.



(you mean top-right)

Don't worry too much about the items currently in there - I specifically designed it to be able to hold more items than it actually will, all for future-proofing. The 'advertise'-thing is a vestigial aspect of an earlier idea in which I want OSNews to play a more active role in advertising, and rent out advertisement space directly to people/companies interested. However, this is probably too much work, and likely wouldn't work anyway (we're too small).

The 'support' one should actually read 'support OSNews' - it's a page where you can become a member (pay a little bit and remove ads), donate (perhaps), stuff like that. I just can't find a good single word for it though, so for the time being, I just stuck to 'support' - even though it's clearly suboptimal .



Won't happen . Getting rid of the second column is a core aspect of the redesign, and I don't want it back in.



Same as with the top-right menubar - I just threw a few placeholders in there. It can easily hold more stuff like you just summed up.



I just think it needs to be above the fold, and not necessarily at the top. Putting it at the top would introduce a non-standard item to the top-right menubar (they're all text links, not input fields), which I don't want (it would look hideous). I can play with moving it above the user menu, though. Made a note to try this out.

It's actually a throwback to Eugenia's OSNews - it was at the bottom of the left-side menubar in OSNews 2.



I prefer cancel to be on the right, but I have no hard feelings about it. I wondered when someone would bring this up . This is easily addressed.



Heard this one loud and clear. I really, really, really don't want to go back to individual thumbnails (god those things are ugly and ridiculous, esp. since many people don't change it and you just get loads of default icons), so I'm going to look for a different solution. I'm currently drawing blanks, but hey, I'm tired.



Once we hit the stage where we're going to ask users to test, you're more than welcome .

Edited 2012-12-26 16:29 UTC