I don't like the blue under "On our minds" on the home page at http://elgg.net/. It is VERY hard to read!

Agh, my post vanished when I posted it and I forgot to copy it to the clipboard before I posted like I normally do for when that happens.

Very quickly - looks good, probably you don't want detailed comments yet, but check it looks ok in differently resized browsers, would like link to all weblog posts on home page, and maybe to a list of communities, think about alignment of the boxes and maybe not showing all of them on e.g. tutorial pages, maybe put 'Fresh on our minds' section in a box too.

I was also wondering if it'd be worth setting up a community to discuss the ELGG user interface in general - or is this it?

It doesn't really come under features.

I love the new layout. I love to see people dropping the tables in favour of nice, clean CSS.

I don't know if this forwards the discussion or not, but this is a list of questions that I've been collecting as a reference for designing an ed-com website at my College, and plan to eventually include in my FAQ for instructors. This gives me another chance to try it out... I've never quite gotten comfortable with it, please feel free to ignore it or, even better, build upon it.

Who needs to understand the page?
-Who is the audience, are they techies? high school teachers? cyberswarm? students?

What do they need to be able to do?
-Do I want them to fill out a form? Download software? Join the community? Understand a new kind of interaction or philosophy? (particularly important for me as I want my visitors to be able to understand what we're calling the relationship economy, how anyone's success is built upon their ability to connect and share)

How much time will they spend trying to figure it out?
A student who will be assessed on their work and one who has been invited or even found the site by accident, are going to spend different amounts of time learning to navigate and trying to adapt to a new lexicon.

What is their 'screen'/'blog' literacy level?
I think that the section of the population that are using blogs is slowly spreading from the early adopters to the early/middle. If these are the target of the site, then no extra work need be done to introduce these concepts. For middle to late adopters, and those cynical about this type of technology (this can include administrators, students and instructors) the leap to transparency needs to be fairly narrow.

cheers,

dave.

Hello all,

I just made a stab at taking out the tables on my elgg site. got about half way there and couldn't figure out how to separate the menu items into list items. (just ended up with the menu as a list) I've since re-installed after the mess I made but I'm wondering when we can get a beta of the new css driven site. I'm a hack programmer at best, and I've realized I'm better waiting until the pros make the conversion...

great work as always,

cheers,

dave.