[FusionWeb] Time to test the theme?

[RYX]

Am Donnerstag, den 18.10.2007, 07:18 +0800 schrieb Sam Spilsbury:
> Well, since everything has gone relatively quite around here since our
> last discussion about the theme, 
We got an unexpected visit from my girlfriend's parents and I had to
take a short break from all my usual tasks. But I'm back at it now.

> I think it is about ready for us to
> try it out and see how it works for users. 
As Stephen mentioned, the themes are still to be created, but (from what
I can say) the layout is more or less finished and we could start with
the theme-creation for WP/VB/Wiki.

Remaining questions would be several aspects of the forum layout (e.g.
structural things like the look of overview pages), which can most
likely only be answered by trying and playing. [One example: the current
frontpage of the forum is waaay too high. One can scroll down for about
3-4 screeens. Also the moderator-names waste an incredible amount of
space (because they unnecessarily expand the height of each row). These
things need to be addressed while creating the forum-theme ...]

> I believe that there are
> two pathways for doing this:
> 
> The first is to set up 'Fake' vBulliten, MoinMoinWiki, Planet, Apache
> web apps on either Rico's server or Guillaume's server (I'm sure it
> has room :P). This way, we can see how the theme will really work in
> practice, and how these particular applications will handle themes and
> whether there be any weirdness in displaying the theme or laying out
> the theme.
For WP and MoinMoin I support this idea. VB is another thing because it
is a proprietary application and I don't own a license for it. I don't
feel very comfortable with installing it on my (local)host for that
reason.

I'd use the web-interface of VB, but it is far from optimal to create
the theme with it. It causes a lot of overhead and wastes time (at least
if compared to the good old way of editing the theme's files in the
filesystem and hitting refresh to test them).

Maybe Will can care for VB because he is more used to the system and
(assumably) already owns a license? Of course I could help where needed.

> The second way, or at least the second phase of the first is to
> actually apply the themes to our website (Which, are arguably far
> better then the 'default' themes are are using at the moment for
> MoinMoin and vB), and get as much user feedback as possible regarding
> ease of use, navigvation of the page, places where things glitch up,
> bad contrast or in their opinion, where the looks of the page tend to
> 'jarr'.
Let's forget the beta-testing for now :) ... The real work is the
creation of the themes. Corrections and fixes can be applied later (and,
as Jordan said, the design won't stop with v1 of the theme - we can add
more things later). We can test in public once our testing-site is
properly themed.

> I hope the this discussion can be constructive, either decide one or
> the other (or a sensible compromise of the two) and actually have an
> outcome instead of just going quite much like the other threads we
> have already had
Nothing to add :)

> Regards and kind wishes,
> 
> Sam
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