BROAD Style

• Peter: Here is Heritrix status when job running:
  

BROAD Style (OLD NOTES)

Words Association with JiTR

• Text, Mashup, mix, black-on-white, collections, organized, clean, bright, collecting, large, academic, home, base, serifs, readable, extensible, reaching, octopus, pink,

Logo

• It should reflect the classiness of text, but also the quirky twist that JiTR adds.
• Font-based logo? Or illustrated?
  • Perhaps Minion Pro? Nice (and easily accessible) serif font with weights that are effective on the screen.
  • Perhaps Comic Sans? Mish-mash font with no redeeming qualities, able to dispel any reputations we've built up?
  • Arno Pro has a good mix of blockiness and swishiness. The word "JiTR" is a really nice square with the "J" jutting out adventurously. Here's a sample logo, with 'j' slightly extended, a light gradient, an italicized 'i', and a coloured tittle :

• (comment from PeterOrganisciak - 04 Mar 2008 18:49:24): I sort of fell in love with the Arno Pro one, so for now, I think I'm going to support that one (until somebody argues against it).

Colour Schemes

• page1.svg: Colour Idea 1
• page2.svg: Colour Idea 2
• page3.svg: Colour Idea 3
• page5.svg: Colour Idea 5
• page4.svg: Colour Idea 4

Layout

• Considering a usable navigation has by far been my most difficult challenge of the project (Peter). Here's an example of a small change making a big difference: I was having trouble figuring out how to convey the fact that the sidebar is context sensitive, so users don't get confused when stuff changes. It turned out that a big difference was made by simply switching sides of the sidebar. On the left is appears static, and important to the page, but on the left, for the westerner used to scanning from left to right, it comes after the content.

Sidebar before:

Sidebar After:

Progress

March 11th

• This file still requires colour choices, but it represent layout considers stemming from the meeting between Peter, Geoffrey and Lian on March 7th. The main navigation is broken, so I've temporarily made the dropdowns "onclick" (meaning clicking rather than hovering will toggle them. NOTE: I JSUT RE
• The design is made to adapt to the current implementation of JiTR.
• Front Page
• Collection Page
• Jitr-March11-v2.zip: March 11th Progess Zip File
• (comment from PeterOrganisciak - 11 Mar 2008 14:59:48): I just realized that I accidentally put that big JiTR watermark on all the pages (it is just supposed to be on the front page). Oops.