On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> Hi folks, and especially webmaster James,
>
> I think the website could do with a bit of refactoring. The general
> appearance is fine; all I want to see is some prominent links up the
> top:
[...]
> I think these would best be placed in a thin banner just under the
> wide-spaced "ruby-doc" at the top.
>
> What do you think?
I'd agree with this. Also, the current layout feels wrong in the
following respect:
I read the banner.
I read the paragraph below it and see this extends to the right hand
side
I read paragraphs below this and fail to notice that they don't
extent to the right hand side, and:
THEREFORE I miss the collection of links on the right.
My fix would be to move that collection up so it is visible at the top.
This feels to me like some kind of visual grammar or syntax.
Expected relationships between visual items such that breaking the
expectation causes me to misinterpret things. (I also have it in
buildings sometimes: when the floor changes colour part of the way
along a corridor or across a room I have come to expect a change in
level. This heuristic doesn't work in the building from which I
write this, but the failure is rare enough to catch me out at times.)
I don't know if there is a term for this kind of thing. It would be
useful to know it if there is :-)
>
> Gavin
>
Hugh
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