Check Out The New SlideSix
Posted By : todd sharp Posted At : June 29, 2009 9:04 AM Posted In: jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, ColdFusion, SlideSix
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I'm happy to announce that the new and improved SlideSix is now live. This new look and feel is a complete overhaul compared to the original design of the site. The new design uses a lot of gray, blue and black in order to make the site more closely resemble the Flex pieces that were already in place. There are also a lot of rounded corners to take the edge off of the deep colors so they hopefully don't overwhelm. Thanks to some feedback there is also a shiny new logo. Here's the new home page:
More after the jump:
In addition to the new design and logo there are a bunch of new ways to navigate within the site. You can now view presentations by the following options: newest, most viewed, highest ranked, most commented. Groups and users also get similar filters. The new navigation options were definitely overdue and present a nice way to find what you're looking for easily. Tag navigation also has a few preset filters applied so you can explore tags by most popular or most recently used tag.
I'm pretty happy with the way the new look came together - especially given my limited talents in the design arena. I have a ton of respect for folks who can put together a creative and attractive design while making the look consistent across all browsers. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I think I did pretty well and the site feels a lot 'cleaner' to me now.
Here's a few more screenshots:
View of 'Recent Presentations' (mouse over the 'information' icon to get a tooltip with presentation details):
Note - there is a minor bug with the rounded corners on the table header row in the screenshot above. I did this shot from my ancient copy of FireFox 1.5 so I'll need to fix that up tonight.
Presentation view:
Head on over to the site and check it out. As always, feedback is very welcomed.
Other than that, it looks very nice!
I have a couple suggestions that I hope can help make it even better. The color scheme is attractive but it's so blue-and-black that adding occasional pops of a third accent color (maybe red, as it's used in a couple places already) would really help bring attention to important elements such as the "Learn More" and "Register" buttons. I also think that a tiled "gallery" display would work better for the presentation list pages, you could fit most of the metadata under the thumbnails in a caption format. You know, for when you're bored and would like more work to do :) HTH
@Rachel - believe it or not I had a bit of red in there a few days ago with the links, but decided against it. I'll re-visit it -- maybe I just had the wrong red cuz it wasn't looking right to me. I definitely appreciate the advice!!