New contestant

[abelthorne]

I've started working on a new design for the VLC Website Redesign Contest.

So far, I've worked only on the main page. You can see its current state there : http://www.terzag.info/vlc/.

I've reworked the HTML code to be CSS-compliant (no design in the code by using tables, all is done with CSS).

It has been tested in Firefox 1.5 (Linux / Windows), Opera 9 (Windows) and Internet Explorer 6 (Windows). There are issues with IE (which is not really a surprise) :
- the most obvious : the browser can't handle transparent PNGs. I think there is a workaround/hack, but I haven't tried it yet.
- strange behaviour : when loading the page, the top menu isn't displayed. If you scroll in the page or even move the cursor on a link (top right part of the screen), it'll appear. I don't know where this problem comes from.

[KartoFFler]

I'm pleased to see such great drafts for the new VLC site. This concept of keeping the site as simple as possible is just the right thing for a product as VLC - it turns the feeling and the whole apperance of the software into a likable thing that doesn't want to pretend to be something that it simply isn't.

In order to be a little bit more critical concerning your draft:

I think you should work over the placement of the vlc identity. Even though the orange logo is put in the left top corner, a strong eye catcher that says "This is the official website of VLC" is missing. The rest of the site is very promising and I look forward to the day the best draft will be chosen.

Regards

KartoFFler

Please be compliable - I'm from Germany so I hope that you can handle this text.. It's been a while since I had to write something in English

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Added to the wiki page.

Do you have a .jpeg screenshot in order to add it to the contest page ?

[abelthorne]

I'll do one. Which size (width) does it have to be ?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Something like 700~800px wide ?

[abelthorne]

Ok, I've put one there : http://www.terzag.info/vlc/vlc-index.jpg.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

There it is

[abelthorne]

I've added the two other required pages :
http://www.terzag.info/vlc/download.html (preview : http://www.terzag.info/vlc/vlc-download.jpg)
http://www.terzag.info/vlc/windows.html (preview : http://www.terzag.info/vlc/vlc-windows.jpg)

It's not finished yet, I have to rework the header / logo and the Windows page a bit to make it more compact.

(Of course, there are still issues with IE 6, I'll fix them later, don't worry.)

[tonsofpcs]

I like the orange theme, but the images are a bit oversized on the one page. Very nice work.