Piano Page new look

David Ilvedson ilvey@sbcglobal.net
Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:32:18 -0700


The main thing for is the missmash of links at the top.    Poorly laid out in my opinion.

David Ilvedson



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: Ron Berry <ron@berrypiano.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:43:13 -0500
Subject: Re: Piano Page new look


>I think there are a bunch of us left brained technicians who view google as 
>the ultimate site.  Plain looking and functional.  We tried to make the site 
>appeal more to the right brained public with the new look.  I pretty well left 
>the look up to the graphics designers although we went through an 
>extensive process with many of us to redesign the information architecture. 
>That is the hierarchy of the pages and the links and navigation.  I have 
>already increased the size of the font on the right nav bar.  I'm not sure I 
>could go any bigger without interfering with the design.  I will experiment.  
>The fonts look smaller when you run a fairly high resolution screen.

>I welcome all your comments negative and positive because this page is 
>constantly being updated.  


>On 14 Aug 2005 at 8:26, Cy Shuster wrote:

>> I think the graphics give it a much more professional look than the
>> old blue-links-on-white-background.  And I often refer customers to
>> the site, but it was difficult before for them to find anything useful
>> (hidden under "technical info").  The organization of info by type of
>> browser is great (pianist, technician, dealer).  I don't like links or
>> buttons that are very small, though (like "page 2" of most search
>> results).
>> 
>> I applaud this effort of the PTG to make our organization more 
>> professional-looking, and hope they increase public awareness of us.
>> 
>> --Cy Shuster--
>> Boston, MA
>> 
>> 
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