You aren't wrong Angela... But as I said, I'd love to spend time on it, sadly, time is money. Is there someone willing to fund development on this? <br><br>If I was single or even if I didn't have any kids, I'd work on this for hours on end for free. But we gotta feed the children :)
<br><br>Trae<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Angela Byron</b> <<a href="mailto:drupal-devel@webchick.net">drupal-devel@webchick.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On 29-Aug-06, at 1:17 PM, Trae McCombs wrote:<br><br>> The biggest problem here is, a bunch of coders who all of a sudden<br>> have a supposed "design sense". As long as coders are the ones who<br>> approve themes into core, and other coders all chime in with what they
<br>> think is good, then the end result will continuously be less than<br>> stellar.<br>><br>> Coders code.<br>><br>> Designers Design.<br>><br>> And it's a very rare thing when the two meet.<br>>
<br>> Of course, I'm just a designer, so... "What do I know?"[tm]<br>><br>> I'll shut up now.<br><br>As a designer, I think you know quite a bit on the subject. ;)<br><br>However, comments like "less than stellar" and "aren't particularly
<br>good visually" and "aren't very sexy" and stuff don't really help.<br>They allude vaguely to a problem but offer no recourse for how to<br>address it, or even how to identify where to start addressing it.
<br><br>On the other hand, what would help A LOT is if someone with a "design<br>eye" would point out specific places in the themes where there are<br>problems and, where possible, suggest alternatives (people have been
<br>doing this with the Zen Beach colour scheme, which is great).<br>Alternatively, even if you as a designer don't have time to do a<br>theme yourself, you can help by pointing out a look and feel of<br>another website or something that would qualify as "sexy," or
<br>specific elements we can try and incorporate into the design to use<br>as inspiration.<br><br>I think we all can universally agree that bluemarine is out-dated and<br>needs to be changed. What we as coders need are constructive and
<br>moreover *actionable* criticism/comments so we can make this happen.<br><br>-Angie<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br> Trae McCombs || <a href="http://occy.net/">http://occy.net/</a><br> Founder -
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