Puppet users - Mar 2007 - Reduced usability of the new Puppet website design?

Hi all,

While I can understand the desire to customise the default Trac site,
the new website design appears to me to be a step back in terms of
usability in two areas.

Firstly, the top fixed navigation banner and bottom Trac banner take up
valuable screen space no matter when you have scrolled to in the page.
I also find them quite distracting from the content that I''m trying to
read.

Secondly, printing on Linux (FC6 and Firefox 2) seems to be completely
broken, possibly by the fixed div on the bottom.  Instead of printing
multiple pages, I can only print the first page and the text appears
just to flow over and never actually gets printed.

Anyone else agree?  Or disagree?

Cheers,

James

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Hi,

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 10:52 +1000, HARRIS Jimmy (AXA-Tech-AU)
wrote:
> While I can understand the desire to customise the default Trac site,
> the new website design appears to me to be a step back in terms of
> usability in two areas.
> 
> [snipped]
>
> Anyone else agree?  Or disagree?
I do agree with your comments, and I want to add that on my computer (a
two years ago Pentium 4 running on debian Etch) scrolling the window
content is terribly slow under Firefox, which renders browsing the
documentation a quite painful process.

Konqueror doesn''t seem to be affected (but has different renderer
artifacts), though.

Regards,

>> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 10:52 +1000, HARRIS Jimmy (AXA-Tech-AU) wrote:
> > While I can understand the desire to customise the default Trac
site, 
> > the new website design appears to me to be a step back in terms of 
> > usability in two areas.
> > 
> > [snipped]
> >
> > Anyone else agree?  Or disagree?
After browsing the site this morning (Australian time), I see that the
header and footer have been updated.  I think not having them floating
over the rest of the content is a good decision for usability.  Thanks
for making the changes (and I do like the rest of the design!).

Cheers,

James

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