Vertigo!

[chasethestars]

We started working on the vertical version of the new site scheme. Vertigo is the sibling to Horizon, and its look and feel and functionality is a cross between Horizon and Dystopia. We've mocked this up, and would like your feedback on it. A few of the points we're specifically interested in:

• links: In Dystopia, there are some useful site links

Comments

[lafemmezilla]

I really like it and (omg) don't even see anything to object to!

Thank you for making a feedback poll-as a longtime Dystopia user, I appreciate it. :)

[xaeris]

this is really awesome!

i think it's a shame that vertical navigation isn't used more, especially now that so many people have widescreen monitors. there are countless studies showing that your eyes can't focus on lines of text more than 60 characters long. so either you shove everything into the middle, generator-style, and have a lot of dead space, or you use that space for something else (like navigation).

[alessar]

I think this design is very promising. Personally, I find the navbar in horizon clips the pane below it (at least in my firefox at my preferred font size).

Updating the links in LJ for these new schemes is nice, but I do occasionally have a hard time finding something that used to be more prominent. "Manage links" for instance. Maybe with this design you'll have room to fit a couple more things like that in.

[chasethestars]

but I do occasionally have a hard time finding something that used to be more prominent. "Manage links" for instance.

Do you mean in the site pages, or in the main navigation? I'm pretty sure "manage links" wasn't ever part of the main navigation.

[alessar]

I thought it was in main navigation at one point, one of the things under a general "manage" category in Xcolibur or Dystopia; maybe not. But around the time that the ability to have more links in a style (especially an S2 one) was upgraded, and it was *easy* to get to that page. It might have been a site page though.

Anyway, I just looked again, I can't find that link anywhere in Horizon, and it's not on the current main site map. However, if I use overall site viewing options and go back to Xcolibur, I can find the manage links list under Manage Account, immediately. So, it looks like that link just got dropped completely in Horizon.

[galbinus_caeli]

I also find that the different pseudoframes overlap each other. It appears that LJ is assuming that everyone has certain fonts available, when that is not true.

Don't assume that text takes the same amount of space on every user's system. Use relative spacing, not absolute.

[stillimage]

There is a few things I dislike:

[janinedog]

I'm not sure how it'd look, but what about putting the userpic on the right and the LJ logo on the left? It would allow the userpic to stay but not interfere with the width of the sidebar.

[janinedog]

Alternatively, maybe the userpic could go immediately to the right of the username and links (instead of immediately to the left as it is now). Granted, it may look ugly, not sure. :)

[queclecumber]

I agree that the icon on the right and logo on the left would be better...

[troworld]

I like the first suggestion.