Walter Vermeir wrote:
tarquin wrote
After *that*, I'll see about slowly tweaking the current skin. We need to look a bit smarter in time for the 300k article announcement.
The current default skin gives to non-technical visitors a bad impression. The find it looks old and not proffesional.
But we're not professional! Let's not pretend that we are. A bit of amateurish isn't bad if it leaves people with the feeling that we are closer to the non-technical person's level of computer understanding. We want people to contribute without being blinded by glitz. The contents are far more important than the skin.
I like the idea of very basic default look. But not al visitors do.
A option where a visitor can choose a skin can improve the way a visitor looks at wikipedia.
There is something fundamentally illogical about this. For a visitor to be able to change the skin he needs to know something about our "preferences". By the time he knows enough to make that change he is no longer just a visitor
The wikipedia in a nice skin also looks better on television; http://www.ict-id.nl/wikipedia/html/wikipedia_index.html http://www22.brinkster.com/rotemdan/phase4-demo-v1-1.htm
These are very nice. :-P We can have as many optional skins as we want.
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