cambert opened this issue on Oct 04, 2002 ยท 66 posts
cambert posted Sat, 05 October 2002 at 5:42 AM
To answer Xena's question in post 21: And like all censorship issues, it's simple. If you don't like it, don't read it/watch it/view it. In the case of the gallery, why can't you just view the image and not read the credits? No-one forces you to do so. It's not a censorship issue, it's a design issue. The new layout, with big stripes of flavour-colour across boxes, imposes itself on the viewer. The information below the image is much too visible and distracts horribly from the art on the page. So, yes, we are being forced to look at it. Good design recognises that its function is to lead the viewer's eye around the page - design can't help but do that. Now there's a subsidiary page element crying out for attention and competing with what's supposed to be the main focus: the picture. It's a poor design decision. I know it was done with the very best of intentions, to make the galleries better. The folks who run this site always make decisions in the interests of both the site and its huge number of users. It's just that this one didn't work out as planned because it breaks one of the basic principles of design. PLEASE let's get rid of those boxes!