[sakai2-tcc] Sakai 2.9 Skin Change

[Charles Hedrick]

Actually our motivation wasn't to minimize the amount of change, but to do a good web design. I would have been happy to use something like the default 2.9 background if I thought it was good design. Changes from our existing Rutgers design would have been fine. (The only thing we can't change is that red has to be prominent and the Rutgers logo has to be there at the upper left.) It came out closer to our existing design than I expected.

Chuck is right that we used Canvas as an inspiration, though there are enough differences in the system that the final results aren't as similar as I expected. (One issue is that their design tends to be low contrast. There are accessibility problems with that.) To see the whole design you have to login, of course. We were limited in that we didn't have time to redesign individual tools, but I think our treatment is significantly better than the default.

On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Beth Kirschner wrote:

> Since most institutions will present their own skin anyway, I think the key thing is how we present Sakai to new institutions -- I kinda like the new skin better than the Rutgers skin -- though UM may choose to go the same route as Rutgers and choose a skin that's not a major change.
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> - Beth
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> On Jan 19, 2012, at 7:56 PM, csev wrote:
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>> Feel free to shout me down on this one.
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>> Chuck Hedrick at Rutgers has developed a skin for 2.9 hat looks VERY nice and what I especially like, it loads very fast.
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>> It looks clean and modern as well.  You can make an account here and try it out:
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>> https://sakai-29.rutgers.edu/
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>> I think I / we went too far in the Sakai OAE homage and it leads to slow jumpy load times.
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>> I propose that his graphic artist change the Red to Blue and we make it the default skin for 2.9.   
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>> I am happy to be told "no".
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>> Thoughts / comments?
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>> /Chuck
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