CASUAL Group

[saltybeagle]

CASUAL Group:
playful, clean ... rounded corners, elements breaking grid ... softer, youth-oriented

Marcelo Plioplis
Heather Dahm
Bob Crisler
David Sockrider
Mark Hiatt
Marilyn Hahn
Seth Meranda

[Guest]

We're meeting on Monday, February 20th, in the ARCH107 classroom of the New Media Center. Bring some Photoshop comps, URLs and ideas.

[Guest]

You might well ask "When on Monday?"

Sorry.

We have the room from 10:30am through Noon.

[mapliopl]

I found these interesting sites, or prototypes...

these are all samples of the background image behind the fixed width content page in the center...

http://www.lucidcrew.com/
http://www.jeremyboles.com/
http://www.cplworldtour.com/ (this has nice rounded corners too)


I like this one especially because the horizontal picture bar contains a nice graphic that changes once you click on the navigation links, as well as the title of the page. It's stylized really nicely as well. Aesthetically looks very cool...

http://www.lakemount.ca/


This prototype has some examples of what we can do with background colors for the grids (in case we have time to develop a content design "database), but it's got the "label" effect I was talking about this morning... as well as the drop shadow delineating the content area on both sides of the fixed-width frame...

http://www.31three.com/projects/kqed/index.html


These sites also has that effect...

http://www.blogger.com/start
http://www.newezra.com/xhtml/home/

[heather]

Hey Group,

I was messing around with some of the elements that I really liked from the first go round of design reviews.

1. I really liked the menu on the left side with some description
2. I really liked the static menu on the top like we talked about today
3. I really liked the pop out window that Aaron suggested in his design
4. I really like the floating photos in the menu on the cornell site.
5. I really liked the textured background for the red area also like we talked about today.

So let me know what you think.

http://niobrara.unl.edu/users/heather/unl/test.png[/url]

[heather]

http://niobrara.unl.edu/users/heather/unl/test.png

[rcrisler1]

I'll just drop the 'casual' PSDs in the following directory: http://ucommdev.unl.edu/ngrg/downloads/casual/

[mapliopl]

I finished cleaning up yesterday's PSD...

If you guys want to get it and make tweaks to it, that'd be great...

Here's the link to access it:

ftp://blue77:guest@bluecleaning.com/Tea ... Layers.psd

[mapliopl]

another cool way of using background graphics, as well as a header graphic...


http://www.tehillahniagara.com/

[Seth]

I forgot to write down the time of today's meeting. Can someone help me out?

[dsockrider]

Here



Here's my etch-a-sketch interface:

[rcrisler1]

Mark, I think, said 2:00. That's what I have on my calendar.

[mapliopl]

Yo guys,

How do you like the format of this macromedia page? Little shadows on the corners (I'm not too sold on the borders), and a cool thing...

The page header is not on a rounded box... what if we did something like that with the UNL links at the top and a page header as part of the background, like here:

http://www.macromedia.com/

Hope the finishing up of the design went well...

Have a good weekend...

[rcrisler1]

Me likey the Macromedia page. Always have. It was the one really nice page we could point to when people harangued us about our second-level navigation.

Here are the PSDs from today. There are two, one from 4pm and the other from 4:30.

The 4:00 one
The 4:30 one

Next meeting, Tuesday the 28th from 1-3pm, 321 Canfield (assuming I can get the room).

[mapliopl]

hi folk,

Saw the 4:30... sweet, sweet...

Are we including quick links, weather, etc...???

Background graphic/change of color?

Should we play with the PSD before tomorrow's meet'n?

Peace.