Nao

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #30, on January 22nd, 2013, 07:05 PM »
The circles are here to stay. They're in Wuthering, which isn't the default skin.
Weaving, however, has the difficult task of trying to please everyone, and also staying a 'bare' skin that can easily be modified to your own taste. Wuthering is a child of Weaving and as such I can try to be as inventive as possible, because it's not going to be the default.

So...
- Weaving: boring linktree
- Wine and Warm: inherit linktree from Weaving
- Wuthering: has its own cool linktree

What I'm trying to do is change the boring Weaving linktree to the arrow version you see above. I'm trying to determine if it's "neutral" enough to be used in default skins. If yes, then it might be worth including.
After all, technically Wess has a nice little feature called 'reset' which allows you to entirely rewrite a selector without having to 'cancel' its current definition manually... And although I'd rather not encourage users to do that for anything, I'm trying to determine if it's okay for the linktree.

(Oh, and I also tried to move the Wuthering linktree to Weaving... It still looks great, but it's too "in your face". It tends to draw your attention, a bit too much. If I make it flat, though, it's better, but it looks a bit weird.)

Arantor

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #31, on January 22nd, 2013, 07:07 PM »
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What I'm trying to do is change the boring Weaving linktree to the arrow version you see above. I'm trying to determine if it's "neutral" enough to be used in default skins. If yes, then it might be worth including.
I'd leave Weaving's alone and have Warm and Wine use this new style.
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Nao

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #32, on January 22nd, 2013, 07:27 PM »
Thing is, one of my plans is to separate Wine from the rest, i.e. move Warm and Wuthering to be direct children of Weaving. So... Warm for now, I guess?

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #33, on January 22nd, 2013, 07:38 PM »
That works for me :)

Nao

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #34, on January 23rd, 2013, 03:18 PM »
Done, and website updated.
Can you switch to Warm and give me your opinion on the changes...?

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #35, on January 23rd, 2013, 03:24 PM »
Looks good :)

Could use a touch of space between the bottom link tree and the footer, and perhaps a bit of space between the top tree and the menu, which dropping the dotted border on the menu.

Nao

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #36, on January 23rd, 2013, 03:30 PM »
I wanted to use as much horizontal space as possible for the linktree because (1) bigger font (1) included next to sidebar rather than above, all of which contribute to increasing chances of having it take 2 lines... Then again, one of the good points in this linktree is that it doesn't "break" when shown over two lines.
I also wanted to have the linktree and the menu bar next to each other as some sort of design choice, but it may very well be the reason I'm going "meh" on the end result...

I'll try this in a sec.

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #37, on January 23rd, 2013, 03:32 PM »
Horizontal space is fine, just needs a shade of vertical space.

Nao

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #38, on January 23rd, 2013, 03:40 PM »
Good instincts. This padding works tons better in Warm. Will commit in next batch.

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Re: Linktree
« Reply #39, on January 24th, 2013, 01:00 AM »
The linktree for Warm looks nice, but the linktree in Wuthering is just straight sexy.