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Chris Ilias

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Jun 22, 2007, 8:38:50 PM6/22/07
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I was thinking about what the ideal UI for sumo should be; one thing
that I latched onto right away was consistency between sumo and other
Mozilla websites. The comparison I like to make is that between
www.mozilla.com and addons.mozilla.org. The UI of AMO works well, and is
very consistent with the mozilla.com website. I'd like to maintain those
consistencies with sumo. To be specific:
- the blue banner at the top (products|add-ons|support,etc.)
- the grey bar beneath the blue banner (keep the search bar, and the
'register' and 'login' links)
- language selector at the bottom right
- menu on the left
- colours, and stylesheet

I've also created a screen video to better illustrate it:
<http://ilias.ca/flashback/sumo-layout.html>
It's 11MB and quite long (4min); but I thought it would be good to get
me in used to doing voice-overs for instructional videos. :-)

JT Batson

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Jun 22, 2007, 10:19:37 PM6/22/07
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Chris-- thanks your thoughts. I think we have some similar thoughts here :)

I have cced John Slater, Mozilla's Creative Director, on this email. He will be heading up our efforts on the layout/design front.

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Chris Ilias

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Jun 23, 2007, 10:28:06 PM6/23/07
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On 6/23/07 10:16 AM, _David McRitchie_ spoke thusly:
> Hi Chris,
> What software did you use to create your video.

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Ilias" <n...@ilias.ca>
> Newsgroups: mozilla.support.planning
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 08:38 PM
> Subject: Ideal layout for sumo
>
>> I've also created a screen video to better illustrate it:
>> <http://ilias.ca/flashback/sumo-layout.html>
>> It's 11MB and quite long (4min); but I thought it would be good to get
>> me in used to doing voice-overs for instructional videos. :-)

For those interested, I used BB FlashBack Express [1], which costs $40
USD. The full version is $200. I vaguely recall other people in these
newsgroups, making references to free screen recorders; so if anyone
knows any, please speak up. On Mac, the only one I currently know of is
iShowU [2].


[1]<http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBackExpress/Home.aspx>
[2]<http://www.shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html>

Chris Ilias

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Jun 28, 2007, 8:38:45 PM6/28/07
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On 6/23/07 10:28 PM, _Chris Ilias_ spoke thusly:


David McRitchie wrote:

"Hi Chris,
Rather than searching for the thread you asked for a screen capture
suggestion, here is a link and a thread mozilla.support.firefox

Screen capture software
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor/index.html
allows you to put up tags with arrows to items, and circle any number of
items
in choices of color, so it probably has what you need.

There may be additional suggestions coming later at

<http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=IP2dnU4GeKnXiBnbnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d%40mozilla.org>"

Thanks David. I also managed to find the one Nir posted about:
<http://www.debugmode.com/wink/>.
I haven't tried them yet.

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