[Typo3-dev] New skin for TYPO3

[tapio]

JoH wrote:
>>http://213.239.197.48/screenshot_t3skin.png
>>
>>This is a skin I'm working on, it's part of a initiative to clean up
>>the BE HTML-Code a bit and to write a Skinning Tutorial for TYPO3.
>>
>>First Drafts:
>>http://213.239.197.48/skinning_issues_with_typo3.sxw
>>http://213.239.197.48/typo3_skinning_tutorial.sxw
>>
>>Main targets of the new skin:
>>- clean up of the extension
>>- clean up of html-code and enhancement of the skinning API
>>  (look into the skinning_issues_with_typo3.sxw)
>>- keeping backwards compatiblity (the user chooses if to use the new
>>  skin or not, just an extension)
>>- should be based on the existing TYPO3-CI
> 
> 
> Well - I agree that we need something like a "modern BE look" and all the
> targets you listed are fine.
> But regarding usability you should get rid of those highly saturated colors.
> There is really no need to have the TYPO3 CI colors as table headers and it
> is hard to concentrate on the blue content section when your eyes are always
> "pulled" back to the heavy orange menu headers on the left. The blue section
> seems OK for me.
> If this is going to be something like "TYPO3 goes WIN XP" you should
> reconsider the whole concept, since IMHO this would make things worse than
> they are now.
> 
> Just my 2 cents
> 
> Joey
> 
I have used modified Skincrystal skin http://www.tapionet.net/typo3/
use 'test' as password and username.
Skincrystal used PNG as button image - they lookew awful in MS IE.
I MUST make corresponging GIF-images. Does this skin use GIF - PNG are 
really bad choise for MS IE?