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slightly different design:
http://imslp.org/wiki/User:Icactus/sandbox2

Comments on major aspects of the layout?

also, for those who are not webdesign-inclined this is a great website with clean web design examples so you could find something you thought conveyed what you envision in your head and tell us which example it is: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/70-typographic-clean-and-minimalist-color-s...

does anyone have a nomination for a piece with great scroll art to use at the top?

Yeah, no design is going to display properly on all screens until the CSS can be addressed to set fixed properties and floats, etc. While I do think the painting needs to go the way of the dinosaurs that doesn't mean we can't have some flair on the page. I think you're on to something with the scrol...

I have a functional test version up that still needs a little design love (of the css variety) but is basically a functioning version of the graphic i made: http://imslp.org/wiki/User:Icactus/sandbox2 I don't expect everyone to love it, but we can agree that it makes the website much easier to navig...

I think once the main page is concentrated down a clean version the side navigation should seem more visually relevant since it will not have to compete with a cluttered main page. I just dont think there is justifiable space for the browse boxes. Also, there is room below the fold for secondary inf...

there's a new "music" logo now to replace the old placeholder.

I think the new design benefits greatly from the removal of the "Browse" buttons which are unnecessarily redundant with the side navigation menu. If someone comes to a webpage for a library, the first thing they want to see is a way to search that library and I think that needs to be prima...

So here is a complete restructuring of the Main Page: http://imslp.org/wiki/User:Icactus/sandbox2 If we ignore opinions on the design elements (logo, etc) for a moment, does anyone have enough Wiki-expertise to convert this graphic version into some basic shell? I don't know how customizable the wik...

oh ok. thanks!

also, just some notes on good web design: The major problem with the "1995" version (aside from aesthetic) is that it equally emphasizes all information (like the yahoo.com design from 1995) and so I would say it is actually a bad example of usability with no visual impact either and can s...

who else is actively working on this new design?

So i thought the Main Page could benefit from some pro-bono graphic design so I made some tasteful (i think :)) and modest changes to the design to keep the main themes but de-clutter and unify the design. It just needs the div id tags rewritten for the mp_nav and mp_intro to place the text over the...

Thanks! We might even be farther along than we think - I've already found a Sibley's that have file duplicates from the MIT archive so I double tagged them for the record. Hopefully there are more than just a couple....

Is there a process for flagging pdf files that should be deleted. For example: http://imslp.org/wiki/O_Praise_the_Lord_with_One_Consent,_HWV_254_%28Handel,_George_Frideric%29 Those are the same original file, but one is 44Mb probably because it was handled wrong before uploading. Obviously that one ...