Try the new RFF Skin

[CameraQuest]

A new RFF skin is available on your drop down SKIN menu.

Go to the very bottom of any RFF page

you will find a drop down menu with different SKIN choices

the default RFF skin is VBP Graphite Expand - White Font

The new option is VBP Hex Cell Grey Xpand

Personally I like the new skin more than the default setting.

BTW, clear your browser cookies and the RFF skin will go back to default black w/ white lettering

Stephen

 

[wjlapier]

Easy on the eyes. I'll give it a try.

 

[coelacanth]

Looking great and clean. 🙂 My only suggestion: drop the bevel and emboss from RFF. (totally personal aesthetics pet peeve. totally ignore!)

 

[gb hill]

I've always liked the Graphite Xpand with the blue font. I'll stick with that.🙂

 

[bence8810]

Thanks for this Stephen - very refreshing to the eyes, better than the Organina theme...

Ben

 

[Keith]

I just can't go past the original though I agree that the options available now are very good. I'm trapped in the past! 😀

 

[photomoof]

VERY nice improvement!

Still need to kill the orange and blue borders, and orange bar at the bottom.

 

[YouAreHere]

I like it. Options are a good thing.

 

[photomoof]

For a truly 2015 look, drop all the frames completely. Frames in a design look amateurish.

As a professor of web design for quite a few years, I am pretty firm on simplicity. Color is OK, but not orange and blue together.

 

[Roger Hicks]

VERY nice improvement!

Still need to kill the orange and blue borders, and orange bar at the bottom.

Dear Fred,

Seconded: VASTLY better. But it would be still better to get rid of those awful clashing colours.

As for your second post, I'd rather have "amateurish" than "garish". Also, I wonder how many people really care all that much about what looks "modern".

Cheers,

R.

 

[cz23]

Thanks for the alert, Stephen. I'm now using it on all my devices. Nicest skin yet.

John

 

[photomoof]

Dear Fred,

Seconded: VASTLY better. But it would be still better to get rid of those awful clashing colours.

As for your second post, I'd rather have "amateurish" than "garish". Also, I wonder how many people really care all that much about what looks "modern".

Cheers,

R.

I use "modern" as in "current" UI thinking/design in general. Early web sites were pretty much an accident, built around primitive HTML "standards" by code writers not designers. Most were visually a nightmare, and difficult to navigate.

People often think they don't care about looks, but I know many internet architects who have run a lot of focus groups, and "simple" [uncluttered] usually means easier to use. People find links quicker [and spend more money], if they are not distracted by unnecessary decorations.

There is simply no reason for a thin orange line for instance. It's not attractive, and it does not delineate anything -- what is its purpose, I would ask a student.

This is what I believe a high traffic web site should look like, http://whitney.org/ or this http://bombmagazine.org/ (one I worked on with one of my favorite designers). My position as a designer, is that content is the most important aspect of a web site.

I am a proponent of large one word menus -- About / Advertise / Contact / Donate / Events / Follow / Newsletter / Shop.

 

[photomoof]

By the way overall I find the RFF quite easy to use, and quick to learn. There is an enormous amount of content that can be quickly browsed. Little need to search, which to me is important.

 

[citizen99]

My instincts tend to be 'Luddite', simply because 'modernity' seems too often to be used as an excuse to add superfluous 'visual noise' just because the capability is there. But I do like the examples given here :

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This is what I believe a high traffic web site should look like, http://whitney.org/ or this http://bombmagazine.org/ (one I worked on with one of my favorite designers). My position as a designer, is that content is the most important aspect of a web site.

I am a proponent of large one word menus -- About / Advertise / Contact / Donate / Events / Follow / Newsletter / Shop.

I also find the new skin option 'easy on the eye' 🙂 .

 

[photomoof]

My instincts tend to be 'Luddite', simply because 'modernity' seems too often to be used as an excuse to add superfluous 'visual noise' just because the capability is there.

Yeah probably a bad choice of words on my part, but there is no question we are all victims of the ability to add more "features" and "visual noise" both on and off line.

I am too "dumb" to operate many dishwashers and microwave ovens, you can imagine how digital camera menus work for me. 😱

 

[k__43]

nah .. doesn't feel right to me. How do I go back? .. the selection disappeared on the white one

 

[photomoof]

nah .. doesn't feel right to me. How do I go back? .. the selection disappeared on the white one

Bottom right of screen.

 

[sevo]

There is simply no reason for a thin orange line for instance. It's not attractive, and it does not delineate anything -- what is its purpose, I would ask a student.

Right. The same goes for the header "tabs". All that skeuomorphism dates back to the early days of GUIs, when users had to be educated that the seemingly typeset page they were looking at was in fact a machine that had active elements - hence buttons to push, tabs to sort. These days, we are more accustomed to GUIs than to devices with hardware buttons (and most people haven't set eyes on a tab ordered file cabinet in the last decade), so there is no more point in explaining a page with references to pre-computer hardware.

 

[citizen99]

... you can imagine how digital camera menus work for me. 😱

Sounds like the way they work for me too 😀. I leave it on easy automatic, preserving thinking energy for the mechanical photography that I enjoy 😉.

 

[photomoof]

Right. The same goes for the header "tabs". All that skeuomorphism dates back to the early days of GUIs, when users had to be educated that the seemingly typeset page they were looking at was in fact a machine that had active elements - hence buttons to push, tabs to sort. These days, we are more accustomed to GUIs than to devices with hardware buttons (and most people haven't set eyes on a tab ordered file cabinet in the last decade).

No one knows quite what to do.

My Mac shows a little icon [picture] of a hard drive, but when I ask students to tell me what a hard drive is, about 90% of them have no idea whatsoever.

As you note, how many younger users have ever seen an actual filing cabinet and folders, other than in a movie? I have been completely paperless for 5 years now, only the idiot government still sends me paper.

B&H Photo still insists on sending me a huge catalog each year, which is unsearchable and out of date, some hang on to the past.