New DMD site layout

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Bruno Medeiros" <brunodomedeirosATgmail at SPAM.com> wrote in message 
news:e6ke0t$30ub$1 at digitaldaemon.com...

> I don't like on-mouse-over highlighting of any kind for functional 
> websites (pointless eyecandy?)

On the contrary, feedback like that often improves the experience for 
graphical interfaces.  It's not "pointless eyecandy," it's letting you know 
what you can interact with by showing it in an interactive way.  We get the 
same kind of feedback from things like keyboard keys; they kind of wiggle if 
you put your finger on them, and they make a nice "click" and have a good 
springiness when pushed.  Feedback is an important part of graphical 
interface design as well.

> Also, the highlighted area doesn't even seem to be well centered (or 
> framed) around it's respective text.

Not sure what you mean.  Maybe it's a browser display issue?

> And there are "empty link spaces" between (all) menu entries, that is, 
> areas where there is no hyperlink/menu-selection (I've found that that 
> bothers me

The alternative is cramming all the links together, which looks awful.

> Plus, I don't like the "button" look of the "Home | Downloads | Search | D 
> | Comments" header, as the buttons look ugly.

They do look a bit ugly.