Topic: trying different things...

Playing around with my site...layout changes, major color changes, general simplification and illucidation of things.

Not planning on changing much of anything, but am very interested in opinions -
http://in-dented.com/

And of course, if anything breaks by all means let me know.

Thanks =)

[Emp edit: Also up for review at the GN:
http://development.gurusnetwork.com/discussion/thread/1907/ ]



[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 03-01-2003).]

Great! Now I'll have to change mine so that it's still inspired by yours! Thanks a lot! =)

I like it... it's similar to the old one but I like how the background color is solid white so it's just the lines separating things. The colors work well and the font styling is nice.

Oh, wow, the background color *isn't* all white. Shows you how bright my LCD screen really is =)

Hmm, well, the one thing I'm not crazy about, and never really have been, is different background colors meeting together without a line inbetween. That's just me, though.

The coding is good, although I'd like to see the style attribute avoided.

Nice job overall.

hey hey! something to go through when I get a sec, bookmarked! It's a bit bit plain CSSy but real class at first glance...

Jason

It has something. I am not exactly sure what it is, but I tend to like it.

I am with slime on that whole colors fading into the background deal. But that was the aim, and I know that if you bordered up the whole thing it wouldn't look early as nice, would turn into something that has been done a thousand times.

I think I would like to see your menu done using a list. It is a list of links so it seems fitting that it should be written as one, but that is of no consequence since it looks great in my text browser. For content layout, I would put "so here we are" before people. When I come to your site I would like to see about the page, before I see a list of people.

I think you have a real winner here. I liked the colors in your old layout a whole lot, it was very inspirational. This is getting back to a more contemporary, or even art decco feel which, I think I am feeling.

Great work. Thanks for sharing.


Me

It's lookin' good... nice... simple... clean. I dig it. The nav and footer BG color looks like a mint green on the monitor here at work. Is that right? If so... way to be adventurous. I'm not sure I've ever seen mint green on a site... used stylishly like that anyway. Anyway, good show. I'll have to bookmark it too so I can rummage through your links section... hehe.

Nice, it has a very cool feel to it, very relaxing. I like it. I'm not a big fan of buttons that clash with page colors, but that's a personal preference, I suppose. I think I would also have to agree with Slime/WarMage on the "no line" issue.

Nothing seems to be broken, and your sketches still manage to make me feel ashamed of my lack of skill in that area. Keep up the good work.

Aiming for something with a little more class, and a little more...gentle on the eyes than my previous version. As well as cleaner code.

Slime - I think I got all the style incidents out. I don't use them as general practice, but often throw them in while troubleshooting. I try to go back and incorporate classes for whatever I needed, but don't always get them all

The lack of lines is something that was very deliberate, and while I can understand the dislike of such a thing, lines there would really alter the feel drastically, even if they were of a subtle color.

Warmage - the categories and subcategories are in a list, but there were too many elements to the links themselves for me to bother trying to conform it to list structure.
And with a CSS2 compliant browser, the text does in fact come before the list of people =)

Shard - I wouldn't call it "mint" green, but I suppose on different monitors it may come across that way.

And finally, suho - do you mean the 88x31 link buttons at the bottom? I remade the w3c buttons to fit, and I was thinking of trying out one of those pacity fader scripts for the others...never played with one of those though. We'll see =)

Thanks for the comments guys, always good to hear what people think.

{{edit - oh, and

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If so... way to be adventurous

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hehe...I try. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't... =)



[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 02-27-2003).]

I know it comes out in a CSS2 compliant browser. But I am talking of the accessability issues, with those who use items such as screen readers, or those using only text browsers.

On the whole with a compliant graphical browser it is an awsome looking site.


Me

Yup, I understood that. My comment was a light jibe really.

Considering the overall accessiblity of the site, I'm less worried about that particualr issue given the headache invloved in making it work the other way aorund (float:right is such a pain in the ass sometimes...)

I have made some minor alterations that were intended to help visually constrain some of the page, as perhaps the overall feel was a bit *too* open for its own good.

Let me know what you think.



[This message has been edited by DL-44 (edited 03-02-2003).]

Yes, I was talking about the 88x31 buttons at the bottom. I actually did appreciate what you did with the W3C buttons--that actually made me smile--but the other ones just clash way too much for me. Not sure if there's much that you can do about that, though, or even if anything should be done about it. It just kind of rubs me the wrong way, that's all.

As for the changes... um, do you have the old one for comparison? I can't remember exactly what it looked like.

Nope, I don't.

But the changes are relatively subtle...some things to simply hint a little more towards structure - added the left vertical border to the body, narrowed the content div's on all but the links section, and added the vertical dotted border on the right. Also set max-width specs that IE users won't see unfortunately. And I've changed countless minor things that probably won't even be visible.

No plans on closing my un-bordered edges - I like them. But it did need some extra vertical lineage. =)

ah i love your site. -bookmarked-. your link resource is awesome. mhmm the colors..there was no need changing them, ey? but the new colors are reallly nice too.

nice job