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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I don't mind the slim design. In fact, I like it. It reminds me of what I tried to accomplish with Liminality (except you've gone way slim). It has character. Not too sure about the choice of color (the green background on the right), but that's ultimately personal preference. Have you considered offering different style sheets? What I don't like is the title font. Especially in the menu, it's a bit hard to read. At first I thought "me" said "the," and I wasn't sure what "stuff" was. It took a moment or two to figure it out (I had to rollover to figure out "me"). In my eyes, that's not good design. I shouldn't have to guess. Then, of course, there's the age old gripe about having recursive links (a link to the home page on the home page, for example). On the contact page you say, "If you are looking for a way to contact me, please scroll down a bit." Why not just put a link there called "contact information" (or something) that links to an anchor in the text where the actual information is? My that was a tortured sentence. But you get my point, right? Why make the user scroll when you can take them right to the info they're looking for? Ah, I see on the board (which is really a guestbook... I was expecting a message board, and I was wondering how you were going to work that into the slim design) that you mentioned the possibility of offering different style sheets. In that case, I would like to suggest a color for the background: orange. I know it may sound wacky, but orange and blue make a very nice couple, and I just happen to really like orange (and yet I still have no orange scheme on Liminality... this will have to change soon). I'm not sure about having the comments in italics. Italics are just not very screen friendly, and to see all that text in italics is quite discouraging. Stuff: So far, this seems to be a links page. Maybe you should just call it links? At the least, a more informative title would be nice, as stuff could mean anything from dissertations on French rap music to tentacle porn. And we really don't want to go there, do we? ;) One final gripe: use of vertical space. Your title graphic takes up quite a bit of vertical space, and then below that you have a brief description of the section in very generously leaded, large italics (eek!). On the work, me, and stuff pages you have very large header graphics below that. The result is that, in my browser (which has very little vertical chrome, by the way), maximized at 1024 x 768, the content on those three pages starts "below the fold" (that is, off screen). Even without the header graphics (on the home and board pages), the content starts at least two-thirds of the way down the page. In the long run, we're going to be doing a lot of scrolling anyway, but there seems to be too much non-content at the top. Overall, I like. Despite the ranting, I feel that there are just a few glitches that make the experience less than it could be. ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] Loading...
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