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Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

AG — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:01:59 -0000

I guess that's fair enough. As it happens, I don't read your site because it's far, far too image-heavy and takes an eternity to load. : . )

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

Michael Surtees — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:44:33 -0000

the gray doesn't remind you of newsprint at all?

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

Michael Surtees — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:44:05 -0000

great to hear

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Bradford Pilcher — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:47:14 -0000

I think you've made a real improvement here. Simple tweak, but it helps divide the posts much better. Much appreciated.

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Callie — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:05:20 -0000

Well, I'm not crazy about the gray, but I do like those yellow header bars. Those are lovely.

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

Michael Surtees — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:30:25 -0000

thanks greg, there's still a couple things that i want to overhaul but i feel a lot better now... i've been ignoring the design of designNotes for other projects but it's time to make this site work they way i want it to.

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

Greg J. Smith — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:10:19 -0000

Looks sharp!

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Michael Surtees — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:47:25 -0000

THANK YOU! what a great tip...

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Erin Sparling — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:42:38 -0000

If you ever come across a page with an offending inverted color scheme again, you can use the OS X universal access key command to invert your entire screen in real-time. Cmd-opt-ctrl-8 will do it.

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

Michael Surtees — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:10:31 -0000

more like out of practice or something like that Joe...

the sidebar should be ignored, there's a lot of hurt going on there that needs to be fixed.

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

Joe Clark — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:06:37 -0000

Styling an H2 was troublesom, Michael? Now, really.

I wouldn’t use orange on grey, and the ALL CAPS SIDEBAR LINKS are a bit de trop.

I trust your print CSS uses only black markings of all kinds, with no background colo(u)r.

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

Michael Surtees — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:17:59 -0000

I was going to fix the headlines over the weekend but since I had a css expert beside me, I asked him to help me. Hopefully the confusion is now over...

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

Michael Surtees — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:13:08 -0000

i'll take a look into that, thanks

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

Bradford Pilcher — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:33:55 -0000

I'm a big fan of the light gray. Stark white with black copy can get to be very tiring on the eyes after a while, so kudos to that tweak.

I really want to speak to your comment about the headlines. They absolutely get lost and it absolutely is a hierarchy issue. The font size on them is too small. As I scroll down, it's virtually impossible for me to quickly and easily see where a post ends and a new one (old one?) begins. If the type was larger, or if there was a simple dividing line, this could be easily corrected.

Re: Slight up-do design to DesignNotes

youmon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:30:53 -0000

No complaints on the gray (although I also had no complaints on the white. I do think the silver on the a:hover should be changed (silver on gray is rough).