Curtis Napier posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:18:21 -0500:
> http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org > > Also, I only use GNU/Linux and I have only tested on the following > browsers: > > Mozilla-1.7 > firefox-1.0 > Opera-8.5 > Internet Explorer-6 under CrossOver Office > Epiphany-1.8.2 > Links-2.1 in text mode and graphics mode. > > If you have access to a Macintosh, Windows, *BSD or any other OS or > Browser please test the site and include your OS and the browser version > in your feedback. I haven't received feedback from Konqueror or Safari > so feedback from those browsers would be much appreciated. > > The only major outstanding issue is the contents of the menu in the grey > bar at the top and what should appear in the 5 purple boxes directly > under them. Currently I have that menu listed in order of what a new > Gentoo user would need to access first. If you have a better idea of > what should be included in this menu or think something important is > being left out please send that in your feedback as well. You mention links but not lynx. I tried it in both lynx and links/text mode. It's quite impressive in lynx, due to the colors, and decent in links (but you knew that already). The following is pointed out *NOT* claiming that I'm a web dev, or could do any better (or even close to as good). However, as a browser user who has had to educate himself a bit due to author assumptions about defaults that don't always hold. and because you /asked/. =8^) * Set the base tag. I sometimes save web pages for my own use, and like them to work when I do. Adding a <base href= ...> tag would be very useful, here. Without it, saving just the HTML to disk breaks the page rather drastically, because it can't find the CSS and images, as they are relative links. Good to have the links relative; good the formatting is separated from the content to the degree the page breaks without the CSS; bad that there's no base href tag to "unbreak" things when the html page gets viewed on its own. * (This may be an inheritance issue. I didn't check full inheritance but I'm using Konqueror, so if it's an inheritance bug, that's what it's in.) You don't set background color for ads/ads-main or jumppad-main. What happens if a user's preferences are dark backgrounds, light text? - The ad links don't show up, for one thing, because they are set dark and become almost invisible on a dark background. (Browser's link color settings, a foreground item, overruled, without overruling bg prefs, not good when they happen to be almost the same color! - The individual jumppads have bg set (good), so the text shows up there, but they appear contrasted against a dark background, as jumppad-main doesn't set bg, which doesn't look so good. - The content column, with bg set to white, contrasts very sharply with the ad column. - Generally useful rule -- if you muck about with changing some colors from the user's/browser's defaults, change both background and foreground, and consider what the effect will be with both light and dark defaults, for anything you do /not/ specifically set. Try viewing the page in a browser set to light text on dark background, and dark text on light background, as the defaults, to be sure. (It's amazing the number of sites that get this wrong, setting one but not the other on some or all elemets, or fail to set bgcolor when a bgimage is set, for those who don't surf with images turned on.) * Consider the effects of different user/browser font sizes. Here, the white text in the purple boxes (Why Gentoo section) ran into the gray bottom border at my default text size. Scrolling text size up, to where it'd be if I were sight impaired, ran the white text from that area into the white background area below. (Scrolling text size down, it fit into the boxes nicely and was indeed very attractive, so I see the effect you are going for.) Perhaps make those images, so the font size is constant with reference to the boxes intended to contain it? (You'd then set alt tags for those not viewing images, of course.) * I like the jumppad images! That's quite impressive and professional looking, something I'd be proud to show others who know I run Gentoo! * Consider making the "Why Choose Gentoo?" section question visible (something other than display=none). IMO, that would add meaning to the features bullet-pointed in the purple boxes. Maybe make that a purple-background header above that section? * Entirely personal preference: I don't happen to like what I'd call puke-yellow-green (#83b300), but that's just me. I'd prefer either a stronger yellow or a stronger green (or would choose a dark cyan, similar to the background of the phparchitect ad, for the white backgrounded stuff, and a lighter cyan similar to that of the sevenl ad, for the dark backgrounded stuff). Purple is cool, tho! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
