[project: web design by committee]
Bit of quick site feedback, anyone who's around...
Update: a lot of what's below isn't current. A wide design is live and tweaks being made.
Update: a wide version is currently live, notes below are from previous messing around. The new design isn't currently active for the forums.
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http://tfarchive.com/common/skin/setcoo ... in=default
How does that look, and if it's hideously broken in your browser, what browser and what version?
Link to switch it off:
http://tfarchive.com/common/skin/setcookie.php?skin=
(Or the cookie will expire of its own accord after an hour anyway.)
Update: a wide version is currently live, notes below are from previous messing around. The new design isn't currently active for the forums.
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http://tfarchive.com/common/skin/setcoo ... in=default
How does that look, and if it's hideously broken in your browser, what browser and what version?
Link to switch it off:
http://tfarchive.com/common/skin/setcookie.php?skin=
(Or the cookie will expire of its own accord after an hour anyway.)
- inflatable dalek
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- inflatable dalek
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Originally posted by inflatable dalek
It's a bit bright isn't it? Burns my eyes...
It's probably worth mentioning as well that the contrast is off on my monitor os that things appear darker than they really are (makes it a bugger to watch porn youtube) so if it's bright for me it must be like a deathray to everyone else.
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It's been a bastard to get things to look right on top of, and one suggestion I kinda wish I hadn't made way back when... depending on where text falls on the gradient it gets a bit lost, particularly at smaller sizes.Originally posted by Cliffjumper
Maybe carry across the gradiented light grey?
Does need to be a bit darker, I think we're all agreed. (Though for the love of your eyes, folks, turn the brightness and contrast down on your monitors a bit. Have still got mine fairly bright, just not TFT-fresh-out-of-the-box bright. Monitors should be set so that a white page with black text -- eg, a word processor -- is comfortable to look at.)
Those who find it bright, how do you feel about this? --
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=32
oafe.net, and that guy and Willis both scabbed it off earlier sites. It got thrown in 'cause that's what I think every time I look at the current rounded corners. Also wanted to check if the current browsers would be happy with the cut-away (browsers haven't always applied transparency to background images correctly) -- happily they seem okay, though I haven't looked at it in older versions of IE yet.Originally posted by verytired
it looks like it's copying Shortpacked's layout.
Spaaace... page weight... tricky to add a new section to... want to do stuff to improve things for partially-sighted users...Originally posted by Clay
I miss the picture buttons at the top.
The aim's to have something functionally close to what we've got now, then I can duplicate the design and start on a wider layout, making sure all of the pages fit things appropriately.
This 'un or the lavender one?Originally posted by Sky
the original re-design
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A lightish grey, like the box I'm currently typing in, would look spiffyOriginally posted by Denyer
It's been a bastard to get things to look right on top of, and one suggestion I kinda wish I hadn't made way back when... depending on where text falls on the gradient it gets a bit lost, particularly at smaller sizes.
Agree re: the Shortpacked thing. Packaging is an obvious theme for a toy-related website - it's no more copying Shortpacked! than any TF site that uses the 1980s logo colours on its' typeface is copying another.
Does it look as bright once there's an appreciable amount of text on a page --
eg, http://tfarchive.com/toys/reviews/mov_starscream.php ?
eg, http://tfarchive.com/toys/reviews/mov_starscream.php ?
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Originally posted by Denyer
Does it look as bright once there's an appreciable amount of text on a page --
eg, http://tfarchive.com/toys/reviews/mov_starscream.php ?
Not quite as much, but still a little dazzling.
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Originally posted by Denyer
This 'un or the lavender one?
All the different schemes that were used were funky imho.
For anyone who hasn't seen some of the other speculation --
http://tfarchive.com/community/attachme ... tid=549552
http://img184.imagevenue.com/img.php?lo ... _552lo.jpg
http://www.tfarchive.com/community/atta ... tid=549605
http://tfarchive.com/redesign_css/?styles=allwhite.css
http://tfarchive.com/redesign_css/?styles=pink.css
The eventual idea's to give people a choice if they want it. It's conceivable (though unlikely) that we can support different content widths as well. Getting pages to reflow neatly where there's full-page-width tabular data (used in most sections, particularly indexes) is tricky.
Both of us would like things to be less dark, but if most people aren't keen we'll aim to accomodate...
http://tfarchive.com/community/attachme ... tid=549552
http://img184.imagevenue.com/img.php?lo ... _552lo.jpg
http://www.tfarchive.com/community/atta ... tid=549605
http://tfarchive.com/redesign_css/?styles=allwhite.css
http://tfarchive.com/redesign_css/?styles=pink.css
The eventual idea's to give people a choice if they want it. It's conceivable (though unlikely) that we can support different content widths as well. Getting pages to reflow neatly where there's full-page-width tabular data (used in most sections, particularly indexes) is tricky.
Both of us would like things to be less dark, but if most people aren't keen we'll aim to accomodate...
http://tfarchive.com/common/skin/setcoo ... n=default2
Sufficiently off-white and comfortable for reading?
Sufficiently off-white and comfortable for reading?