molly.com
Sunday 23 November 2003
color change, housekeeping items
I like my new colors. They feel cool and crisp, just like autumn. I also reworked the poll templates and got rid of all the tables in there. Do ya like the new look?
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Posted by: site admin | 05:29 | Comments (11)
Yes, quite cute.
Business-y (blue and green?!) but cute.
::grin::
::wink::
Yes, I do in fact!
(It’s a good thing you posted about it too because I thought my second monitor had gone fritzy. I moved your site from one screen over to the other thinking, “I don’t remember the site looking like this… hmmmm.”
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One day I’ll have time to lose my sites tables… I guess for now that’s gonna be “clients only” since they pay me. Wish I could pay me.
Glad you’re home safe.
Blue and green are autumnal? Oh, that’s right, you live in the desert.
Speaking as a pasty Northern type, the new colors felt sort of minty-wintry, like I’d bitten into a Wrigley’s Spearmint stick that I’d just taken out of the freezer. Refreshing!
Love the colors and really happy that comments have been switched in order. It can be disconcerting to scroll up, then read back down in order to follow a long thread.
The colors are great, but…
the (lack of) contrast between the green and the white background makes the edges of the letters appear blurry.
Experimentally, I tried bumping the font size up (Ctrl+) and found that the last item under “Site” overlaps with the heading “Archives.” Screen capture on request.
Molly –
Just some nit-picks…
After 4 vodka-tonics, I notice that your text begins to move just slightly back and forth in a horizontal fashion.
Upon downing the 6th, this becomes more pronounced and flat un-nerving.
Also at this point, I find that no matter how much I enlarge the font-size, it still seems unreadable. My fix for this, in case you were wondering, was to outline the letters on my flatscreen with a sharpie.
Oddly, that’s only a temporary fix. When you switch pages, it’s all wrong. After four or five pages, I couldn’t see a thing anymore.
I can’t seem to get past the Times New Roman font; is it just my browser or have you changed fonts as well as colors?
There is no question that we all can get along but not without our share of difficulties along the way. It would be better if graphic designers would learn the language but this isn’t often a job expectation and their salary certainly does not reflect the additional skillset. Programmers that I have had the experience to work with do not have the polished CSS skills necessary to take over what the designer intended from a PSD. CSS does require a great deal of time and experience and raw memorization to get a feel for all that you can do with it. So, who is the middle man in all of this? That’s the CSS consultant they hire in desperation nine months into the project to clean up the mess.
thanks
thanks all
good article