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John/Teyla Convergence site has started construction work!
It's not quite the way I wanted it to look. The list menu needs to be pulled up and I need to work out a way to make the join between the header/scrollbar area less obvious (I made the two separately) but it's a start.
Not all the pages are changed yet, either. Some of them go back to the old design. But I'm working on it. :)
If you've got design or layout advice, let me know. It's good to get feedback and concrit for things like this. I'm not trained as either an artist or a web designer, so this is all out of my head and I may be violating some design decency standards. Always good to know these things ASAP.
It's not quite the way I wanted it to look. The list menu needs to be pulled up and I need to work out a way to make the join between the header/scrollbar area less obvious (I made the two separately) but it's a start.
Not all the pages are changed yet, either. Some of them go back to the old design. But I'm working on it. :)
If you've got design or layout advice, let me know. It's good to get feedback and concrit for things like this. I'm not trained as either an artist or a web designer, so this is all out of my head and I may be violating some design decency standards. Always good to know these things ASAP.
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If that even makes sense. Work is frying my lil' brain. :)
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On the header (http://www.john-teyla-convergence.net/header01.png), if you trim the black down, it'll make it look less broken. Or if you take it all off. Since you don't have any table padding, it'll press up against itself.
Usually, I don't like colored backgrounds at the text part. However, I kind of like this. I just think it needs some work. Are you using Photoshop? If you are, you can make one big image and put slices in it so everything will fit together seamlessly.
Also the brown at the top is a little too dark compared to the rest of it. However, the text is much more readable on it, especially compared to the light blue at the bottom.
There are some readability standards you might consider. The text contrast is probably not high enough for most people. The average person denies when they need reading glasses and needs a lot more. Your menu should be at least a 14 pt font and something a little clearer than what you're using. You also might consider making the gap between letters bigger on the font.
While I'm not sure how the site is set up, except that the fiction archive using e-fiction, I'd be tempted to bring the site together and into one CSS style sheet.
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Are you using Photoshop?
JASC Paint Shop Pro. It doesn't exactly permit 'slicing in' to fit seamlessly. I had to do some creative cutting and saving to set up the side menu in the style of an image map rather than an linked list.
The black is actually part of the background I used for header and the layout. Originally, the header cut off about 40px higher than it presently does and the black band ended up in the text window. I spent the morning/early afternoon changing it.
When you're talking about the menu being 14pt, do you mean the text in the scrolling text box or in the side menu? The font for the side menu is called "Porcelain" and is 36pt.
I need to adjust the CSS style sheet (if there is one for the site at all). And work out the background on the eFiction site. The fanfic archive's going to be the last thing I work on - mostly because it's a whole different system.
Is the text contrast that bad? I'm short-sighted and I can read it pretty well on my 1024x768 screen.
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The side menu. Yeah, I figured that Porcelain was definitely over 14 pt. But the font didn't seem that clear in general.
From what I can tell, there's no CSS sheet at least in the main page. (I know that the e-fiction site will have one as you need one to create custom sheets.) But having one and using it on all the sites will bring them all together.
I can read the text, but I wouldn't want to read anything very long on the site. And I know a lot of people who have an even worse time and will read almost every site on "no style" in Firefox or make the LJ page styles go away. People like clean designs overall. Of course, this could be my years in web marketing speaking.
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If that even makes sense. Work is frying my lil' brain. :)
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On the header (http://www.john-teyla-convergence.net/header01.png), if you trim the black down, it'll make it look less broken. Or if you take it all off. Since you don't have any table padding, it'll press up against itself.
Usually, I don't like colored backgrounds at the text part. However, I kind of like this. I just think it needs some work. Are you using Photoshop? If you are, you can make one big image and put slices in it so everything will fit together seamlessly.
Also the brown at the top is a little too dark compared to the rest of it. However, the text is much more readable on it, especially compared to the light blue at the bottom.
There are some readability standards you might consider. The text contrast is probably not high enough for most people. The average person denies when they need reading glasses and needs a lot more. Your menu should be at least a 14 pt font and something a little clearer than what you're using. You also might consider making the gap between letters bigger on the font.
While I'm not sure how the site is set up, except that the fiction archive using e-fiction, I'd be tempted to bring the site together and into one CSS style sheet.
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Are you using Photoshop?
JASC Paint Shop Pro. It doesn't exactly permit 'slicing in' to fit seamlessly. I had to do some creative cutting and saving to set up the side menu in the style of an image map rather than an linked list.
The black is actually part of the background I used for header and the layout. Originally, the header cut off about 40px higher than it presently does and the black band ended up in the text window. I spent the morning/early afternoon changing it.
When you're talking about the menu being 14pt, do you mean the text in the scrolling text box or in the side menu? The font for the side menu is called "Porcelain" and is 36pt.
I need to adjust the CSS style sheet (if there is one for the site at all). And work out the background on the eFiction site. The fanfic archive's going to be the last thing I work on - mostly because it's a whole different system.
Is the text contrast that bad? I'm short-sighted and I can read it pretty well on my 1024x768 screen.
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The side menu. Yeah, I figured that Porcelain was definitely over 14 pt. But the font didn't seem that clear in general.
From what I can tell, there's no CSS sheet at least in the main page. (I know that the e-fiction site will have one as you need one to create custom sheets.) But having one and using it on all the sites will bring them all together.
I can read the text, but I wouldn't want to read anything very long on the site. And I know a lot of people who have an even worse time and will read almost every site on "no style" in Firefox or make the LJ page styles go away. People like clean designs overall. Of course, this could be my years in web marketing speaking.