mairving — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:21:28 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by tania721
Mairving: cool - i might give stylesheets a go...there's some alternative to them in dreamweaver which are apparently better for a wider cross-section of browsers...would you suggest going for the dreamweaver option or the whole caboose?

Anyone think the thumbnails of the wallpapers were too small?

I am not sure about the Dreamweaver option. The easiest to do if you don't have a lot of pages is to just use the stylesheet internally between a couple of style tags. You could use something like this:

&lt;style&gt;
P { font-family:tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:9px; text-indent:8px }
A { text-decoration:none; 
     	 font-size:9x;
	 color:#} 
A:link { color:#}

A:visited {text-decoration:none; 
            color:#}

A:active {text-decoration:none; 
            color:# }

A:hover {text-decoration:none; 
	font-size : 9px;}
        color:#;
	

&lt;/style&gt;

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Now I included an indent in the paragraph which you can take off. Also you can change the color of your hyperlinks by fiddling with the above. You might do better getting the font size that you want by using pixels. You just have to be careful with some of the smaller font sizes since they don't always work well in NS.

The thumbnails are kind of small but the give enough to whet the appetite.

I did notice something else though. When you go to another section in your site, there is no home button. Even though you can click at the top some CCU will not be able to figure this out.

Megan — Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:02:42 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by tania721
Megan: Thanks Yeah I never started out intending to use that much texture, but I didn't think it looked too bad when I finished. And as for the colours - I originally started out with dif shades of blue - but I always do cooler colours and I think I'm sick of them so I thought I'd give the `terracotta' a go The text size is `1' in DW...I think 2 looks too big...do you know of any way to go up in halves or something?

Once you start using CSS you'll be able to specify fonts in pixel sizes which gives you a lot more flexibility.

tania721 — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 23:52:18 +0000

Mairving: cool - i might give stylesheets a go...there's some alternative to them in dreamweaver which are apparently better for a wider cross-section of browsers...would you suggest going for the dreamweaver option or the whole caboose?

Megan: Thanks Yeah I never started out intending to use that much texture, but I didn't think it looked too bad when I finished. And as for the colours - I originally started out with dif shades of blue - but I always do cooler colours and I think I'm sick of them so I thought I'd give the `terracotta' a go The text size is `1' in DW...I think 2 looks too big...do you know of any way to go up in halves or something?

Jack/Busy: yeah I'm thinking of scrapping the words on that dark line...wanted something to break the screen up a bit, I might eventually use the same font as the links below and make them extra links as needed or something.

Anyone think the thumbnails of the wallpapers were too small?

Anyways thanks for your input - I'll try a few changes and letcha know.
Tania

Busy — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 22:31:10 +0000

I think its all been said

The words in the black strip are really hard to read, hope they wont be links as you'd never find them

mairving — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:31:25 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Megan

Basically, I totally disagree with mairving's last two points. I think those two things really "make" this site.

Megan disagrees with me and totally too. What is a man to do. Just to clarify, the background was okay, the tiling part was what I had a problem with. Maybe it is just because I am looking for it. Megan certainly has a more artistic eye than I. Just curious what others think.

Megan — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:56:24 +0000

Cool, I like it. Intersting colour scheme and I really like the way you've used textures. I find that the flat look is getting kind of stale on the web, although it is difficult to use textures without having your site look like it just stepped out of 1997. This one looks good. Especially remarkable that you've successfully used three different textures at the same time. I don't really mind the kind of striped effect in the background either - actually I think it might look worse if it was more solid.

Basically, I totally disagree with mairving's last two points. I think those two things really "make" this site.

Definitely add some cellpadding to that content table, and I would also increase the font size a bit - it's a little hard to read.

Great design.

mairving — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:11:11 +0000

Back again, Tania. Overall the site looks good, just some minor things that you may consider fixing.

Cellpadding - To prevent the text from bumping the edge on your table, add a cellpadding of about 5-10 to your table.
Stylesheets - consider using stylesheets to rid yourself of all those font tags, some of which are redundant. Stylesheets give you more control and give you a cleaner faster loading site. Also you can use stylesheets to give those links a rollover effect
Background - I am not a big fan of backgrounds. I think it is bad too when you can see the obvious repeat due to the background being tiled like yours. You could use the background but it needs to fit where the tiling is not so obvious.
In your header1 graphic, I don't like the way the orange part looks with the rest of the table. The pattern is different as is the color.

Your sites do seem to reflect the artist in you. This one is nice but I would just fix a few of the things mentioned. Also if you need help with how to get started in Stylesheets let us know.

Jack Michaelson — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:59:36 +0000

Feedback:
-I should make margins on the left and right, for the text that is
-the text on the black bar is hard to read. I suggest to use a lighter color for that.

Overall:
Nice one!