[thelist] Critique

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> Sent:	11 August 1999 14:10
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> Subject:	RE: [thelist] Critique
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> > From: Martin Burns
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> > http://www.funkmusic.co.uk/demo/template.html
> 
> NN4.08/win95/640x480-1024x768
> 
> constant horizontal scrollbar very unnerving... makes me feel like
> there's always something missing i have to scroll to see... also
> makes me assume you screwed up, despite the need to keep the
> filmstrip across the top...
> 
> i'd say just set the film strip table to 100% and suck up the
> minimal lack of edge touching...
[Burns, Martin]  OK - I'll give that a go.

> the links outside of the table look a little odd on plain blue
> background that fits *exactly* the size of the word... seems to me
> that the legibility issue on the stripes was missed in planning,
> and this was a hack attempt at fixing it...
[Burns, Martin]  Actually not - but I take the point. I might try a
checkerboard pattern instead so it's not so obvious. Also, the main
links are probably big enough with CSS browsers to be legible on the
stripes anyway.

> that background blue is pretty bright... makes it hard to read...
[Burns, Martin]  Whatd'yado? They give you an album cover and
that's the only guidance you have. (It's at
http://www.funkmusic.co.uk/demo/images/cover.gif and none of
it is websafe. Or even non-squint.) 

> the leading on the text is good, helps counteract the vibration of
> text the blue background causes...
> 
> i like the 'elemental' image... depth achieved without a silly
> drop shadow...
[Burns, Martin]  The nice element from the original image -
it would have broken my heart to lose it.

> 'Members' pseudopod looks a little cramped... 
[Burns, Martin]  It's the longest text, so will look better in the other
sections. On a Mac, it's the same font as the real text (it's one of the OS8
system fonts) I'll drop the text size a touch
> don't see how it
> fits into the overall design since it's such a departure from the
> shapes in the font, the filmstrip, the edges, or anything else...
> howzabout a vertical strip of text in a less-pronounced 'tab' on
> the side?
> 
> in NN3, table borders go very away... i'm sure you know this...
> 
> in NN3, visited link colors make text very hard to see...
[Burns, Martin]  Need to work on those...

> without the filmstrip for users of NN3, it seems to hang too far
> from the top of the screen...
[Burns, Martin]  The filmstrip will be more obvious as I'm
going to be using frames (sorry, but it's essential in this case), and
it'll as the background of the top frame.


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