[thelist] please critique my taoist beta revamp
Erika Meyer
erika at seastorm.com
Wed Jul 26 19:14:13 CDT 2000
>Thanks to everyone who's commented so far. Since words like shrill,
>assaulted and don't-like have been used about my coloring, I'm suffering
>from low color scheme esteem.
I like your colors fine. They're bright, but what isn't on the web?
For comparison you might check out one of mine:
http://www.humboldt.edu/~jnhsu/ slightly different level of blues.
Reddish/purple hover, but only because I had to leave my links at the
default.
Regarding hover-color: I suggest playing around on the yellow end...
even veer toward orange. If that doesn't work, veer toward purple...
You might also consider possibilities involved in doing a
background-color hover (white?), rather than a link color hover...
just play & see.
And, hey, there's no law saying you have to have a hover color. (oh!
hover's gone?)
And, oh. I'd avoid making any non-linked text/headers the same color
as either your visited or unvisited links.
>The Yin/Yang (Tai Qi) symbol will surely be making plenty appearances once I
>can tame those colors (oh behave!).
I did a Taoist-type site once (it's offline now) but it was all in
red/black/white/grey... but I was just bouncing off the traditional
yinyangy colors.
>I didn't know <a href="#top"> needed an anchor. It won't work in some
>browsers without one?
right. Apparently IE5/Mac is one.
>~Arthur (fingers still crossed, hoping some large burrowing African ungulate
>mammal that feeds on ants and termites with its sticky tongue will add a
>cent or deux.)
what, are aardvarks opinions better than the rest of ours? Well,
fine, then. Let me save him some effort:
Validate your page. Your HTML needs some fine-tuning.
http://validator.w3.org/
validate your CSS, should you decide to use more than a bit.
Lose the font tags.
Since you want to exeplify Tao, build a liquid site. (just kidding.)
________
For more ideas:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/dao/dao_1.html
The Tao of Web Design.
________
Try to ignore the fact that the article is illustrated with some type
of Buddha.
Erika
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erika at seastorm.com
http://www.seastorm.com
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