[thelist] please critique my taoist beta revamp

[Erika Meyer]

>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.)

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For more ideas:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/dao/dao_1.html
The Tao of Web Design.

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Try to ignore the fact that the article is illustrated with some type 
of Buddha.

Erika

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