[theforum] evolt.org layout/typography driving me nuts
Erika
ekm at seastorm.com
Sun Nov 9 00:44:12 CST 2008
Every time a new article is published, or I edit a page on evolt.org, I
cringe. Then I want to cry. Then I want to throw my laptop out the window.
The header tags are too dark or too light, to large or too small. I
can't tell which is which. The spacing around headers is retarded. The
left and right padding on the articles is too narrow. There is no
max-width on the container. Pages break in all manner of ways...
http://evolt.org/node/60864
The front door is a typographic disaster.
For some unknown reason only the top post on the front page displays at
a legible font size on my monitor, and for another unknown reason, every
other article defaults to teeny tiny. To make matters worse, the
line-height is all over the place. It's a mess. It's an embarrassment.
We've been over the (serious) usability issues around commenting on
articles, submitting articles.
Because I've been working the site a lot lately, these things are
irritating me significantly. Here we sit and working our asses off to
write or edit a good article, and the result? SUCKAGE.
We either need a new front-end stat, or we need to do some serious work
on our current CSS. I am loathe to get into fixing what we've got,
because we need to upgrade SO BADLY.
I really want that new site. like, yesterday.
thanks for listening,
Erika
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