On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 5:28 PM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Den sön 27 juni 2021 kl 18:54 skrev Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com>: >> >> Thanks! Improving the website (especially mobile friendliness) is one >> of the many things that has been on my ever-growing TODO list for a >> long while > > > I know the feeling! > >> >> [...] if you'd like help, just say the word. > > > Yes, please. You can start by reviewing r1891073.
Done! See other thread... (Going over the other revisions too...) > I see you already did some work with site manifest etc, - the changes in > TEMPLATE should probably be added in all the HTML files as well. Except, > possibly, some IE specific things (x-ua-compatible, browserconfig.xml). Yes; also I did a little bit of graphics work with the various logo and icon files; mostly to rasterize the original vector artwork (in SVG format IIRC?) to various resolutions and formats expected by various browsers and smartphones, though I seem to recall that I had to do a little massaging of the vector formats for some reason. The one where I got "creative" was tile-wide.png; we didn't have a wide-format file so I made that as a placeholder. I wasn't very happy with it at the time but I just looked at it again and now I think it actually looks cool. Let me know what you think... > In another e-mail you mentioned that you also played with some design ideas > for the site. Did you consider a complete redesign? I didn't write any actual HTML, but I used [favorite page layout software] just to play with different layout ideas, and I looked at a great many websites for inspiration. Where I ran into some difficulty is that I wanted to preserve the color scheme as much as possible while going for a more modern look, but the "modern" look didn't seem to fit well with the pastel blue and pastel green [1]. So I next thought that those two colors could remain as "low key" while adding a third, stronger color, such as a goldenrod variant, to give a strong contrast. (Theoretically the "correct" opposing color to use with the pastel blue is a light brownish, but I don't like how that looks.) Anyway that's where I got stuck with a complete redesign, so I thought it should be done in steps: to first make the site work better on mobile, then think about a more heavy-duty change. [1] Pastel blue R152 G176 B212 (H216deg S28% B83%) Pastel green R175 G205 B98 (H77deg S52% B80%) Cheers, Nathan
