On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:59:54 -0400 "Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two small changes to the CSS got rid of the > font-size and reflow issue, as you can see from > http://people.apache.org/~slive/httpd-site/docs/ Yes, that addresses my most important criticisms. I can withdraw -1, but am not yet ready to say +1: * it's still "transitional"!!!!! * why the **** are all the links made *bold*? * why the whitespace at both sides, even with a narrow browser window? * Going straight from <h1> to <h4> breaks structure. * That purple link colour is rather too close to traditional/default "visited link" colour for optimum usability. I'm also not very enthusiastic about the aesthetics. But I make no claim to be any judge of that! > But I think most people would agree that this design looks less > "modern". FSVO "modern" around 1997? > Why? Because on the real internet, so many sites use a > smaller-than-default font size, that users think of the small size as > the real default and adjust their expectations and browser settings > accordingly. I think that basically all happened when early MSIE versions had ridiculously large default text, among other defects. What we have now is a hangover from that. > To be clear again: I didn't design this. It is adopted from > www.apache.org. I think it is a clear improvement, but I'm not going > to force it down people's throats. Different baseline. The old www.apache.org wanted a facelift, but httpd.apache.org had a much better startingpoint. The other consideration is the auto-generated documentation that makes up most of the site. It is amongst the best-designed techie pages anywhere on the Web, so we definitely shouldn't be messing with them unless you have a much stronger vision than aligning them with www.apache.org (no matter how good that becomes). Adapting the front page to the standard of the docs would seem a better goal. -- Nick Kew Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book http://www.apachetutor.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
