Ah, that looks a lot nicer.  :-)

Cheers,
Greg


On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Thomas Schilling wrote:

> Ok, based on both your and Ivan's comments I modified a bit more.
> 
> http://i.imgur.com/cumLj.png
> 
> Making the top columns and the lower columns the same width looks bad,
> but I agree that the large margin between the blurb and the
> Documentation headline was too large.
> After I changed that, however, the Documentation section and the News
> sections did not line up anymore which looked even worse when the news
> section had a different background colour.  So instead the background
> colour is used for the quicklinks.  Removing any use of a background
> colour would makes things too boring, though.
> I also swapped the heading colour and the title bar colour.  So
> headings are now a very dark blue.
> 
> The italic things in the blurb are actually not links (though they
> could be).  Without any styling the blurb would look too boring, so
> I'm using the same blue that the title bar uses.
> 
> 
> On 7 April 2010 01:25, Gregory Crosswhite <gcr...@phys.washington.edu> wrote:
>> I concur that the latest version with the softer colors looks a lot nicer, 
>> and I approve of the overall design.  I think that you should go back to 
>> using a change in the foreground color rather than the background color for 
>> the links in the main description, since at the moment it looks ugly.  I 
>> also think that it would look better if you could align the two columns in 
>> the top (i.e., the description text and the major links above the "News and 
>> Events" section) so that they align better with the two columns below;  you 
>> could probably also have the description text creep into the left margin so 
>> that it isn't exactly centered over the left column below, if that would 
>> look better.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Greg
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
>> 
>>> On 7 April 2010 10:02, Thomas Schilling <nomin...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 7 April 2010 00:57, Ivan Miljenovic <ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> OK, I dislike the colour scheme.  Happy now? ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> That's still not constructive.  I.e, is it the black, the gray, the orange?
>>> 
>>> OK, it's the black; it seems a tad too strong for me (the fact that
>>> you have a black theme for your browser probably doesn't help).
>>> 
>>>> Using more intense colours for the bar at the top becomes distracting very 
>>>> quickly.
>>> 
>>> How about a more neutral, paler colour?
>>> 
>>>> Anyway, here's something with a bit more colour:  
>>>> http://i.imgur.com/LpQmH.png
>>> 
>>> Apart from the black up the top still, I think this is nicer.
>>> However, maybe the links in the description text up the top are a bit
>>> too obvious...
>>> 
>>> 
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