On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:05, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Can anyone give any constructive advice 1)The Picture. It's been taken a the wrong time of year. It's got b*all contrast, and the brown hills are just so _boring_. It takes up too much vertical space. Is it possible to add on some more of the panorama so that the picture can still stretch across the page yet be not as deep as it is at the moment? There are quite a few monitors out there which are still set to 800 x 600. Some would say that the picture should be narrower.
2) The Background Colour. While blue _is_ my favourite colour. In this particular case it just far too much of a good thing. It needs to be made either a paler sky blue or a darker Oxford blue. The latter preferably as the text is white, and a darker background would perk up the apparent contrast of the picture. 3) There should be a very definite contrast between the hue and saturation of the links and the background. I try to make the visited link a different colour too. While the default purple is just vile, imho it is a good idea to have a different colour. I've used red in the past quite successfully. 4) Line Lengths. It's generally accepted in the publishing world that the optimum line length for easy readability is of the order of 70 characters. That's why newspapers are set in columns. 5) One has to decide whether the pages are going to scroll or not, and be consistent, otherwise the supposedly constant header - the picture in this case - dances a jig left and right in sympathy with the scroll-bar on the right of the frame appearing and disappearing as one browses the site. 6) Font size. This is a publicity stunt. The text has to be super simple and literally jump out of the page. i.e. too much text on some pages and the font is too small. That'll do for now. -- C. S.
