Thanks for the feedback John.
John Carter wrote:
<http://www.infohelp.co.nz>
Interesting site, but ugly as sin, can I recommend the Zen Garden of
CSS as a good source of design ideas.
http://www.csszengarden.com/
Funny you should mention that..
I started this week meticulously tracing back through every html file to
supplement "arial" font with "helvetica" etc, for FOSS-friendliness. I
had been manually switching browser "proportional" setting to
"san-serif" for readability, then figured it was high time I fixed it
for everyone else. Which raised the question of "if only I had time to
learn CSS".. One day, the site overhaul is going to be a big job (for
someone else, most likely).
Meanwhile, the IH colour scheme originated thus:
I came to FOSS from a monitor repair background, which taught me that
underworking the colour guns and phosphors extended the screen life -
MTBF. Apart from that, I find the lower radiation a lot easier on my
eyes than black on white, for extended work periods. Flat panels, of
course, negate this logic, but are not yet what I exclusively use. The
higher contrast / lower glare works better for projection readability in
semi-lit rooms too I find.
The biggest downside of the white on black colour scheme (that has a
sound computing logic) is the way it rattles most people's stereotypes
and puts them off using the site. But why should we use ICT to replicate
paper? It is replacing it, for sure, and is a very good conservation
thus, but could be doing it the console way (though not as far back as
green or amber text on black, I say ;-). IH colour scheme points out
that potential (historically-referenced) educative course, back to the
keyboard. +ve/-ve equivalency is what binary language best teaches us, I
believe: Taoist dualism (yin/yang) is more dynamic philosophically than
Judeo-Christian black & white discrimination. Beauty is in the eye of
the beholder.
If "hacking" can be fully publicised as legitimate "White Hat" work, on
a challenging black backgound, then that is a significant step forward,
imho. Lateral thinking / flexible mindsets.. isn't that what business
cannot get enough of from academia these days? Style-poor/content-rich
is a choice few are prepared to make anymore.
Your comments are much appreciated.
John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Zealand
Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law.
"Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly
wrong later."
From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
Cheers, Rik
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