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 successfu
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
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
possib
On Thu, March 31, 2005 8:55 am, C. Falconer said:
> The only thing I'd comment on is
>
> The global network for Diamond Harmour?
>
> Surely you should be a .net.nz ?
>
>
[snip]
Indeed. However, the first para of my post stated something like 'we have
*taken over* ...' or some such.
Apart fro
The only thing I'd comment on is
The global network for Diamond Harmour?
Surely you should be a .net.nz ?
-Original Message-
From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2005 9:06 p.m.
To: CLUG
Subject: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please
M
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 07:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:48 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > >where is the weather info?? I cannot find the link?
> > >
> > >
> > Under local info... 'tis dark now, had to display in white when that
> > happens. Try in daylight... it's a bit
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:48 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> >where is the weather info?? I cannot find the link?
> >
> >
> Under local info... 'tis dark now, had to display in white when that
> happens. Try in daylight... it's a bit more interesting.
Well its light now and the weather pic is sti
Steve Holdoway wrote:
I've given up on the sub-800 pix wide bit, and sized it at 900. Maybe I
should just fix it at 90% of your screen width for those with biiig
screens? Simple enough, but I'd have to do something a bit clever along
the way with javascript ( yeuch ). I think that this could
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Me and the boss've taken over the community website for Diamond Harbour,
[...]
Changing the fonts to em instead of px should help with the sizing issue
- if you set the entire body to 80% and then use h2#whatever: 1.2em etc
it should work pretty well on just about every (?
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 pan
The links you sent load fast enough and look fine, I'm using IE.
Weather page was not so good. Kinda hoping you were working on it as it
loaded properly the second time. I would be interested to see how you did
all the weather stuff at some stage if you could find the time to show me.
I'm color bl
Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:05 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
The Weather
image is info taken from the metar info on the noaa site decoded with
some php wot I wrote ( it's a really good scripting language as well,
you know ), and then embedded into a webcam image ( ftp'd from the
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:35 +0100, Andrew Errington wrote:
> Also, font increase and decrease in Konqueror doesn't work
does here (kde 3.3.2)
> , but
> font sizing in Mozilla does.
firefox...wait for it...loading - yes Firefox (on linux) scales the
fonts fine too.
--
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTE
>
> Can anyone give any constructive advice - my skin's pretty thick - on
> how to make it look better? I've got versions with menu bars across the
> top ( selected in bold doesn't work as the options then keep moving cos
> it's wider... ) instead of down the side, all kinds of permutations lik
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:05 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> The Weather
> image is info taken from the metar info on the noaa site decoded with
> some php wot I wrote ( it's a really good scripting language as well,
> you know ), and then embedded into a webcam image ( ftp'd from the
> camera )
Me and the boss've taken over the community website for Diamond Harbour,
and have completely rebuilt it. The thing is, between us, we're a bit
short on any kind of artistic knowledge ( and, in my case, talent ).
Here's the tenuous bit. The whole site is run using the etomite cms (
http://etomit
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