Hi DanTMan, Let me have our designer respond to the points you have below...
Thanks, John Q. DanTMan wrote: > I find the image setup used to make the headers in the Quarts skins to > be /*extremely*/ poor. > > Other than my absolute dislike of the .gif which has been replaced in > nearly every good design spot you can find on the internet with the > .png format. The way the image for the header itself is split up is > extremely poorly done. > > It's nearly impossible to line things up to fit pixel by pixel with the > other parts of the header and even worse you can't match it with a > background, furthermore the way the header image splitting is designed > causes it to be impossible for you to fix that by adding transparency, > because if you add transparency then other parts of the image show > through. (If you make the background area of the curve in the header > transparent, then the strait background of the header shows through) and > you can't make that spot transparent, because if you do, then blocks of > transparency start showing up inside the header area and also in the top > bar. (Which makes me note, shouldn't be tiny menu area up top get it's > background image from a different area of the image, not the same one > used for the bulk of the search area so you can style that with > something special to, and especially since they are shared it's > impossible to line things up) > > It took me probably about an hour of fooling around with the image > trying to find out where the badly positioned parts of the image went in > the header to finally give up on giving the GaoGaiGar wiki a nice header. > http://gaogaigar.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Quartzslate.css&useskin=quartzslate > > I first tried with a transparent curve background, but the search area's > background showed through. > I tried adding the grid background to the header, but nothing lined up > with each other, and worse the image wasn't even evenly distributed > horizontally so it's impossible to get a sane grid out of the header > because it is broken by the non-uniform repeat. > Then I tried removing the vertical bars from the grid, and just going > for something horizontal. Unfortunately because the top menu and the > bottom of the search area's background use the same area, it was > impossible for me to create even a uniform set of lines, I tried to > create a bit of an odd one, but the positioning was so poor that I > couldn't even get it to work putting the lines in odd places just so > that they could line up with each other in the header. > Then before giving up, I tried going back to transparency and making the > curved background transparent, this time I tried to make a part of the > search area background transparent, and found out that the entire thing > is repeated in the search area and also repeated inside of the top bar > giving me transparent areas all over the place. > > It just doesn't work out right. You can't create anything good with the > header. > > _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
