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Mike54 -> Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/15/2007 18:11:50)

Poke around and let me know what I'm missing. I know I still have to stroke the style sheet on the links/mouse over colors but I'm sure I'm missing more. I "think" it works at different resolutions but I haven't tried a bunch of browsers, just IE7 and FF. If you could be so kind to look with whatever you have[8|] and let me know if it falls apart it would be appreciated.

Softlight Studios



caz -> RE: Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/15/2007 20:07:03)

It looked fine in Opera 9.22 also when zoomed to 150% and in their Small Screen view. I also used the Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer extension ( well as far as I can tell with that anyway. [;)] )

Nice looking site.



Nicole -> RE: Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/15/2007 21:59:32)

Very classy Mike!

Have you checked any colour blind filters though? I'm wondering whether there is enough contrast between font colour and background.

It was reasonably okay in that regard on my flat screen, but they are usually brighter than CRT monitors. Have you checked it on any?



Tailslide -> RE: Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/16/2007 3:37:46)

I think it's very smart looking!

I agree that the text contrast could be upped a bit - if you want to go all out then the grey with the least contrast that passes the offical test is #b2b1b1 but even upping it a bit would really help (especially in FF without font-smoothing where the text looks paler and skinnier).

The contrast on the bottom nav also needs upping on hover.

Only other thing I can think of would be adding a focus and active rule to your nav's hover rule like this: 

#navigation a:focus, #navigation a:hover, #navigation a:active {whatever}


Nice feel to it.

edit: oh thought of something else. The horizontal rules on the FAQ page - were you trying to style them (they can be a real pain) - I've found that this method works nicely cross-browser: 

hr {height: 1px;background-color: #E5E5E5;color: #E5E5E5;border: none;padding: 0;margin: 1em 0;}

You might not even want that but, you know, just in case!



Mike54 -> RE: Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/16/2007 6:02:19)

I appreciate you all taking a look and all suggestions will be taken under advisement. I've been a little concerned about the contrast with the text from the get go so I'll be doing some tweaking there also. Good suggestion on the color blind filters, I hadn't thought of that [&o].

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Only other thing I can think of would be adding a focus and active rule to your nav's hover rule

Seems like you point this out to me every time Tail, you'd think I'd learn.[:D]

Thanks again.



womble -> RE: Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/16/2007 9:46:18)

Looks nice. My only concern too is the text contrast. The only way I could make it out enough to read was magnifying it (I think it was x3). On the layout though, even the layout didn't break too badly (the 'contact' on the top menu just dropped down onto the next line). Wasn't too bad at x4 either, and you could probably make the layout a little more stable by just increasing your page wdith a teeny bit.

Looks good though.



Mike54 -> RE: Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/16/2007 16:19:25)

All suggestions have been implemented but one, sorry Tail but that hr line of yours didn't want to play right up front and since I really don't know what I'm doing I didn't push it. I changed the link and text colors and I did go and run it through a color blind filter and "think" it's ok. I could still read the text anyway ;). If you have a chance to check what I may have messed up in the rework it would be, once again, appreciated.



Tailslide -> RE: Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/16/2007 16:22:54)

Looks good on the mac too!



weblaunch -> RE: Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/22/2007 15:50:25)

Very nice site. It looks fine on Firefox 2.x and Explorer 7.x. Good luck!



dpf -> RE: Something I'm working on for a buddy (8/22/2007 18:13:00)

very very tasteful



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