Website design review
Jun. 17th, 2004 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusQuick question:
I've heard back from some people that they have trouble reading my website.
Do you?
If so -
1) is the print too small (11 pt in windows, 10 pt in navigation)?
2) is the blue and black theme too dark?
3) are there broken links?
4) do you want me to list fics by pairing?
5) ...other problems?
Thank you. The website's there for you, so however stylish it is -- if it's not readable, then I need to fix it.
ETA: So far it's pretty universal that -
a) the strikethrough needs to be removed
b) the links need to be a different, brighter colour
c) there needs to be a larger margin on the individual story pages
d) list fics by pairing instead of by rating
e) do not use heading < h 1 > style as it does not work in some browsers
f) bump point size up one notch (11 pt & 12 pt)
g) ... I'm not sure how to fix the navigation/pix overlap found in some browsers. Hmm.
ETA2: I've updated some of my pages with larger fonts, yellow instead of the cross-out mouse over, removed the < h 1 > tag in places. Haven't fixed the margin, and a new issue has arisen: some find the frame in the middle of the page difficult and too-small. Correcting that... would involve a none-too-pretty (in terms of the work involved) change to the picture framing it.
Please keep the critiques coming, again, this came from a few private, hand-over-the-mouth mumbles from friends.
I've heard back from some people that they have trouble reading my website.
Do you?
If so -
1) is the print too small (11 pt in windows, 10 pt in navigation)?
2) is the blue and black theme too dark?
3) are there broken links?
4) do you want me to list fics by pairing?
5) ...other problems?
Thank you. The website's there for you, so however stylish it is -- if it's not readable, then I need to fix it.
ETA: So far it's pretty universal that -
a) the strikethrough needs to be removed
b) the links need to be a different, brighter colour
c) there needs to be a larger margin on the individual story pages
d) list fics by pairing instead of by rating
e) do not use heading < h 1 > style as it does not work in some browsers
f) bump point size up one notch (11 pt & 12 pt)
g) ... I'm not sure how to fix the navigation/pix overlap found in some browsers. Hmm.
ETA2: I've updated some of my pages with larger fonts, yellow instead of the cross-out mouse over, removed the < h 1 > tag in places. Haven't fixed the margin, and a new issue has arisen: some find the frame in the middle of the page difficult and too-small. Correcting that... would involve a none-too-pretty (in terms of the work involved) change to the picture framing it.
Please keep the critiques coming, again, this came from a few private, hand-over-the-mouth mumbles from friends.
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Date: 2004-06-17 02:35 pm (UTC)(Then again, I'm one of those folks who tends to do black on white, and not do pics of any sort. Peril of looking at the web for function, rather than pretty ;-) )
While I'm whining on, I can't stand inline frames, either.
...but on good notes, thank you for making the navigation outside the frame, since then I can read it nicely in my text browser, and it makes it so much easier to snarf with some of my scripts.
All of that said, it's your website, so do what you like! I'm just a neanderthal ;-)
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Date: 2004-06-17 11:25 pm (UTC)Hey, like Frank Lloyd Wright says, "Form follows function."
Icarus