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The new look
Authored by: vogunaescht on Feb 10, '03 04:02:51AM

Some ideas:

text and textboxes: keep to one style
- don't mix embossed, protruding or plain textboxes
- don't mix title styles for text boxes (inverse, underlined, bold...)
- create a clearly recognizable title hierarchy (main, subtitle...)
- use one kind of labels for article recognition
(spotlight article title vs. icons like "apps", "system", "unix", ...)

color:
- use high contrast (dark letters on light background or vice versa)
- use a simpler color scheme. there are too many text and background colors.

nitpickings:
- don't use pixel values or fixed sizes, keep everything as resizable as possible
- complete html 4.01 strict adherence
- png instead of gif (pngcrush is great to reduce the size)
- small and light html (if possible).
- a rss or xml feed for headline grabbers would be nice.

if you want help with any of this, i'll gladly do it.



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The new look
Authored by: DeltaTee on Feb 10, '03 11:47:03AM

Along these same lines, links should either be underlined or not. Not some one way and some another. And they should be differentiated in someway from the surrounding text. Don't make me guess about what might be a link.



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That's coming soon...
Authored by: robg on Feb 10, '03 11:57:02AM

CSS work is not nearly done; it's the biggest thing on my plate this week before the cutover...

-rob.



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