clean and simple
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Charles256
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clean and simple
anyone have any major gripes against something that is just plain and simple?talking about good ole fades and that's it with a big good white area for text, any major gripes against that?think i might just chagne my site layout to that.
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Charles256
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here's some screen shots...what ya think? one in I.E. and one in firefox obviously:)
http://www.esitemaintenance.com/layout.JPG
http://www.esitemaintenance.com/layout2.JPG
feyd | made very large images into links
http://www.esitemaintenance.com/layout.JPG
http://www.esitemaintenance.com/layout2.JPG
feyd | made very large images into links
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If you really want to go plain that blue is too bright 
Try something like #F8F8F8 for the background.... pretty close to white but not bright.
In the panels try a 30-50% darker shade of grey with a gradient tucked into the edge to empahsise the boundary (and/or perhaps some diagonal crosshatched border).
To add a splash of color try places brightly colored bullet markers alongside your hyperlinks in the navigation panel or simply make the links themselves a brighter color.... Should be a toned-down, more attractive (to me at least) layout.
Try something like #F8F8F8 for the background.... pretty close to white but not bright.
In the panels try a 30-50% darker shade of grey with a gradient tucked into the edge to empahsise the boundary (and/or perhaps some diagonal crosshatched border).
To add a splash of color try places brightly colored bullet markers alongside your hyperlinks in the navigation panel or simply make the links themselves a brighter color.... Should be a toned-down, more attractive (to me at least) layout.
Get rid of that horrible gradient. Agh! It hurts mine eyes...
I'll have to refer you to a great website on (un)usability:
Web Pages That Suck. (Yes, that's what it's called)
I'll have to refer you to a great website on (un)usability:
Web Pages That Suck. (Yes, that's what it's called)
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Charles256
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I'd suggest making the grey much closer to white. That grey looks like the old Netscape default grey - blech. I don't mind the fact that you've got a gradient too bad - could look good. Make the blue much lighter though. Black on that blue is hard to read.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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Charles256
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If you want something more polite and less in-your-face, check out http://www.useit.com . Great resource by the ultimate usability guru Jakob Nielsen.Charles256 wrote:erm..the site design is very usable....even if you don't like the color doesn't make it unusable.......
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Charles256
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http://www.esitemaintenance.com bring on the hate...