Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> quoting Yahya Abdal-Aziz:
>> - high contrast between text and background increases clarity;
>
> I agree Lars's background color is too dark. I get mixed
> feelings since it reminds me of the old days of Netscape!
> A color value of #cccccc or even lighter would be easier
> to read.
#cccccc in fact is what I have there now. But I get your messages.
More contrast, no reversed text. I liked it that way, though. That
steely #cccccc grey made just the right contrast with the green and
the warm yellow text inside. But then if it doesn't work, I guess
I'll drop it. Maybe to use the colours on some other elements.
I've had complaints before from people who thought black against
white was too much contrast. So maybe I'll go for #eeeeee or possibly
some different tone.
>> - reversed text is poorly understood and assimilated;
>
> Do you mean light text on dark background? Yes that's
> hard...
I was (and am) thinking that it could work for those simple and
repetitive headers.
> My particular vision problem makes it hard to read too
> wide lines of text, which is something almost all web sites
> err against. It's a good idea to wrap the main text of
> a page in a <div> which is 33em wide, and preferably
> centered in its containing block.
I see. Well, I agree that the text lines are too wide. I do feel like
doing without those ever-present sidebars, but having them is a way
to shorten the lines without wasting too much space on the sides.
>> I am slowly learning HTML. My site however is rapidly growing a
>> need for navigational sidebars...
>
> Perhaps you need a Web content management system?
I have a couple. But I've never really fallen in love with them. I
like freedom better than standardisation. My work subjects me to an
excessive amount of standardisation already. So I decided to learn
HTML from scratch and build my site using HTML and some CSS. This is
more to my liking. It's probably my Gollum-type heart wanting to get
to the bottom of things.
> (Check out this term on Wikipedia!).
> A tip is to check if they support PHPMarkdownExtra.
Never even heard of that.
I see you have something related here. I guess I'd better check this
out too - as time permits.
Yahya wrote:
>
> The morphology is, IMO, unexceptionable.
*looking up dictionary* - Okay.
Thanks for all your tips, which I agree to in full, especially those
on language style. I do a lot of depassivisation and sentence
breakups in my work. In my spare time, I do have a liking for longer,
more complex sentences, though.
> Though I've seen very little written specifically on readability
> of websites, it is subject to physiological and perceptual con-
> straints similar to those that apply to print. Last Tuesday, my
> eye was taken by a web ad for a website design business called
> "Clean and Fast". Their website is worth a look:
>
http://www.cleanandfast.co.uk/website_design_dorset.html> I'm all agog waiting to learn more about the language of the
> Valley of Muna: is it a true isolate? Or is it perhaps a distant
> relative of a Finnic language like Livonian? Time (or Lars) will
> tell ...
I did tell you. But perhaps not clearly enough.
LEF