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| Philip Ronan 2005-11-10, 10:42 pm |
| "TomB" wrote:
> http://deimos.curious.be/~dusk/
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> Shoot!!! ;-)
[color=darkred]
Shouldn't that be "2671st"?
The links aren't very clear. Either underline them or use a stronger colour
like yellow.
Try adding some headings to make the pages more interesting and readable.
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| kchayka 2005-11-10, 10:42 pm |
| TomB wrote:
> http://deimos.curious.be/~dusk/
Links are not easily distinguished from regular text. You need more
color contrast and/or underlining, especially for links other than in
the navbar. You're also using the same color for visited and unvisited
links. This is not good for usability. You visitors want to know where
they've already been.
You do need a heading on each page. People are not accustomed to looking
at the URL to determine whether they're on the Band or Biography page.
On the Media/picture pages, you are resizing full-size images via HTML
height/width attributes, rather than using separate thumbnail images.
This is bad for a number of reasons, one of which is unnecessarily long
download times. Pity your visitors on dial-up, please. Besides, if you
make actual thumbnails, you can crop and get the scaling right so they
won't look stretched any more. If you don't have an image editor, there
are freebies:
<URL:http://irfanview.com/> or
<URL:http://gimp.org/>
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| kchayka wrote:
> TomB wrote:
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> Links are not easily distinguished from regular text. You need more
> color contrast and/or underlining, especially for links other than in
> the navbar. You're also using the same color for visited and unvisited
> links. This is not good for usability. You visitors want to know where
> they've already been.
I can imagine big websites would greatly benefit from a seperate visited
link color, but would that really be necessary for a small site like
this one?
> You do need a heading on each page. People are not accustomed to looking
> at the URL to determine whether they're on the Band or Biography page.
Mhh, good point. Never thought of that actually.
> On the Media/picture pages, you are resizing full-size images via HTML
> height/width attributes, rather than using separate thumbnail images.
> This is bad for a number of reasons, one of which is unnecessarily long
> download times. Pity your visitors on dial-up, please. Besides, if you
> make actual thumbnails, you can crop and get the scaling right so they
> won't look stretched any more. If you don't have an image editor, there
> are freebies:
> <URL:http://irfanview.com/> or
> <URL:http://gimp.org/>
Yes, I know this. The problem is that I'm using PHP to automatically
generate the picture pages based on the available directories and files,
and I'm still trying to figure out how to solve the thumbnail thing.
Btw, I use The Gimp for all my image editing ;-)
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| Philip Ronan wrote:
> "TomB" wrote:
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> Shouldn't that be "2671st"?
Damn, you're right. Totally overlooked this. Same problem with 2nd by
the way... Have to look into this one.
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| Berimor 2005-11-11, 7:19 pm |
| On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:25:51 +0200, TomB <mail@invalid.mail> wrote:
> http://deimos.curious.be/~dusk/
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> Shoot!!! ;-)
As for me - i'd also make the central cell (where the text is) a little
bit brighter - maybe#666666.
This would make the reading more comfortable - less contrast and not so
eye-stinging.
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| On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:21:44 +0100, TomB wrote:
> Damn, you're right. Totally overlooked this. Same problem with 2nd by
> the way... Have to look into this one.
$number = 2671;
$th = "th";
$th = preg_match( "/1$/", $number) ? "st" : $th;
$th = preg_match( "/2$/", $number) ? "nd" : $th;
echo "You are the $number $th doodiehead to visit";
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| Philip Ronan 2005-11-11, 7:19 pm |
| "JDS" wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:21:44 +0100, TomB wrote:
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> $number = 2671;
> $th = "th";
> $th = preg_match( "/1$/", $number) ? "st" : $th;
> $th = preg_match( "/2$/", $number) ? "nd" : $th;
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> echo "You are the $number $th doodiehead to visit";
You are the 11st doodiehead to make that mistake today.
Or maybe the 12nd, but who's counting ;-)
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| Philip Ronan wrote:
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> You are the 11st doodiehead to make that mistake today.
> Or maybe the 12nd, but who's counting ;-)
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Lol. Silly numbers.
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| Safalra 2005-11-11, 7:19 pm |
| On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:35:24 -0500, JDS wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:21:44 +0100, TomB wrote:
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> $number = 2671;
> $th = "th";
> $th = preg_match( "/1$/", $number) ? "st" : $th;
> $th = preg_match( "/2$/", $number) ? "nd" : $th;
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> echo "You are the $number $th doodiehead to visit";
Right idea, but missing a few cases. Try:
$th = "th";
$th = preg_match( "/1$/", $number) ? "st" : $th;
$th = preg_match( "/2$/", $number) ? "nd" : $th;
$th = preg_match( "/3$/", $number) ? "rd" : $th;
$th = preg_match( "/11$/", $number) ? "th" : $th;
$th = preg_match( "/12$/", $number) ? "th" : $th;
$th = preg_match( "/13$/", $number) ? "th" : $th;
echo "You are the $number $th pedant to visit this site";
Obviously this code could be shortened quite a bit, but then I might have
to explain it.
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| kchayka 2005-11-11, 10:21 pm |
| TomB wrote:
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> The problem is that I'm using PHP to automatically
> generate the picture pages based on the available directories and files,
> and I'm still trying to figure out how to solve the thumbnail thing.
In your image editor, make a thumb for each photo with the correct
dimensions and suitably compressed. Save it as the same name as the
full-size image, just append "_t" or something to it to identify the
corresponding thumb. Change your PHP script to show the thumb on the
gallery page, linking to the full-size image.
Another option would be to use a subdirectory just for the thumbs and
have your script cycle through that instead. As long as you use the same
base file name for both full-size and thumb images, it's not very hard
to do.
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