Marom website

[lethargic_man]

The website I've been working on for Marom for the last few months is about to go live. Actually, that's a lie; it's already live; it's just not advertised yet. I could use some alpha testers, so if people want to take a look at it and let me know if there's anything which doesn't render properly on their browser, or anything else (within limited reason; I'm not doing a large-scale reworking now!) they think needs changing, feedback would be welcome.

Comments

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Yellow on blue - not overly readable on the (public access PC) I am using at the moment. Particularly not in large (18pt?) Sans serif font.

I'm a bit constrained by the design scheme of making the thing look like a road sign, to match the logo. For some reason it comes across as a lot more readable under Linux than Windows—the font is anti-aliased in the former case. For this reason I'm going to change the session notes in the "on-campus" section to be black on white.

The red of the used links blends into the brightness of the blue which makes them hard to read.

Yes; I should change that.

The header part takes up a third of my screen, which is too much for a logo and a couple of links.

You must have a pretty small screen. Just flipping through windows open on my browser atm, it's comparable to that of the header of my ISP's webmail page, and on my flist (http://lethargic-man.livejournal.com/friends) page (though it's way larger than the BBC News header, or Java API documentation, or this page). <checks Amazon> That's pretty comparable too.

On the blog, 1/3 of the text area is taken up by links, squeezing the text into a very small area - in a rather large font, which means a lot of scrolling and little opportunity to grasp the contents.

I should probably reduce the size and font size of the links column—though once again, it's comparable to that on such blogs on my flist as balashon (http://balashon.blogspot.com/2006/06/admiral.html) and Tomorrow Elephant (http://tomorrowelephant.net/) .

You've got two different contact options in two different sections - snailmail/phone/e-mail on the contacts page, a webform only on the 'on campus' section.

As editorially requested.

Thanks for the feedback!

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

This is a nice 17' LCD I'm using at the moment, although I have no control over its settings, but the eyeballing is pretty acurate, I measured it.

Unfortunately, I don't have the opportunity right now to look at the source and test it out - however, as a datapoint of 'does it work with default settings' I thought it might interest you.