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On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:24:26 -0400 Alexandre ac586133@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Well, it's almost okay this way! With the slight gradient on the sidebar, the site is less ''bold and serious'' than without gradient at all.
Can we test 2 little details?
- It is possible to underline the text of the categories in the
sidebar?
Just to make it even clearer that these are separate categories. (I know that I'm usually again over-separating elements, but in
this
design, the way parts are separated is a little too subtle to my
taste)
I've used italic rather than underlining in these, to avoid telegraphing false information about what is or isn't a link. IMHO, it should still improve distinction.
- Is it possible to replace the blue RSS logo with the standard
orange
one? Orange contrasts and fit very well with blue and would make the
site
a little more colorful. I can provide the icon from the KFaenza
icon
theme, if you want.
Another little thing, but I'm not sure it would be accepted here is
a
false shadow displayed under the main screenshot, to make the site
more
attractive. I can provide the false shadow picture if wanted.
Used properly (tastefully) I see no problem with it. Let's see what
it
looks like.
Here I provide a sample of what it would look like with a false shadow under the main screenshot. It loks good, without being an appleish ''too much'' shadow. I also provide the false shadow alone and an orange RSS logo, from the KFaenza icon theme. To have the shadow smaller, just resize vertically the picture.
First screenshot uses Alexandre's shadow. The second uses the CSS3 box-shadow attribute (this has the advantage of not requiring an additional image, but won't work in Konqueror and may be "too much" shadow for Alexandre's taste).
E. Liddell
Visually I prefer the CSS shadow. However, in all honesty when I first read Alexandre's description I envisioned something more like the reflection shown below the icon in this image: http://rtg.in.ua/galleries/mythtv/mythtv-screen.jpg
We could tone down the reflection a bit and make the horizontal line more prominent; this would also help segment the page a bit so that the screenshot isn't running into the news as much,
Thoughts on whether this is a good idea or terrible?
Thanks!
Tim