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The new layout is "interesting".The new layout is "interesting".Posted May 31, 2002 22:31 UTC (Fri) by kune (guest, #172)In reply to: Welcome to the new LWN.net! by gjw Parent article: Welcome to the new LWN.net! "interesting" must of course be read as bad. 1. All the boxes with rules -- Typographers and Designers would call them prisons. 2. You are using to many different fonts (bold, serif, sans-serif, many sizes). Reducing the differences would improve the design. Tufte explains in Visual Explanations the principle of the minimal recognizable difference. 3. The color contrast between the agressive green and the agressive blue for used and unused links is to strong. 4. You should think about going back to Times Roman, I loved that on your old web site. I recommend to read Bringhurst "The Elements of Typographic Style", it's a great intellectual pleasure. After previewing my comment: 5. Why you don't preserve my paragraphs?
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The new layout is "interesting". Posted Jun 1, 2002 9:00 UTC (Sat) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link] You can preserve your own paragraphs if you use <p> tags wherever you want a break, e.g. like here:New paragraph.
Link-color settings Posted Jun 7, 2002 19:08 UTC (Fri) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] I'll go further than kune on the colors: There's an option on the (read: at least on my) browser to set visited and unvisited colors. It'd be nice to see them in effect. Setting that and stuff like font sizes (and maybe fonts, even) feels like you want to work in TeX. TeX is great, but HTML is about getting the info to the reader, rather than about beautiful design. It's wonderful when beautiful design is there, but as soon as it interferes with legibility or navigability (on, I claim, any browser), it's time to ditch the chrome. Sorry, I bet you put a lot of work into the appearance, but if there's a way to tell the browser: ``If your user has set a preference for this, skip setting the site's version'' would probably be more comfortable for most people. That said, note that it all comes under niceties. This is certainly gonna continue as my top site, and I really appreciate the hard work you all do to get out such high-quality news. (It certainly beats the two ``real-world'' newspapers offered around here.) Finally, thanks for the Visa donation method. You've got my dough, and can expect more next year. :-)
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