Re: FN-FORUM: Joe's design challenge (was CSS help / Site check)

date posted 24th January 2005 23:30

Hi Joe

First contribution to this thread
I'm liking what I see.

Whenever I see new text though I can't help but proof-read it.
have spotted a few things. Would you like them or have you not got to
that stage yet?
Forgive me if I'm being premature

Dave

On 25 Jan 2005, at 00:15, Joe Freeman wrote:

>
> On 24 Jan 2005 23:22:18 -0000, John Murphy [EMAIL REMOVED]
> wrote:
>> I know someone mentioned a half shot of a plant growing, or if that's
>> what
>> you are after when you say plants in a glass container. But see if
>> this is
>> of any use....
>>
>> http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=202031
>
> The daffodil is a bit feminine I think. :-) But this one looks like it
> would be worth a few dollars for:
> http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=92782
>
> I could just cut off the roots and use it... somehow. I assume some of
> you use this site? Is it worth signing up to get this picture? I'm
> sure those ol' roots will come in use somehow...
>
> On 24 Jan 2005 23:43:20 -0000, Richard Bennett
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 00:16, Joe Freeman wrote:
>>> Taking Dave's advice:
>>>> regarding the '/////' well - at least you didn't animate it ;-)
>>>
>>> I decided to annimate it! ;-) I think it's quite clever - it starts
>>> moving as it's loading a link.
>> It's horrid! :o)
>> Really - I suppose that's just me being stuffy, but that flashing
>> thing looks
>> terrible.
>
> I don't think anyone would have noticed if I hadn't pointed it out.
> I'd be tempted to change them into arrows that started moving across
> the screen.
>
>>> As to the general design, I'm fairly happy with it now - always open
>>> to suggestions of tweaks though. Just waiting for 34SP to setup my
>>> hosting...
>> Yep, looks good.
>> I would change the bright-light blue you're using to a blue sampled
>> from the
>> photo - I used #1b42a4 in my tryout.
>> And then I'd center it and put a border around it, but I think I've
>> said that
>> before :o)
>
> I'm not too keen on the shade you used - seems a bit default-ish to
> me. I don't want to center it because... well, I don't. And I don't
> think a border is necessary unless it was centered. :-)
>
>>> Should I take the risk of asking for permission to use the image? If
>>> they say no, then I guess I won't be able to use it...
>> I'd ask if it would be ok to use the image on a personal website,
>> without
>> mentioning the URL. It's from a Uni site, so I don't think they'll
>> object,
>> and if they do it'll take a while before they find your site...
>> At any rate give credit to them for the photo on your site somewhere.
>
> Well I've just emailed some chap with my hotmail account. Seeing as
> I'm having a credits page (which no-one is actually going to look at)
> would anyone like a link to their site on it? Not for publicity
> directly, just to boost search engine rankings. Link swap if you want!
> :-)
>
> Regards,
> Joe.
>
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