Обсуждение: FW: [webmaster] new web site

Omar/Emily,

I just received the following email from a user. Personnally I don't
have a problem with the blue, but I have had difficulty with some of the
light grey text, as well as the font size. After a day of looking at the
site I eventually upped the font size in FF one notch - something I've
never needed to do on other sites.

FWIW I'm a little short sighted which doesn't affect my monitor usage,
and run at 1600x1200 on a 21" monitor, so it's not particularly small.

Anyone else having similar problems? What solutions might work without
upsetting the design?

Regards, Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: webmaster-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:webmaster-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Finn
> Sent: 22 December 2004 16:37
> To: webmaster@postgresql.org
> Subject: [webmaster] new web site
>
> I like the redesign a lot, but on my monitor the link color
> (light blue)
> doesn't have enough contrast
> with the white background - it's a strain on my eyes to read.
>
> Just wanted to provide some feedback

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Dave Page wrote:

> I just received the following email from a user. Personnally I don't
> have a problem with the blue, but I have had difficulty with some of the
> light grey text, as well as the font size. After a day of looking at the
> site I eventually upped the font size in FF one notch - something I've
> never needed to do on other sites.
>
> FWIW I'm a little short sighted which doesn't affect my monitor usage,
> and run at 1600x1200 on a 21" monitor, so it's not particularly small.
>
> Anyone else having similar problems? What solutions might work without
> upsetting the design?

I was just considering sending a similar E-Mail.  For the documentation, I'm
having to increase the font size by two levels to read it comfortably,
running 1280x1024 on what's probably a 21" monitor.  It's Linux, though, so
the font sizes tend to be disproportionately small for many sites, but it's
not a problem I had before on the PG site (I might have occasionally raised
the font size by one notch, but never two).

I did notice the light blue links as being somewhat hard to read,
particularly in the Table of Contents for the documentation where everything
is light blue.  Perhaps changing the link color (#009DD1) to match the
header background color (which varies, but it's somewhere around #008BBA)
might be enough, and not disrupt the look of the site?

Regarding the footer overlapping the sidebar, I know Omar has a fix for
that, though when he E-Mailed me to test it, he said he wasn't sure if that
would break other browsers.

Hope this helps,
Steve Simms

--
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Dave Page wrote:
>
> Omar/Emily,
>
> I just received the following email from a user. Personnally I don't
> have a problem with the blue, but I have had difficulty with some of the
> light grey text, as well as the font size. After a day of looking at the

Seems there are three levels of text - black, dark gray, and light gray.
The light gray is probably too light to be read easily.

For example the text:

    Privacy Policy | Project hosted by hub.org | Designed by tinysofa
    Copyright � 2004 PostgreSQL Global Development Group

is too light to read, but it isn't something that has to be read
frequently.  The dates on the News and Events items are also the light
gray and they aren't readable.

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>
> Regarding the footer overlapping the sidebar, I know Omar has a fix for
> that, though when he E-Mailed me to test it, he said he wasn't sure if that
> would break other browsers.

On a 17" TFT at 1280x1024 the gray text is hard to read. And yes the
baby blue links are a little soft.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




>
> Hope this helps,
> Steve Simms
>
> --
> Steve Simms <steve@deefs.net>
> http://www.deefs.net
>
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