Comments on: FWD’s New Look

By: Jesse the K

Jesse the K — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:14:39 +0000

Nice job!

Unlike almost every other place where there’s a Text Size Selector, I was impressed how almost everything increased when I choose 24 pix. (The outliers: is this textarea input I’m composing now; the breacrumbs text, the button labels, and the “search here” hint text up in the search field.

By: tigtog

tigtog — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:04:24 +0000

Thanks, @Static Nonsense – the breadcrumb links are now a better colour!

By: Static Nonsense

Static Nonsense — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:11:01 +0000

Thank you for changing the color of the header links – though now the category links above each post can’t be read D: Sorry!

By: byrde

byrde — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:55:26 +0000

The lighter background/darker text is much easier for me to read. It seems that FWD is currently using a fixed width format, which does mean that I lose some of the right edge of the screen unless I adjust my window size. I am unable to scroll left/right on this site. (I’m using Google Chrome.)
Overall, I think this is an improvement. Thanks.

By: ahimsa

ahimsa — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:26:54 +0000

Thanks for making the font darker. Improving the contrast makes it easier for me to read. Sorry to see that some others have problems with backgrounds being too bright.

Thanks for all that you’re doing! I know you can’t please everyone with the new look but I hope you find something that works for most folks. Sending *hugs* to all who are working behind the scenes to keep this web site going… (if that’s not too corny!)

By: Static Nonsense

Static Nonsense — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:28:52 +0000

The blue links in the header are hard to read for me. There’s little contrast between them and the navy blue background. The tan color for the rest of the header text works fine for me, but I don’t know if you’d want to use that for the links due to aesthetics.

By: Norah

Norah — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:50:25 +0000

I know this probably conflicts a lot, but for me the new site is a bit too bright and light to be able to look at, especially the posts themselves which have a white background (the background outside of posts etc, seems to be more greyish).

By: Spectral

Spectral — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:01:41 +0000

Aw, I thought it looked so pretty before!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:27:02 +0000

meloukhia,

I think the new look is great! It’s easy on the eyes for me. I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever seen an option for choosing the text size of a blog elsewhere but that is a fantastic idea. I continue to appreciate being included in your blogroll. Tell Viv, “job well done”!

Jeanne

By: tigtog

tigtog — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:15:55 +0000

OK, have fixed the byline/metadata link contrast issue, and tweaked the blockquote for greater legibility.

The framework author has done some sneaky things with subsidiary template files for some of the other minor elements needing tweaking (like the extra link to comments that I think we want in the byline area), and I think I might leave those until this weekend to try to crack.

If anyone has their own accessibility styling hints that they’ve found useful elsewhere, please drop me an email.

~ Viv