On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:05:53 +0800 Steven Kah Hien Wong
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:54:52PM +0300, Ciprian Popovici wrote:
> > http://blackbox.zuavra.net/wiki/
> 
> The fonts look a bit big on my Firefox 0.8 browser (Debian Testing
> distribution). I suspect maybe it's the 1.2em font size for TD elements,
> in wiki.css. Not sure if you are aware, but doing that will make all
> elements nested in it 1.2 times bigger, too.

Yep, and the big fonts are intentional too. I like to be able to read
things easily, same reason I chose serif fonts too (they are easier to read
than sans-serif).

> Putting the Blackbox logo on the very top of the left menu seems good.
> Underlining the menu items is a bit superfluous, since most of them are
> links anyway. Having too many links in a concentrated area creates too
> much noise. Underlining normal links are ok, as they are often well
> dispersed.

Yes, but I'd like to keep a unified convention everywhere on the site. When
the visitor sees something red and underlined, they would instantly know
it's a link and nothing else.

> I'm not a big fan of the colour scheme either. The old colour scheme was
> good. :) Ever since I started using Blackbox (when Brad hosted it on
> that ALUG site I think it was?), I've always recognised a certain
> distinct colour scheme shared by most themes. Pale colours, lots of
> gradients, and tending towards the dark end (but you get the occassional
> bright variants too).  Its always been a bit retro-ish in my mind. :)

As soon as the site is up, if people will provide me with alternate style
sheets I will set up a JavaScript changer and a cookie. So you can choose
the desired color scheme and have the site remember it for you. Actually,
if anyone sends me such an alternate style sheet I will use it to test the
JS changer with. The only rule is to only change the stylesheet, nothing in
the page XHTML or the class/id names. I've reached a compromise XHTML that
works cross-browser (or so I hope) and covers what I wanted it to do; it
wouldn't be nice to mess it up just to make it look a certain way.

I'm also open to submissions with a logo, too. Something that uses the
black box on blackboxwm.sf.net and at least the Blackbox name. If it's not
too much to ask, XCF or PSD format would be best, in case I need to adjust
it.

-- 
Ciprian Popovici

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