On May 24, 3:14 pm, Gonzalo Tornaria <torna...@math.utexas.edu> wrote: > IMHO, the sagemath.org webpage is very nice and lean, but a little > bit too "plain" wrt colors, and a lack of contrast. In addition, the > border color (around the white box with the actual content) is too > bright, which draws my focus away from the content (my browser window > is 1280 pixels wide).
initially, the blue was much darker and i got various comments, that it is too dark. i think it's nicer now and there were no complaints for months until yours... you see, it's complicated :) the monochromatic look makes it much easier to build something that is automatically aestetically "correct". the eye likes clear and easy patterns and therefore i got something without too much work that is still ok. > > Maybe changing that to a darker color, together with a judicious use > of a second color tone within the content (maybe matching the border) > would give some more depth/contrast to the page. > > Here's a 5 minute hack of something along those > lines:http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/tornaria/sagemath.png > sorry, for me, that's just ugly. i tried to find more colors thaat fit together some time ago (used an online tool and some experiemnts) and i created this: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/schilly/newColorScheme.html i'll use those colors if i ever manage to find a layout for multiple colors. > One thing I like is that their web page just fits nicely in my > 1280x800 web browser window, although that of course is dependent on > the resolution I'm using (they may be targetting 1024x768 as a > sensible minimum, except for netbooks). But it just seems that > sagemath.org needs 1200 lines to fit in a browser window. 1200 lines?? do you mean pixels width? i've designed it in a way that it adopts to much smaller screen sizes and expands util an upper limit for bigger screens. i.e. sagemath.org should be fine with 800x600. h --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
