Comments on: Thanks for all the feedback http://blog.osirra.com/2006/10/28/thanks-for-all-the-feedback/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:06:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Francis http://blog.osirra.com/2006/10/28/thanks-for-all-the-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-1683 Francis Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:41:39 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=718#comment-1683 <p>In spite of myself I think I am a fand of this site. It's got a strange hold over me. </p> <p>I recommend you take a photo, could be anything, and then crop it so it's interesting. That's the background and you lay your text on top of it. </p> <p>This works with almost any photo, a bug, child, landscape, close up face, grass, bricks, whatever. It always looks more interesting if you isolate a rectangle of it. </p> <p>It helps if your site's color scheme is neutral.</p> In spite of myself I think I am a fand of this site. It’s got a strange hold over me.

I recommend you take a photo, could be anything, and then crop it so it’s interesting. That’s the background and you lay your text on top of it.

This works with almost any photo, a bug, child, landscape, close up face, grass, bricks, whatever. It always looks more interesting if you isolate a rectangle of it.

It helps if your site’s color scheme is neutral.

]]> By: Dan http://blog.osirra.com/2006/10/28/thanks-for-all-the-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-1682 Dan Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:36:31 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=718#comment-1682 <p>Thanks, Francis. I may consider widening my offering, as it were, to 1,024 pixels.</p> <p>I've acted immediately on your RSS logo spot (thanks). However, I'd be interested on your thoughts, as an avid fan (?) of the site, on what should adorn the banner to convey both me and the site.</p> Thanks, Francis. I may consider widening my offering, as it were, to 1,024 pixels.

I’ve acted immediately on your RSS logo spot (thanks). However, I’d be interested on your thoughts, as an avid fan (?) of the site, on what should adorn the banner to convey both me and the site.

]]> By: Francis http://blog.osirra.com/2006/10/28/thanks-for-all-the-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-1681 Francis Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:34:02 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=718#comment-1681 <p>ok so Good Job Dan. It's an improvement. </p> <p>I'll make the following suggestions.<br /> a) I don't like the top banner It does nothing to tell me what this site is about or who it's by.<br /> b) The layout would look better aligned center with fluid left and right. So if you're no a larger monitor it's centered, if you're on 800x600 it's filling the screen. </p> <p>No one is on 800x600. Seriously. Just server rooms that are running blind with no one at the machine. </p> <p>c) I used the golden ratio to proportion my columns. Surprised you didn't pick up on that. </p> <p>d) I get the same as Thomas with the RSS icon in IE 7. It's dropped way below the line. </p> <p>e) Support for CardSpace in IE7 so I don't have to enter my details each time I'm posting. I'll be adding this to my amazing blog in coming days. </p> <p>f) Use the latest icon for RSS. Not the old ugly thing. </p> <p>g) these colors remind me of the earliest page of Amazon.com. </p> <p>If all this feedback is too much for you checkout the Wayback machien to view earlier abominations of mine: Namely the CornflakeZone which was my first site. </p> <p>http://web.archive.org/web/*/cornflakezone.com</p> ok so Good Job Dan. It’s an improvement.

I’ll make the following suggestions.
a) I don’t like the top banner It does nothing to tell me what this site is about or who it’s by.
b) The layout would look better aligned center with fluid left and right. So if you’re no a larger monitor it’s centered, if you’re on 800×600 it’s filling the screen.

No one is on 800×600. Seriously. Just server rooms that are running blind with no one at the machine.

c) I used the golden ratio to proportion my columns. Surprised you didn’t pick up on that.

d) I get the same as Thomas with the RSS icon in IE 7. It’s dropped way below the line.

e) Support for CardSpace in IE7 so I don’t have to enter my details each time I’m posting. I’ll be adding this to my amazing blog in coming days.

f) Use the latest icon for RSS. Not the old ugly thing.

g) these colors remind me of the earliest page of Amazon.com.

If all this feedback is too much for you checkout the Wayback machien to view earlier abominations of mine: Namely the CornflakeZone which was my first site.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/cornflakezone.com

]]> By: Jon http://blog.osirra.com/2006/10/28/thanks-for-all-the-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 Jon Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:35:49 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=718#comment-1680 <p>I like it Dan - nice work - only thing is the width - 17% ? Got to think target market here Dan - are these the people you are aiming at?</p> <p>What about the other 83% that have to suffer tabloid-itis?</p> I like it Dan – nice work – only thing is the width – 17% ? Got to think target market here Dan – are these the people you are aiming at?

What about the other 83% that have to suffer tabloid-itis?

]]> By: Thomas Viner http://blog.osirra.com/2006/10/28/thanks-for-all-the-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-1678 Thomas Viner Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:51:03 +0000 http://www.osirra.com/?p=718#comment-1678 <p>The RSS logos under 'Feeds and me' appear too low somtimes. Like up to 3 lines too low, all in correct formation. But when I move the cursor over the text they jump in to the correct place.</p> <p>I'm using IE7 on XP home.</p> <p>I can provide a screen shot if necc.</p> The RSS logos under ‘Feeds and me’ appear too low somtimes. Like up to 3 lines too low, all in correct formation. But when I move the cursor over the text they jump in to the correct place.

I’m using IE7 on XP home.

I can provide a screen shot if necc.

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