my new layout, comments, suggestions, criticisms

[Nik Coughlin]

Hi,

I am toying with a new layout. The links do nothing, this is just a one
page concept.

http://nrkn.com/test/

I would really appreciate any comments, suggestions, criticisms, ideas etc.
that you might have.

Thanks!

 

[Leonard Blaisdell]

I would really appreciate any comments, suggestions, criticisms, ideas etc.
that you might have.

I don't think dates are very descriptive. Perhaps location, description
or activity would serve the links better. I'm assuming that 'Art, 'Photo
Edits'... link to a gallery instead of individual photos. I certainly
can't think of anything better than you have for the section you really
want ideas on.

leo

 

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I am toying with a new layout. The links do nothing, this is just a one
page concept.

http://nrkn.com/test/

I would really appreciate any comments, suggestions, criticisms, ideas etc.
that you might have.

Thanks!

Grey is so yesterday.

 

[Toby Inkster]

http://nrkn.com/test/

I'm not sure that the background works. Textured is good, but I'm not sure
about that particular pattern. Maybe also add a little tiny bit of alpha
transparency to your metallic blobby bits so that the background texture
shows through just the tiniest bit -- this will only work in decent
browsers of course, but there are workarounds for IE.

 

[Nik Coughlin]

I'm not sure that the background works. Textured is good, but I'm not
sure about that particular pattern. Maybe also add a little tiny bit
of alpha transparency to your metallic blobby bits so that the
background texture shows through just the tiniest bit -- this will
only work in decent browsers of course, but there are workarounds for
IE.

Hi Toby,

They're a little transparent anyway, the contrast of the background is too
low for it too be noticeable on most screens, but I could definitely up it a
bit, that's a good idea, cheers. Only problem I've found with the alpha
hack is that it renders links in an alpha'ed element unclickable; Dean
Edwards says:

To achieve these visual effects Explorer creates a supra layer on the
browser window. Now this is all guess-work of course but a noticeable affect
is, that if an element has a PNG background, then none of its child elements
will receive mouse events. Killing "hovers" and the like.

From http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/notes/#PNG

It's a real shit because rounded corner type stuff using css relies on
nesting elements, so if any of the parent elements use the hack none of
their children can contain a link. Solution? Use tables I actually
have a site which has both css for rounded corners and some alpha effects,
in the end I gave up and served IE a table layout and all the other browsers
the semantic version. All I can say is I hope the uptake of IE 7 is good.

I liked the form language thingy you posted a little while back, by the way.
Must have a proper play with it some time.

 

[Nik Coughlin]

Grey is so yesterday.

God, you're right, how could I have not seen that?

 

[Nik Coughlin]

I don't think dates are very descriptive. Perhaps location,
description or activity would serve the links better. I'm assuming
that 'Art, 'Photo Edits'... link to a gallery instead of individual
photos. I certainly can't think of anything better than you have for
the section you really want ideas on.

leo

Thanks, the whole thing is getting a workover, that treatment is just
applying the new layout to one of the existing pages. Will keep that in
mind.

 

[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, Nik Coughlin quothed:

Hi,

I am toying with a new layout. The links do nothing, this is just a one
page concept.

http://nrkn.com/test/

I would really appreciate any comments, suggestions, criticisms, ideas etc.
that you might have.

I like it, find it aesthetically pleasing and serene. One thing I might
change (ie. personal taste) is to reduce the height of the header a bit
and make the "nrkn" less obtrusive. If you pursue this layout, you
should also indicate differences between links to sub-pages and images
only.

 

[Nik Coughlin]

With neither quill nor qualm, Nik Coughlin quothed:


I like it, find it aesthetically pleasing and serene. One thing I
might change (ie. personal taste) is to reduce the height of the
header a bit and make the "nrkn" less obtrusive. If you pursue this
layout, you should also indicate differences between links to
sub-pages and images only.

Do you mean, for example, use maybe a folder image with a thumbnail on it
for those that go to a sub-page? That's a great idea

 

[Toby Inkster]

It's a real shit because rounded corner type stuff using css relies on
nesting elements, [...] Solution? Use tables

Perhaps it could be done with absolutely positioned corner images within
a relatively positioned dummy element, and a bit of z-index magic.

 

[Nik Coughlin]

It's a real shit because rounded corner type stuff using css relies
on nesting elements, [...] Solution? Use tables

Perhaps it could be done with absolutely positioned corner images
within a relatively positioned dummy element, and a bit of z-index
magic.

I think I will have to have a go at that tommorrow, cheers Toby.

 

[Travis Newbury]

I am toying with a new layout. The links do nothing, this is just a one
page concept.
http://nrkn.com/test/

You know I have never liked trying to color things with CSS (or HTML
for that matter) rather than using images. It always make the page
look like ansi graphics to me.

ymmv

 

[Nik Coughlin]

You know I have never liked trying to color things with CSS (or HTML
for that matter) rather than using images. It always make the page
look like ansi graphics to me.

ymmv

I like ansi graphics!