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#1 2005-11-30 00:44:23
- jcromartie
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My first real site done with Textpattern (www.nanotechproject.org)
This is the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. It’s through the Wilson Center and the Smithsonian. It’s big time stuff! I know it’s probably not as exciting or edgy as some of these fancy design blogs… but it’s Textpattern in a site that’s “up there” in terms of notoriety. They just went public and were just in the NY Times science section.
-John
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#2 2005-11-30 01:00:38
- Vitruvius
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Re: My first real site done with Textpattern (www.nanotechproject.org)
Well done to you and well done to Textpattern. That TXP is being used increasingly in mainstream, high profile corporate sites is a testiment to its quality, flexibility and stability.
In terms of this site I would be tempted to make the graphic forming the footer with logos at the bottom of the page a GIF (I think it’s currently a JPEG?). A properly crafted GIF will look sharper…
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#3 2005-11-30 02:37:16
- jcromartie
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Re: My first real site done with Textpattern (www.nanotechproject.org)
> Vitruvius wrote:
> Well done to you and well done to Textpattern. That TXP is being used increasingly in mainstream, high profile corporate sites is a testiment to its quality, flexibility and stability.
>In terms of this site I would be tempted to make the graphic forming the footer with logos at the bottom of the page a GIF (I think it’s currently a JPEG?). A properly crafted GIF will look sharper…
I agree, PNG would be even better… but this was sort of rushed and the footer was almost an after-thought.
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Re: My first real site done with Textpattern (www.nanotechproject.org)
I like the site, my only thought was that navigation with the blue blocks underneath don’t add anything to the site. At first I thought I could simply click on the block to navigate through. Might it be better to either play the navigation within the blocks?
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#5 2005-11-30 11:21:54
- Niconemo
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Re: My first real site done with Textpattern (www.nanotechproject.org)
The text seems very dense… it is due to :
- line height : I would add somtthing like
line-height:1.3em;in thebodyselector. - the boxes padding : it is not enough ! the minimum should be a “M” letter width.
- text color : I’d try a dark grey (even almost black :
#333) instead of#000 - link underline : I would try with
decoration:none;in theaselector but with a hover state instead (underline coming back or other text-color).
A thing that works well when one wants to keep links underlined is to replace the underline by a bottom-border, then to change the border color with the half-tone (if the link is dark blue : a medium blue. To be precise the same blue with a half of the background color in it). So the line is still 1 px but looks 1/2 px.
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#6 2005-11-30 13:23:30
- jcromartie
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Re: My first real site done with Textpattern (www.nanotechproject.org)
Thanks for all the tips! I’ll give them a shot and see if the client wants to implement them. I’ll go for the border-bottom approach, as I am not a fan of the “invisible link” where it has no underline, as that makes the site hard to use for people with poor eyesight, and is just bad web manners. As for the blue blocks… yeah, I don’t like them either, but they have been a part of the site design through numerous iterations.
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Re: My first real site done with Textpattern (www.nanotechproject.org)
Absolutly professional. Do you want some idea? “About us” gives a list of articles. When you select one of them, the list dissapear, and the user has to press “Previous in the browser to return to the articles list. Probably it would be better to give him a link to the list. By.
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Re: My first real site done with Textpattern (www.nanotechproject.org)
The blue bars would be okay if they gave you some feedback when you moused over them… like changing color or something… and they were part of the navigation links. As it is, I just passed over them and waited for something to happen, which didn’t.
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