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Re: Lumilux
Thanks guys (and girls).
I really don’t want to make the footer text any larger, so I’ve made the text lighter.
The About page headlines have now been fixed at 15px, is IE obeying?
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Nice stuff, but the feed could use a hack or two to give us a thumbnail… Oliver has one (and although its mostly speculation, doesn’t dean use a txp branch for his dogs?)
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#18 2005-09-17 16:59:49
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Re: Lumilux
The About page headlines have now been fixed at 15px, is IE obeying?
IE6 is.
Beautiful site, and I like your paragraph ‘About Commenting’ ;)
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> Hans wrote:
I really don’t want to make the footer text any larger, so I’ve made the text lighter.
Still hard to read on my monitor in IE6. Actually, the darker text in the header is also hard for me to read, especially “near daily photography”.
new to TXP, CMS, CSS, PHP…
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I like your site! Just looked at it on Safari v1.0.3 and noticed that the text divs on the “about” page are on top of eachother.. I don’t know what your style sheet looks like, but it might help to make sure they are relatively positione dor maybe put a <br clear=“all” /> beneath each text div ???
And… I was thrown off by the right to left navigation for the photos. Not sure if this bothers anyone else. A quick fix would be to switch the prev and next link code and use the opposite arrow images. Does that make sense?
Anyway, I like your site… simple design and nice photography!
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<span style=“color:#999”><strong>photonomad wrote:</strong>
I like your site! Just looked at it on Safari v1.0.3 and noticed that the text divs on the “about” page are on top of eachother.. I don’t know what your style sheet looks like, but it might help to make sure they are relatively positione dor maybe put a <br clear=“all” /> beneath each text div ???</span>
I’ll try and fix that. There’s nothing wrong visually, correct? Just the code?
<span style=“color:#999”>And… I was thrown off by the right to left navigation for the photos. Not sure if this bothers anyone else. A quick fix would be to switch the prev and next link code and use the opposite arrow images. Does that make sense?</span>
What you said makes sense, but I have no idea how anyone would think that way. Backwards is to the left, forwards is to the right. Just take a look at your DVD player’s remote.
<span style=“color:#999”>Anyway, I like your site… simple design and nice photography!</span>
Thank you.
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Very elegant design. But is there any reason not to extend the clickable area of the arrows right to the edge of the browser? It would mean reworking your CSS, but I think you could float the prev and next divs left, set the width of each to 50% (of the viewport), and then slap the image on top of the them with absolute positioning and a z-index to keep it on top of the links. Make sense?
Edit: positioning the actual arrow background images would be challenging, however.
Last edited by jmuspratt (2005-09-23 21:17:51)
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Congrats on the launch Hans! Best photolog I’ve seen in a while; ‘twas well worth the wait. Cheers! :)
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<span style=“color:#999;”><strong>jmuspratt wrote:</strong>
[I]s there any reason not to extend the clickable area of the arrows right to the edge of the browser? It would mean reworking your CSS, but I think you could float the prev and next divs left, set the width of each to 50% (of the viewport), and then slap the image on top of the them with absolute positioning and a z-index to keep it on top of the links.</span>
Trust me, I’ve tried. It would require much time for me to fix this properly. For now, though, I can only set the clickable area at an absolute pixel value.
<span style=“color:#999;”>Edit: positioning the actual arrow background images would be challenging, however.</span>
Precisely the problem.
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<span style=“color:#999;”><strong>JustinLow wrote:</strong>
Congrats on the launch Hans! Best photolog I’ve seen in a while; ‘twas well worth the wait. Cheers! :)</span>
Thanks, Justin. Your `log’s looking mighty fine as well!
Last edited by Hans (2005-09-24 04:39:31)
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>I’ll try and fix that. There’s nothing wrong visually, correct? Just the code?
actually, yes, it is a visual problem: here is a screenshot > http://www.photonomad.com/lumilux_safari.jpg
>What you said makes sense, but I have no idea how anyone would think that way. Backwards is
>to the left, forwards is to the right. Just take a look at your DVD player’s remote.
Yes —that’s my point. When I go to your site, the cloud image comes up and there is only one arrow—the arrow on the left… pointing, obviously, backwards…. Intuitively (like on my DVD remote), I’m inclind to look for an arrow on the right… a link that will take me to the next image (the brick image in this case). For instance, when I click on ‘archives’ page, the first image on the left is the cloud image and the next one to the right is the brick image… so, I would assume that it would make sense that the link to the brick image (from the cloud image on the front page) would be an arrow to the right. I just think the image navigation might flow more intuitively if you switch your previous/next url links in the code (but leave the right/left arrows where they are).
Last edited by photonomad (2005-09-24 05:10:07)
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Really nice website. I like how simple and clean it is. It is exactly what a photoblog should be. Keep up the good work.
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<span style=“color:#999;”><strong>photonomad wrote:</strong>
actually, yes, it is a visual problem: here is a screenshot > http://www.photonomad.com/lumilux_safari.jpg</span>
That’s rather odd. I’ll see if I can fix that now. What’s also happening is that the navigation has moved to the left, which is something that Opera also does. Thanks for the screenshot.
<span style=“color:#999;”>When I go to your site, the cloud image comes up and there is only one arrow—the arrow on the left… pointing, obviously, backwards…. Intuitively (like on my DVD remote), I’m inclind to look for an arrow on the right… a link that will take me to the next image (the brick image in this case).</span>
You’re going backwards in time, not forwards. The image on the front page isn’t the “first image.” it’s the last image.
<span style=“color:#999;”>For instance, when I click on ‘archives’ page, the first image on the left is the cloud image and the next one to the right is the brick image…</span>
The archives page has thumbnails. I consider thumbnails to be like little descriptions, in a list. And how does the Western World read? Left to right.
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<span style=“color:#999;”><strong>axle_foley00 wrote:</strong>
Really nice website. I like how simple and clean it is. It is exactly what a photoblog should be. Keep up the good work.</span>
Thank you, Alex.
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Boy, I’ve gotten a bunch done in 4 months.
Big changes:
- Big, clickable images in feeds
- A little slide-down box containing the photo title, a little “email a comment” button, and EXIF info!
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Despite all my arguments about “worthless comments” and “being different,” I realized today that perhaps I was being too different.
So… I’ve finally enabled comments. It’s ugly at the moment, but it works.
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