Work Continues on New Front Page Theme

[Michael Morris]

Well, I put my finger on the difference.. It was

font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;

Changed it to

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

For those not familiar with CSS, that is a search order - not all people's computers have the same fonts on them, so you are best off choosing a sequence of fonts. The first one is the "first choice" and if it isn't available the browser goes to the second and so on.

Verdana is the Vbulletin default font and was the font used on the giga-insetable rogue theme (the "old theme" of news). I forgot that tahoma was pre-empting it.

The font is set to 12 pt. for now in most instances. The old style set had the fonts set up relatively..

The colors are actually the same on both styles - I didn't change that part of the style sheet at all so I'm somewhat puzzled when folks say the colors are worse - they're the same.

 

[herald]

I love it. Keep it.

 

[RangerWickett]

Well, I think the dividing line is too green-brown. I'd rather go for a pale silver-gold color. Both desaturated and darker than the original yellow, not just darker.

I'm not logged in, I don't think, but the clock on the site defaults to US Eastern Time, correct? Maybe put a note to that effect.

 

[buzz]

Just curious: did the letter-spacing of the new main page chage? I'm finding it harder to read than the old design. Also, IMHO, the left side of the page could use a little padding; the text butts right up against the edge of my browser window (noticed on both Win IE6 and Mac Safari 1.2). I also agree with RangerWickett that the line is kind of an ugly color.

More curiousness: What do you guys have against dark text on a light background? Seems to have worked well for the last few millenia of print technology.

 

[Nifelhein]

I think it looks a lot better, but I like the new style of showing news instead of the old one and I use karate theme right now.

Anyway, there is no link to the new style anymore... lucky me, have bookmarked it at home!

Anyhow... it looks too green indeed, maybe people having problem have the tahoma font installed and now they have to look at verdana, that is what happenned to me.

Maybe the borders would be better with lemmonchiff too. And I always disliked that 3 image that is found in the black area... since noah's site!

And I like the red enpublishing theme better, just hate the logo, prefer enwolrd's.. oh god, I might have a hard time now...

 

[maggot]

Well, I put my finger on the difference.. It was

font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif;

Changed it to

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

That's interesting, because the font displayed on my browser went from a very readable 10pt Arial to a very unreadable 9pt Tahoma.

I'm not happy at all with the change in font. Other than removing Tahoma from my machine, does anyone know a way for me to control the font displayed?

 

[Michael Morris]

That's interesting, because the font displayed on my browser went from a very readable 10pt Arial to a very unreadable 9pt Tahoma.

I'm not happy at all with the change in font. Other than removing Tahoma from my machine, does anyone know a way for me to control the font displayed?

Refresh your cache. CSS style sheets cache seperate from their parent page.

 

[William Ronald]

I like the new design, and found it easy on the eyes. I was not distracted by the colors or the boxes.

Good job!!!

 

[jdfrenzel]

I much prefer the new look. Cleaner, easier to pick out my hot spots, and easier to read. Well done!


--- John

 

[Holy Bovine]

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