Comments on: Six Days a Week

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:13:03 +0000

On the advice of counsel, with the part of “counsel” being played by over 100 e-mails and phone calls, the weblog has been redesigned to “hurt” people a little less.

By: Krisjohn

Krisjohn — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:43:59 +0000

If I hadn’t found:

http://www.risingphoenixdesign.com/blackback.html

…recently, I’d be arguing for black on white, but instead I think you just need to soften it a little. After reading these pages my eye hurt — though they’re not too bad at the moment, have you already changed the white to a light grey?

A bigger font wouldn’t hurt either, some of us read this from our Wiis.

By: Jon-o

Jon-o — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:56:31 +0000

I’m in the minority, but I say just use the default font size. Let the browser – and its owner – decide how big the text should be!

The only ‘problem’ with this is that so many sites explicitly set a (usually pixel-based!) tiny font size that a *normal* site looks very large in comparison!

Yet another ridiculous situation in web design…

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:14:45 +0000

My projects and other efforts will always take precedence over the weblog entries. No sense postponing stuff I’m doing to describe stuff I’ve done. In this case, I will backdate and catch up.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:52:46 +0000

You’re charismatic enough that i have no doubt you could become an influential blogger. However, as a faithful reader, i’ll be happy no matter how often you update. I hope increased blogging won’t take time from your documentary activities.

By: fuzz

fuzz — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:51:08 +0000

I usually hit Ctrl & + in Firefox to up the text size a bit, and yeah, the whit on black makes even my young(ish) eyes go funny, but I figured I could moan about it when I’d whipped up a new bit of css for jason to use as an alternative…maybe I’ll still get round to it.

By: Michael Kohne

Michael Kohne — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:40:20 +0000

Well, if you don’t want to go to black on white, perhaps green on black? That would, I think, be a little easier on the eyes. I personally would vote for black on white because the white on black makes my eyes do funny things, but that’s just me.

Will – if the font size is too small, you probably need to adjust your browser.

By: Matthijs

Matthijs — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:06:02 +0000

While you're fixing things, please add paragraphs to the rss feed. This does not read well: http://cowpowered.com/files/ascii.png

By: Will

Will — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:40:14 +0000

Hey if you’re looking for redesign tips, the first thing that I do when I get to this site is to triple the font size to make it readable. Maybe my 29yrold eyes are getting bad, but the font is waaaay to small.