Journal experiment

[pasithea]

So. I'm still on this website redesign thing.

I decided I'd start small and easy. Just redo my livejournal. The colours were all muted and muddy before. They were part of that whole 'I'm hiding' thing. I really wanna get away frm that. So anyhow... This is the 'Haven' style, which has a lot of neat automatic colour selecting (which I didn't use. :) But I chose it because the style was clean and didn't have some of the problems many of the other styles do (always exceeding the width of the page, certain elements breaking outside the CSS box they belong in and stuff like that)

So I did just basic comlimentary colours for a high contrast. I did still stay with somewhat cool colours but at least there's some energy in my page now, and I finally got rid of all that broken animation and glitchy counters. I also like the anchor references in the sidebar for faster access. This style also supports a list of links. Gotta think about that and decide whether or not I want to add it.

Anyhow. Opinions?

Comments

[centauress.livejournal.com]

The double comment box is a little confusing, and the top menu rolls off the side of the screen for me. The color for lj names vanishes into the titlebox backgruond colors - like by the comments.

I really like the sidebar construction, and the colors. Very vivid. And using white makes the info boxes really pop.

[frith]

The format is boring. It's reminiscent of late 70's kitch. I'm not too keen on the colour selection either. While the black text on yellow is easy to read, it's too screamingly yellow for me. The purple is lost in the blackness. For the purple to complement the yellow you should switch the black for purple and vice versa, that way the yellow areas will touch more purple. The purple should also be lighter.

The font is easy to read but bland. The links are black, the same colour as the text and the same colour as the title bars. This makes them hard to find, especially in the black on black case.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Yeah, this does look a lot darker on a tube display than it did on my LCD display. Curses. I went with a websafe palette and still managed to make it unreadable.

I also agree about the font, but fonts on the web tend to be a bit on the unreliable side so I stuck with a default.

I did try swapping the blacks and purples and while it looked sort of nice, it also drew too much attention to the wrong things. Also, since I plan to maintain connectivity between my website and my journal, I am trying to stay mindful of the overall color scheme so that I don't end up with a site that looks all disjointed again.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. I see. it gets darker the further it nests. Well that's annoying. Now I'm going to have to hack their CSS code and gut that.

[chirik.livejournal.com]

I noticed it earlier at work. It doesn't break my Solaris machine just viewing your pages, which is good. ;-)