New DMD site layout

[Bruno Medeiros]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Bruno Medeiros" <brunodomedeirosATgmail at SPAM.com> wrote in message 
> news:e6ke0t$30ub$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>> I don't like on-mouse-over highlighting of any kind for functional 
>> websites (pointless eyecandy?)
> 
> On the contrary, feedback like that often improves the experience for 
> graphical interfaces.  It's not "pointless eyecandy," it's letting you know 
> what you can interact with by showing it in an interactive way.  We get the 
> same kind of feedback from things like keyboard keys; they kind of wiggle if 
> you put your finger on them, and they make a nice "click" and have a good 
> springiness when pushed.  Feedback is an important part of graphical 
> interface design as well.
> 

The thing that "let's you know what you can interact with" is called the 
hyperlink text underline, a standard issue of HTML, and is a better 
feedback.

>> Also, the highlighted area doesn't even seem to be well centered (or 
>> framed) around it's respective text.
> 
> Not sure what you mean.  Maybe it's a browser display issue?
> 

No it's not a browser display issue. Hum, I didn't explain myself too 
clearly. The left side of the highlighted area starts just about where 
the text starts, which doesn't look good, In My UI Opinion. To see what 
I think should look better, see the page with the attached style.css 
(tested for IE and Firefox).

>> And there are "empty link spaces" between (all) menu entries, that is, 
>> areas where there is no hyperlink/menu-selection (I've found that that 
>> bothers me
> 
> The alternative is cramming all the links together, which looks awful.
> 

No it doesn't (look awful).
Even if it did, it didn't matter for the point. I'm not asking that the 
links have little vertical interval, I just want the vertical interval 
to be all or mostly "link" space, that is, with no blank, non-link spaces.

>> Plus, I don't like the "button" look of the "Home | Downloads | Search | D 
>> | Comments" header, as the buttons look ugly.
> 
> They do look a bit ugly. 
> 
> 
Indeed.

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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D
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