New layout

[teyla]

Wee. Finished the LJ layout stylesheet. Tricked IE into doing what I want. Well, almost - tricked IE into displaying the site in a tolerable layout is probably more like it. If you want to see this layout as it was meant to look by the creator, you'll have to look at it in Firefox.

So, what do you think? Any good, or should I change it back to the standard smooth sailing layout?

Comments

[rusty-armour.livejournal.com]

Oooooh! Cool layout! The design is clean but eye-catching. I love the elephant background, and it's great that there's a menu that easy to locate and follow. I don't like it when designs become so complicated that it's impossible to navigate around someone's LJ. I think it's good when a design can be appealing but user-friendly too.

Oooooh! Almost forgot! I also love your Troublemaker icon! :-)

[teyla]

Heh heh. Thanks :). I don't like complicated layouts either, especially not on sites that are meant to get text contents across. I'm glad you like it :).

I also love your Troublemaker icon!
^^ tli made that one for me. She made me a few SGA Rodney icons, which are all very cool. She's really good at the icon making thing.

[neery.livejournal.com]

I like it!
The only problems for me are that the contrast between text and background isn't big enough - you might want to make the text a bit darker, or the background a little lighter.

Also, the text is really tiny on my screen - I have to enlarge it twice to get the "standard" text size.

And "NEW LAYOUT and "Homepage" overlap in the right corner beneath the picture.

I like the elephant pic, and I *really* like the tags box on the left side. Makes navigation so much easier.

[teyla]

The only problems for me are that the contrast between text and background isn't big enough

Really? Again? Well, changing that shouldn't be a problem... as well as making the text larger. I'll see whether that will work without ruining the layout.

And "NEW LAYOUT and "Homepage" overlap in the right corner beneath the picture.

Now that's really weird. That shouldn't happen, even not with 800x600. I'll have to look into that.

[neery.livejournal.com]

That shouldn't happen, even not with 800x600. I'll have to look into that.

Actually, it is a 800x600 thing. On my new, insanely huge resolution, the problem resolved itself. It was just that on the small resolution, the combined size of the textboxes was larger than the picture, so it overlapped with the rest of the page.

The only problems for me are that the contrast between text and background isn't big enough

That's another thing that's better on the new monitor, but I've turned both brightness and contrast to settings far lower than most other people probably have, so you might still want to fix it.

[teyla]

Actually, it is a 800x600 thing.

Are you sure? Because at the moment, I'm looking at the layout on my monitor from the stone-age that has the 800x600 resolution, and no overlapping. It makes no real sense, either, because if they were overlapping, it'd be a problem of height, not width, and I didn't define a maximum height *confused*.

so you might still want to fix it.

Did already ;). I increased the font size to 9pt and the line-height to 16px, and I picked a darker grey for the text. Hopefully now it's easier on the eyes :).

[neery.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe then it's a my-old-monitor-thing, but I'm not plugging it back in and changing all the settings back just to satisfy your curiosity. ;-)

Hopefully now it's easier on the eyes :).

Yes, it definitely is. It annoys me to no end when people's LJ defines a different text size than the standard LJ layout, because then I have to keep changing font sizes when browsing the flist. This way it's much easier for lazy me. *g*

[thelibraniniquity]

Replying as someone using IE (:P), it all looks very shiny and yay! you got rid of the border around the icons.

[teyla]

you got rid of the border around the icons

Yes I did. It was quite easy actually, once I'd figured out that I kept reloading the wrong html page in my browser... ;)

[explodedpen.livejournal.com]

Huh, from reading everyone's comments it seems I'm the only one that can't see a picture of an elephant *blinks* Still, that could be down to my crappy computer :P It's on its last legs bless it *grins*

The layout looks cool though -even without elephant :D

[teyla]

*blinks* No elephant? That's weird. It should be on top of the page, header-image-like. A red elephant. (no, not pink. Red. Reddish, actually. Don't look at me like that. Other people see it, too. ;) ).

Glad you like my layout! Even elephant-lacking...