Tuesday, April 12, 2011

New Look--What do you think?

I'm trying out some new things, mixing it up a little. Let me know what you think about it!



I'm going to have to reedit some of the old posts so that they fit the new jump-cut system, too, so you might notice some inconsistency for a while.

I'm still arranging some stuff, but in general I like the new design a bit. Let me know if you have any problems with readability or anything.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I like the new design but sakura would be much more appropriate at the moment ;)

JimR said...

Thanks for the comment!

Definitely. I'm using Blogger's stock images, and they don't have any sakura. This was the best one they had, but I'm going to have to change it.

JimR said...

How's that?

Nikolay said...

桜はかわいいです。

But when it is used as background for text it makes the text hard to read.

So I think it is better not to use a pictures as background.

Jim, have a mercy to our eyes
get rid of such a text background.

mantic59 said...

I'm also having difficulty reading due to the background

JimR said...

Sorry about that guys.

Is this better?

Nikolay said...

Now it is better, but it is far from perfect.

Take a look at http://www.alistapart.com/ and articles on web design there. It is the best I have ever seen.

If you decided to use some pictures as text background take something blurry with no sharp details.

Nikolay said...

As for choosing appropriate color of background there are some articles:

http://web.mst.edu/~rhall/web_design/color_readability.html

http://sigs.aisnet.org/sighci/bit04/BIT_Hall.pdf


the current background is not optimal because of not enough contrast with text, the colour is close to orange (red and orange are to avoid) and it is too speckled.

Anonymous said...

I think it is a little bit on the heavy side now. I liked the autumn leaves more.
But just my opinion :)

Anonymous said...

this one is better again

Anonymous said...

the surface of a hone now?