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Application

Jun 19, 2006 04:08

Hello, everyone!

I just finished a new layout, and I went a little crazy with the s2 coding this time around. I'd really appreciate some constructive criticism if you have a few spare moments. The layout looks best in Mozilla as I made a few small customizations that don't show up in IE (tiny community icons in addition to the standard tiny user ( Read more... )

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8.2 powercorrupts June 19 2006, 17:46:47 UTC

Personally, I think this is lovely, I really do. I'm not sure if I like the script font, because I'm not certain if it really fits with the neatly laid out layout.

Still, it's the things like the rounded edges and the gradient at the bottom that tie it all together, make it look neat and beautiful. This layout is, imo, very nice. Now, I don't know S2, so I have no idea how default this is. If it is, then oops. To me, it looks very nice.

A note on the gradient - it seems, to me, odd that it's the same width as the entries. Because of either a trick to my eyes or a trick of my monitor, it appears that the entries are actually WIDER than the gradient, which really looks odd to me.

Re: 8.2 no1_antielitist June 19 2006, 19:12:18 UTC

Thank you so much!

While I'm not sure I 100% agree with you about the use of a script font (I'll admit, though, that I love quirky fonts, so I'm a bit of a sucker for anything unusual), I think you make a very interesting point about the gradient. I'll see what happens if I decide to play around with that later. I'd actually had the same thought when I first put it together but figured it was just my eyes doing something strange. :)

BTW - it's a heavily modified s2 layout. This is basically what the flexible squares layout would look like if you didn't do too much to it graphically in case you're curious.

6.0 stelligera June 21 2006, 17:01:24 UTC

There's a small horizontal scrollbar (I'm using 800.600).

I really really like the background & all of the round borders.

Your font choice kills me & the image is a bit boring (sharpening & other layer effects help). I know you probably wanted a simplistic look but what I mean is that there wasn't much done to the photo.

I've never been too fond of S2, almost all of them look the same.

6.0

Re: 6.0 no1_antielitist June 22 2006, 21:40:50 UTC

Well, thank you for your time and critiques! Sorry you didn't particularly enjoy it. :)