do you like my site design; because i do!

Sic · 29 Oct 2006 at 21:06

www.sameagain.net

any comments/criticisms on the colour, layout, anything would be cool. and i've not fallen into that OcUK validity trap either...i checked it!

i've got no way of testing in IE7, so it'd be nice to know if it's spazzed out in that!!

Sic · 29 Oct 2006 at 21:49

whoa whoa whoa...what's going on there?!

i read that article briefly (i'm quite tired!) - are you saying i should send as text/xhtml+xml? i've never heard of this before! can you give me an example of a well-formed doctype declaration so that i can try it?

cheers

Sic · 29 Oct 2006 at 22:17

i'm having a dilemma with that white-on-green...because all the monitors in my house are calibrated perfectly, and it looks absolutely fine on them, but i have had a couple of people say that. i guess that's where i get to a compatibility issue; i'm fine with catering for people who want to choose their browser, and who want to choose their resolution, but choosing not to calibrate your monitor correctly, that's just not my problem; i've decided.

Tom, with regards to the green not matching the blue, they're precisely the same shade - i'm not great at picking colours that go, so i've had to buy a program to help me pick colours that are the same shade - maybe down to monitor configuration?

Roaddhogg; i've taken your advice about the scanlines and the link colours, so i've changed those and i definitely prefer it. thanks for the idea

i also changed my content type to xhtml+xml and it validates. it also works fine in IE6. have i missed something? my doctype is now:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml+xml; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

Sic · 29 Oct 2006 at 22:38

you mean the header as in the graphic or the header as in the announcementy bit? i'm looking at different colours to use for the announcement bit, but that photo is one of my favourites from this year

fair enough if you don't like it

appreciate the honesty

Sic · 29 Oct 2006 at 22:46

meh, well...fair enough! once i've taken some more photos that aren't crap or of bands, there'll be a rotating image thinger in the header...so you've got something to look forward to!

on a sidenote - haha, i made you check your monitor settings!!

Sic · 29 Oct 2006 at 22:57

it's not really. i think wordpress has a small link for it at the bottom. it's not a main part of the site for the user, but it's there for me when i want to log in. i'm not getting touchy about this at all, but you seem to be being awfully facetious about this. any reason for that?

Sic · 29 Oct 2006 at 23:05

cheers. that font seems pretty unpopular - i really liked it! i'm not that big on fonts, so i was just scrolling through til i found something i liked! might have a word with the font expert at work tomorrow and see if he can make a recommendation!