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15:30
Hi
Hi, what's up?
I had a look at your page weaselinthebarley.com
Sure. I haven't updated it in forever.
Are you interested in a few comments to it?
Sure. No guarantees that I'll implement them, but let me have 'em.
15:36
I personally like the "old-fashioned" green on black, though I prefer the amber on black ancient monitor style (in my Windows CMD, for instance).
but it literally hit my eyes when opening your page
the red font is even worse. i'm wearing glasses and the words in red have a shiny corona around them which makes them uncomfortable to read or even just look at them.
Sure, I could understand that.
I'd make the I, II, III [sub-]menu points with a descriptive title according to what can be expected to be found there.
I mean: linking the whole world, not just characters that look like ancient greek or roman pillars.
That's distracting from the words before, given that they are in dark gray on black, in addition.
Yeah, that color scheme looked better 7+ years ago when I came up with it. Browsers have likely updated how they process things.
Shall I prepare a screenshot for you so that you see how it looks here?
Nah, I know it looks bad.
15:50
No, it's not bad...let's say: unusual nowadays. But again, I like the retro style. That's what good marketing is all about: being different. It's just a bit too much here and there.
The "overlined" font, for instance. That's very creative, in general. But if used in full text it looks like an underlined link in the line above. That's confusing for visitors who know that hyperlinks are usually underlined on web pages.
And another point to the I, II, III linking. Imagine someone with a tablet or even on a smart phone who tries to follow these links under a rather small, single character or even 3 groups of such characters side by side.
I tried it on my 10" tablet right now. The page with its green on black looks better, even great (for me) there in general (since it fills the whole screen space).
The red font i still a prob there. The small linked chars, the dark on grey font color and the overlined links, too.
I can't read the dark grey text in the bottom line without zooming, for instance.
afk 10
With that said perhaps you understand why I consider equations formatted as code as utterly ugly. Given that there is an alternative in HTML that has been invented for a reason.
afk 10
17:00
Thanks. All great input. The thing to remember is that I last updated this site before the first generation iPad was even revealed. So, mobile web, tablets, etc., none of that was even in consideration when creating the site.

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