Design...

General discussion re sg.

Design...

Postby SomeGuy » Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:24 pm

I just found the service yesterday and I really love it... But the design aww... I also prefer functionality before design but somehow this purple hurts my eye.
This is meant to be constructive critic - I would love to help but myself I am very untalented with doing design :(


Also it might be worth to check w3 compatibillity:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... ourmet.com

Best Regards
SomeGuy
 

Postby josh » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:56 pm

I've been hoping that someone with design skills would help to make the site look better -- I certainly don't have the skills myself. I did a crappy initial french and spanish translation, and, sure enough, native speakers were offended enough to come in and do it right :) So far, the same has not happened with the design.

Changing colors is easy enough ( http://spamgourmet.com/disposableemail. ... ageCode=ZZ ) - I'm open for suggestions.

As for w3 compatiblity, I just can't get too worried about it. I did the web code using vi, same I as I've been doing it since '93, and as long as most people's browsers can render it right, that's fine with me. I'll probably look at the report and close some tags for elegance's sake.

But -- with enormous respect to Mr. Berners-Lee and co., to whom we all owe a great deal -- if the web had started out with the egregiously large and exacting set of specs it has today, I don't think it would have gotten much further than the gopher:// protocol. I remember working in the "Legal Information Institute" ( http://www.law.cornell.edu ) in the early 90's - we had a great website (it still is), and we produced what I think was the first web browser for MS Windows -- Cello. As a group, we were legal academics, not technicians, and yet we were able to charge ahead because learning how to put stuff on the web was trivial - a non-programmer could sit down and discuss HTML for about an hour and then be off and running -- as we know, the web exploded with content, and the rest is history. There were plenty of markup specifications and other approaches with greater sophistication and breadth at that time, too -- HTML worked because it was really simple. You have to ask yourself what the web would be like if the specifications had started out the way they are now...
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Postby Guest » Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:07 am

Actually, all the errors are from some arguments being passed to a php script, which has no effect on HTML compatibility.........
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