[M3devel] CM3 web presentation

[Olaf Wagner]

Well, if someone just wants black on white or vice versa for everything,
that should be easy with modern browsers (just don't allow pages
to use their own colours).

I also don't want to spend time on this now; so a collection of other
sites with better layout and design is of no help.

There was one concrete suggestion which I think is a improvement,
so I tried that while doing some structural changes. I can switch
back if needed.
Everything else is left for people with more ambition and knowledge
in graphical design.

To make everyone happy concerning colours, we'll probably have to
offer several schemes which can be switched via the GUI. If someone
can implement that quickly, I'll happily apply it, too :-) I don't
know offhand how to do that with style sheets.

I'll now concentrate again on the issues for the next RC.

Olaf

Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

> Please just use white on black or black on white.
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> The old was ugly.
> Maybe I'm an old curmudgeon before my time, but all this use of   
> color seems gratuitous.
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> Black on white or white on black would be best imho.
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> mostly black and white:
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/
>   http://www.debian.org/
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> almost black and white:
>   gray text, some orange text, white background
>   http://www.netbsd.org/
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> blue text, white background:
>  http://www.redhat.com/
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> some black on white, some blue on white
>  http://news.cnet.com/
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> sort of black on white, and some black on gray
>   www.apple.com
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> blue text on white background:
>  blue is links, lots of them, but then articles are black on white
>  www.cnn.com
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> If you want to be unusual I would suggest
>   white or green on black.
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> If you want to be normal I would suggest
>   black on white, except links end up other, I guess blue
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> I was taught that blue is to be avoided in general,
> because of its longish wave length it focuses poorly.
> I don't know why purple wasn't indicted the same, maybe
> it isn't popular? Blue IS my favorite color, but I do
> avoid it for this very reason.
> My grandmother didn't like knitting in blue for this reason.
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> I'm amazed at the frequent occurences of blue in
> large swaths such as Apple and KDE desktop themes.
> I think PowerShell gets this wrong too.
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> Also while super high contrast can be or seem bright,
>  introduction of colors and shades and grays tends to
>  imho unnecessarily reduce contract.
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> The default Windows cmd scheme is actually gray almost
>  white text on a black background. I change it to white.
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> red (devil/daemon theme)
>  http://www.freebsd.org/
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>  - Jay
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>> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:01:42 +0200
>> From: wagner at elegosoft.com
>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: [M3devel] CM3 web presentation
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>> I've made some further small improvments (as I think) to the
>> structure and look of the web pages. The green colour scheme was
>> suggested by Peter Eiserloh. It can easily be reverted or changed
>> again in case the majority doesn't like it. As I think it's an
>> improvement and no other suggestions have been made so far, I took
>> the liberty to just try it, because I haven't much time to spare
>> for these topics besides the installation package building and testing.
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>> Olaf
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