Some opinions needed

[selenay]

I've been doing some fiddling around with the layout on The Haven. The full thing hasn't gone live, but I have put up an experimental version of one of the main fiction indexes to give an idea of what I'm doing. It can be found here and looks fairly good on my machine. Not sure what anyone else things, which is where the f-list may come in. Would anyone care to take a look and give me a bit of feedback? All the links work, linking back to the original pages, except for the link to "Dinner at Eight" - that fic has been updated with the new styles, too.

So if anyone would care to take a look, tell me what you think and also whether there are any problems (stuff not displaying, funky things) that would be marvellous. I've played with lots of CSS for this and I'd be interested to know whether it works for people using a different set-up from me - I've tested with Windows XP running IE6 and Firefox, but that's the limit of my testing options.

Squeeage on 'Sanctuary' will follow at the weekend. Yes, Rodney, you really aren't jealous *snicker*

Comments

[alphekka-alpha.livejournal.com]

I preferred the index02 ( the 'go back to' index) to exp_index01. This is because I don't have 20:20 vision. I find large blocks of italic script a bit of a strain on 'medium' text size because the diagonal lines are stepped. It's okay on 'larger' though. I also prefer the left justification because I only have a large white open space on one side. On both sides, it's like having snow-blindness. {g}

Hope that's helpful? Eek.

On the plus side, I read 'Just Because He Could' and 'Not Such a Bad Day', both of which I enjoyed. They leave the reader with a nice warm feeling inside. {beam}

[selenay]

That was helpful :-) It gave me some things to consider for the final design, particularly regarding fonts, and that's important. The left justification on the old index probably can't stay - I've been trying to find a way to improve the navigation and putting in a left-hand sidebar is the best solution I've found. Putting in a right-hand navbar just...er...didn't work. On the techy side, anyway. And keeping the navigation at the bottom of the page makes it difficult for anyone to find it.

I may see whether I can put in alternate style sheets with a different background colour. Unfortunately, Microcrap doesn't support those. Darn it. Firefox does, but Internet Explorer is what the majority of people still use. Bleh.

On the plus side, I read 'Just Because He Could' and 'Not Such a Bad Day', both of which I enjoyed. They leave the reader with a nice warm feeling inside. {beam}

*g* Thank you :-) They left me with a nice fuzzy feeling inside when I wrote them, so I'm glad they worked for the reader too.