[Geany] [ANNOUNCEMENT] website rework

[Milan Babuskov]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Dominic Hopf <dmaphy at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Heh... I'll be the third person to mention a preference for a non-white
>> background.... ;)
>>
>> It still seems to be white for me as well.  I use a dark-gray colour as
>> default background,
>> but I switched back to the default FF colors, then went to the Geany
>> site.  It was a brilliant white.... :(
>>
>> I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 and FF 3.6
>>
>> Maybe try a dark gray?

Here's the fourth one. I'm using Firefox 3 with KDE 3.5.4 on Slackware
12 with Gtk colour adjustment off.

> To make sure what we are talking about I made a screenshot and uploaded
> it at [1]. I actually changed the content area containing the text (the
> welcome message on the screenshot) from white to a light gray in hope it
> won't hurt your eyes that much when reading the text. Accordingly I
> changed the navigation sidebar on the left and the site header
> containing the Geany icon and the search field to a darker gray so the
> percentage between content area and sidebar/header stays the same.
>
> Do you also wish the padding areas on the left and right to be changed
> to something darker?

Yes, that would be great. Something a lot darker. Padding area is just
for ... well, padding ;) Since there are no "live" colors on the page,
something needs to create contrast between padding and content. Try
changing body background color to #9c9c9c for example to see what I
mean:

body {
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333;
	font-size: 10pt; background-color:#9c9c9c; margin:0px;
}

If you use Firebug or WebDeveloper extension in Firefox you can easily
change this with Edit CSS or similar option and try it out "online"
without changing the actual CSS file.


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Milan Babuskov
http://www.flamerobin.org