[Webteam] Re: Main page colors

[Ken G. Brown]

I'm liking the current one ok now...

At 6:21 PM -0800 1/12/07, Brad Fuller wrote:
>Ken G. Brown wrote:
>>Next shrunk version of the latest. Are these helpful to you?
>> 
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>Don't use your energy.
>>Headers are exactly the same color of dark blue as the left top pane.
>> 

Ok.

>Yeah... you caught me in mid-flight on the last one.

Ok. Nicer now.

>Anyway.. .here's how i see it.
>
>The original creators, and some others, like the multicolored approach. That's ok, it's just a different approach. And, is actually much like squeak's workspace... at least the older ones. At least it makes the site non-corporate-like. But, when you go beyond 3 or 4 colors, things don't tie together (except that they _don't_ tie together.)
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>The reason I went to the very light background in the center was that it was tough to read blue links on blue (the current site.)

I like the lighter background. Readability is important.

>And, the most important aspect of the site is to get the word out. Of course, some of that "word" is the aesthetics of squeak.
>
>Anyway, the blue headers and menu aren't really the "pastel, squeak-like" colors. But, it makes it more readable.
>I kinda like the chalk blue because it ties in the top blue, it's still pastel - ish, and it's makes a readable bg color.

I'm liking.

>But, heck, I don't care. I just wanted to do a bit of this... not take up my whole day!

Yeah, sure time consuming.

>If someone comes up with a cool color scheme, send me the colors in hex, tag where they go, and I'll put it up for others to see.
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If you flip back and forth between <http://www.squeak.org> and <http://wwwtest.squeak.org> there's quite an improvement now.

Ken