Ok, last revision for tonight:  http://i.imgur.com/d3ARq.png

I fixed the link-box hanging over and I made the logo a bit bigger
(60px, like currently on the Wiki)

Ivan, yes it's more like Slate Grey, no idea what it's called.  I have
set a maximum width on purpose so that it doesn't degrade too badly on
big screens.  It was 50em (50 x font size), now it's 55em;  For
one-column text 40em would be better (too long lines are hard to
read), but since it's a two-column layout, it's fine if it's wider.
I've seen a website that fluidly switches between 2 and 3-column
layout depending on how wide the window is (using CSS only) but I
suppose that's hard to get to work portably (well, IE).

On 7 April 2010 01:57, Gregory Crosswhite <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice!  Is there any way you can enlarge the bottom section so that the box in 
> the top-right doesn't look like it is hanging over the side (i.e., having 
> whitespace directly below it and to the right of the main text)?  If 
> anything, I think that it would look better for the bottom text to extend 
> further right than the box at the top than vice versa.
>
> Cheers,
> Greg
>
> On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Thomas Schilling wrote:
>
>> Ok, based on both your and Ivan's comments I modified a bit more.
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/cumLj.png
>>
>> Making the top columns and the lower columns the same width looks bad,
>> but I agree that the large margin between the blurb and the
>> Documentation headline was too large.
>> After I changed that, however, the Documentation section and the News
>> sections did not line up anymore which looked even worse when the news
>> section had a different background colour.  So instead the background
>> colour is used for the quicklinks.  Removing any use of a background
>> colour would makes things too boring, though.
>> I also swapped the heading colour and the title bar colour.  So
>> headings are now a very dark blue.
>>
>> The italic things in the blurb are actually not links (though they
>> could be).  Without any styling the blurb would look too boring, so
>> I'm using the same blue that the title bar uses.
>>
>>
>> On 7 April 2010 01:25, Gregory Crosswhite <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I concur that the latest version with the softer colors looks a lot nicer, 
>>> and I approve of the overall design.  I think that you should go back to 
>>> using a change in the foreground color rather than the background color for 
>>> the links in the main description, since at the moment it looks ugly.  I 
>>> also think that it would look better if you could align the two columns in 
>>> the top (i.e., the description text and the major links above the "News and 
>>> Events" section) so that they align better with the two columns below;  you 
>>> could probably also have the description text creep into the left margin so 
>>> that it isn't exactly centered over the left column below, if that would 
>>> look better.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7 April 2010 10:02, Thomas Schilling <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> On 7 April 2010 00:57, Ivan Miljenovic <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> OK, I dislike the colour scheme.  Happy now? ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> That's still not constructive.  I.e, is it the black, the gray, the 
>>>>> orange?
>>>>
>>>> OK, it's the black; it seems a tad too strong for me (the fact that
>>>> you have a black theme for your browser probably doesn't help).
>>>>
>>>>> Using more intense colours for the bar at the top becomes distracting 
>>>>> very quickly.
>>>>
>>>> How about a more neutral, paler colour?
>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, here's something with a bit more colour:  
>>>>> http://i.imgur.com/LpQmH.png
>>>>
>>>> Apart from the black up the top still, I think this is nicer.
>>>> However, maybe the links in the description text up the top are a bit
>>>> too obvious...
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> [email protected]
>>>> IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
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>>
>>
>>
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