Re: [Dragora-users] Some issues with the Dragora website

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Michael Siegel wrote:

> Hello Chris.
>
> Am 12.11.19 um 22:49 schrieb Chris F.A. Johnson:
> > ?? The development version of the site is at https://dragora.cfaj.ca
> >
> > ?? Comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> It's nice to see someone is working on this. I like what you did there.
>
> Now, if you look at the font-family settings for blockquote, ol and ul,
> you'll see that they are different from the rest of the text. This
> doesn't really make sense, does it? I mean, it surely breaks the site's
> style, in a way, and doesn't exactly aid readability. I think both
> font-family definitions should just be omitted. I've tried that and
> think it really looks better.

   That is on the agenda .....done.

  (Remember, this is a work in progress, modifying the existing CSS
  file.)

> Concerning the colors, I would suggest to
>
>  * make normal text (basically, everything that is not a link) slightly
>    darker for better contrast

   I think it is dark enough, but I'll try it.

>  * choose a less ?glowy? color for the box frames (Maybe the color for
>    normal text would be a good choice.)

  Good idea.

>  * keep links always underlined and blue/red/purple (except for special
>    links, e.g., those in the navigation menu), maybe making slight
>    adjustments to each color

  I don't like underlining links (except on :hover). I prefer to make
  them stand out with bold. I saw this on a site several years ago
  and liked it. It seems to be used fairly often these days.

> I've tried a few things and found that #005500 would make for a better
> readable text color without being too far removed from what you're using
> now. The headings (h2, h3) were a bit heavy then. But this was easily
> cured by simply making them #006600. Then, I used #005500 as the border
> color for the content and navigation link boxes and reduced the border
> width to 1px. After that, I removed any styling for normal links. And,
> last but not least, I removed the directive for importing fonts from
> Google because that's unnecessary, IMO, and I'd rather have the Dragora
> website not use Google services in any capacity.

  Google is gone.

> The result of all this can be seen at
>
>  https://www.msiism.org/fd/X8JWBe/Dragora.html
>
> Let's discuss.




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