Philippe Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 i'll be honest with you, it does not look professional to me at all. The fonts are not attracting me and i think you need more "normal" colors. They feel very murky to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 I was trying to follow socrates's advice with the varying fonts, but I don't think that worked out too well. the background image might need to be changed. I might be changing that light gray completely over to white. I don't know why I have such an aversion to white... but it scares me. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 ps thanks for the honesty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journeyman Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 spelling of security on the market page I'm not overly fond of Times Roman as a font for websites . . . I don't know why, because it is my preference for paper . . . Verdana is a widely available font and looks good on most websites . . . often readable in fairly small font sizes . . . probably not too good for headings, since it looks bigger in the larger font sizes It does appear you tried to set up Arial as a font, but no text ended up within the boundaries <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"></span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(192, 192, 192);"></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><a href="index.html">Home Page</a> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;">╫</span> about the color scheme what I'm seing is grey down both sides a black border down the left and right margin of the "page" (or very dark grey) and in the table fill/padding spaces a bluish-green color behind the left side market stats bar and the top banner and top nav bar I agree with others that the black text on dark color can be hard to read (I'm sorry Noel's Angel, but Americans generally don't put "u" in words like color or labor) If that color was a lighter green, it might work. With a background color, you have to maximize contrast to maximize readability left side nav bars are fairly typical, people may misinterpret your "stats" section as a navigation tool I put a nav bar at the bottom of the page (it may be redundant, and if you can design every page to fit in one screen, you probably don't need it.) but I don't like to make the user flip back up to the top of the page to change pages nav bar font can be smaller than text body font absent a compelling reason, why change the text colors for linked language. Most people recognize that blue underlining means a link - purple underlining means you've already visited the page . . . you don't have to teach them (unless yours is the very first website they ever visit) does any of this help? what are you using to design your pages? scripting by hand? front page? dreamweaver? NVU (that one's free, although I haven't worked through it yet) php (there's a version of that available for free as well - it's about one version older than they one they're selling) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 yeah those are all fairly good suggestions, NVU plus here and there I go into the source code and try to toggle with it I actually need a php thing... can you link to where there's a free one? please and thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scofizzle Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 hey aloysius....I will be opening my own business one day...not any time soon but in the next 5-10 years.....I might need to talk with you soemtime to see how maybe your endevours could help with this..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 what my thing does is provide a market place. say your business is a restaurant (this may not be feasible, but stay with me for the sake of the example) now you buy a certain number of CBC for Chesterbel Enterprises. say another guy has a farm, and to make it feasible we'll say he lives near you. Say he buys CBC from chesterbel enterprises. now he'll be willing to sell you food from his farm in exchange for CBC... and you have to accept CBC as payment in your restaurant. if $1 USD gets you 100CBCs, but 100CBCs is considered quite valuable to both you and the farmer, then you are able to supply your small business very inexpensively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 okay, I am going to go ahead and plan out Demo Market I (need a break from attempting to make the place look nicer... plenty of time for that after I make sure it can work) if you are interested, it will all be a good ol' game of pretend. create your own pretend store with your own pretend goods and have your own pretend money to spend and receive. so send an email to join@chesterbel.net with the subject "demo" and your desired username and password. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journeyman Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I've always been partial to blue . . . with white letters you get a nice contrast and I think it is pretty readable . . . but then I have no artistic sensibility This created a bar in blue, with the text in white <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#0099cc" width="94%"> <p align="center"><font color="#ffffff" face="Verdana" size="2"><b>Our Staff</b></font></p> </td> only picked this up because the page sizes on the site have gone freaky on me . . . one time the Mozilla browser views look good, and the IE are all scrunched up . . . the next time, the IE looks good, and the Mozilla are spread out way too wide . . . maybe it's the monitor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 20, 2005 Author Share Posted June 20, 2005 I can see how the page sizes would go freaky... I'm trying to balance between drawing the image out to the end of the table and having the table fit in the window it's set to go 80% of the screen, but I have graphics that will stretch out if your screen goes too small. hmm... let me try this.... as to the rest of your last post... i'm confused as to what it means... you want me to change it to just blue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 20, 2005 Author Share Posted June 20, 2005 there, this puppy will work fine in 800X600 resolution. if you're smaller than that, go buy a new computer monitor. anyway, it looks a lot better than it did at the start of all this. I don't mind if it doesn't have a real modern cool look to it. it's still not necessarily exactly where I want it to be, but as a v1.0 it should do nicely. anyway, I really need to change the background color on that forum! it would look so much better. well, and the text colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qoheleth Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 [quote name='Aloysius' date='Jun 18 2005, 03:20 PM']now he'll be willing to sell you food from his farm in exchange for CBC... and you have to accept CBC as payment in your restaurant. if $1 USD gets you 100CBCs, but 100CBCs is considered quite valuable to both you and the farmer, then you are able to supply your small business very inexpensively. [right][snapback]615480[/snapback][/right] [/quote] How would you get the farmer and restauranteur to think of the 100CBC as anything except $1? It's difficult to fool around with currency values unless you have control over both the currency and the market (cf. China's shenanigans with the yuan). With the CBC the exchange rate is set at $1 = 100CBC, then it will work the other way as well. If the farmer would accept 50CBC for $1 worth of produce, then he would end up with the equivalent of $0.50 in CBC. In effect, he'd be shortselling himself. Don't get me wrong, I like the whole idea of an alternate (and hopefully somewhat more human) economy, and I don't pretend to understand economics, but I don't think there's any way to get the CBC or lux or whatever to catch on except the hard way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted June 20, 2005 Author Share Posted June 20, 2005 You are thinking about it as if someone would want to buy outside of the market. so long as they are buying INSIDE the market with the CBC, it works out. they need to think of it as whatever amount of USD they have put into the market, they are never going to use outside of the market. they should understand that when they put the money into the market. it's no longer connected at all to the USD. it's going to start out, just to get the ball rolling, that anyone joining the market can buy up to 5000CBC ($50USD). The scarcity produced there keeps the CBC in value among everyone inside the market. outside the market the CBC means diddly squat. theoretically 100 CBC outside of the market then is only $1. however, inside the market it is not. why? if that farmer accepts 1 CBC for $1USD of produce... and the market is working correctly, he should be able to spend 1 CBC at another shop in the Chesterbellocian market and receive $1 worth of goods/services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journeyman Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 [quote name='Aloysius' date='Jun 19 2005, 09:43 PM']<snip> as to the rest of your last post... i'm confused as to what it means... you want me to change it to just blue? [right][snapback]616420[/snapback][/right] [/quote] no (not that I'd complain if you did - blue is one of my favorite colors) . . . I just copied the html for the text bar so you throw it up on your box and see if you liked the contrast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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