Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 23:03:34 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com> To: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk, rivers@dignus.com, k4n@hotmail.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD webdesign Message-ID: <37C45A26.89B18AB5@nisser.com> References: <199908242049.NAA05311@athena.tera.com> <37C347CE.A49ED05C@nisser.com> <19990826054711.D6868@caamora.com.au>
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jonathan michaels wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 03:33:02AM +0200, Roelof Osinga wrote: > > > > Wise advise, though I would change that to looking at commercial > > sites since we're talking about websites. > > "commercial sites", roelof are created by people like you, me > and the rest of the people in this list, this thread using > freebsd, et al .. what i'm trying to say is that they are > "nothing special". If you mean people with 2 arms, 2 legs, 1 nose then, yes. If you mean people with like skills, practice and information then not necessarily. E.g. Microsoft has at least one huge UI research lab it stands to reason they put it to good use. Don't know about you, but I sure don't have those kind of facilities. Same goes for other facilities. Same for team size and talent distribution. Also, it's meant as a q&d heuristic not as career advice. > even wiser advice wold be to colour correct you own crt, adjust > its gamma correctons values and set the colour temerature the > principle 'pigments' -- cyan, magenta, green as well as the > monitor+crt+graphics card and drivers idea of black and white. > > once you establish this base platform then one can do what you > are trying to do with any from of repeatabilty or security of > outcome. Same advice as in the other email you send but you're overlooking one major, nay huge, fact. You have absolutely no control whatsoever over the CRT, graphics card, color temperature, brightness, contrast, ambient lighting, eye sight and whatever else may influence the overall graphic impact of your masterwork at the site where the sight is experienced, so to speak. That alone ties your hands severely. Hence it is no use to overengineer these things. KISS still rules. Maybe a light gray or sky blue is better, but only if you don't encounter old ratty monitors facing the sun. So in your other reply you said <<i challange your view .. the freebsd site is bearly viewable, let alone readable, by anyone who dosent have (as teh americans say 20/20 visual acuity and a fairly std colour diferantion.>> But that only says that the sites I compared the FreeBSD site to, as the old freshmeat one, were utterly unviewable by that target audience. IOW it's a relative thing. Also, my eye sight may be 20/20 but that monitor more than made up for it <g>. Finally and again meant as heuristic the W3C site about Web accessability (http://www.w3.org/1999/05/WCAG-REC-test) uses bigger, bold, black letters on a plain white background. Those folk are the specialists on this topic <g>. Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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