[sword-devel] New Sword Website design

[Don A. Elbourne Jr.]

Paul,

Thanks. I fixed the newsgroup link and I'll work on the color scheme next
update.

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
> [mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Paul Gear
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:59 AM
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] New Sword Website design
>
>
> "Don A. Elbourne Jr." wrote:
>
> > I've done a little more work on the new Sword website design.
> If you have a
> > moment please stop by, http://elbourne.org/sword and let me
> know what you
> > think.
>
> Overall:
> - Has a much better effect than the current web site.
> - Has no frames!  Yay!  (Although under Mozilla, the annoying
> Netscape "reset
> your background to the default when you use frames" bug is gone,
> so i won't be
> so annoyed about frames once Mozilla is stable enough to use every day.)
>
> Problems:
> - Link to newsgroup has forward slashes rather than backslashes.
> - In the page http://www.elbourne.org/sword/downloads.shtml, the links for
> Bibles, commentaries, and dictionaries do not show up, except when i click
> them.  I have JavaScript and CSS turned on.
>
> Suggestions:
> - Make the blue background a little lighter (only a few shades).
> It needs a
> little more contrast with the text.
> - The close blue and black stripes behind the main title are a little too
> mezmerizing (like staring at the X11 default background).  Dunno what you
> could do about it, but it needs to be a little more eye-friendly.
>
> Paul
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