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Hi Chris,
The Verdana font is the best choice you can make:
it's designed for its good readability.
You have a nice, sober, professional looking site.
Keep it like that!!!
(read my suggestion about remembering the collapsed states of the chapters at the left)
Geert.
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I'd like some opinions on the colours, fonts, and font sizes used. Some people love them, some people hate them - but if there is anything in particular that would make the site easier to read or navigate then I'd like to hear from you guys.
cheers,
Chris
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Chris I really feel there should be 'add comments' feature at the end of submitted article. This enables the users to communicate and encourage the auther.
Shahzad
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It's definitely on the cards, though in a much more organised fashion than has previously been implemented. Once the site is fully functioning I will have more time to add cool stuff like this.
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Chris I really feel there should be 'add comments' feature at the end of submitted article. This enables the users to communicate and encourage the auther.
Shahzad
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Chris & whoever else is working here  --
I just had a couple of comments about the HTML which I feel would improve the site.
First, *please* underline links! This is a big peeve of mine. Links should be underlined to make them stand out as links. Just changing the color of the text doesn't make them stand out enough.
For instance, on the main page, all of the categories in the left navigation bar look like plain text. It's not until you mouseover the text that you can tell that they're links. Users shouldn't have to go hunting for links like that.
Also, the colors of unvisited links and visited links are too similar. Unvisited links are blue and visited ones are just a shade darker. Unless I happen to have two links near each other to compare the colors, I cannot tell whether a link is visited or not. Again, you're making more work for the user and you gain nothing by doing so. The default colors (blue and purple) work fine and would even fit in nicely with the existing color scheme.
OK, enough ranting. 
--Mike--
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So - you'd like me to have a look at link styles, huh? <g>
Thanks for your comments - I'll add these to my TODO list and hopefully make the site easier to navigate.
- Chris
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The original message was:
Chris & whoever else is working here --
I just had a couple of comments about the HTML which I feel would improve the site.
First, *please* underline links! This is a big peeve of mine. Links should be underlined to make them stand out as links. Just changing the color of the text doesn't make them stand out enough.
For instance, on the main page, all of the categories in the left navigation bar look like plain text. It's not until you mouseover the text that you can tell that they're links. Users shouldn't have to go hunting for links like that.
Also, the colors of unvisited links and visited links are too similar. Unvisited links are blue and visited ones are just a shade darker. Unless I happen to have two links near each other to compare the colors, I cannot tell whether a link is visited or not. Again, you're making more work for the user and you gain nothing by doing so. The default colors (blue and purple) work fine and would even fit in nicely with the existing color scheme.
OK, enough ranting.
--Mike--
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Mike and Chris
got to agree with the problems with telling visited and unvisited links apart, but even with two links next to each other I can't tell. Colour blindness is a real bitch.
Also the blue/purple scenario, guess what two colours of many I have explicit problems telling apart.
Just my thoughts, I have these sorts of problems on many web sites and with many computer applications. Very few developers think of the colour blind, and I can tell you that a large percentage of people (especially male) have some form of colour blindness though most are note that extreme.
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The original message was:
Chris & whoever else is working here --
I just had a couple of comments about the HTML which I feel would improve the site.
First, *please* underline links! This is a big peeve of mine. Links should be underlined to make them stand out as links. Just changing the color of the text doesn't make them stand out enough.
For instance, on the main page, all of the categories in the left navigation bar look like plain text. It's not until you mouseover the text that you can tell that they're links. Users shouldn't have to go hunting for links like that.
Also, the colors of unvisited links and visited links are too similar. Unvisited links are blue and visited ones are just a shade darker. Unless I happen to have two links near each other to compare the colors, I cannot tell whether a link is visited or not. Again, you're making more work for the user and you gain nothing by doing so. The default colors (blue and purple) work fine and would even fit in nicely with the existing color scheme.
OK, enough ranting.
--Mike--
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When you say very few developers think of the color blind, that is likely true, but it's not a conscious conspiracy against you. Speaking for myself, I have heard only one thing about male color-blindness, that being red-green blindness. (So, for example, it's bad to use green for unvisited links, and red for visited links.)
Asking as a developer, what are the best colors to use? I see color fine, so I honestly have no idea what colors pose problems for color-blind folks.
--Mike--
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Mike and Chris
got to agree with the problems with telling visited and unvisited links apart, but even with two links next to each other I can't tell. Colour blindness is a real bitch.
Also the blue/purple scenario, guess what two colours of many I have explicit problems telling apart.
Just my thoughts, I have these sorts of problems on many web sites and with many computer applications. Very few developers think of the colour blind, and I can tell you that a large percentage of people (especially male) have some form of colour blindness though most are note that extreme.
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Mike
didn't actually mean that their was a conspiracy, just that people don't think about it. Those who aren't colour blind rarely think or sometimes even know about it and those that are colour blind forget about it as it has generally blended in to the background.
Red / Green colour blindness is just the one that most hear about. Knew I was colour blind since I was a child as I would stuff up the colour by number books we had as kids. What I didn't know was I had problems with Red / Green until a medical for the Army show it up. Failed to differentiate between Red / Green / White lights shone on a wall about 7 metres away. They all looked the bloody same.
Anyway I have problems with the following colours -
Red / Green
Dark Green / Brown
Blue / Purple
Red / Brown (this is a problem with Snooker)
I also know of people who have problems with Pink / Grey. You don't even want to go into weird colours and varying shades with me as I get completely lost there.
Anyway, back to the original question, what are the best colour combinations ..... no bloody idea. Different things depending on the background, sometimes I have had problems reading whole pages because of this, I generally only know what doesn't work once I see it. I suppose if you steer clear of the combinations mentioned above you should stay out a trouble.
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The original message was:
When you say very few developers think of the color blind, that is likely true, but it's not a conscious conspiracy against you. Speaking for myself, I have heard only one thing about male color-blindness, that being red-green blindness. (So, for example, it's bad to use green for unvisited links, and red for visited links.)
Asking as a developer, what are the best colors to use? I see color fine, so I honestly have no idea what colors pose problems for color-blind folks.
--Mike--
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The original message was:
Mike and Chris
got to agree with the problems with telling visited and unvisited links apart, but even with two links next to each other I can't tell. Colour blindness is a real bitch.
Also the blue/purple scenario, guess what two colours of many I have explicit problems telling apart.
Just my thoughts, I have these sorts of problems on many web sites and with many computer applications. Very few developers think of the colour blind, and I can tell you that a large percentage of people (especially male) have some form of colour blindness though most are note that extreme.
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Wikipedia has a pretty good article on color blindness. Included are links to some applications like http://www.vischeck.com/ that can simulate various types of color blindness.
Without darkness, there are no dreams.
-Karla Kuban
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Hi Chris,
I answered the first question a few minutes ago. The input field is far to small if you want to post some code. Can you please make the bigger?
Thanks!
Martin
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It's beautiful.. as of now, pretty fast. I see that you've moved to ASP... is there any possibility of you guys writing up your experiences between the "earlier" setup and now ??
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Thanks - I'm working to try and keep it fairly lean and crisp.
As to writing about past experiences - well, I could write a whole book on that! It's certainly been an amazing year but I think I'll restrict my creative writing to code for the moment
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It's beautiful.. as of now, pretty fast. I see that you've moved to ASP... is there any possibility of you guys writing up your experiences between the "earlier" setup and now ??
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1. There is no such thing as 'add comments' to articles.
2. When we are going through the posts in discussion board (next msg, next...), a button/link to reach the main thread will be useful.
Regards
Shahzad
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The format of the submitted articles is nice and pleasant but one thing I want to mention is that the text should be slightly pushed in (from both sides). The text is too close to the edges, which is little uncomfortable. The text should also be right justified on right side.
Good luck!
Shahzad
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OK - no problem!
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the text should be slightly pushed in (from both sides
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The format of the submitted articles is nice and pleasant but one thing I want to mention is that the text should be slightly pushed in (from both sides). The text is too close to the edges, which is little uncomfortable. The text should also be right justified on right side.
Good luck!
Shahzad
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We are used to the ring syntax.
Coloring may improve on the visuality of
the published source codes and therefore
make the site better.
Congratulations!
Xiaojian Liu
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Once content is up I will add some more scripts to colour the text.
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We are used to the ring syntax.
Coloring may improve on the visuality of
the published source codes and therefore
make the site better.
Congratulations!
Xiaojian Liu
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Chris
I remember Codeguru had an option for a zipped site download. Could this feature be resurrected in CodeProject.
Regards
Norm
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Hi,
As with codeguru, I tend to save articles and projects I like and review them when I have time. It would be nice to be able to download the entire page, graphics and included source and demos in just one link.
In the interim, for IE5 users I beleive, the SaveAs takes the TITLE from the page and uses that as the filename. Perhaps the name of the project could be used in the title tags ? This would save copying and pasting the project name as the saved filename for the page.
Yeah, I know.. I'am just lazy !!
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Chris,
It would be outstanding for you to require ALL submissions to have a "Documentation" subdirectory within the project zipfile that contains the html article along with any images. You could even do it as part of the posting process (I know, even more work)
This was a big pain for me at codeguru! I always had to save the article and all of the gifs and then rezip to have a nice reference project. The documentation should be an integral part of all projects. I know that I can't be alone in wanting this. It would be a most appreciated bonus to using your site too!
Congratulations, the site looks GREAT!
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I think that's a great idea, and I'm glad you like the site
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It would be outstanding for you to require ALL submissions to have a "Documentation" subdirectory within the project zipfile that contains the html article along with any images
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Is it possible w/ the software you are using to indicate the number of messages in a folder, or if there are new messages in a folder, so that we don't need to open them all to check?
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I'm going over the entire forum at the moment, so hopefully "yes"
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Is it possible w/ the software you are using to indicate the number of messages in a folder, or if there are new messages in a folder, so that we don't need to open them all to check?
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Hi Chris! Would it be to difficult to add user setting to the discussions? I always have to select the forum view I want. Also, could you add preview post and tags (like in the other site...)?
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