Re: FN-FORUM: Joe's design challenge (was CSS help / Site check)

date posted 24th January 2005 22:58

On 24 Jan 2005 23:22:18 -0000, John Murphy [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I know someone mentioned a half shot of a plant growing, or if that's what
> you are after when you say plants in a glass container. But see if this is
> of any use....
>
> http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=202031

The daffodil is a bit feminine I think. :-) But this one looks like it
would be worth a few dollars for:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=92782

I could just cut off the roots and use it... somehow. I assume some of
you use this site? Is it worth signing up to get this picture? I'm
sure those ol' roots will come in use somehow...

On 24 Jan 2005 23:43:20 -0000, Richard Bennett
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 00:16, Joe Freeman wrote:
> > Taking Dave's advice:
> > > regarding the '/////' well - at least you didn't animate it ;-)
> >
> > I decided to annimate it! ;-) I think it's quite clever - it starts
> > moving as it's loading a link.
> It's horrid! :o)
> Really - I suppose that's just me being stuffy, but that flashing thing looks
> terrible.

I don't think anyone would have noticed if I hadn't pointed it out.
I'd be tempted to change them into arrows that started moving across
the screen.

> > As to the general design, I'm fairly happy with it now - always open
> > to suggestions of tweaks though. Just waiting for 34SP to setup my
> > hosting...
> Yep, looks good.
> I would change the bright-light blue you're using to a blue sampled from the
> photo - I used #1b42a4 in my tryout.
> And then I'd center it and put a border around it, but I think I've said that
> before :o)

I'm not too keen on the shade you used - seems a bit default-ish to
me. I don't want to center it because... well, I don't. And I don't
think a border is necessary unless it was centered. :-)

> > Should I take the risk of asking for permission to use the image? If
> > they say no, then I guess I won't be able to use it...
> I'd ask if it would be ok to use the image on a personal website, without
> mentioning the URL. It's from a Uni site, so I don't think they'll object,
> and if they do it'll take a while before they find your site...
> At any rate give credit to them for the photo on your site somewhere.

Well I've just emailed some chap with my hotmail account. Seeing as
I'm having a credits page (which no-one is actually going to look at)
would anyone like a link to their site on it? Not for publicity
directly, just to boost search engine rankings. Link swap if you want!
:-)

Regards,
Joe.