Two threads have been deleted or censored and closed due to the attempt by a third party to disrupt the forum.
I want to reiterate that I sincerely held the link to Scott Weichert’s web site as a prime example of a very well built website. This in connection to GB having asked me how I would present the material contained in another thread that had been closed, also due to the intervention of the same aforementioned third party.
This is some of what I wrote (and fortunately saved as a PDF):
I pointed out Scott Weichert’s link as an example of how to do things right. Things are very nicely presented, the typography is excellent, the text is eminently readable and the pages load extremely fast even on a mediocre-to-slowish connection.
The attempt by the aforementioned third party to suggest that this praise was something else was and remains a malicious intent designed to smear our forum host and impugn his reputation.
Thank you for the opportunity to set this straight.
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The thread was removed by Forum Operations because Ramon was making false and insulting posts again. Once we learn to stop posting nonsense and insulting others, threads will no longer be removed. It is so simple.
There is no dispute that Scott has well built site.
I have absolutely no clue what threads are being referred to. I completely missed them.
It should be noted that that site was built as a CSS based site in 2006 (maybe earlier). CSS has advanced a few steps since that build. I’ve got a new site in the works that will also take advantage of CSS and PHP based rendering. Now, because of this thread.. I’m going to have to get that completed soon. 🙂
Ramón I glad you brought this up again. I wanted to point out to GB certain text/background combinations to avoid… based on human physiology. Any text/background that differs by Blue: Cyan/Green, Magenta/Red, White/Yellow… and the most abused… Blue/Black. If you look at the RGB numbers of all these combinations, they differ only by Blue. The way our eye is built (we have relatively few "blue sensitive" cones in our retinas) it is very difficult to discern detail in the combos listed. Blue text on Black may look srtiking, but it causes real eye strain to read. Scott’s is a great example of a well designed, easy to read and navigate web site.
I’m a cameraman who writes who designs who publishes web sites never gonna be any more on my own.
The blue-black eyesore can actually be helping drive my viewer to the photos, if they can get by the white text on black captions oddly the blue/black, white/black combinations don’t bother [me] a color neurotic, and I like the look and feel of the two sites I use this color scheme on.
In any case, it is too much work to overhaul the sites, but I am continuing to learn and improve (hopefully)…
Yeah, this link has exposed the poor server I’m apparently on. It’s been up without issue for years, then this link gets posted and the server cant’ stay up for more than 10 minutes at a time.
I generally like the content of that site (though I have to agree about being careful with text/background color combos), but it just takes for-bloody-ever to load…I’d never visit again, unless the content was about people I know and/or work with. And my cable connection is quite robust and speedy.
Two threads have been deleted or censored and closed due to the attempt by a third party to disrupt the forum.
As a matter of fact, which is often missing in these posts, I requested that one of Ramon’s insulting and false posts be removed. It was the option of Forum Operations to delete the entire thread and another thread that I never mentioned to Forum Operations. Ramon cannot criticize a third party for a disruption when he played a significant role in the thread removal. Let’s stop pretending we’re victims.
There was never a dispute that Scott’s site was well-designed.
Gary, you may want to consider a content management system or themed template like Scott has created for himself (although there are ready-made systems that non-developers can use). It makes authoring and maintenance much easier. Updates to site style are a breeze. The web design forum here is a good place to get ideas for this.
Godammit, Jim…can you just NOT leave the shit alone for the course of one thread? And yes, it can be done, regardless of whether anyone else in a thread refers to whatever it is that’s up your nose. You just have to have some self-control.
Start your own damned thread about your annoyances, or open an email dialogue with the folks you’d like to keep hashing on about. At least it would help out the S/N ratio in every other thread.
I understand some of where you’re coming fromRamon and I have had some big beefs in this forumbut even he and I are able to reel in our egos and opinions and STFU, if only for the sake of the sanity of others here.
(Go ahead and delete this, Neil…just leave it long enough for Jim to see it).
Phos, as long as someone posts false info, I will correct it or have it deleted by the authority here. It is quite simple. Why others cannot understand this basic concept is not something I can address. So I will not. I am done on the topic unless further mistruth appears.
The 2nd largest software company in the world – their flagship application – their unsupported forums – are nothing more then a toilet for the graphics world. Kind of like their approach to a lot of things.
Don’t stay away permanently ’cause many of us do appreciate your input, as well as input from those who bring useful information and inspiration, like yourself.
