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OpenLoop · Aug 10th, 2005, 10:48 AM

I've been focusing on the colors so much that i messed up the content. I fixed it now. BTW Lich, do you have that Jpeg with the welcomes

Thanks for all the help.

EDIT: P.S @ skuinders: who needs the CIS Departement anyway. Thanks for the heads up, I deleted the link because the CIS website is ugly

. Here judge it yourself http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/

Lich · Aug 10th, 2005, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by OpenLoop

I've been focusing on the colors so much that i messed up the content. I fixed it now. BTW Lich, do you have that Jpeg with the welcomes

Thanks for all the help.

EDIT: P.S @ skuinders: who needs the CIS Departement anyway. Thanks for the heads up, I deleted the link because the CIS website is ugly

. Here judge it yourself http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/

wow, that is quite horrific, especially for a place like Michigan. Granted it's the dearborn campus, but still. I love how they can't even add a target=_blank to their external <a href>s so that the new sites still open in the frame. ugh.

At baker, our site used to be ugly as hell, all done up in frames and purple. It looked awful. They finally implimented a CMS with coldfusion this year and it looks alot better. This is the site, but the solar system and star system still have the old design, which you can see for yourself

OpenLoop · Aug 10th, 2005, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Lich

wow, that is quite horrific, especially for a place like Michigan. Granted it's the dearborn campus, but still. I love how they can't even add a target=_blank to their external <a href>s so that the new sites still open in the frame. ugh.

At baker, our site used to be ugly as hell, all done up in frames and purple. It looked awful. They finally implimented a CMS with coldfusion this year and it looks alot better. This is the site, but the solar system and star system still have the old design, which you can see for yourself

Well it is the dearborn campus(look at the logo), but the CIS department website is an exception. You can see the umd website and the ECE website. They are both well designed because they were contracted to a company but the CIS was left over to a professor who hates flash, javascript, and anything beyond html so it turned out uglier than the "old solar system website at baker". You know, for a college, baker has a nice website. Here's my college website

Lich · Aug 10th, 2005, 12:00 PM

He can contract it out to me, I'll do it

Henry Ford has a great site, looks like a big univ. site and it's easy to find stuff. All things considered, Baker should have a better site though. Considering it's the largest private college in the state and 3rd largest overall (behind Michigan and MSU) when you count all campuses and students.

iignotus · Aug 11th, 2005, 3:18 PM

That puke yellow on the left navbar is a little off-putting, maybe change it to the attractive tan of the thin navbar above it? The crimson and tan go well together, IMO.

OpenLoop · Aug 11th, 2005, 5:21 PM

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Originally Posted by iignotus

That puke yellow on the left navbar is a little off-putting, maybe change it to the attractive tan of the thin navbar above it? The crimson and tan go well together, IMO.

hmm, it does look better now. I'm still not sure what color the links should be. I have them set for black now but that makes'em hard to see in regular text.

DaWei · Aug 11th, 2005, 5:51 PM

There isn't a thing wrong with black and white and two to four other colors. There is some misperception that since an entire color wheel and entire warehouses full of fonts are available, that one should use them all. Not the case. You seem to be enjoying this; let me recommend that you see if you can find a book by Molly Holzschlag. The one she put out 5 or so years ago is, to me, her best, but I've slept since then, so I don't remember the title. Unless she's improved since I talked to her, forget her script examples. She is (or was) a designer, not a programmer.

OpenLoop · Aug 11th, 2005, 7:30 PM

I searched for Molly Holzschlag on Amazon.com and got some 81 results, probably redundant, but all about CSS and HTML.
Matching colors, color wheels, accents, you need to have an "eye" for those things, I happen not to. Now I'm glad the website turned out ok but I think I'll stick to arrays, functions, and classes.

DaWei · Aug 11th, 2005, 9:53 PM

She was a highly successful and knowledgeable site designer years ago, and is a big pusher of standards. Don't know how she's doing these days. She has a site at www.molly.com, not entirely my cup of tea, but I like it sometimes.

stevengs · Aug 12th, 2005, 3:48 AM

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She has a site at www.molly.com, not entirely my cup of tea, but I like it sometimes.

Help... I am drowning in a sea of emotional drivel! Bah.. I hope this washes off.

Men men men men, Men men men men.... Manly Man! ... how about that 9-ers game last weekend?

Aug 10th, 2005, 10:48 AM	#21
OpenLoop Expert Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: East Lansing, MI Posts: 663 Rep Power: 4	I've been focusing on the colors so much that i messed up the content. I fixed it now. BTW Lich, do you have that Jpeg with the welcomes Thanks for all the help. EDIT: P.S @ skuinders: who needs the CIS Departement anyway. Thanks for the heads up, I deleted the link because the CIS website is ugly. Here judge it yourself http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/

Aug 10th, 2005, 12:00 PM	#24
Lich Professional Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Detroit Posts: 254 Rep Power: 4	He can contract it out to me, I'll do it Henry Ford has a great site, looks like a big univ. site and it's easy to find stuff. All things considered, Baker should have a better site though. Considering it's the largest private college in the state and 3rd largest overall (behind Michigan and MSU) when you count all campuses and students. __________________ --John Cruz Web Developer www.cruzweb.net

Aug 11th, 2005, 3:18 PM	#25
iignotus Professional Programmer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Nowhere Special Posts: 466 Rep Power: 4	That puke yellow on the left navbar is a little off-putting, maybe change it to the attractive tan of the thin navbar above it? The crimson and tan go well together, IMO. __________________ (Toggle Plain Text) % rc4 hexkey < input > output #define S ,t=s[i],s[i]=s[j],s[j]=t /* rc4 hexkey <file / unsigned char k[256],s[256],i,j,t;main(c,v,e)charv;{++v;while(++i)s[ i]=i;for(c=0;(v)++;k[c++]=e)sscanf((v)++-1,"%2x",&e);while(j+=s[i] +k[i%c]S,++i);for(j=0;c=~getchar();putchar(~c^s[t+=s[i]]))j+=s[++i]S;}

Aug 11th, 2005, 5:51 PM	#27
DaWei Resident Grouch Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6,453 Rep Power: 10	There isn't a thing wrong with black and white and two to four other colors. There is some misperception that since an entire color wheel and entire warehouses full of fonts are available, that one should use them all. Not the case. You seem to be enjoying this; let me recommend that you see if you can find a book by Molly Holzschlag. The one she put out 5 or so years ago is, to me, her best, but I've slept since then, so I don't remember the title. Unless she's improved since I talked to her, forget her script examples. She is (or was) a designer, not a programmer. __________________ Abstraction doesn't make it impossible to write bad code; it makes it possible to write superior code. Contributor's Corner: Grumpy on C++ Exceptions DaWei on Pointers

Aug 11th, 2005, 9:53 PM	#29
DaWei Resident Grouch Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 6,453 Rep Power: 10	She was a highly successful and knowledgeable site designer years ago, and is a big pusher of standards. Don't know how she's doing these days. She has a site at www.molly.com, not entirely my cup of tea, but I like it sometimes. __________________ Abstraction doesn't make it impossible to write bad code; it makes it possible to write superior code. Contributor's Corner: Grumpy on C++ Exceptions DaWei on Pointers

Aug 11th, 2005, 7:30 PM	#28
OpenLoop Expert Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: East Lansing, MI Posts: 663 Rep Power: 4	I searched for Molly Holzschlag on Amazon.com and got some 81 results, probably redundant, but all about CSS and HTML. Matching colors, color wheels, accents, you need to have an "eye" for those things, I happen not to. Now I'm glad the website turned out ok but I think I'll stick to arrays, functions, and classes.

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