Gentoo Archives: www-redesign

From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
To: www-redesign@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [www-redesign] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:50:29
Message-Id: 20051123145504.GD12982@mail.lieber.org
In Reply to: RE: [www-redesign] Update of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org by Aaron Shi
1 On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:39:08AM -0800 or thereabouts, Aaron Shi wrote:
2 > Sorry, but this looks worse. The colors (other than what's in the original
3 > graphics) are way off. I'm going make a wild guess that an uncalibrated LCD
4 > is being used to view the site. Many panels are not capable of the full
5 > 16.7 million range and uses dithering techniques to emulate the other
6 > colors. So in reality, the colors when viewed on proper LCD and CRTs are
7 > slightly off (but all the "off-ness" in colors adds up and the combined
8 > effect is quite obvious).
9
10 Reviewing the two sites:
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12 http://www.aaronshi.com/gentoo/mainindex.html (original)
13 http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org/ (current)
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15 I agree with Aaron that the original one looks far better. The colors are
16 much more complementary, the layout is cleaner and the site looks more
17 professional overall.
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19 My $.02.
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21 --kurt