The Lion Online

[JoeWass]

Interested on your comments for http://www.hamptonlion.co.uk . It's my (now ex-) school magazine website. It perhaps isn't much to look at but it has a very nice back-end content management system...

Comments/ Suggestions?

Remember this, JSComputing? Your idea all those years ago...

I'm also interested as to whether you think doing a page compiler thing (ie parse all pages into pre-made html prior to user rather than ASP/Databse each time) is worth the effort?

Cheers

Joe

[Waldovia PM]

The top menu doesn't work too well on a TFT screen. It requires the viewer to be more or less looking at the screen straight-on. A few degrees either way and the menu disappears while the rest of the page is still readable.

[JoeWass]

Hmm interesting... I made it using a laptop, but I'll look into contrast/hue combinations

[markjanssen]

Now I'm looking at it.. I'm using a crt monitor and indeed, the menu is a bit low-contrast.
I'd recommend you to remove that brownish background from all the entries and then use the page background colour (the greenish one) as text colour for the menu.

[JoeWass]

I'll take the link background shading a few percent higher.
I'm curious what you mean by greenish; I see only a range of yellow-orange-brown. I tested it on one laptop & 2 crt screens in moz and ie, with 256, 16bit & 32bit colour.

I've taken each colour channel by about 20 (hex) ... any more accessible?

[markjanssen]

Attached the colour I mean.

It's more yellowish but it looks greener on the site :P.

[JoeWass]

thanks for taking the effort to clarify!

No that seems a yellow colour to me... on 4 monitors. I'd be interested as to what people think...

To be honest as long as it keeps within the orange/yellow schema I'm happy.

[Waldovia PM]

Diregard the colour, brightness and focus in the comparison below. It is the difference in brightness between the two images that is of interest.

The top image was taken directly in line with the TFT screen while the lower one was taken about 10-15 degrees below center.

http://www.aer-net.co.uk/misc_items/temp101.jpg

You can see that the further from center your eyes are, the darker the image gets. Images that are already dark tend to simply black out.

[JoeWass]

White on black it is... perhaps I spend too much time in front of glass rather than plastic screens. Will rectify asap.

I'm interested to know if that's a particularly old screen or is it run-of-the-mill?

Thanks for all the effort you put in to convincing me!

Cheers

Joe

[Waldovia PM]

Those last examples were taken with the camera set up for another job and I didn't want to alter the settings. So, as I say, don't read anything into the colours presented.

The screen is on a laptop and is fairly recent. Mobility Radeon 7500 set at 1400x1050 - 32 bit colour.

Users of laptops will know of the narrow viewing angle associated with this type of screen.
Most people sit in the same position in relation to normal CRT monitors. Laptop users sometimes are in a different position in relation to the screen (on a desk, on their lap, screen raised to a different angle each time).

The white text now looks very clear and crisp.

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The menu wraps according to window size. While not initially a problem, the link text containing more than one word wraps to the next line making it look as if it is two seperate links:

These are screen grabs:
http://www.aer-net.co.uk/misc_items/temp102.jpg

[JoeWass]

Yeah I'm aware of this but I couldn't think of a way round it... until now
varname=replace(varname," "," ")
solves the matter. Does this work for you?

[the_web_coder]

The Admin login page could use some validation, for example enter a single quote into the username textbox

[JoeWass]

Thanks! Forgot about that...

[markjanssen]

I see lots of & nbsp things in the menu...

[JoeWass]

jequoi?