New CSS for jmac.org

[prog]

I humbly request critique or comment on jmac.org's redesign. What do you think?

Allow me to say that I do feel pretty studly in my ability to transform it from this using only a new stylesheet. There are some small HTML changes between old and new, but they are incidental touch-ups that have nothing to do with the page's format. I didn't even assign any new id or class attributes.

That said, pretty much everything on the site beyond the content area of the front page feels either years out of date, or is overtly preserved personal memorabilia, frozen in time. Personal home pages, man... it's a 1.0 concept in a 2.0 world. Still not sure how best to approach that old stuff.

Comments

[gemini6ice.livejournal.com]

i would prefer the background image be fixed.

[dariusk.livejournal.com]

Hah, I was just going to comment that I am really glad the background image is not fixed!

[radtea.livejournal.com]

I'm aesthetically crippled, or so my friends tell me, so I won't comment on the design of the site, but the ComicsML (or should that be ComixML?) link is borken: http://comicsml.jmac.org/

I clicked on it because a bilingual friend has a webcomic in development and I've been kicking around ideas for separating text from images in that context. I hadn't got so far as poking around as to what other people had done, but ComicsML might be a place to start... the links from xml.org still work... looks cool. Been a long time since I read a DTD!

[prog.livejournal.com]

This fix was on my to-do list anyway, so I went and did it. Thanks. (There are tons of broken links in the site's "Updates" pages from years back, but I'm less inclined to spend much energy on them right now...)

[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

Looks nice, but I think the text on the main page needs to be darker to contrast better with the background color; it's a little hard to read as it is now. (Re: Web 2.0 sites in general, what's wrong with good old fashioned black text?)