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[cyaneus]

This afternoon I made a rather geeky 404 page for my website (cyaneus.com). You should go try it out and tell me what you think.

I am surprised that I still like this site layout even though I made it about five years ago. I have been planning some little accessibility tweaks here and there (and I still wish I had the actionscript skills to get

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[vraven]

That's an awesome 404.

The site is difficult for me to navigate because the header takes up 60% of my vertical screen space. While you've got a lot of awesome stuff up there, and everything is really cool to look at, it's pretty weird to browse. Here's my two cents in image form:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v325/mwahaha/other/cyaneus_dot_com.jpg

[vraven]

Oh! That does still mean my mock-up doesn't work at lower resolutions, though. The branch thingy being on the right pretty much settles that. I'm not sure how weird / maybe neat it would look hanging fixedly over the top of other stuff... whoops. But yes, on content being thrown directly in the user's face we are agreed.

[cyaneus]

Huh, what resolutions are you folks operating at? I guess I have been designing the site with high resolutions in mind (however, that does leave a lot of space on the right of the page).

[cyaneus]

I'm working off 1280x1024, and I know people who work off some reeeediculous resolutions. So I will have to figure out something to put on the right side of the screen for them, but I seem to have succeeded in condensing the header a bit.

Edit: Condensed the headers for the whole site. Phew! Now to make some art to fill the empty spaces.

[cyaneus]

I may be able to--I would have to completely rewrite the way the site layout works, however.

[cyaneus]

Actually!!! I figured out kind of a weird way to work the tables that may work for the whole site. If not, I can make a workaround. Check out the Bio page, this was actually the look I was hoping for when I first designed the site.

[cyaneus]

I was never a huge fan of its placement. I would much rather place a moon in the top right corner of the page as a "back to the Index" link, like the oooooold site layout used to have.

[vraven]

I am actually just at 1280x960, the square equivalent of 1024. Haha, did I just say 4:3 was square?

Good improvement on the site. I'm sure you're still working on it, but is the colour shift in the header art intentional, or some sort of demonic metadata altering the gamma when you save? I like the new colours anyway; the lavenders were awesome, too, but blue is kind of nice. I can hear Ripley asking "what colour?" in my head as I type this.

[cyaneus]

Ahhh there was a color shift?! I notice absolutely no difference ... and therefore am not sure what to do to make it consistent again.

[vraven]

There is, in Firefox... it's weird. When I save the branch/bauble .pngs and open them in Photoshop, they look fine. If you're using PS, I think it sometimes exports colour management data, messing up the gamma of an image when viewed externally. I really don't get it, but I DO know it's caused me major headache in the past. If you re-save the four images using SuperPNG, you can uncheck metadata, which alleviates the weird.

(If you don't have Photoshop, here's a zip of the resaved ones; they look the right colour in Firefox on my end. Back to normal lavender-y goodness.)

[cyaneus]

That is so weird, they look exactly the same on my computer (and I am a Firefox user). Thank you so much for telling me, I never would have noticed!