On the choice of colours in a web page colour scheme

Jan 27, 2006 10:49

A note to webdesigners: yes, it is nice that you can change the properties of links on pointer hover; that does not mean that the links should be indistinguishable from normal text when the mouse is not over them. I would argue that it is particularly important to be able to distinguish the presence of links without moving my mouse over every word ( Read more... )

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lindiril January 28 2006, 04:52:41 UTC
Ha ha, thanks for the name refresher. And, assuming your journal info is accurate, you're Matt, right? That's my brother's name, too.

I'm pretty sure they hold OLT sessions in the summer term, mostly near the beginning of the term. Waterloo is pretty good about catering to its off-term co-op students for that kind of thing; heck, engineering is co-op--only, so they pretty much have to. I think I took my OLT sessions in the summer term before my first round as a frosh leader (I was scheduled for a winter term session, but I slept in for the all-important first session, oops). It looks like the orientation site isn't even fully set up yet for 2006 (the title still talks about 2005), but you can view it here.

You and Tyler might enjoy the experience a good deal, and I definitely recommend giving it a shot. You (or Tyler, anyway) would have to tone down stuff like dissing the other faculties and using that to prove that women are stupid (heh) for the week, though. The OLT sessions would fill you in on what's considered to be appropriate. The whole shebang's not really my thing (and I hope I didn't tarnish your orientation experience as a result), but I'm really glad that I gave it a try. I had a lot of fun, especially the first time around. It was better than my own frosh week--although I started in engineering, and I really didn't like EdCom.

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