Site contrast and legibility

I think my Dad was being nice...
I've started to grow a conscience. Who knew? It's taken me over 30 years though.

As I've been redesigning my new portfolio site, I've become increasingly aware of the W3C + 508 accessibility guidelines, and that my site was not going to pass them. A quick way to find out if your contrasts are working w/in the W3C is to check out JuicyStudio's Luminosity Contrast Ration Analyser.

Based on these findings, I've started to up the contrast on my greys. Some of my colors still won't pass, but the font it's used in is pretty big, so it seems like it's darker. Not everyone conforms to these standards, so that's mostly a judgement call on your part. Regardless, you should be thinking of these things as you create your projects.

I'm also about to convert all my pixels to ems. I found a site forum that describes the best ratio to start your body em at so all other ratios will make more sense. Unfortunately I can't find the damn site in my immense bookmark file, so that will hopefully be soon.

Dad, I'm sorry for insinuating you can't see, but...


Technorati Tags: web design, CSS, accessibility, standards, WAI

No Flickr: Host your own damn photos!

Quick gripe. Artists/Designers: I don't want go to Flickr! Why am I leaving your site? Host your damn photos on your site, and if you need to socialize 'em, give me a link to your page and I'll peruse if I feel like it. There's no reason, especially if you're a web designer, that I should be leaving your site.

I want to remain in the warm, fuzzy confines of your walled garden.


Technorati Tags: web design, interactive design, navigation

Blogger troubles

I've been working on getting a sweet corner banner added to my Cycleboredom blog, but Blogger is giving me no love. Problem is that the preview version, and the published version have nothing to do w/ each other. Why would the outcome be different? It's happening on this blog as well; there's not supposed to be much of a margin on the section headers to the right but there is. Except in Safari, but that's another post!

Whatever. No banner. At least I've been able to center the new blog title over there.

This program is pissing me off. I want to build my own.


Technorati Tags: programming, CSS, Blogger