Hi all. I'm currently in the process of wrapping up the design concept for the final theme when the Photography site graduates from Beta.
I need your best photos for part of the design mockup. landscape orientation please. I'll scale it down to 375x210 px, so please make sure it'd scale well, cr...
this one has been hard to design. at first i thought bout using the usual "lens" "camera" "film" etc visuals. but i realized it's a bit tried and tacky. so i wanted to go with something more modern and simple. in order to do that i need a photo to balance the simplicity on the site.
i normally don't do dark themes. but i feel it'd may be OK for meta.photo because 1) a lot photography forums i've seen use dark themes, 2) Meta.photo is only used by a small fraction of users, power users
i didn't put a photo in the meta header because it'd be extra maintenance, also i'm not sure how it'd turn out. would be extra distracting depending on the photo
what held me back from switching to Mac for the longest time was, I was comparing $ to specs. in that sense, PCs always win. also I was a gamer back then, PC was just better for gaming period
it's very difficult for some people to read; impossible for me
i can focus on it for maybe 15 seconds, then i simply can't see it at all, and when i switch back to a white site/page i can't see it for a while either :)
maybe something to do with colourblindness
I think the site looks great as it is... much better than stackoverflow
For me, probably not - but it might be worth doing some research. I've often wondered if there are many people like myself that find white on black extremely difficult to read
@WinstonSmith in my experince interacting with color blind users, it seems many of the use the "high contrast" mode the OS has. in many screenshots they showed me, it's actually light text on black background
With the new updates applied within the past 24 hours or so I can no longer see the vote up/down buttons.
For accessibility reasons I found it necessary to replace all website specified colors with browser colors, and this also removes all background images, and in fact all images placed by any ...
I only thought a dark theme is a bit safer for the photography crowd since I've seen a lot of dark themes photography forum/blogs out there. plus this is only for Meta, used by a small group of people. I wouldn't do that to the main site.
@WinstonSmith i think you're right about the contrast. i agree it's a bit harsh now. i'll tune it down.
and game development site gamedev.stackexchange.com
you're too kind. it's really a challenge each time. because i have to shift my normal style dramatically. I want to design a theme that's fitting for the topic of the site. So I spend more time on thinking, researching the subject matter, than actually implementing.
@Jin did you want a copy of the PSD that was used to do the logo for twitter..com/photogangle ? (Either way, will I be able to have a fancy pants alpha channelled icon to update that with when the site is ready to go live?)
Hi all. I'm Jin and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflect its topic. However, all sites will share quite a bit of common elements so they feel like they're part of the Stack Exch...
