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[schizo]

I can never get decent feedback from my site's visitors anymore, so here I am.

Booo.

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Some of the pages are kinda screwy, but I'm working on it. Thoughts?

[technicolour]

LOVEIT. Love the colors, love the drawing(s), love the font selection. I truly love it.

I do think some minor details could be thrown in there, like a moon or clouds up near the top or smaller birds to the right or left. Something along those lines.

[none345678]

LOVE the birds and bows. Too cute. Great colors. I agree with adding clouds or something along those lines, though.

[schizo]

Thanks guys.

I'll go back and see if there are any extra details I could add. I suck at the random placement of things and detail, but I'll work on it.

And the font...I'll fix that too. I just hate how arial looks any larger than 10px. Any suggestions for standard, sans serif fonts? I can never find one that I like.

[schizo]

Not a fan of century gothic for body text, but Trebuchet MS should look good...I always forget about that one.

Thank you Mike. :)

[creole]

Am I the only one that notices that the fox's standing position looks like it's taking a number 2? o_o




the colors you use are phenomenal, as usual.

[fixtatik]

I'd have to gouge out my eyes if you use Century Gothic. :D
Trebuchet MS is okay, but I've been trending towards Lucida Grande & Lucida Sans or Lucida Sans Unicode lately. Funny, I think Arial looks like poo in anything less than 11px.

For the layout...beautiful illustration, very clean. My only criticism is your use of spacing. There's so much nothingness on top, and depending on screen size, your visitors will have to scroll down on every page just to read the first paragraph. I like seeing some kind of description well above the fold so I can decide if I'm on a useful page or not. Along with spacing, the font size/line height ratio bugs me, and the fixed-width links in the "links out" section.

Just a thought, too: I'd look into dynamic text images, sIFR, or embedded fonts (if that font you're using for sidebar headers is licensed for embedding) and use that for the dates on the blog area. It just looks a bit off right now with three different fonts and a variety of sizes.

[schizo]

^For the font-size/line height ratio, do you think the line height should be shorter or higher? Once I change the text, I'll probably change that too. I set it at a high number so people wouldn't be straining to read the tiny text.

I'm going to look more into sIFR. I actually tried it out when I started coding this, but I couldn't get it to work. I found a page on embedded fonts that seemed fairly straightforward...The only problem was that it hasn't been updated since 2001.

Tomorrow will just have to be a research and test day with this. The only issue I think I'll pass on fixing this time around is the banner size. I could get it up about 100px with some minor code changes, but any more than that would involve going back into the PSD. My banners are always too huge. If only my site didn't need content. D:

But yeah, thanks for all the feedback. 'Tis greatly appreciated.

[none345678]

What's the font you used for the title and headers?

[schizo]

Teaspoon.

[synapse]

reminds me of pokemon (vulpix)

Thanks guys.

I'll go back and see if there are any extra details I could add. I suck at the random placement of things and detail, but I'll work on it.

And the font...I'll fix that too. I just hate how arial looks any larger than 10px. Any suggestions for standard, sans serif fonts? I can never find one that I like.

I find that http://typedia.com/ can be helpful in these types of situations, although, there is no tag for body text. boo.

[fixtatik]

^For the font-size/line height ratio, do you think the line height should be shorter or higher? Once I change the text, I'll probably change that too. I set it at a high number so people wouldn't be straining to read the tiny text.

I'm going to look more into sIFR. I actually tried it out when I started coding this, but I couldn't get it to work. I found a page on embedded fonts that seemed fairly straightforward...The only problem was that it hasn't been updated since 2001.

As it is right now, a shorter line height. I usually try to keep line height within 4 - 7 pixels of font size.

For sIFR, the documentation is very well-written, and goes over pretty much everything you'd need to know, including Flash versions. For CSS embedded font, check with the author to see if the free version of the font is licensed for @font-face embedding. If it is, use it like this:

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@font-face { font-family:'Font Name'; src:url(/path/to/font.otf) format('opentype'); }

Then to use it, just pick the property you need to apply it to:

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h1 { font:weight ##/## 'Font Name', 'Another Font'; }

Just make sure you also list fall-back fonts for browsers that don't support @font-face. IE does support @font-face; they just need to be .eof files.

[manny-the-dino]

Everything is so freaking cute. I love the colors, bows, birds, everything. Nothing to criticize on.

[schizo]

My attempts at sIFR and font embedding were failures. I read through the documentation a thousand times, but some of it was like Russian to me. I'm not even that great with HTML and CSS, so all the Javascript made my head spin. I may try again over the weekend. Those headers are really bugging me now. D:

[Mikeplyts]

It looks really nice, Gabi! But yeah, I agree that the header is missing a little something. The fox reminded me of the Kyuubi in Naruto. The colors are great as usual and the setup is pretty nice as well! And this just a suggestion, but have you looked at Cufon for the font issue thing?

[Tomates]

It looks really nice, Gabi! But yeah, I agree that the header is missing a little something. The fox reminded me of the Kyuubi in Naruto. The colors are great as usual and the setup is pretty nice as well! And this just a suggestion, but have you looked at Cufon for the font issue thing?

Same here

[synatribe]

ur illustration reminds me of nine tails from naruto lol:] lovely ;]