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-> I want to click on the "tragicmagichead" art and get to the Metachat homepage (I know I can click the phrase, but I just want to mouseover him and give him a click to go home. It's an urge).
-> The "posted by" square could use more contrast for comments that are further down in the white to blue gradient -- they wash-out a bit.
Something to consider.
Lively is another positive adjective I'm thinking of.
Also... I did change the box color... and then every time I was uploading the stylesheet to the test space at that point, the change wasn't showing up. So I figured I'd wait until the changes were made here and hit it again. I'll look at it again in the morning (well, my morning).
When I first saw the new logo, the "head" looked to me like a giant Jockey underwear (with the 'eyes' being the legholes) which the small bunny was trying to wear.
It scared the bejeezus out of me for a second (oh no—what happened to MeCha?!), but now that I understand what's happened, I like it. (^_^) It's both disturbing and cute, and I like the blending blue... but, I should have gone to bed 5 hours ago, so I hope this jolt will quickly fade from my system...
Talk about surprising. I had the tab open from last night, got home today, refreshed it, then froze for a second. Whow. Good work to all. And I like the drawing because I see the bunny sitting in his mouth.
Most excellent! Well, at least I imagine it will be when I can see more than 256 colours. As it is, the fading is a bit stripey and includes several lovely shades of green and lilac.
I must say I don't miss that bunny at all, if only because it makes the site look so obviously not work-related. At least now all but the top of the screen looks pretty innocuous. plus, I hate bunnies anyway.
It freaked me out just now (I know, I've been too busy to visit for a couple days) but I think I like it. The only thing I regret is that the line "I want to see blood on the carrots when I get back" won't have as much meaning anymore.
Does anyone else have a white bar about the size of your average horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the page, no matter where you scroll? Or is this the Firefox hole I've heard so much about?
Eideteker, what's your platform, etc.? Also, if you could send me a screenshot, I can see if I can figure out if it has something to do with any particular element in the layout.
The white bar at the bottom is because the background image is 1000px high and you must be viewing it with a greater vertical resolution than that. I run at 1600x1200, and my browser's height is nearly that, so I get a white strip across the bottom whose height is the difference between 1000px and the height of the browser.
Damn - I'm gone for two days for work meetings and whn I finally get back online I click on MeCha and see the makeover. Splendid. Great job. I feel so....alive.
Okay, that problem with the white at the bottom oughtta be fixed (or clear your cache)... or else you have the the world's biggest monitor. In which case, boo-hoo, poor you, you'll just have to cry all over your 18K gold keyboard, won't you?
Oh, yeah - I like this idea: have bunny-ears, will travel. Like a whole MIB thing, except with chicks. And bunnies. And, you know, design instead of awesome weapons. And not quite so many aliens.
So, okay, really, nothing like MIB. But I still like Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith.
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