[Martijn]

Hello everyone,

I've been working for quite some time on this site but here it is.
this site alows people to release (FREE) software using the Gnutella 2 p2p network.
Please review my site and/or give suggestions/comments.

[Martin L]

yeah saw your site before... dont really get that p2p tranfer thing but i'll get used to it i think. Personally i dont like your frontpage, but the forums are very nice and clean.

[Martijn]

Thanks Martin L , do you have a suggestion to make the main page look better?

[Martin L]

in my eyes the blue bars are toooo blue compared with the orange.

[Martijn]

I've tried something else, but i'm very curious how other people like it because I don't realy know (yet) wether I like it or not...

[Martijn]

Wel, i decided to use the style i now use as the primary style, i got used to it

[Martijn]

I have transfered my site to a new host, it also got a new look for both the forum and the site, so they look the same.
Here is the new adress.

[mark]

Very nice Martijn. You pick up some color with the boxes down the right side and the buttons on the home page. As you can see on MSFN's main page, someone (xper ?) put some graphics down the right side and it is a very nice touch. It adds a little contrast and some color. The only thing that I think you might need to change is that some of your text is to light of a grey. But it's still a nice layout.

DL

[Martijn]

thanks
I'll see if I can edit the css to make the text more clear.
About the images at the right, there is already a image in the upper-left corner of the news at the frontpage of the site.

[Martijn]

Some updates:
We got a new domain: www.g24u.net
We also got a new filedatabase: Here

This post has been edited by Martijn: 18 October 2005 - 12:12 PM

[Martijn]

New updates
See here

[mark]

Hi Martijn,
I looked at your sight again. Nice. I had commented on some of the text being a little bit to light a grey. It maybe that since I have a resolution of 1280x1024 that the text is smaller and makes it a little harder to read.

DL

[Martijn]

Hmm, yes, I still haven't got around it, I'll look in the CSS again (to bad I can't understand Italian...(Mkportal is Italian))

[prathapml]

DL, on Oct 29 2005, 11:09 PM, said:

It maybe that since I have a resolution of 1280x1024 that the text is smaller and makes it a little harder to read.
DL

Hmmm...
If you are on XP, then do try this to make it look better:
1. Right-click desktop, go to display properties.
2. Go to the "Appearance" tab there.
3. Click the "Effects" button (its towards bottom-right of the dialog box).
4. Enable "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts".
5. In that SAME drop-down box, choose "ClearType".
6. Click "OK" and apply the settings.
7. Now screen will look sort of blurry, dont mind that, complete the next set of steps.

1. Right-click desktop, go to display properties.
2. Go to the "Settings" tab there.
3. Click the "Advanced" button (its towards bottom-right of the dialog box).
4. You will now be looking at the "General" tab.
5. You have a drop-down box for "DPI setting".
6. Click it & choose "Large size (120 DPI)".
7. Click OK & apply these settings.


Now, provided that your refresh rate is above 75 Hz atleast, you will see that even at high resolutions, the on-screen text is comfortable to your eye.

[Martijn]

Well, I've made it 11px large instead of 10px, it does look different now...

[mark]

Had not checked this thread in a few days, sorry.

@Martijn- The increase in letter size helps. I can and do occasionally increase the font size on some webpages with cntrl-scroll in Firefox due to them using very small fonts ( smaller than yours ). Yes, presbiopia ( kind of means 'sight of the elderly' ) is catching up with me. Something else I thought about on the shade of the text is that being a lighter grey, it seams to indicate less importance to whatever is written. I think that is just a psychological effect, but it is there none the less.

@prathapml- I followed your instructions and for all appearances, it only seemed to decrease my monitor's resolution. I can check it on the desktop and it still says I have a resolution of 1280x1024 but all fonts, icons, window bars and buttons are just larger like I have gone to a lower resolution. That being said, the contents of webpages were not affected. All components of a webpage are still exactly as they were before. Odd. I am going to go back and de-sellect cleartype and see what that looks like. Then I'll try cleartype and lower the DPI. If I don't see anything with that, I will just go back to original settings.

DL

Edit: Ok, went back and set to standard for fonts with 120 DPI and that just made all the letters thinner on their lines and strokes but not smaller ( to be expected with an increase in DPI and maintaining the letter size ) and the overall appearance was still of a lower resolution.

Re-set 120 DPI back to 90 and put back Cleartype and that had a nice effect. The letters were definately clearer. Never used that before. Thanks prathapml. In decreasing DPI, my 'resolution' went back to the view I had before and on an odd sidenote, all my files and icons on the desktop reverted to the size they were before but now they are arranged in the same order but in groups with one icon spacing between the groups. I can move them back.

Cleartype alone was the winner. Thanks again prathapml.

This post has been edited by DL: 01 November 2005 - 08:06 PM

[Martijn]

@DL :
Btw, I installed a statistics module for my site: http://www.g24u.net/?ind=statistics

[Martijn]

I made a new site skin, it is up for testing, http://www.g24u.net

[Martijn]

There were some problems with my host wich caused hosted sites using PHP not to load, including mine, for a day or two, but thankfully it's back online