Topic: New webpage problem

Hi Guys,

I went to load the widelands homepage and found it has changed. There are some small problems with it

1. Point to the sub menu next to Forums and the Forums text is still visible between the news poll and poll arechive
2. the white text on the light colour background is hard to read, the text should be a darker colour.
3. Forums,development and thier associated sub menus can be listed by either the title or the submenu..( is this a design feature? )
4. the page is displayed all over the place with no apparent order.I am using Firefox (latest version) and I've had to scroll about a lot to find things
5. Log in & lateest posts are appearing on the bottom of the page, not on the right like the old page

I'm not having a whinge, If this is the new layout I'll have to get used to it but when it loaded I thought the page hadn't loaded correctly. I note this because it's a lot ahrder to read with my old eyes.

edit: janus make it more readable

The aussies are coming, ya ho! ya ho!

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After reloading the stylesheet, I can no longer see a difference between visited and non-visited links. All links now appear in the colour of unvisited links

The latest posts sidebar also appears a bit cramped with its smaller size now (using a big screen).

Sorry for nitpicking, I appreciate how much effort you put into mobile compatibility

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kaputtnik wrote:

Nordfriese wrote:

After reloading the stylesheet, I can no longer see a difference between visited and non-visited links. All links now appear in the colour of unvisited links

There are two places where the font color has changed, mainly trying to make it more readable for vision impaired people (trying to fix Webdesign lacks contrast):

1. The headers on dark background are now a bit brighter
2. Links and visited links

It is very hard to find a color for links and visited links with good contrast, especially on the bright wooden background. For now visited links are a bit darker than non visited links. You might need to get familiar with those colors, but changing them is no problem at all… we should just find good colors.

Well the difference is now imperceptible. The colour for visited links is FEEA8A and for non-visited links it is FEFB8A which are just two ever-so-subtly different shades of off-yellow. The difference is only perceptible to me at all if I peer at them really closely… It also depends on the calibration of the monitor you're using and the display technology.

I agree finding good colours is hard…
How about F2F0AA for non-visited and FFE673 for visited links? These are slightly more saturated resp. desaturated versions of the same colours that IMO would have just enough contrast to be not too hard to see.

P.S. The improved green colour for headers is great

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Ron_of_Nord wrote:

kaputtnik wrote:

Long story short: If the page doesn't look like before, please clean the browsers cache or press STRG+F5 to reload the page. This might be needed for all sub pages also.

Yes, there was i big update of the website recently. I will write a post (news) for this. Since the update happened close to midnight (locally) i was too tired to write this news yesterday.

Thanks, I didn't know this, now the site is back to something I can read.

Of course you didn't know, my fault And sorry for the inconvenience!

Regarding the link colors: Maybe we should just make the wooden background a bit darker? This should help to find good colors, imho. After implementing the current colors, i found the color for normal (not visited) links a bit to harsh, but in the meantime i get used to them and see the difference to visited links, although i agree that the difference is maybe not enough.

What do other think about the colors?

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I see one minor problem with webpage. I am using desktop with Firefox. When I click on any option in the main menu on the main page, "The Game" for example, new options appear in a table below. But the table is too far from the menu. So you have to make a very quick move with mouse to prevent the table close itself. I didn't notice this happening before.

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