The New Website design

[mmcnealy]

Here's a sneak peak at the new website design. I'm still trying to decide on the header, personally I like #2 the best, but I would like to hear your opinions on all of them. The last word in German will be changing as I have found the correct term now, but just haven't gotten to changing the graphics yet.

http://home.att.net/~mmcnealy_drexel/portal.html

Let me know what you think, #1? #2? or #3?

Comments

[ashariel.livejournal.com]

I vote for #2!

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

#2

[ealdthryth.livejournal.com]

I like #2 best.

[moizissimo.livejournal.com]

Whee! #2!

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

I would go with #2. hey did you add Anne-Marie back ? we got her hehehehe

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes I did add her! WooHoo! ;) Did you get the hat?

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

Oh My God Yes I did & is it ever amazing. I amm doing toi wear it at coronation this weekend. I m glad to read that you made some SCA friends. As much as I secretly wish you would be sooo miserable that you would come home, I am glad you are happy-Ysabelot

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Oh good I am so glad that it made it safe and sound and that you like it! Have a wonderful time at JC this weekend, I am really going to miss being there. ;(

[wengeue.livejournal.com]

#2 by far. If you want a font that is more period, I could whip up the graphic for you (I have a Gutenberg-style font).

The only thing that bugs me is the apostrophe, as it's not German. ;)

About the menu below, I wouldn't use an imagemap. It's not at all necessary for what you are trying to do. If you want to ask me more about it later, let me know. (I teach web design.)

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked #2, its my favorite too. The website design is a takeoff/spoof/copy of the front page of several period books which I have facsmiles of, Jost Amman's Frauen-trachtbuch and a couple of others, all have apostrophes so I put one in the graphic.

I think we are getting to how to format using CSS, but this is just the first pass on the design and not the final layout.

I would like a good font, ;) this was just the closest that I had that matched the font in the facsmiles that I have in the house. Should I send you an email with the text that I'd like in the graphic?

[wengeue.livejournal.com]

They had apostrophes? Wow. I am not familiar with them so I was thinking in terms of modern German, I guess. :)

CSS is nifty and you will like it. It gives you so much more power than old-style web design.

You can e-mail me if you like. In the meantime, here are some samples I made:

This one uses a font that is based on Gutenberg's type, so it is definitely period but a little hard for English-speakers to read. (http://slumberland.org/temp/marion/marionsfrauenkleidung.gif)

This one is a bit modernized but still has a nice feel to it. (http://slumberland.org/temp/marion/marionsfrauenkleidung2.gif)

I would choose the Gutenberg, myself...

Agreed!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

I definitly like the Gutenberg one, looks very cool.
I would like the text to read the following, and can you make it around 550 pixels wide?

Marion's Frauenkleidung und Haushaltzachen

The tag line in English I will do as seperate text.

Re: Agreed!

[wengeue.livejournal.com]

Here it is! (http://slumberland.org/temp/marion/marionsfrauenkleidung3.gif) Exactly 500 pixels wide.

Re: Agreed!

[wengeue.livejournal.com]

I mean, 550.

Re: Agreed!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It looks wonderful.

[gailsedotes.livejournal.com]

2# but a deeper red my be easier on the eyes
:)

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the feedback on the color, I'll shift it a little darker.

[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

Definitely #2! And yes perhaps a deeper red?

The title is slightly chopped on my PC but then my PC is odd!

Looking forward to seeing it completed!

[jenlemus.livejournal.com]

#2 without hesitation.

[jenthompson.livejournal.com]

#2, deeper red, and it runs off the right-hand side of my monitor as well.

Very cool though!

[linuxwitch.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, I'm gonna be the lone #1. Number 2 is waaaay to busy for this typesetter's eyes. Have you thought about a fancy capital letter and simpler typeface for the other letters?

:)

Looks good

[apollonia.livejournal.com]

I agree. Since I don't know German, it's even harder to read what it is supposed to say so I can go look it up...

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

That's why I have the English text below, it says the same thing in English, with a further explaination of what the sites about.

GDR

[marymont.livejournal.com]

You're all going to hiss me. #1

#2 looks too much like standard Christmas card "Old English" rather than a good German Blackletter. Too widely spaced.

[kelli-enkeli.livejournal.com]

Ok, well i knew i'm usually the odd one out, but i like #1.

Showed it to mom though she likes #2.