I had been planning on writing the monitor rant tonight, but just didn’t feel like it (I’m not in a ranting mood, so to speak). Instead I found myself playing around with the colours of the design again, using The GIMP to take the light version of the background image through pretty much the entire colour spectrum. I had great hopes for the reddish tints, but funnily enough I found myself drawn to the green version instead.
Like the previous yellow version I’m considering this one as a possible replacement for the current theme, though I’m pretty definitely considering redoing the whole site now. The way I see it now I’d like to have a menu along the top, locked in view like the currently location bar, though I can’t see how to do it without having to change the menu structure again as well. Of course I could work with main items and dropdown submenues, but I tend to dislike the way these work out. They’re elegant enough in theory, but somehow never quite work in the real world.
As always, comments are welcome.
In this case, I like the yellow design better
And I agree with you on drop down – they sound great in theory but when you are actually using them, they are not so nice anymore. I had them once on my site and got so annoyed by them I disabled drop down after two days
Funny, I didn’t think you’d like the yellow better than anything given your response there. And yes I’ve experimented with dropdown but usually disabled it as well.
Well, for that you’d have to know that I usually just HATE green. I don’t know why, but I seriously dislike the color. I love grass, fields, woods … but on a screen or in print I can’t stand green.