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Edward Tufte is definitely a recognized design guru but ever since I found out about him I have been _very_ puzzled about the design of his website. I would ex

• jrockway 17y ago
  It has text that can be read. What else do you need?
• aaronbrethorst 17y ago
  shoemakers' children, and all. The same complaint is regularly registered towards Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ http://www.useit.com/alertbox/) although it looks like his site is significantly more usable than it used to be.
• niels_olson 17y ago
  Context, man, context. That site design is running Ars Digita, Philip Greenspun's original community system (http://openacs.org/ http://openacs.org/), circa 1995. If I recall correctly, Greenspun helped set it up. Full disclosure: I am at least partially responsible for a few tweaks to the GUI circa 2007 (constrained the comments, added the local menus (with optional thumbnails). Here's all the CSS for that site: .fullwidthtable {} .forum {color: #CC0000; font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;} .text { font-size: 15px; color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;} .textsm { font-size: 14px; color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;} .textxsm { font-size: 13px; color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;} .link { text-decoration: none; color=#CC0000} .link:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #CC0000} .belink { text-decoration: none; color=#000000} .belink:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #CC0000} .taglink { margin-top: 4pt; }