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It's definitely an improvement, but still looks unprofessional. Good enough for now if you want to keep working on the code.
by bdr 17y ago
It's definitely an improvement, but still looks unprofessional. Good enough for now if you want to keep working on the code.
- moe 17y agoAs a unix-nerd I actually find the barebones, technical look very appealing. It's almost googlesque. I certainly like it better than the glossy competitors with their sneaky marketing-speak and buzzword bingo.
- cperciva 17y agoI actually find the barebones, technical look very appealing. It's almost googlesque. Thanks! The google-like "clean" style is very much what I was aiming for.
- tptacek 17y agoThen for gods sake ditch Times New Roman. You'd be 10x Googlier if you'd just switch from font-family: serif to font-family: Arial.
- moe 17y agoFun fact: He only specified serif for the headlines. Perhaps it's you who should ditch Times as your default font? You have a point, though, in that he should explicitly put 'sans' in his CSS for the 99% of the population who can't be bothered to change their browser default font.
- tptacek 17y agoIs IE's default Arial? Because his site looks nothing like Google in Firefox or Safari, and is, I believe, one CSS line away from fixing that.
- cperciva 17y agoI'm not sure exactly what IE's default is, but adding font-family: sans-serif to div.boxcontents makes the site look much better.
- cperciva 17y agoWhat would make the site look more professional? More text? Less text? A logo? A picture of a house burning down along with a smiling man saying "I don't care if my house burns down, because I know all my data is safely stored with tarsnap"? Ok, that last one is facetious -- but in all seriousness, I'd love to hear something more specific than "unprofessional".
- rms 17y agoAs a start, I would say yes, get a logo -- even if it is just the exact same as your current non-logo run through Photoshop/GIMP's anti-aliasing.
- bdr 17y ago- At least choose a font for your title. - "can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems" comes across well from one nerd to another, but probably not to managers. This gets into the question of who your target audience is. - In the intro, talk about what tarsnap does instead of just saying it's a secure online backup service and talking about the "client code". What makes you different from the hundreds of other backup services? - The red yellow and blue color scheme isn't doing it for me. Looks better if you make the red yellow, but I know you want to draw attention to the call to action. - The gap between the left column and the news is ugly. Consider not having news on this page at all.