Re: Website design ideas

Karsten Otto wrote:
> Hi Reed,
> 
> Nice work! Regarding the boxes in #1, is there any way to make the  
> round corners anti-aliased? It looks a bit weird in contrast to to  
> the smooth backgroudn image and the anti-aliased VOS logo.

Yeah.  The round corners are a hack using little tiny colored divs. 
Background images look nicer but are harder to make, but that's probably 
what I'd do for the final thing.

> 
> Regarding #2, I think mouseover-popups are not a good idea for large  
> things such as screenshots, better make them popup on click. I like  
> the colorful tree-branch, but maybe that works better as a fixed  
> rather than scrolling background too?

I added a little control at the bottom left to change some of the 
background properties.   One problem is that fixed items seem to really 
slow firefox down. I haven't tried it in IE or Safari yet.

> 
> The only real issue I have is with the headline fonts; maybe it is a  
> Safari/Mac problem, but they look extremely fat, to an extent where  
> they are barely legible.

Hmm.  If you have the "impact" font, that's what they are, if not they 
should just be helvetica.  I think.