It'll probably be a while, and I'll probably want to have a lot more content, before I would even attempt to have any fancy html work on my site.
With that said, I still don't like the way my reviews look on a "real" browser. (They look fine in Lynx)
I don't like the way the text goes from one edge of the screen to the other.
It doesn't look good, for one thing, and for another it might be slightly irritating to move your head back and forth to read it.
Another problem is with "short" reviews. I put that in quotes because I'm talking about ~500 word reviews, which are not really short. Especially not when you factor in that the games I wrote reviews for of that length can (and probably WILL) be beaten in about 15 minutes, or, in the case of Duck Hunt, you can see all there is to see in 15 minutes. If I wrote a 2000 word review of those games, you could probably finish the game before the review.
I digress. The point is, those reviews look shorter than they are. On an 800 x 600 screen, they fill only one page. (they all take a minimum of 3 lynx pages)
Now, making the reviews look longer won't affect the real quality of the reviews either way. But I think there might be some psychological bias against taking short reviews seriously.
With all this in mind, I'm experimenting on putting my reviews in tables.
Here're the original reviews, a long one and a short one:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...atrix.html
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...oland.html
Here's the long one squished in a little, and centered:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...atrix.html
And squished and pushed to the left:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...//mm2.html
Short centered:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...oland.html
Squished even more:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn.../sml2.html
Pushed to left:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn.../sml3.html
With full sized windows, I think all the new versions look better than the old. I can't decide which format to use, though.
Another problem is with windows that aren't full sized. If I have the review squished to 60% of a full window, it might look ridiculous in a window that's even just slightly less than full. Absolute width sizes might be better, but then I have to worry about things like people on different resolution monitors.
It almost would be nice to have some reason to push everything in - like, say, a table of contents to the side of every page.
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Crawl and 1000
With that said, I still don't like the way my reviews look on a "real" browser. (They look fine in Lynx)
I don't like the way the text goes from one edge of the screen to the other.
It doesn't look good, for one thing, and for another it might be slightly irritating to move your head back and forth to read it.
Another problem is with "short" reviews. I put that in quotes because I'm talking about ~500 word reviews, which are not really short. Especially not when you factor in that the games I wrote reviews for of that length can (and probably WILL) be beaten in about 15 minutes, or, in the case of Duck Hunt, you can see all there is to see in 15 minutes. If I wrote a 2000 word review of those games, you could probably finish the game before the review.
I digress. The point is, those reviews look shorter than they are. On an 800 x 600 screen, they fill only one page. (they all take a minimum of 3 lynx pages)
Now, making the reviews look longer won't affect the real quality of the reviews either way. But I think there might be some psychological bias against taking short reviews seriously.
With all this in mind, I'm experimenting on putting my reviews in tables.
Here're the original reviews, a long one and a short one:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...atrix.html
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...oland.html
Here's the long one squished in a little, and centered:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...atrix.html
And squished and pushed to the left:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...//mm2.html
Short centered:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn...oland.html
Squished even more:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn.../sml2.html
Pushed to left:
www.geocities.com/crawlsn.../sml3.html
With full sized windows, I think all the new versions look better than the old. I can't decide which format to use, though.
Another problem is with windows that aren't full sized. If I have the review squished to 60% of a full window, it might look ridiculous in a window that's even just slightly less than full. Absolute width sizes might be better, but then I have to worry about things like people on different resolution monitors.
It almost would be nice to have some reason to push everything in - like, say, a table of contents to the side of every page.
Crawl and 1000
