A lesson in usability, part II

Mark [1] had written in just after I made changes [2] in the look of the site and said that the red I was using for unvisited links looked horrible.

Yes, it was rather garish but I wasn't sure what to use for colors. So tonight (okay, this morning really) I played around with the color scheme a bit (with the help of Spring [3]) and I think I got a scheme that isn't quite as bad. The unvisited links are still light enough that they should be easy to see (even if the browser doesn't add the underlining like my one reader reported [4]) and the color is a bit more subdued than the

BRIGHT RED

I was using for links (or rather, various shades of pure red) so Mark should be pleased.

You should also notice that the sidebox to the left is a bit smaller than it used to be—I bumped the font size down a bit to shrink the box up, to better fit the space.

I'm really liking style sheets.

[1] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/

[2] /boston/2002/03/30.1

[3] http://www.springdew.com/

[4] /boston/2002/03/30.1

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