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English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing!
Just because I want to be the first to say it. Me no likey :(
The original EL&U theme used to be beautiful. In 2010, the site's designer explained
“Alex and I agreed on the design direction for ...
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English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing!
See also these related and somewhat more patient MSE posts of mine:
Why do some parts of the standard theme use different fonts than the rest of the site?
Unchanging font size, leading, ...
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English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing!
The contrast here on the "load new answers" bit is completely unreadable:
There are plenty of tools out there that tell you whether the contrast is tolerable or not. Please use them, because this ...
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status-planned
There's a weird problem causing the offset letters in the banner. It's being looked at but will be fixed (on all of the sites getting hit by it). The status completed tag on tchrist's ...
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Rows are out of alignment
The numbers and the words of the middle set are out of line with the other pair:
Notice how "answers" is on a different baseline from "votes" and "views".
...
tchristMod
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English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing!
I don't like the new theme. This answer focuses on the main page, the primary purpose of which is to display a list of questions. For before-and-after visuals, please refer to screenshots from Mari-...
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I just wanted to repeat Andrew's recent observation, and mention there appears to be other design flaws
The quoted text on the NEW theme is... yellow? What shade is that? I wanted to indent the ...
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More colours have been introduced unnecessarily. Quotes have changed colour:
Actually they have completely lost the ELU styling and gained the bog-standard styling. This is a retrograde step. But ...
Andrew LeachMod
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English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing!
The site logo is a little drunk:
(Made by Shog9)
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‘Interestingly tagged’ questions tantamount to invisible
As a follow-on to Andrew’s observation that our colors don’t make sense now, I’ve found a related problem.
I have the old-...
tchristMod
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I agree with Mari-Lou A's comment about the new color of the block quotations being less attractive and less consistent with the background color than the old block quote color. Since the formatting ...
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I was rather hoping for something along these lines...
The tools I have available aren't professional-level and the font size might be adjusted in line with other sites in the SE family.
I do think ...
Andrew LeachMod
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New theme: Color of visited links
This problem is even more apparent if you look at the colours used in the list of questions itself.
Here are two questions on ELU:
I've already visited "Irreponsible person" but I've yet to visit "...
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The post-signature owner grid is sometimes too small. I used this question for reference.
In the old theme:
In the new theme (notice how the 721 is not in line with the bronze dot):
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Changes to block quotes in the pipeline
Why the [expletive deleted] would anyone think that removing the different background color from blockquotes is in any way, shape, or form a good idea? Just because everyone else is jumping off a ...
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It wasn't broken; why did you fix it?
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Can a placeholder text be added to the question body box?
Yes, I love this idea. SE Devs should definitely add it. Quick and easy, and should be harder to ignore than the "How to ask" (which is off to the side).
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Please don’t switch our question scores to the weird light-on-dark, blurry-and-bold “wrong-green-for-our-theme” boxes. This is a CSS problem that affects Macs but not Windows boxes. I write about ...
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Can we keep the previous green on English SE?
Having site-unique colors for this part of the design isn't an option, since having "unified site designs" makes it easier to maintain and update the network. However, you can vote on the ...
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Our design is too irresponsive
Our measure (line length) is still set far too long to be comfortably read on the desktop site. Short story is that the measure should be set between 40 and 70 ens, ...
tchristMod
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The Incredible Shrinking ELU Banner
This is a file path issue that's happening unintentionally while we prepare new theming assets. It'll be taken care of first thing tomorrow.
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Is the background color of the ELU SE website based on the background color of the Etymonline website?
I was surfing etymonline and I found its background color exactly identical to the one of our beloved site.
“Exactly identical” ? Really? :)
Because the perception of color occurs only in the mind of ...
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Colorblind-friendlier design
For those of us who are NOT colorblind, this the difference between normal and red-green colorblind link colors:
.......
(Image generated with Vischeck)
There are three styles here:
Visited link: ...
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Accepted
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Constructive suggestion: consider removing the boxy outlines. They are drawing attention away from the important content.
Existing UI:
UI under test:
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Make blockquotes inside blockquotes better distinguishable
You could solve this problem fairly easily by putting your example sentence in italics.
A run-on sentence is something like this:
I came I saw I conquered.
If desired, you can also ...
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English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing!
I just today opted-in to new beta designs, and now I see the new EL&U design everyone is griping about.
Maybe this isn't what you'd call constructive criticism, but: It's ... ugly.
And I'm no ...
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Can EL&U please get its logo banner centered (again)?
I'm sorry. This is something that I explained back in September on the site's announcement post regarding the updates. It's under bullet point #1 in Mari-Lou's answer.
Why is the web site's name ...
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English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing!
There are many things I don't like about it, but there were many things I didn't like about the old one, too. You make do with what you have. At least I try to. I don't like complaining.
But there is ...
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Updates to the site
Sidebar title height inconsistent
The handwriting graphic in the "Love this site?" sidebox forces its title section height to be larger than the other sidebar boxes. That being said, the whitespace ...
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