Re-doing the design, again!
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Liam Dawe Jun 5, 2013
It now uses a light blue I think it looks quite nice.

Home page will not using alternating row colours as munt said, it just wouldn't look right. I will have a look into some sort of separation for them.
sobkas Jun 5, 2013
Quoting: liamdaweIt now uses a light blue I think it looks quite nice.

Home page will not using alternating row colours as munt said, it just wouldn't look right. I will have a look into some sort of separation for them.
Well E1F7FA have a lot of white but I don't see any blue.

Have you checked out my second and third mock-up?
Liam Dawe Jun 5, 2013
Well it looks rather blue to me....are you not seeing it like this?


I'm still deciding on the home page on how to split them up, I though side images and bold headers where enough to distinquish them? Do the news articles really need a seperator?
muntdefems Jun 5, 2013
I definitely see a light blue in the sales page. :)

Regarding the home page, I don't really need separators to distinguish the articles, but I would find it more aesthetically pleasing. Of course, that could only be my first impressions and easily end up getting used to the current design, without any separation. :P
sobkas Jun 5, 2013
I'm embarrassed about colors, it was a problem with my monitor. What can I say, sorry.
Liam Dawe Jun 7, 2013
No problem sobkas :)

I will test some minor subtle separation on the home page and see what I can do, I don't want too much though.
Liam Dawe Jun 7, 2013
Okay have a look here testing it now: http://www.prxa.info/articles/category/1

Added a 2px height same colour blue as the sales page alternator it's subtle enough not to get your attention but does split the articles up, I think it fits quite well, thoughts?
muntdefems Jun 7, 2013
Looks (and works) fine to me!

What doesn't look fine at all is the home page overall layout in small resolutions. I'm currently on my 1024x600px netbook and it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/KDzkiIG.png

I hadn't checked the test site with my netbook since its first drafts, so I hadn't noticed this till now. :(
Liam Dawe Jun 7, 2013
Damnit not sure what to do about that, there must be a way to stop any overlap hrmm
muntdefems Jun 7, 2013
No idea, man. I hope someone from Stackoverflow knows how to fix it.

Anyway, now that you're at it I'd suggest changing the current standard 350x220px size for article images. That size roughly corresponds to a 16:10 aspect ratio, but most images you can find around have a 16:9 aspect ratio instead and they sometimes get too stretched for my taste. Am I being a nitpicker here, or does someone else think the same?
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