New website homepage - feedback would be appreciated!

starlite

starlite

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I had a burst of inspiration this evening and spent a few hours putting both my novice web design and novice photoshop skills to work on a whole styling facelift for my website, and this was the result: https://macdat.net/index_test.html

I personally think it turned out really well for the skills I've got, and I'm proud of the result. It needs some tweaking still, but it's in a mostly finalized state. Would love to hear anyone's feedback on how I could improve it!

One note: One of the main goals of my site has been to maintain a level of functional compatibility with old web browsers (early 2000s targeted). I haven't tested yet but I'll bet that's been somewhat broken on the new styling. On one hand, I've been wanting a refresh on the site for a while to make it look nicer. On the other hand, I want to maintain said compatibility. I'm going to be thinking over a few different routes between the time of this post and the far-away time where this new styling takes over the old styling on how I could do this. I could go the route of many and have two separate versions, but maintaining such a thing could prove difficult. I'd love anyone's ideas on that too!

Thanks!
3lectr1c
 
The black text on the image background is a bit hard to read at least for me.

The table width is a bit wide depending on what vintage of browsers your targeting - 640x480 looks like this:
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otherwise looking very 90's :)
 
Whoops forgot to update here. I put the same thread out on 68kMLA and the feedback was largely what you two have said and I agree - here's the updated version. I'm really happy with it now, what do y'all think?
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As for the width of everything - I want to prioritize usability for the majority of users at the moment, which are going to be on modern browsers. This version of the site renders *ok* on IE 5 and 6, not perfect, but usable, but yeah, you have to scroll on screens below 1400x1050 (4:3) and 1366x768 (16:9) at the moment. I'm looking into ways of addressing this.
 
I prefer a solid background for reading information (like TD's dark theme for example - solid white on gray). Reading off a background like that fatigues my old eyeballs. The cloud colors on black text is much easier to read vs 1v.
 
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I like it, it has personality and is unique. Keep it up, 3lectr1c! My only gripe is: can you make this accessible via http too? As in offering both? No reason to "hide" things from the public :-)

That way, your site would be accessible from older browsers too. And if you're really adventurous, rewrite the HTML5 code to HTML 3 and make it compatible all the way down to 1990's browsers like Netscape 3 :)

Don't forget to submit it to wiby.org too ;-)
 
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