Poon,
I'll second Katharina's recommendation to leave your banner positioned and (non-) colored, as it is.
What prompted me to go look at your site, though, was Katharina's comment about the potential difficulty someone who is color-blind (as we call it, at least here in the U.S.) might have with your red menu items against the green background. Being color-blind myself, I thought it would be interesting to see an example where it matters.
So I pulled up your site, and spent a minute or two hunting around the page trying to find out what she was referring to, and thinking you must have changed it already, since I couldn't find anything like that.
Then I saw your followup, which suggested you hadn't (yet) changed it, looked at the page again ..... oooohhh, those funny gaps in the menus there below the "Log in" line - I see now, there's shimmery red text hiding there! :-) So yes, very effectively near invisible!
And kudos to Katharina for thinking of us color blind folks - it's an issue that doesn't seem to get a lot of, um, visibility :-)
Paul
On Aug 14, 2009, at 2:54 AM, Katharina Wolkwitz wrote:
Hi Poon,
I like the banner the way it is - on the left side of the screen. Zooming it to fill the whole screen-width would "blow it up" too much.
But I've got a visibility problem with your menu-bar. The red menu- items are very hard to see on the dark green background. I guess people with limited sight or those with red green (colour) deficiency might have problems seeing those items at all.
Best wishes Katharina
Ekompute .info schrieb am 13.08.2009 20:47:
Hi Mike, my website is http://dummipedia.org
I am referring to the topmost row.
Regards, PM Poon
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