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15 May 2003

Does this site need more color?

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Spencer Winters: No, I love the way it looks. The simplicity in color works for it.
  2. § Nathan Pitman: Might be nice if there were 7 header images, one for each day of the week. That might help ’snaz’ it up without taking away from the simplicity. :)
  3. § mike: Yeah i think you should make it more like this. Go on... dare you.
  4. § Dan: Nope :), I think it’s perfect. I have more than enough color on mine.
  5. § Lonnie: Pleas ignore any advice mike gives you. All I have to say is. YIKES!
  6. § zeldman: no, it’s perfect. perfect!
  7. § alfhild: A little colour would be nicer. But white space is good.
  8. § Paul Watson: No, it rocks as it is.
  9. § Adam: colour’s not the only option to a drab site. there’s texture, shading, and other things tactile.

    have you considered fur?
  10. § Drew McLellan: It’d have to be fake fur, natch.
  11. § ale piana: not,
    maybe the links color, do you really like standard blue?
  12. § Drew McLellan: I think it was an attempt at retro :)
  13. § Nathan Pitman: Retro? In that case you should really have a pointless flash intro page then Drew. ;)
  14. § Nathan Pitman: ...and make sure you ommit the ’skip intro’ button.

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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