page design, opinions wanted!
I'm making a guide for doctor who, and I was wondering how I should format the page - at the moment, I've got a high details mode and a low details mode - any opinions/critique on the design would be much appreciated, though!
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removed all the colours because everyone hated them
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A lot of people seemed to think the colours meant something specific, that also wasn't in the text.
But it was just a correspondence thing - if the text said "yes" then it was one colour, if the text said "no" it was a different colour
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wait, how about something like this?
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problem with this: I want a clear visual distinction for episodes that are missing and only have reconstructions, to make it easy for people who want to skip all of those regardless of how good they are
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ok, I removed a lot of pointless information, changed how the colours worked and where they were. So now we have this:
communication is hard
The biggest problem I've found with this project is communicating what it actually means/what it's for.
People were surprised that I said you shouldn't watch "The Daleks", because it's historically important to the series. But I'm not making this for people who want to watch every episode, or for fans. If you're one of those people, you're going to ignore my recommendations and watch everything anyway.
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communication is hard
Same thing with the colours in the table - people thought they meant something that wasn't conveyed explicitly in the text of the table.
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@lizardsquid I assume this is basic HTML & CSS?
Instead of styling the td background with your meaningful colors, consider styling one or two of the td's borders to be a thick solid line with the color instead, and leave the td background inherited from the tr background.
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@arielmt it's not currently HTML at all, but perhaps that's a good idea! Can't exactly do that in this program, though
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@lizardsquid maybe join the Season column with watch and details so there wont be a border on the whitespace
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@fokkfeis Sorry, I don't understand what you mean?
page design, opinions wanted!
@lizardsquid like the season row that a different color has little dots between the columns, might look better without them so the color is constant through the row
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@fokkfeis oh right, make it just one big row with no gaps
I will do that, although I can't actually do it in the program I'm using, I'll have to do it after I convert it to html
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@lizardsquid alright my dude :)
btw whats the page purpose? like a tv show/movie reviewer on per episode/series basis ?
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@fokkfeis it's a recommendation guide on which classic Doctor Who episodes to watch and which ones to skip
@lizardsquid maybe unbold the titles that are missing? 🤔
@00dani that works - I'll also put "missing episodes" in the story details thing (it's only visible in the first image in the first toot)
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@lizardsquid that makes sense to me!
although - is there a meaning for the bold titles vs the italic titles?
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@verity yes - the ones in italics are ones with missing episodes
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@lizardsquid use pale, no dark colors, silly =P
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I tried to use less saturated colours + distinguishing shades between each row, but that's even harder to read, I feel