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Working on my website
« on: July 12, 2013, 12:34:31 AM »
So I haven't really done anything much with my company yet but I've been playing with an idea for a simple single page website and wanted to see what you guys thought. Right now the main website (simplenotions.com) is just the name but I have a possible modification that I'm thinking of releasing.

http://preview.simplenotions-www.appspot.com/

I originally had the text:
simple > complex
less > more
quality > speed

but as I made the left side bold I quickly noticed that reading down the vertical column it said simple less quality and I don't think that's a good thing. I thought about getting rid of less > more but what do you guys think of it the way it is with more < less and simply in place of simple? I'm worried it might be too clever and simply/complex isn't quite the right comparison but it maybe works?

I'm working on a small bit of footer text too but I have a hard time coming up with what to say. Ideally it'll be something about simplenotions being a product company that builds simple products and has a lab/consulting ability in Grails and Python. My wordsmithing takes a while.
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Re: Working on my website
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2013, 12:37:09 AM »
Also, I did this all on my chromebook with just it's Chrome browser so let me know if you guys have any problems with the layouts where it looks funky. I had some initial problems where the layout didn't work on the first load but worked fine after refreshing the page but I think I took care of that now.

It should be left content right justified, centered operator, right content left justified with all of the center operators lined up nicely in the middle.
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Re: Working on my website
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2013, 09:21:06 AM »
>simply/complex isn't quite the right comparison

I clicked the link before reading your post and thought this, I didn't notice the vertical reading of the words.

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Re: Working on my website
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2013, 09:24:49 AM »
>simply/complex isn't quite the right comparison

I think its the word "simply" that doesn't work.

you could just say " simple > complex"
or maybe "simplicity > complexity"
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Re: Working on my website
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2013, 09:32:53 AM »
I think I'm going to go back to the original words and just change the order and move quality > speed up to the middle.
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Re: Working on my website
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2013, 05:03:03 PM »
Tweaked it now to change the text back and reorder.
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Re: Working on my website
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2013, 09:53:40 PM »
the @media queries a good upgrade too
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Re: Working on my website
« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2013, 11:15:02 PM »
I'm fighting right now with high density stuff. Getting it to look the way I want on all of my devices is becoming a learning experience. I haven't really cared much about the whole high density retina thing but I think I'm going to have to tweak the media queries to support that somehow as it doesn't scale down to high res phone screens like I want and the bigger pain is I can't test it all easily on the chromebook. I'm trying to go without using a css framework but I might be giving up soon. This is why I stay away from UI as much as I can.
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Re: Working on my website
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2013, 12:45:38 AM »
I think I have it all up now. I forgot to add the viewport meta tag and that was what was causing all of my pixel issues. I'll still probably tweak it a bit more but I'm going to try and focus on writing some footer copy now although I might just roll with this for a little while.
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