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Tim Williams
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Tim
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Bob Engelhardt
is a definite no-go.
Tim Williams
news:3FD49922...@comcast.net...
> One word, young man: contrast. Your blue lettering on black background
> is a definite no-go.
Works fine over here. Suggestions? I'd prefer no more boring black
on white stuff.
ERich10983
>> is a definite no-go.
>
>Works fine over here. Suggestions? I'd prefer no more boring black
>on white stuff.
If the observers monitor is set up right, the dark blue on black is "barely"
legible, but I've had some problems with this myself. I would look at some
other web sites and at attempt to increase the visual contrast. I have better
color sense in my right eye than my left. If I use only my left eye to look at
dark blue text on black, I have a problem. Consider your older audience and
repent, young man. :>)
Otherwise, you've done a good job with the website.
Earle Rich
Mont Vernon, NH
Artemia Salina
> "Bob Engelhardt" <bobeng...@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:3FD49922...@comcast.net...
>> One word, young man: contrast. Your blue lettering on black background
>> is a definite no-go.
>
> Works fine over here. Suggestions? I'd prefer no more boring black
> on white stuff.
How about yellow text on black? The choice is arbitrary as long as the text
stands out better than it does now.
Thanks, BTW, for the link to Bessemer's autobiography. The chapter on
his glass homogenization process is particularly interesting.
Back to reverbatory furnaces for a second, have you experimented with
cemented firebrick construction? Home Depot sells firebrick that is
something like 1" x 4" x 6". I've stacked these in order to build fire
chambers for small casting furnaces in the past, and they work quite well.
Very durable. I didn't cement them together for several reasons. First,
because it allowed me to store the furnace more easily by disassembling it.
Second, because it allowed me to experiment with the shape and size of
the furnace. I'm not sure what the proper cement to use would be, but
maybe the furnace repair cement sold at home centers would be good enough.
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Tim Williams
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> How about yellow text on black?
Ouch! Plus, blue is my favorite color, yellow is rather...opposite ;)
> The choice is arbitrary as long as the text
> stands out better than it does now.
I still don't understand what's hard to see.. after all (from the .CSS):
color: #A0B0FF;
background: #101010 }
Foreground is full blue with a good bit of red and green, making it
a blue shade of gray or white.. the background is slightly above
black.
I guess it's just something I'll never understand until 40 years
from now...
> Thanks, BTW, for the link to Bessemer's autobiography.
Ah, no problem.
> Back to reverbatory furnaces for a second, have you experimented with
> cemented firebrick construction?
Nope. Always a solid hearth.. the roof over it of course has been
random bits of broken refractory at various times.
> Home Depot sells firebrick that is something like 1" x 4" x 6".
Is that heavy or light foamy stuff?
> I've stacked these in order to build fire
> chambers for small casting furnaces in the past, and they work quite
> well. Very durable.
Must be the heavy kind...
> I didn't cement them together for several reasons. First,
> because it allowed me to store the furnace more easily by disassembling
> it. Second, because it allowed me to experiment with the shape and
> size of the furnace.
I'll have to check them out some time. Would be very nice to just stack
up some bricks when I want to say, burn out an investment mold. Right
now I can only toast 'em in the trashcan furnace, which will only hold
a 5" dia. or so mold.
> I'm not sure what the proper cement to use would be, but
> maybe the furnace repair cement sold at home centers would be good
> enough.
Furnace cement might work. It doesn't seem like mortar to me though.
I'm sure I could find something more suitable at the place I got the
LWI-26 from.
Ron Thompson
>
> color: #A0B0FF;
> background: #101010 }
Things look different on different computers. You might try to look at
some friends computers and see if it looks different.
I prefer pale pastel backgrounds like:
http://www.plansandprojects.com/My%20Machines/
or
http://www.plansandprojects.com/todaysmelt_8-12-02.htm
Ron Thompson
On the Beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast
USA
http://www.plansandprojects.com
When you hear the phrase "Super size that for ya?," they are really talking about your ass.
Orrin Iseminger
<tmor...@charter.net> wrote:
>Go to my website, check out the casting section. Lots of stuff since
>I last posted about it...
>
>Tim
I continue to be impressed by your lathe project. Well done!
Overall, you are to be commended for putting up a very good Web site.
But, I'll have to agree with the others about your main page's dark
blue on black.
Best regards,
Orrin
Jim Wilson
> Ouch! Plus, blue is my favorite color, yellow is rather...opposite ;)
Precisely! Yellow (or a shade of it) on blue works nicely because of it.
If you really like blue, try it; it practically fills the screen with
blueness. (G)
> I still don't understand what's hard to see.. after all (from the .CSS):
>
> color: #A0B0FF;
> background: #101010 }
>
> Foreground is full blue with a good bit of red and green, making it
> a blue shade of gray or white.. the background is slightly above
> black.
> I guess it's just something I'll never understand until 40 years
> from now...
Naw, you'll get it shortly. Blue on black is hard reading for so many
folks because their intensity values are so close. Check this out:
www.paragoncode.com/temp/bb.gif
It's a section of your blue on black web page text. Here is the same
section converted to grayscale:
www.paragoncode.com/temp/bb_grayscale.gif
This image is identical in intensity to the first. Only the color
information is gone.
There's a good chance that you like blue because you are
particularly sensitive to colors in that range of frequencies. They
probably seem more intense to you than they do to others. A person
without your sensitivity to those frequencies sees something pretty close
to the second image. Hard to read, huh?
Cheers!
Jim
Boris Mohar
>"Bob Engelhardt" <bobeng...@comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:3FD49922...@comcast.net...
>> One word, young man: contrast. Your blue lettering on black background
>> is a definite no-go.
>
>Works fine over here. Suggestions? I'd prefer no more boring black
>on white stuff.
>
>Tim
I prefer content over glitter. Dark blue or gray on black background is hard to
see.
--
Boris Mohar
Jim Wilson
> Naw, you'll get it shortly. Blue on black is hard reading for so many
> folks because their intensity values are so close.
I had a brain cramp here. Everywhere I said "intensity," I meant
"luminance." Sorry.
> Check this out:
>
> www.paragoncode.com/temp/bb.gif
And I notice my web browser does not display that image correctly. This
huge one is displayed correctly:
www.paragoncode.com/temp/bb.bmp
It's a Microsoft thing, I suppose...but I should have proofed better
before posting. Mea culpa.
Jim
Tim Williams
Tim
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"Tim Williams" <tmor...@charter.net> wrote in message
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Bob Engelhardt
>
> Ok check out the colors now, howzat?
Very good. I literally could not read the first version, so I didn't
and left. I've now gone back and was able to enjoy it. Good work.
Brian Lawson
Much better, for me anyway. Thank you.
Take care.
Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.
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DoN. Nichols
A *major* improvement in readability. I don't have to go to th
preferences and select my own choice of foreground and background colors
now. Thanks!
A minor suggestion -- in things like the pulley and bearing
block castings which you show -- a yardstick or other size reference
would help significantly. It wasn't until I saw what they were
supposed to be that I had some faint idea of the size. (And I'm still
not too sure.)
Good work, though.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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