Coming along

Well, I've changed my design three times today. That's why I like programming databases, you just have to make them work, you don't have to make them pretty. I hire GUI programmers for that, but after this exercise I guess I should pay them more money.

Anyways, I think I have a pretty solid design, but I'm not sure of my colors for my navigation links and the rollovers. I have 2 pages done and another page with its top banner finished. Any comments would be appreciated.

If you get a chance take a gander at Jerry's site. He has made some wonderful improvements and I think it all flows together well. I really like his use of the Google Map for Coxey's March. Try it, you can see every major point along the march, and an explanation of it. It puts together the dimensions of time and location with event in a graphical presentation. 

Comments

[John Aiken]

John this looks great. I like how you'be faded out the union jack. BTW thanks for the CSS for the roll over images!

[Becky Erbelding]

Hi John,

I like the colors on the new version much better, but I still don't understand the reason for the red italicized words. I never knew "If" had anything to do with the Boer War. I can't wait to see what else I will learn from everyone's projects!

[John Henry]

The reason for the red italicized words is I am trying to relate the way the British approached the Boer war with the way the US approached the Iraq war. There are a lot of similarities. After John read my sight he gave me an article from the Foreign Policy magazine that makes the same argument, but then goes on to say why the results will not be the same.

[Carl Young]

John -

I like the darker maroon with the black rollover (hey- it's just like mine) but not the white link-color... it washes out against the background.

Thinking back to my days as a db developer, I could NOT agree more! I would rather revel in the glory of well-done SQL and a uber-complex query than worry about getting it to look pretty. I have the same problem today in the Pentagon's PowerPoint Wars where small dogs often fall to puppies and other such minutia.

Good lookin site. Run with it.

CAY

[jerry prout]

John

Thanks for the plug...your site is looking better all the time...as we said the other night the design assignemtn got us all a little too far out there and I see allot of folks coming back to earth.

jp