Timeline for Should we strive for a general "template" for all blog posts, or allow full user control?
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| Apr 4, 2011 at 22:45 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | I also agree with @nhinkle's comment wrt large italic blocks; and have already mentioned DMA's problem so I also agree with that. | |
| Apr 4, 2011 at 7:50 | comment | added | DMA57361 Mod |
Also just spotted a slightly odd mix of HTML for the titles; the post title and section title are h2, the sub-section titles are h4, and the question titles are h2 again... should the latter two both be h3? Or maybe sub-sections h3 and question titles h4 (so they can receive a different styling, and because the questions titles will be within the subsection, not defining a new one)? A quick glance at the CSS shows that h4's currently have no direct styling; they miss out on the reduced letter-spacing and font definitions, etc, because they simple inherit their parents styling.
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| Apr 4, 2011 at 7:35 | comment | added | DMA57361 Mod | Can I just add that I agree with @nhinkle wrt large blocks of italic being unsightly, plus why do you need to emphasise the text when the blockquote does that already? Having different styles of blockquote sounds like a more pleasant solution to me. | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 19:48 | comment | added | nhinkle |
@KronoS it would be easy to implement. Just create two CSS classes for <blockquote>s. I believe there's a way to add entries to the dropdown box of styles. I'm sure we could figure it out. Perhaps you find the italic text easy to read, but some people don't.
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| Apr 3, 2011 at 15:27 | comment | added | James Mertz | @nhinkle if your purpose of the "long italicized" comment was t prove a point... Personally I didn't even notice and it didn't bother me. One problem with different backgrounds for quotes is that it'd be difficult to implement. | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 8:46 | comment | added | nhinkle | Also, regarding graphs, I am working on a generic excel template for SU blog graphs. I will make that available once it's ready and @Kronos takes a look at it. | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 8:45 | comment | added | nhinkle | I dislike italicized quotes. Long blocks of italicized text are much harder to read. Perhaps we could use a different background color for SU quotes vs. outside quotes, or in some other way differentiate them, but italics are not the solution in my opinion. I find myself much less likely to read a quote if it's in all italics, because it is more difficult to do so. | |
| Apr 2, 2011 at 23:31 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | try to get to a style in between. But thumbs up, I like the approach of having style guidelines to improve the consistency of our blog... :) | |
| Apr 2, 2011 at 23:30 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | article are, thus I would propose to scale them back down or to satisfy both style parties we could use a size in between (like header 4 or something similar [you can create styles I think] if that exists). The last thing I want to suggest to use a — (em dash) in citations to denote the author, and bold depending on if it still looks good (perhaps only bold the name)... Anyhow, I took my post style from @BloodPhilia because I didn't know what the style was. I thought his style was fine but apparently not, although most of your style looks fine (apart from the two suggestions) we could | |
| Apr 2, 2011 at 23:25 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | I agree with some thing and disagree with others, so I voted this down just for the sake of improvement and thus not disagreement: I would suggest not to use Blue for subsection titles because that color indicates that it is a link/article by itself, notice how you can click on the post title and the other blue text around the page. Using this for a subsection title would be inconsistent... For the same inconsistency reason, I think the question titles are too big if you do them like that and people could view them as headers instead which make it less clear what the different sectinos of an | |
| Apr 2, 2011 at 20:14 | history | answered | James Mertz | CC BY-SA 2.5 |