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Chris Zacho The Wheelman said:

1) Black: http://geocities.com/czcorner/black.htm

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2) Purple: http://geocities.com/czcorner/purple.htm

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3) Burgundy: http://geocities.com/czcorner/burgundy.htm

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4) Red: http://geocities.com/czcorner/red.htm

Don't like red or black - either of the others are OK.

--
A T (Sandy) Morton
on the Bicycle Island
In the Global Village
http://www.millport.net

Chris Zacho 'The Wheelman said:

I'm sarting a new section on my website. A "Concourse d'Elegance". A
shoplace where you can display your nicest bikes.

What I need from you is this, which of the following sample pages do you
like best?:

1) Black: http://geocities.com/czcorner/black.htm

2) Purple: http://geocities.com/czcorner/purple.htm

3) Burgundy: http://geocities.com/czcorner/burgundy.htm

4) Red: http://geocities.com/czcorner/red.htm

Thanks for your input §:-3)>

I like the purple the best out of the bunch.

Ken

"Chris Zacho "The Wheelman"" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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What I need from you is this, which of the following sample pages do you
like best?

It really depends on how you plan to have text and pictures on that
backround.

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Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

Chris Zacho The Wheelman said:

1) Black: http://geocities.com/czcorner/black.htm

2) Purple: http://geocities.com/czcorner/purple.htm

3) Burgundy: http://geocities.com/czcorner/burgundy.htm

4) Red: http://geocities.com/czcorner/red.htm

Black.

Rich said:

Chris Zacho The Wheelman said:

1) Black: http://geocities.com/czcorner/black.htm

2) Purple: http://geocities.com/czcorner/purple.htm

3) Burgundy: http://geocities.com/czcorner/burgundy.htm

4) Red: http://geocities.com/czcorner/red.htm

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Black.

Yup.

Bill Sornson wrote on Monday 28 November 2005 02:48:

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Rich said:

Chris Zacho The Wheelman said:

1) Black: http://geocities.com/czcorner/black.htm

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Black.

Yup.

ditto

--
Alex

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Reply-to address is valid.

Claire Petersky said:

"Chris Zacho "The Wheelman"" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

What I need from you is this, which of the following sample pages do you
like best?

It really depends on how you plan to have text and pictures on that
backround.

I'm with Claire. So much depends on what everything else is going to look
like. But FWIW, to be the party pooper here, I dislike textured
backgrounds.

Matt O.

"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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"Chris Zacho "The Wheelman"" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

What I need from you is this, which of the following sample pages do you
like best?

It really depends on how you plan to have text and pictures on that
backround.

Another 'aye' here for the above.

Cheers, helen s

The text under the banner on the sample pages is the color that I will
use. Partly for the "elegance" theme, mostly because it shows good
against the darker background.

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Chris Zacho ~ "Your Friendly Neighborhood Wheelman"

"May you have the winds at your back,
And a really low gear for the hills!"

Chris'Z Corner
http://www.geocities.com/czcorner

Counting all three groups I posted this in:

Black = 5 (two people liked burgundy also)
Burgundy = 5 (two people also liked black, 2 purple)

Purple = 4 (2 people also liked burgundy)

Red = 1

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Chris Zacho ~ "Your Friendly Neighborhood Wheelman"

"May you have the winds at your back,
And a really low gear for the hills!"

Chris'Z Corner
http://www.geocities.com/czcorner

In article <[email hidden]>,

(Chris Zacho 'The Wheelman') said:

I'm sarting a new section on my website. A "Concourse d'Elegance". A
shoplace where you can display your nicest bikes.

What I need from you is this, which of the following sample pages do you
like best?:

1) Black: http://geocities.com/czcorner/black.htm

2) Purple: http://geocities.com/czcorner/purple.htm

3) Burgundy: http://geocities.com/czcorner/burgundy.htm

4) Red: http://geocities.com/czcorner/red.htm

Thanks for your input §:-3)>

Chris, don't take this the wrong way, but every one of those backgrounds
is a visual atrocity.

There's rarely a good reason to move away from a simple background
colour like white, beige, or (if you must) black. There's a reason why
the pages most beloved of nerds and UI types don't have dark-coloured
folded-cloth backgrounds on them.

Think clean design:

http://digg.com/

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index

http://www.disseminate.com/

http://www.kanai.net/weblog/

http://flickr.com/photos/rcousine

Note that I would specifically exclude my own blog (wiredcola.com) from
this list. While the basic design is more or less mainstream Blogger
stuff with some acceptable customizations, I have an atrocious graphic
at the top which is a deliberate visual joke, and a somewhat dated one
(the fact that the site is called "Wired Cola," the colours and
letterforms of the logo, and the slogan "the world's only Cybermorphic
weblog" should be good hints as to when this concept was created).

So what I'm saying is friends don't let friends do amateurish
backgrounds.

Advice worth its cost,

--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden] http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos

Group: rec.bicycles.misc Date: Tue, Nov 29, 2005, 2:18am (EST+5) From:
[email hidden] (Ryan Cousineau)
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Chris, don't take this the wrong way, but
every one of those backgrounds is a
visual atrocity.

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There's rarely a good reason to move >away from a simple background

colour

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like white, beige, or (if you must) black.
There's a reason why the pages most
beloved of nerds and UI types don't have
dark-coloured folded-cloth backgrounds
on them.

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Think clean design.

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--
Ryan Cousineau [email hidden]

Not taken wrong. I did ask for input, and last time I checked,
consrtuctive critisism counts as such. So I took your suggestion to
heart and went to the page I had built so far.

First, I removed the image BG and replaced it with a few solid colors,
"testing the waters". But thay all looked flat somehow (sorry 'bout the
pun).

So, I tried putting just the page heading in a table with the satin BG,
thinking it might add some of the lost "bling". Better, but the rest of
the page was stiil dull, and it made the hole thing worse Therefore, I
came to a comprimise.

Most PC modems have the option of whether or not they display image
backgrounds. so, I put both solid bgcolor AND an image background
attributes in the body tag. Perfectly legal HTML protocol, and you have
a choice of how you want to view the pages.

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Chris Zacho ~ "Your Friendly Neighborhood Wheelman"

"May you have the winds at your back,
And a really low gear for the hills!"

Chris'Z Corner
http://www.geocities.com/czcorner