What C hath wrought

[Brion Toss]

Hi all,
Christian has been hard at work on the Home Page, and I've just gone to see the results. Wow! Yes, I've got a bit of a prejudiced perspective here, but I think you'll agree that my bride is brilliant. Go see.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss

[Auspicious]

Brion,

With all due respect, your new home page (if I'm looking at the right thing) does not reflect the caliber of your work and products as I have experienced them.

There are too many colors, too many fonts, too many character sizes, and too dark a background.

I'd suggest swapping the content of the left and center column, simplifying the index (now in the center column) into the rest of the site, sticking with the white/blue/tan color scheme of your top banner, and picking one font/color for each of titles and content.

My apologies to your lovely bride. The result looks like someone just got a bit carried away with what can be done as opposed to what should be done.

sail fast, dave
S/V Auspicious
lying Nassau Bahamas

[Ian McColgin]

Ahoy Brion,

It's too easy to shrug off with "de gustabus non disputandam est" [pardon my 50 years seperation from using the Latin] or "different boats, different long splices."

Matters of taste are matters of value and are ever so much worth arguing about than matters of mere fact. This is because the argument is a matter of evolving and educating value and because there is not a final answer. How to argue about Pachebel's Canon versus a bit of Stravinski. Especially if you add a dance number to each by Nijinski, Duncan and Cunningham?

Yet the very thought of such an argument is laden with intrigue.

So it is with your new home page. It is right up against the edge of too busy, perhaps, but not over the edge and it is easily readable, with all the parts readily distinguished, and the shapes and colours lead the eye around in a coherant manner.

Take boat interiors. It's not stark like a minimalist ocean racer. It's certainly not a riot of eye strain like those boats of the '70's from the far east with way too many carved dragons in a richly dark teak cave. It's like an interior finished proper coaster fashion that's then been decorated by years of use, like Wanderer III.

So I like it.

Ian McColgin
Marmalade

[Russ L]

Well said Ian.

Brion,

I noticed the Fair Leads, link intact on Home Page, no longer has a link on the Education Page.
' just wondering if that was intentional.

Cheers, Russ