I presume we're talking about the second section of my comment.
Most of the module colour contrasts are borderline okay. Honestly, I will never like this design, which is not really the point, and I'm trying to keep my critique to real effects, not how much I like it.
I find the heading gradient image to be very visually distracting. It immediately is easier to focus on if I take that and the text shadow off the headings, but I consider the headings too pale until they're showing the hover colours. Compare the gradient image to the one on #menu in Tropo Red which provides a defined background without being visual noise.
The very greyed out unused modules in the drag and drop mode issue still stands. They are very hard to focus on, as are the words drag and drop themselves.
The cancel link in the Options box is taking it's style from the .destructive class in the site scheme style. I can't recall ever seeing that used anywhere else, but I wonder if it wasn't styled with the assumption that it appears on a white background (in tropo or celerity). It is differently coloured as a link and on hover from anything else and I don't see any design reason for it to be so different from the create poll link right above it or to be such a pale grey link.
I find the page barely usable, but the total accumulation of text shadows, box shadows, gradients, border radius and all those shades of grey is still a blurry background with a few crisp foregrounded elements, like the selection and input boxes. I guess my question is when does an aesthetic choice, which I understand that this is, have to give way for broader usability? I'm using Tropo Red at the moment, and the contrast between this site-schemed page and all the others in terms of heading colours, button colours, general contrast levels etc. is very marked.
I will almost certainly make a stylish script to strip the blur out and crisp this up once it becomes the standard post form.
New issue: while playing around with the form I noticed that with the right em size of the screen the heading on the journal module and the #usejournal select box overrun the module. (I have this module in the sidebar.) I assume the heading is being dragged along for the wider ride by the select element which has no width set.
Contrast this to #iconselect which has a width of 100% set. All the select elements and other form elements should likely be looked at to make sure they are contained if they're in the sidebar.
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Most of the module colour contrasts are borderline okay. Honestly, I will never like this design, which is not really the point, and I'm trying to keep my critique to real effects, not how much I like it.
I find the heading gradient image to be very visually distracting. It immediately is easier to focus on if I take that and the text shadow off the headings, but I consider the headings too pale until they're showing the hover colours. Compare the gradient image to the one on #menu in Tropo Red which provides a defined background without being visual noise.
The very greyed out unused modules in the drag and drop mode issue still stands. They are very hard to focus on, as are the words drag and drop themselves.
The cancel link in the Options box is taking it's style from the .destructive class in the site scheme style. I can't recall ever seeing that used anywhere else, but I wonder if it wasn't styled with the assumption that it appears on a white background (in tropo or celerity). It is differently coloured as a link and on hover from anything else and I don't see any design reason for it to be so different from the create poll link right above it or to be such a pale grey link.
I find the page barely usable, but the total accumulation of text shadows, box shadows, gradients, border radius and all those shades of grey is still a blurry background with a few crisp foregrounded elements, like the selection and input boxes. I guess my question is when does an aesthetic choice, which I understand that this is, have to give way for broader usability? I'm using Tropo Red at the moment, and the contrast between this site-schemed page and all the others in terms of heading colours, button colours, general contrast levels etc. is very marked.
I will almost certainly make a stylish script to strip the blur out and crisp this up once it becomes the standard post form.
New issue: while playing around with the form I noticed that with the right em size of the screen the heading on the journal module and the #usejournal select box overrun the module. (I have this module in the sidebar.) I assume the heading is being dragged along for the wider ride by the select element which has no width set.
Contrast this to #iconselect which has a width of 100% set. All the select elements and other form elements should likely be
looked at to make sure they are contained if they're in the sidebar.