Please review the new tarsnap website

Re:Please review the new tarsnap website by moe on Sunday September 13, 2009 @08:08PM (#820790)

As a unix-nerd I actually find the barebones, technical look very appealing. It's almost googlesque.

I certainly like it better than the glossy competitors with their sneaky marketing-speak and buzzword bingo.

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Re:Please review the new tarsnap website by cperciva on Sunday September 13, 2009 @08:16PM (#820803)

I actually find the barebones, technical look very appealing. It's almost googlesque.

Thanks! The google-like "clean" style is very much what I was aiming for.

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Re:Please review the new tarsnap website by tptacek on Sunday September 13, 2009 @10:03PM (#820942)

Then for gods sake ditch Times New Roman. You'd be 10x Googlier if you'd just switch from font-family: serif to font-family: Arial.

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Re:Please review the new tarsnap website by moe on Sunday September 13, 2009 @11:24PM (#821020)

Fun fact: He only specified serif for the headlines. Perhaps it's you who should ditch Times as your default font?

You have a point, though, in that he should explicitly put 'sans' in his CSS for the 99% of the population who can't be bothered to change their browser default font.

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Re:Please review the new tarsnap website by tptacek on Monday September 14, 2009 @12:46PM (#822017)

Is IE's default Arial? Because his site looks nothing like Google in Firefox or Safari, and is, I believe, one CSS line away from fixing that.

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Re:Please review the new tarsnap website by cperciva on Monday September 14, 2009 @12:55PM (#822032)

I'm not sure exactly what IE's default is, but adding font-family: sans-serif to div.boxcontents makes the site look much better.

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