That is my 1 qualm with it. Its difficult to read your posts with the lack of contrast between text and the semi transparent background. Perhaps switching just the text color to black would help.
I actually like the white-on-transparent-cyan. It's distinguished, readable, and looks nice. The picture in the background is a great shot too. Unfortunately, at my current resolution of 1680 by 1050, there is a big blue band across the top and left of the screen which really spoils the layout.
As much as I like the background pic, I don't see how you're going to be able to make it work with a layout that scales well to all resolutions. See if you can cut a section of the photo into a good-looking header bar, then tile something pleasant-looking across the bulk of the window behind your posts.
Honors, Galoheart's right; maybe if you tune down the transparency a little it might be quite more readable.
I'm going for the same look on my blog (http://masochistpaladin.blogspot.com, WIP as I choose warcraft elements for separators, etc), the whole "StormWind Cathedral" theme, but I chose the blue carpet as a background since it's a dark background under white/yellow text.
For a final suggestion: take your own in-game screnshot. Who cares about a paladin human? We want our dwarf tankadin up there! :)
I've reduced the transparency so the site should be much more readable. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the image, but I think ultimately some sort of tiling appraoch is going to be nessessary, and yes, I will get a pic of old Honorshammer up soon.
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Am I the only one who liked it the old way? I thought it looked cooler and was more readable.
I mentioned towards the end of my last post that I would be switching my Hunter from Skinning to Engineering. Well the little caveat I made about not gimping myself turned out to be pretty important. I had a brief Twitter conversation with Fiest the Rogue. If you care about high end PVE raiding, you need to be following @ FiesttheRogue . He is a tremendous resource and very helpful. He gave me a link to an EJ article and explained to me that for melee DPS and Hunters Engineering is not competitive with what is provided by the other professions. Its fantastic for casters apparently, but I'm not a caster. Other classes can get equal STR or INT to the AGI you see here. Tanks have the option for Stamina. Alchemy - mixology (longer, better flasks), Alchemist Stone (special trinket - Mastery), and Flask of Enhancement (special flask +80 AGI) Blacksmithing - socket bracers, gloves (2 extra gems ~=+80 AGI) Enchanting - Ring Enchants (AGI to two rings ~= 80 AGI) Inscription -
Thanks to Matticus to telling me about this on Twitter. mmo-champion has produced a new Raid Composition tool, you can see it here: http://raidcomp.mmo-champion.com/ On the left you have all 30 'classes'. Every spec of every class is presented. In the center are your groups. I have no idea why they have this set up with 8 groups. You'd only ever see 8 groups (40 players) in AV and you have almost 0 control over the composition in that arena. Then on the right you have the raid buffs, and a count of Healers, Ranged, Melee, and Tanks. You drag the class from the left and drop it on the raid group slot. Your count is increased, and the buffs that you have covered light up in green. Let me pick a class/spec completely at random. Protection Paladin. There. Say you pull over a Protection Paladin and put them in group 1. Your Tank count goes to 1 and you can see Mana Restore (Judgement of Wisdom), Melee Attack Speed Slow (Judgement of the Just), and Healing Received (Impro
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I'm going to keep working on the transparency and color scheme to get it more readable.
Thanks for your comments! Keep them coming.
As much as I like the background pic, I don't see how you're going to be able to make it work with a layout that scales well to all resolutions. See if you can cut a section of the photo into a good-looking header bar, then tile something pleasant-looking across the bulk of the window behind your posts.
I'm going for the same look on my blog (http://masochistpaladin.blogspot.com, WIP as I choose warcraft elements for separators, etc), the whole "StormWind Cathedral" theme, but I chose the blue carpet as a background since it's a dark background under white/yellow text.
For a final suggestion: take your own in-game screnshot. Who cares about a paladin human? We want our dwarf tankadin up there! :)
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