Looks nice. Should be a good forum for Dave to go off on long-winded, poorly researched tirades.

One thing that bugs me: I get an illegibility alert from my eyes when I try to read the words underneath the “Polaroids.” It’s like the font is incompatible with my view of reality. There are plenty of other handwriting-esque fonts that don’t look like the deranged scrawlings of a mathematical genius who will one day kill his father.

The photos you selected do a great job of illustrating Dave’s esoteric tastes in shirts.

(here’s me trolling for advice)

tudor (and regan since you seem not shy in sharing your critiques — and anyone else for that matter) — i have this website i’m working on and i’m not entirely satisfied with the design, but i can’t put my finger on it — any criticisms/comments would be more than welcome

http://static.flickr.com/40/88472425_3dd6cdbbc7_o.jpg

Your main text font is illegible.

I fully agree about the font. the previous font was too girly, sra and i decided. thus, we went for something more muscular (and you do need to be muscular to write on a polaroid with a ballpoint pen).

I changed it just now to something more manageable. I welcome further font suggestions, though!

karen, i agree with corwin. wonky fonts are ok for titles (in moderation) but you need something orthodox for body text.

Keren, I like the fact that the site looks nice and compact right now. but what happens if the text on a page expands for several paragraphs? unless you use nasty iframes, you’ll have to expand the page and the background is not going to scale properly.

personally i would prefer a white background that can grow vertically as needed. the plants in the margin are really good visually. i would keep them but adjust them somehow to allow the page to grow. try the CSSZenGarden for some ideas of how to make that happen.

regan/corwin — you’re right, i just hate using more than two kinds of font and i was trying to cheat the system, but i knew that crazy font would be illegible…alas

tudor — i worried about that — unfortunately, my knowledge of css is shitty at best, but thanks for tip

merci!

Always good to see Canada’s youth taking an interest in the bleek, miserable world my generation left you. Best of luck to you, Mr. Alexander!

Jack! Did you get my letter??

Yes son, we did! Olivia and I both agree your plan will work wonders for the WLU community! And, oh ya, don’t forget to vote tomorrow! Each voice does matter in a democracy. ;)

you’d think our dear friend jack would have a better idea of when people should be voting, since he would like us to vote for him and his colleagues… *wink*

I’d replace the last pic of him along the top where he is a green shirt, it looks out of place and too hippie and that pirg post can only hurt him not help him get elected.

replace it, but with what? that is the question. there are few photos of dave where he doesn’t look like a hippie. i selected that photo because it takes place in a political context (last year’s election) and aside from the awesome beard he looks very much like a politician.

as for the pirg post, dave is talking with his political base, which is probably a good move. The post will fall off the page as new ones are added each day.

That’s a really sexy web page… and you obviously found the ‘cream of the crop’ from the flickr web group to populate it with as well(: