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When you're on an "I'm awesome" streak, don't edit in anything that might invalidate your conclusion.

Typical married man stuff.

Is that you or your wife talking now?

Good boy.



Also, 2447 people in queue on Kazzak. It's almost 9:30 PM here.

I made a university an offer to study with them if they let me take the first year exams in summer 2011 and let me enrol in the second year straight away.

They actually said they'd try to make it possible. Lulz.

It's long. Mind if I shorten it?

My FULL title.

Grand Master Alchemist Mazra, Ghost in the Machine.

Blame ZAM for giving me the opportunity.

This is awesome.

Welcome to how the rest of the world has had to endure ZAM since they truly adopted the new moniker.

Xsarus, make them bring back a slate gray skin already

Doesn't change the format, though. Just the colors.

Horrible waste of space on both sides endures. But I guess they needed somewhere to put all those extra adverts. The ones they couldn't fit on top of the menu.

Seriously, though, it looks horrible. The image at the top (Goblin and Worgen) even stops some one or two inches before the page does. I don't know if they expect me to be using a very wide monitor with a low resolution or what.

1920x1200 makes it look like utter sh*te.

Edit: Okay, 'utter ****** was a bite strong. It's not really that bad once you get used to two massive columns of brown on each side of the text frames. I could name other things that need more urgent attention. Like the font in the menu. Bold already, it looks ridiculous.

Edited, Dec 9th 2010 12:22am by Mazra

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Edit: I pity the fools using the default layout (www.zam.com). The left and right side blank areas are much larger there, plus the text frame is SCREAMING, EYE-CLAWING WHITE. The kind of white that melts faces and gives your skull a permanent tan.

Edited, Dec 9th 2010 3:07am by Mazra

So you're not using the classic WoW layout?

Begone ye heathen.

Yeah, won't happen. At least not until they get that idea themselves. Been preaching layout aesthetics for years in the Feedback forum.

Many internet gurus will claim that light text on a dark background is worse than dark on light. Both are bad if the contrast is too heavy.

Avoid bright colors and very dark colors. You can use them in the layout, as long as they don't interfere with reading the text. ZAM's default layout is like a classic example of bad:

Bright white background
Dark text
Dark "framing" (the site's background)

It's basically messing up your sight as much as possible.

If you go for dark on light, use a thick font. Decreases the amount of background visual "noise".

And remember, the average internet user will give a website eight seconds to catch them before they move on.