Comments on: Pitch Invasion Getting a Facelift

By: Antonio G

Antonio G — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:48:54 +0000

Nice work.

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:43:04 +0000

I dig the new layout, Tom. Good work.

By: Davyd Trunyov

Davyd Trunyov — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:33:01 +0000

I was missing the original logo, looks great now.

By: Thomas Dunmore

Thomas Dunmore — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:23:53 +0000

Thanks folks. I’ll continue tweaking things, and ursus, your suggestion is already in the works, as are one or two other things.

By: CTT

CTT — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:53:15 +0000

ursus & Davyd,

If you want to increase the font size manually, you can use Ctrl ‘+’

Ctrl ‘-’ decreases it.

This works in IE and Firefox - if you’re using a different browser, check the docs. If you’re using Firefox, consider installing the NoSquint extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592) which remembers your font size for every site you visit.

Useful for another site we know of with an annoyingly small font size

By: Martha

Martha — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:30:32 +0000

I love it — very slick and modern-looking, but not gimmicky and, you know, Modern.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:15:05 +0000

This may well be down to my outdated version of IE at work, but the “centre” column led by the photos and followed by American Soccer, et al is now moved to the right margin (below the Google ads), leaving a great wide void in the middle of the page.

Another thing you might consider is a box of links to contributions by regular contributors (Brian, Vanda, Max, etc.). You could put that on the right below the tags.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:52:10 +0000

Actually, I mistyped earlier. It was introduced for the 84 championships in France, and then re-used in ‘88 and ‘92 (with the colours modified to match the host nation’s flag). I had thought that Italia ‘80 was the first Euro to have a logo of its own, but this site (http://www.aldaver.com/index.html#eurocup) indicates that there was one for the 1976 tournament in Yugoslavia.

By: Thomas Dunmore

Thomas Dunmore — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:54:59 +0000

Ah, no, I didn’t know that ursus, though now you mention it, it ought to have been obvious. You should have spoken up sooner!

And thanks for the comments on the look, Sven and ursus, still tweaking things so let me know if it starts looking better or worse….

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:32:49 +0000

I’m also a fan of the new look. Would not object to a somewhat larger font, though.

And since we are on aesthetics, a pedantic gripe. You know that the European Championship logo that you’ve been using for the retrospectives didn’t exist before 1988, don’t you? The anachronism bothers the historian in me, though I understand why you are doing it.