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This site looks very promising and I don't mean to go "fixing" it as soon as you build it, but I have a larger monitor, and the long lines of text are pretty difficult to read (http://i.min.us/i6HjAOWg2o8md.png).
As you can see in my submission picture, with a few lines of CSS, the site is much more readable. Here are the changes:
body { background:#252525; } .main { width:960px; } .pagecontent { padding-right:50px; }
Thanks for all your hard work on the site so far.
So, as suggested, `max-width` is much better as it allows smaller screens to "squeeze" the page together, while it will simple "max-out" at the defined size on larger resolutions.
I searched for some list of available things and couldn't find it.
Edit: ah, so \works\ works. And bold? -strikethrough-?
I need a place to look this stuff up!
well, you can't escape asterisks that I see. #* /*
Having done some development over the time myself, I find [markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) really easy to learn (and learn). On top of that, it's also widely used. So user's don't have to re-learn a new syntax.
Additionally, I would say, stay away from JavaScript WYSIWYG editors. From my experience, they are not yet that usable. I have to say though, they have been enormously improving over the last ten years. And maybe there is one that's working better than what I am used to.
But given that the allowed set of markup will most likely be small, there is not a lot which speaks in favor of WYSIWYG editors.
BTW, I assume you are referring to the dailydot article. That was spun quite a bit that way... I'm not gunning for Reddit. Some of the things I have done here have been influenced by issue I had at Reddit. But I have a deep respect for that site. I had some very good times there. I went to the Rally for Sanity because of that site.
I'll try it out (and some variations on it) on my end. I'll get back to you on this.
Design is always a difficult thing to find agreement on, but no doubt, there's room for improvement. :)
If anyone else wants to drop 2ยข, this is a good place!
Good luck on the further development of the site. :)