I'd suggest going a little more blue/gray with your cyan color, so that's it's legible on the dark AND light backgrounds. I randomly clicked on the PS color palette and ended up with A4CDE0, but YMMV since I'm on a Mac and my monitor tends to be a bit brighter.
Also, I think your header is a bit larger than necessary, since it's just a title with minimal background. You could probably tighten that up a bit and you'd end up with more room for your content (pre-scroll). And honestly, if this mockup is 100%, your bar of links is pretty large as well.
I spent like 10 minutes in Photoshop fiddling with it, and made a couple of changes, but our image server isn't letting me upload anything at the moment. If you're interested, I can email it. I didn't do much, but tighten up the header a bit, and even that was without knowing your platform (or having the right fonts or anything in layers for easy adjusting). It's possible that things are the size they are because of templates or something and my suggestions could be totally pointless.
I'll check that hex code in GIMP when I get two seconds.
I have to twiddle around with the template.
Some of the size is because of other modules that will get plugged in. The search module will go in the right side of the header, for instance. And there will be some code for today's date, either in the nav bar or I'll end up putting a breadcrumbs bar underneath.
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Date: 2010-04-23 11:05 pm (UTC)Also, I think your header is a bit larger than necessary, since it's just a title with minimal background. You could probably tighten that up a bit and you'd end up with more room for your content (pre-scroll). And honestly, if this mockup is 100%, your bar of links is pretty large as well.
I spent like 10 minutes in Photoshop fiddling with it, and made a couple of changes, but our image server isn't letting me upload anything at the moment. If you're interested, I can email it. I didn't do much, but tighten up the header a bit, and even that was without knowing your platform (or having the right fonts or anything in layers for easy adjusting). It's possible that things are the size they are because of templates or something and my suggestions could be totally pointless.
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Date: 2010-04-24 12:41 am (UTC)I'll check that hex code in GIMP when I get two seconds.
I have to twiddle around with the template.
Some of the size is because of other modules that will get plugged in. The search module will go in the right side of the header, for instance. And there will be some code for today's date, either in the nav bar or I'll end up putting a breadcrumbs bar underneath.