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Project Gutenberg home pageStuck in a 1995 time warp, Project Gutenberg‘s site layout screamed disdain for modern Web aesthetics.

Now, however, after just-made changes, the site is at least in the 21st century. You can even choose the appearance from one of six skins.

Flaws still remain such as in the default color scheme and the choice and arrangement of home page links in various skins. Not all the options work in the aging and somewhat quirky Internet Explorer, just in more modern browsers such as Firefox.

Overdue but welcome

Even so, this is a welcome and long overdue improvement. Furthermore, through the miracles of style sheets, it should be easier than before to do major site tweaks.

Way to go, Gutenberg.

Details: On top of everything else, the Gutenberg site is a model of accessibility for the disabled.

Those faint red lines: Just noticed ‘em in the screen shot. They’re from my spell checker, not PG.

Also from the Glitch Department: Yep, that should have been “disdain” in the first sentence and I’ve fixed it. Thanks to Neologize for the catch.

 
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