I see you've put in a lot of work, but as someone who uses the logged out view quite often, i find yours simply unreadable

• a lot of empty screen space on the right
• poll is on the bottom (as is chatterbox etc etc ) and its hard to read because there is not enough contrast
• using sans-serif font (Arial?), and mixing serif/sans-serif
• lego color scheme for code (hot blue, hot pink, orange, on two shades of brown)
• code looks ok without js only because the background is ends up whiter, so there is enough contrast for easy reading
• unreadable link colors (black on dark blue)
• complete disconnect between node title/content and author, I can't tell who wrote what
• tumorously dark floating footer which gets clipped, with bizzare prose, and its not even a navigational
• A visit to the monastery should not begin with It was a dark and gloomy night

You've also chosen a peculiar page to mock up, the monastery Gates, I don't think I've visited that page in years, but it has made this stand out

( by LanX on Jan 03, 2011 at 12:57 ) 7 direct replies Offer your reply
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There are 7 replies already and even The real Monastery Gates is providing a link to offer another one reply -- 7 replies is a lot, adding another one without viewing the existing ones would surely lead to duplication

See what it looks like for me http://browsershots.org/http://luisroca.com/PerlMonks/Anon_Monk.html

I hope this is helpful

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