From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 24 9:21:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from curlew.cs.man.ac.uk (curlew.cs.man.ac.uk [130.88.13.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AF6159C4; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:20:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk) Received: from fs3.rncm.ac.uk ([193.63.96.102] helo=rncm.ac.uk) by curlew.cs.man.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11JI7P-0001mq-00; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:04:11 +0100 Received: from RNCM-FS3/SpoolDir by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 24 Aug 99 16:04:15 GMT Received: from SpoolDir by RNCM-FS3 (Mercury 1.44); 24 Aug 99 16:04:09 GMT Received: from selene (193.63.96.96) by rncm.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 24 Aug 99 16:04:06 GMT From: "Peter McGarvey" To: "Thomas David Rivers" , , Cc: , Subject: RE: FreeBSD webdesign Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:04:05 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <199908241123.HAA59303@lakes.dignus.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Web styles/colour schemes are something I feel strongly about. I'm dyslexic. A bad colour scheme make my life hell. Personally I find Black on White difficult to read. When I'm trying to read along a line my eyes sort of "fall off". To get around this I have to peer at the sceen intently and usually end up getting a headache. Black on Light Grey is much nicer. Blue on Black is 100% impossible to read. Bigger bolder fonts help. However, instead of arguing the toss about personal preferance in colour, why not investigate a method of allowing users to overide colours and font styles. Much more user friendly. TTFN, FNORD -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Peter McGarvey, Networks Manager | email: Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk Royal Northern College of Music | tel: +44 (0)161 907 5218 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, | fax: +44 (0)161 273 7611 England M13 9RD | mobile: +44 (0)7887 990564 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Thomas David > Rivers > Sent: 24 August 1999 12:23 > To: k4n@hotmail.com; roelof@nisser.com > Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD webdesign > > > > > > k4n _ wrote: > > > > > > I thought maybe you would be interested in a free website redesign(or > > > something) so I downloaded the HTML for your site, and made > a few changes. I > > > made the background black, redid the FreeBSD logo slightly, > and darkened the > > > logos at the bottom to match the color scheme. If you are > interested I can > > > send you a copy, I think it looks pretty cool. See you later > > > > Why do people always assume that dark is cool. The purpose of a website > > is to convey information. > > Let me add to this that we decided on paper that the background should > be white, and the print blank. In fact, we usually go to a lot of > trouble to make the paper as white as possible. I wonder why > so many people > feel differently for computer text? > > Also - I have several acquaintances with vision problems. Some tell me > that besides a small font, a dark background with light text is the > most difficult to read. Others tell me its preferable. > > What this points to is the ability to be as generic as possible, and > let the reader decide... > > Just some random morning thoughts... > > - Dave Rivers - > -- > rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 > Get your mainframe (370) `C' compiler at http://www.dignus.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message