Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Current colors are great.

f the anti-bush movement.

Oh. Sorry, that got away from me.

I don't care for the comment colors nor size, really. On my crappy monitor at work, I gotta squint like an old man to see anything. 'Course I'm rapidly becoming an old man, soo.....

A couple of other things would be to *not* default 'anonymous' into the Name field of the 'add comment' area and to lengthen and widen out this box here.

Hey... glad to have had an impact here :)

1. No.

2. Well...

The white on deep blue (headers) is great. The lighter blue background is much harder to read unless I bump the font-size up to much larger than I need to for *any* other site. (Love the Ctrl+ScrollWheel feature :)

Also, the text sizes are quite small cf other sites. (The google ads on the RHS and this comments box are about 200% the size of the comments... so I suspect that your CSS is FUBAR).

As a general rule, there is *no* colour that both white and black text will be legible on. And to top that off, blues are the worst colours to pick as it is blue that the eye is least sensitive to.

(And all this is on my swanky 15.4" LCD on my new laptop... so it's not even a shagged out CRT that hasn't got any contrast left that I'm having troubles with!)

Ah... just found one of the issues here... you've broken one of the "nice-CSS" rules:

body {
font-size: 8pt;
}

Please use percentages!!! That way, things will be relative to the settings that I have on my browser (i.e. I may normally have 10pt while my grandma may normally have 14pt, but you force us both to use 8pt). Using pt is slightly less unforgivable than using px for font sizes in a stylesheet, but it's still bad form.

Here's a W3C tip about it...:

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size

And while I'm providing such feedback, can you make this damned textarea box bigger? (5 lines * 30 columns isn't very big to try and write and review comments in!

Thanks!!!

the reason i didnt make the comment box larger also was that it sort of dominated the page originally and i shrunk it. i admit its a pain functionally though and will make it larger.

Hey I just noticed - Cooper started this thread asking about changes and Atrox actually responded and did all the work. So fess up, either you're one in the same person or Atrox has ben 0wned by Cooper

Im just looking at making the background blue a little more blue so the white stands out and making the background on the comments white.

Just uppin' the text size made it more readable to me. And personally, I think that atrox and Nathan are the same person. Gives "me, myself, and I" all new meaning.

;)

I am Sparticus!

actually we are different people, coop and I that is (and the Nathan crack was just a low blow man, ouch). its just that coop is an idea man, he is smarter than I am no doubt, but he is above getting his hands dirty to actually do something, the burden falls to the little people.

So whats the verdict now? I went darker blue everywhere white font is used and a lighter blue everywhere black font is used (almost too light I think, but I couldnt find a good one really).

I definitely like the darker blue with white but not sure about the comments now, they are more readable but not sure how it affects the overall cosmetic feel of the page.

anyway, thanks to all for the great feedback. special props to Stup for all the explicit tips and such, much appreciated.

It's workin for me. 2 Thumbs up

Liking it lots. Much more legible, and I think the aethetics of the page are good. Might have to pinch this colour scheme for the next site I design *smirk*

No worries about the help; happy to been able to complain and help at the same time :)