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Offline AndyMacFAIL

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Re: Suggestions & Comments
« Reply #125 on: April 25, 2011, 08:08:59 pm »
I believe the reason for this is that there is only one code that sets all the fields text color.

In order to have the dark background else where, the text color needs to be light enough to  be seen... yet dark enough to show up against the lighter backgrounds.

Doesnt allow for much wiggle room unless we change the txt color to something really bright, like Red/Teal/Light Blue. Any of which would look gaudy.

Method is correct.  In the coding for createaforum, one single CCS color code controls numerous places in the board.  Some of these places have dark backgrounds and some are using the vegas gold or beige background.  That's one of the reasons why I used very little 'white' as the text color in the darker backgrounds as the color code would then make certain areas with the light backgrounds very difficult to read with white text.

For example: If I change the color code to 'black' to darken the text in the subtitles on the home page, you'll won't be able to read the text in the top left section of the home page.  If I change it to a lighter color to make text in the darker backgrounds more visible, some areas that use the lighter background will be more difficult to read.

So it is very difficult fine tuning this compromise of using both dark & light backgrounds here, as there's a fine line in finding colors that are easily visible in all the different shades of backgrounds.

I could change it to 'red' which would be more easily visible in both the dark and light backgrounds but I'd expect I'd be soon reading plenty of complaints that 'there's too much red text here.'

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Update:  I changed the color code to a slightly darker grey in order to make the 'subtitle' area of the home page easier to read on the light backgrounds.  It will also make it a tad less visible on the darker backgrounds. (I can always change it back)

Also to show you what substituting 'red' as the CCS color would do to the look and to further demonstrate how changing only one color code affects other parts of the site, look here at a sample board I set up to work on possible changes.  You'll be surprised how much is affected by changing just one text code color:

http://duffer.createaforum.com/index.php






 

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