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Web browsers let you turn off colours. If someone is not allowed web access while at work, It won't just be enworld's colours at issue.
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Black or white?
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WhatGravitas
Explorer
Black. It's easier on the eyes, especially during nightly browsing - no need to have your retinas burned. 
And it's ENWorld's "thing".
And white only looks good if done well (like all these gradient-filled Web 2.0 websites, otherwise it looks like very bare HTML).
So, yeah, black, please.
And for the work surfers, I recommed Zap Colors - it's pretty universal!
Cheers, LT.
And it's ENWorld's "thing".
And white only looks good if done well (like all these gradient-filled Web 2.0 websites, otherwise it looks like very bare HTML).
So, yeah, black, please.
And for the work surfers, I recommed Zap Colors - it's pretty universal!
Cheers, LT.
Charwoman Gene
Adventurer
Umm, a small request? could the white pages be given the old text colors?
Right now, with the Gold, zee goiggles, zey do nothing!
Right now, with the Gold, zee goiggles, zey do nothing!
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
Should be pretty easy.
I've used styleswitch.js to do this in the past.
Put the following code in the <head> of the page (just before </head> )
black.css and white.css are the black and white versions of your css.
Code:
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="/black.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="Black-Style" />
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" href="/white.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="White-Style" />
<!--This script should appear below your LINK stylesheet tags -->
<script src="/include/styleswitch.js" type="text/javascript">
/***********************************************
* Style Sheet Switcher v1.1- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for this script and 100s more
***********************************************/
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=function(){
if (getCookie("mysheet") == null) {
chooseStyle("Black-Style", 60);
}
var formref=document.getElementById("switchform")
indicateSelected(formref.choice)
}
</script>Then at the bottom of the home page you can have
Code:
<p style="font-size:9px;">Choose your preferred style for this site: <form id="switchform">
<input type="radio" name="choice" value="Black-Style" onClick="chooseStyle(this.value, 60)">Black Style<br />
<input type="radio" name="choice" value="White-Style" onClick="chooseStyle(this.value, 60)">White Style
</form></p>Then put the attached .js file in the appropriate place (in my example here it would be in an /include/ directory - if you want to put it somewhere else just modify the script src= tag at the top of the example)
(I've had to rename the script include file as styleswitch.js.txt in order to upload it - you will rename it to styleswitch.js)
This will then provide black pages by default, but if someone selects white it will use a cookie to remember and give them white pages in the future.
Cheers
Huh? Gold, what? What's gold? It's white background, black text, blue links. It's identical to how it was yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that, and a week ago. As in, I didn't change the white one, except to move some text and add a couple of links.
Methinks it's your goggles that are borked, not the website! Go tell your optician you're hallucinating colours that don't exist!
There ain't no gold!
Plane Sailing
Astral Admin - Mwahahaha!
Personally I like dark text on a light background best.
1. better contrast level (for me)
2. better readability (especially on handheld devices like iPhone)
3. black is very 90's. Lots of black websites in the late 90's. Not so many now (especially amongst sites that have lots of text for you to read)
4. better, uh, work compatibility. nuff said.
Cheers
1. better contrast level (for me)
2. better readability (especially on handheld devices like iPhone)
3. black is very 90's. Lots of black websites in the late 90's. Not so many now (especially amongst sites that have lots of text for you to read)
4. better, uh, work compatibility. nuff said.
Cheers
Dragonhelm
Knight of Solamnia
Ebony and ivory....
I want zebra stripes. I won't go grey, though.
I want zebra stripes. I won't go grey, though.
Indeed. IMO the voting fluff is the wrong way around. White is what strains my eyes, not black.
Walking Dad
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Go away with grey!
Serious, on grey it is harder to read white than on black and harder to read black than on white.
And I like my dark room. Keep black as an option at least, please.
That is NO fluff vote.
Serious, on grey it is harder to read white than on black and harder to read black than on white.
And I like my dark room. Keep black as an option at least, please.
That is NO fluff vote.
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