[pmwiki-users] Fwd: [pmwiki-devel] ZAP cookbook, www.zapsite.org

The Editor editor at fast.st
Thu Dec 7 15:25:29 CST 2006


On 12/7/06, Crisses <crisses at kinhost.org> wrote:
>
> Why are you using bold red in the first place? :)
>
> I'm a web designer, and I can say with authority that the primary
> purpose of MANY websites should be data/information.  If you are
> hindering the data/information getting to the reader, they get
> frustrated, and the website fails at its primary purpose.  Looking
> great should be secondary to being useful.  Being useful and usable
> are tops (and not the same things).  Kindness to people's eyes is
> next.  Pretty comes later.  My philosophy on design isn't necessarily
> the most popular, but it's pretty sane -- I disagree with the
> majority of uses for flash, motion, etc.  I don't design sites to
> impress the people paying me.  I design sites so that my client's
> customers can find what they're looking for.
>
> So, my suggestion is that you find a nice, non-blinding color, that
> compliments the site.  Black & white is very stark, and red adds to
> that. I suggest changing the color of the background of the body area
> behind the text to a very mildly blue color.  If you want to REALLY
> stick to websafe colors #ccffff.  That will remove the black-on-white
> eyestrain problem -- black text on a white background is the hardest
> on people's eyes.  Links can then be something like #009900 -- I
> suggest they change color, or go bold, and gain an underline when
> hovered.  Bold can make the text jump if it's in a sentence, though,
> so an underline &/or color change is fine.  Blues tend to be gentle
> on the eyes.  Keeping the black & stars around the border is fine.
> I'd keep that.  I won't go into the emotions behind color, or the
> traditional industry uses of color :)
>
> If you want a CSS snippet for this, let me know.
>
> Crisses


If you have a snippet handy, I'll give it a whirl.  There's reasons
for these colors on my main site, but those reasons don't apply for
zapsite.  There I'm a bit more free to tinker.

Cheers,
Caveman




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