Colors and lines.

[jay-ell]

I'm finding the link color to be exceptionally difficult to distinguish.  I'm good with the color scheme in general, but the medium gray link on the medium gray background just kinda gets lost.

Do you mean it looks like regular text, or that it blends in with the background on your machine?  Because I picked that color to make it look almost, but not quite, like regular text.  

Because I hate people.

[AugustWest]

Because I hate people.

Well then.  That clears it right up, I suppose.

Not that it matters in light of the above, but me and my weak eyes (killed too many kittens, heh) have trouble distinguishing the links from the regular text.

[jay-ell]

I don't want to be a bitch, but really I just prefer links and regular text to look the same.  I set my browser preferences to "Hover" so I don't have to look at blue, underlined text.  As such, if this really drives people up the wall, I'll change it, since I don't have to look at it anyway.   However, I really prefer understated, monochrome color schemes, so if y'all think you can live with it I'd like to leave it as-is.  I'm a reasonable person, so if I get lots of complaints, I'll take a poll.  Form follows function, after all.

[jough]

jl, you can create a new theme, like this grey one, without having to delete the extant themes.  That way people can pick which theme they'd like from their profile.

I noticed that all of the link colours were the same, which just drives me up the wall because then I can't tell which threads I've read.  So I made a subtle change.  Of course, now people won't be able to figure out which links are unvisited and which they've visited...

[jay-ell]

Fine, fine.  Change away.  But please -- those of you who know my real name, avoid using it...I'm not gonna be all crazy about it, but it kind of freaks me out.

Jough, don't your little new post indicators tell you if you've read a post or not?  Mine do...

[jough]

The new post indicators only tell you if there's a new post since the last time you visited the forum.

If you sound come in, read only one post, and then log out/close your browser/go home etc., then they won't show as being "new" anymore.

It's not a big deal, but there's no reason really to make all of the links EXACTLY the same colour.

-- Jough Dempsey (and yes, this is his real name)

[jay-ell]

But it seems like the same problem would occur with the visited links, etc -- if you change computers or your history has been cleared, you're SOL.  I don't care, it's up to you guys.  This board, contrary to popular beleif, isn't here for my sole pleasure.  And useability (heaven help me for using that word) is more important than my aesthetic eccentricities.

[jough]

The problem is that even on the same computer with the same browser history the server has to change the images on the server-side - so it just keeps track of the last time someone logged in and then changes the icons accordingly.

As I said, it's not a big deal, but usability pretty much just means "making the site as easy to use for as many people without annoying the fuck out of them when they try to go from page to page."

I think that's actually the dictionary definition, but only in Canada.

[Choop]

Yeah, I'm a little bit crazy, but I *like* Opera, especially for forums. Usually I don't use it, but it's a good alterna-browser for doing things IE just won't or can't, like keeping all the browser windows in one start-bar button without running XP. (hope that triggers some emoticon).

Anyway.

Looks good! Exactly the same as in IE, and I'd test it in Mozilla except for my rule about having no more than two browser programs open at the same time.

[jough]

Well, these boards use old fashioned table design - they work in Netscape 4, even, which doesn't mean anything to non-web-designer geeks, but it's a real chore to make sites both look good in modern browsers *and* work in the #1 browser of 1996 (which people are still using).

I used to use Opera but switched to Mozilla for more features and better standards compliance.  Actually, I use Mozilla Firebird, which has a different front-end than the Mozilla Application Suite.

But all works well even in IE, which is known for poor standards support and odd bugs.

I'm sure this is off-topic by this time.  Did JLD fall asleep at the wheel or something?

[jay-ell]

I'm here, I'm here.  This thread has wandered a bit, but it's still interesting, so I'm letting it go.  Either people are self-censoring, or I'm a  lighter touch than the O-Stad.  (Maybe a little of both.)

[AugustWest]

Yeah, but WTF does people using your real name have to do with link colors?

--Puddin Tane (go ahead, ask me again...)

[andalucia]

Thumbs up in Firebird.