Argh, my eyes! My eyes!
Ok folks, I'm going to lay it on the line here. If I'm hopping from one blog to another, seeing what's on other people's blogrolls and wondering if I'm missing out on any little gems, after all if it's good enough for them maybe it's good enough for me as well (admit it, you all do it) and I see a blog which has lots of bright text on a black background.... I'M NOT GOING TO READ IT.
I'm going to hit the "back" button faster than you can say "Jack Rabbit Slim's". I might even send an email to the blogroll owner asking them to remove you from their blogroll on the grounds of incredibly bad site design. Surely, if you want people to read your blog - and there's no point writing it at all if you don't want anyone to read it - then you'll make sure that it's easy on the eye and pleasing to read. Don't you?
Or is making sure people want to stay longer than two seconds not a criteria for site design these days?
Honestly, reading reams and reams of small text on a black background just makes me dizzy. And when I leave the site the sudden and total colour change makes me even dizzier. So please people...... use some common sense when picking a colour scheme for your sites.
P.S. I'm going to let Tracy at Artsy Science off this one, because he posts lots of wonderful pictures and when he does post some text it's short and to the point. So his site doesn't make me dizzy. So he gets away with it. Just.
Hi Dan.
What I've found out about my commenting is that it must be your firewall, either on your browser, anti-virus, or anything you have running to block pop-ups. There should be somewhere you can set it to "allow" my site? please try I miss your funny comments!
Oh! I was gonna make that one of my first posts, STOP with the text on Black backgrounds!!! But there are SOOO many people doing it! Or they'll have the nicest site and then they redesign, and it's BLACK! ARRRGGHHH!
Also that is the FIRST thing I learned in HTML, Web Design class;
When it comes to entering a lot of text that is meant to impart information, there is actually a REASON why newspapers, books, magazines, etc. have black (or dark) text on white (or light colored) back ground. It's EASIEST on the EYES! It's been scientifically proven!!!
How can we make them STOP?!!!
YES!!! There is one person on my blogroll that has such a color scheme, and hers is the only one i will read because it's totally worth it. But yeah, in general, I won't even try! here via michele's!