Comments on: So what do you people think?

By: mmm

mmm — Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:12:59 +0000

creamy text…

By: bc

bc — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 04:58:19 +0000

Enjoy your content, don’t enjoy your white on black text. Hurts my eyes. One man’s opinion.

By: Ann (not Coulter)

Ann (not Coulter) — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:47:40 +0000

We were told in my advertising classes that in print ads, legibility is best with dark type on a light background, but for TV ads, it’s actually the opposite. I don’t know how that translates to the Internet, which is kind of a little bit of both.

By: CJ

CJ — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:17:28 +0000

The white background is way too bright, I would be worried that it might wash out the brilliance of your posts. I’d watch that “lesser blogs” comment though, whaddya gonna do next time you need Pete to blogsit? Or more to the point what might he do the next time he is asked to blog sit?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:48:55 +0000

I like the white background — makes it much easier if I want to print out a blurb from the blog.

By: mdhatter

mdhatter — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:12:19 +0000

bright red on dark blue please

By: Rob Fairchild

Rob Fairchild — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:52:09 +0000

I much prefer the “Classic” Sadly, No! dark background. On my li’l iBook screen, it is very easy to read. In fact, I found the white background rather jarring.

By: Sadly, No!

Sadly, No! — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:23:35 +0000

Terrible: We hope you’re wearing pink. :)

By: Terrible

Terrible — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:02:33 +0000

I thnk I’m goning to join Sadly, No in the state of drunkeness.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 05:44:41 +0000

Please switch to lime green text on a Day-Glo orange background. Also, use the blink tag more and switch to some type of Gothic font. (Just trying to help out a friend… and you’re taking all the traffic away from him with your outstanding content.)

By: carla

carla — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:58:18 +0000

PLEASE change to dark on light; I love your content (and even your fonts, for that matter), but the light on dark is hard to read.

By: Katieweb: a user-centered viewpoint

Katieweb: a user-centered viewpoint — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:49:45 +0000

Slight Redesign

Sebastien at Sadly, No! graciously linked to me this morning as an example of a well-designed blog. Unfortunately some of his users commented that this blog was more difficult to read. This is my first blog and has only been…

By: Yosef

Yosef — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:38:06 +0000

I like Eric’s idea about the word document.

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:19:07 +0000

I’ve no clue on a reformat, but I *did* manage to waste much time on a web color link:

http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/combining.asp

I love the little rolling contents block to the left.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:11:18 +0000

I would suggest you make the blog look like a Document in Microsoft Word so when my boss peaks in my office, it looks like I am working.

By: Redjalapeno

Redjalapeno — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:26:57 +0000

Mmmmmm….Creeeaaamy Thurrrrsday….

It appears to make the background not so dark on my monitors.

Perhaps a color change on font every now and again, to counter the boredom of shooting the fish that won’t die.

By: felix

felix — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:12:53 +0000

I think the ad maven David Ogilvy once said that reversing white text on a colored background reduces readability by 40%.
Of course, that was ad copy he was talking about, but I still prefer the straightforward designs like Pandagon.
Nice and clean.

Content is still king, and you’ve got that.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:48:31 +0000

I personally like this color scheme. The creamy text is nice. Your blog is highly readable, too. It doesn’t have to be black text on a white background like everyone elses. A little graphic element like a logo would be nice.

People here could be right – I may have overdesigned and overstuffed content into my blog in an attempt to make it look different. I’m tweaking it a bit now, but am not attempting a major overhaul. It’s only been up a couple of months anyway.

By: Yosef

Yosef — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:35:29 +0000

I don’t much care for this creamy text, but I know a lot of people don’t much care for me, so do whatever you want.

By: Sadly, No!

Sadly, No! — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:14:48 +0000

Ponder this: books are distrubted with BLACK text on WHITE backgrounds. There’s proabably a good reason for this.

To save money on ink? :-?