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Posted by SpikeNov 19
Found a CSS color chart here. As you can see, have changed basic post text to a brighter white and links to gold. (Reload the page if you’re not seeing it.) Let me know if this works for you! Or feel free to suggest other color combos. Frankly, the “Hong Kong Night Theme” is working for me and I think I’m going to keep it and just go on modifying it, at least for the time being.
15 comments
Comment by HKMacs on November 19, 2009 at 9:44 am
Another one who just hates light text against a dark background. Honestly, would you buy a Kindle if it defaulted to white text on a black background? I think not. As a photographer originally myself, it’s a bit like trying to interpret all photographs from looking at negatives.
Comment by Fred on November 19, 2009 at 10:28 am
The HK night picture looks nice. The white on black seems hard to the eyes.
Comment by Spike on November 19, 2009 at 10:30 am
Understood. I’m open to suggestions for other color combinations. Or I may just end up changing the theme altogether once I have more time to scout around.
Comment by Mark on November 19, 2009 at 10:58 am
I agree about the HK photo, I think it’s great. Keep it unless you can do better with your Nikon!
. New font color is good with me but others may be particular. I like the ‘muted/noir’ look & feel of it. If you wind up changing the whole get-go, keep it dark! 8-|
Looks like twitter update is working, too?
Comment by Billy on November 19, 2009 at 11:46 am
Light text on dark is better for reading on computer screens. Kindle on iPhone has this option (as does Instapaper).
Comment by The KMB on November 19, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I think the white on black is fine.
Background picture also good. Wouldn’t it be cool
to have a daylight picture during daylight and then at nighttime it auto change to the night view…….?
Comment by Spike on November 19, 2009 at 1:35 pm
That would be very cool indeed! Wanna code a plugin for me that does that?
Comment by Joyce on November 19, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Congrats to move to a new place. What a great scene and new look! Indeed, I haven’t seen such view for long…..Happy Blogging!
Comment by HKMacs on November 19, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Since opinions seem divided on color scheme could you put up a viewer option? Old eyes can’t do white text on black b/ground very well.
Comment by Spike on November 19, 2009 at 4:50 pm
If you wanna point me at a plug-in that does that, I can try it out. But again … the current theme isn’t necessarily final!
Comment by John on November 19, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Hi Spike,
Nice to see you have a website that I can finally leave comments on without the use of a VPN.
It looks really good so far.
Oh, the links at the bottom of your site? They are German spam links. Some sleazy wordpress theme developers put them in as a way of generating page rank for their sites.
My guess is that if you try to remove them you will find that you can’t. Or at least it won’t be very easy to do.
Comment by Neddy on November 19, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I am another one of your silent readers. Anyway, I think your theme is terrific, although, at first, I was aggravated by white text on black background. It turns out, the problem was GREY on black… could you do in comments section what you have done to text in your posts? Like “lighten it up”?
Best wishes,
N.
Comment by Spike on November 19, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Yes, that did occur to me, one benefit of my own domain would be hopefully not getting blocked on the mainland. Thanks for the tip on the links, will see what I can do.
Comment by Spike on November 19, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Neddy, I’ll add it to the list!
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