Ryka wrote: >>Ok, I just held a poll at my archive asking if people preferred dark text and light background or light background and dark text. The damn poll was split 50/50. So my question is, what do you usually prefer and why?<<
You mean dark text/light background or light text/dark background, right? :-) and LOL on the poll results! I had that happen when I asked if people preferred html vs text for story files, got a 50/50 split. Personally I like light text/dark background as long as it's not pure white text on black background, but a reader at my archive explained why she really needed white background/black text...for printing! Quite a few people will print out stories to read on the bus or at lunch or other breaks or on trips. When I had the background dark and light text, she had to save the file as a text to her computer and print that or save the html file to her computer and change my colors and print that. Otherwise her printer printed a dark background on the paper, not only is that hard to read, leaves smudges on your fingers from the toner or ink, it's also expensive for the reader, eats up their toner or ink fast. So that's the best reason I can think of to have a white background with black text on all story pages. And doing a light background with dark text may still cause the printer to print some shade of gray all over the page, plus if the text is not black, it'll also print as a shade of gray and the contrast may be too low to read easily. I still use a dark background/light text for the html versions of the stories, but there's always a link to a plain text version on every story for people who like to print. Since I'm using the automated archive scripts, it's done automatically and doesn't double take double the disk space since the automated archive stores the html version on the site and then creates a text version on the fly whenever people click on the text link. alice ttlg http://idiotbox.populli.net/ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ ~ * ~ * ~ Is e 'm fear a n� 'n g�ire deireannach as slaodaiche smaoinicheas! = He who laughs last thinks slowest -- Scottish Gaelic _______________________________________________ Fanficwebdesign mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://populli.net/mailman/listinfo/fanficwebdesign_populli.net
