----- Original Message ----- From: "alice ttlg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You mean dark text/light background or light text/dark background, right? :-)
*smacks head* This is what I get for writing e-mails a 2am. Yes, I meant dark text/light background or light text/dark background. lol > 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! Really? What color do use for text on a black background? I always found white text to be best. > > 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. Interesting about the printing problems, I don't think I've ever thought about that. My computer automatically ignores the black background and prints the white text in black and leaves colored text as is. > > 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. My current solution is black background/white text with an option for text versions. Do you know how the automated archive creates text versions "on the fly"? I don't really need the auto archive since this is a pretty small archive, but having a way to create automatice text versions would be handy. Thanks! Ryka _______________________________________________ Fanficwebdesign mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://populli.net/mailman/listinfo/fanficwebdesign_populli.net
