John,

Great site! You've made a lot of progress under pressure lately. I just want to mention one thing: The white text on the light blue and light grey background is difficult to read. You may want to consider changing the text to a color that contrasts a little better.

Hi Matt :) Are you referring to the header bars that announce each forum?

Hi Lisa!

Specifically, I'm referring to the text in the "Reply to Thread" boxes (like the one I'm typing in right now), as well as the header bars that top each post (under the poster's name).

I'm a little confused... I have black text when typing in a reply.
I can make the header bars slightly darker though. I wonder if anyone else is having a problem with this.
I will see what I can do, Matt, thanks for pointing it out :)

Lisa --

I'm sorry -- I compelely misrepresented what I was trying to say. English really IS my first language, but sometimes you wouldn't know...

The titles of the boxes ("Title:" and "Message:") in the Repy to Thread, as well as the headers of each post is where the problem is, not actually in the reply boxes. Sorry for the confusion, my fault... :)

;) no problem :) Let me see what can be done about this.

Hey Matt, check your monitor's contrast man. ;)

Actually I'm only half-joking -- I don't find the text hard to read at all. Anyone else have an opinion? I don't want my users going blind on me. :)

The color scheme seems fine to me, but is it possible to be able to change color schemes like in phpBB?

Looks ok to me. Maybe at some point you (John) could consider different forum skins. For now, everything looks nice and simple (and thankfully, loads quickly).

It looks fine to me, too. Adding another skin in the future may be a good idea, though.

looks OK to me on my laptop and desktop

I can see everything clearly (don't break into song). I like the colors. But then again I'm partial to blues I guess.

I also find it hard to read certain things like, whats under yor user id or the date , # of posts and so on. Might be just my computer but I have this problem on no other sites.

Thanks

edit:
I am now vieving this from a computer at work and everything looks fine so I will check my settings on my home computer.

Thanks :confused:


John,

Great site! You've made a lot of progress under pressure lately. I just want to mention one thing: The white text on the light blue and light grey background is difficult to read. You may want to consider changing the text to a color that contrasts a little better.

looks fine to me!

I'm having the same difficultly as well with the white text. I'm on a laptop and have to use a severe angle to view the text. I don't think it's my setttings since I haven't run into this problem before. Anyway...love the forum! I stumbled across your websight a few months ago and have been checking in just about every day since. It's very inspirational and helps keep me focused on my goals...thanks again!

I tweaked the colors this morning, please let me know if this is any better! Thanks.

OK, I think I've found a pattern: Using IE 5.5 on Win98, in the light-grey section of the post header (the same area that has the avatar and poster's name) the text shows up white. This is the text that says things like Member, Date Joined, Age, Posts, etc. It's pretty much unreadable over the light background.

All other browsers I've tried (IE 6 on XP, Safari, Mozilla, IE on Mac) display that text as black, which of course is easily readable.

The problem (again, only in IE 5) also shows up a few other places, like white text over the pale blue background in the Control Panel instructions, etc.

Hope this helps!

I don't have any problems reading anywhere here. John's doing a great job! :)

OK, I think I've found a pattern: Using IE 5.5 on Win98, in the light-grey section of the post header (the same area that has the avatar and poster's name) the text shows up white. This is the text that says things like Member, Date Joined, Age, Posts, etc. It's pretty much unreadable over the light background.

All other browsers I've tried (IE 6 on XP, Safari, Mozilla, IE on Mac) display that text as black, which of course is easily readable.

The problem (again, only in IE 5) also shows up a few other places, like white text over the pale blue background in the Control Panel instructions, etc.

Hope this helps!How odd, I guess IE 5.5 is just broken. :)

Without writing a special handler for IE 5.5, I'm not sure how I could fix something like that since the colors seem to be correct for all other browsers. Anyone else notice this sort of thing? If so, please post browser, browser version and O/S. Thanks.

How odd, I guess IE 5.5 is just broken. :)
Yeah, this kind of thing can be a real pain sometimes. The only reason I even keep IE 5 around is to troubleshoot little glitches like this on the sites I build. I'm just glad Netscape 4 finally seems to be dying off!

Anyway, one quick fix you might be able to try is to set the color of the "smallfont" style to black ... right now it has no color specified, so I think IE 5 is still hanging onto the white from somewhere else ... assigning a color to the style might force it to use black like all the other browsers.

If that causes some other problem, you can always switch it back ... I know it's probably not worth a whole lot of effort, given the limited number of complaints so far. And anyone who does see the problem can just upgrade their browser to IE 6 by using Start Menu>>Windows Update (or just use a different browser).

Anyway, one quick fix you might be able to try is to set the color of the "smallfont" style to black ... right now it has no color specified, so I think IE 5 is still hanging onto the white from somewhere else ... assigning a color to the style might force it to use black like all the other browsers.
Good idea, I'll look into that as soon as I can (might have to wait until later today, I've got to get back to work!)

Cool, no biggie if it doesn't work, though ... I just noticed that sometimes, the smallfont style appears over a dark background (like the VB copyright notice at the very bottom of each page), so forcing it to black might cause new problems.

Yeah, I tried it and it changed too many other things, making a lot of stuff unreadable to everyone else. I did a search for similar issues on the vB support forums and nada, so I guess not too many people are having a problem with it. Must be an IE 5.5 only thing. Sorry. :(