Forum topics not easily readable

Has been brought up by bdquick. I have tried some other combinations of color and it is a work in progress. Usually I hammer things out first on a design Forum with the folks there. But activity has been so slow I am winging it.

Made some drastic changes. Hope it helps. BTW if you put the cursor over the Topic name in the Category view the color will brighten.

There are still some difficult to read combinations, like the blue on black of the names and number of posts. Also there was something white on yellow on the login screen (do not know what it said, could not read it).

Also the fact that hovering over a text is brightening it does not attract new users IMHO. When I come to a site and have difficulties in reading it, I am not going to hover everywhere in the hope that will better it. No, I go elsewhere.

I once (long ago) studied this subject a bit further using a set of three papers by  Gerald Munch printed in 1984 in three Volumes of "Tekniques" (from Textronix, Inc). It contains a chart of Best/Worst Color Combinations (Jo Ann Kinney 1962). As computers improved a lot since those times, but man did not, I suppose they are still valid.

Amongst the worst combinations I find:
. Yellow on White and vv.
. Blue on Black

It is not a trivial subject.

I agree that it is not quite what I would like. Part of the problem is many elements of different pages use the same css code. Thus if you change one font color like that displayed in the Headlines page it changes the font color in the posts. Thus the image selected may look good for the Forum view but not for the Category view. Since the previous Theme did not draw too many objections I am returning to it.

Hey Matt
That looks better (Green on light grey background)

If any one has a good image that contains a fair amount of open area of a light color and might look "Linuxy" feel free to post it and maybe we can work it into a good Theme.

Thanks.

Another attempt. I do not know where everyone has gone but the deafening sound of silence has left me to my own on picking something.

I have been trying to find something suitable - quite a task, as you don't want to interfere with the writing. I thought of taking a pic and making it transparent - but haven't worked hat out either.
Have a look here  top left (If you cut and trim and mirror)

It is quite readable for me now. Black on Yellow is a "Best combination" in my list.

But I do get e-mails now from something that supposes I am not reading the posts. Which is not true. I do read them, because they are signaled in my RSS feeds in Akregator. But I do not always log in then when I do not wish to add a new post to the thread.

Negative, captain! The former combination was quite better. The problem is with the color of new topics. Too light compared to the gray background, not enough contrast.

@hcvv. The daily notification of email on new posts can be turned off in your edit profile area.

@eberhard. I am not quite sure which page you are viewing. Perhaps a SS would help.

@alastairo. That is a very nice image. The last Theme we had contained a Snowy landscape as well. I was looking for a change for this Theme. Will have to keep the one you posted for later possibilities.

Thanks. The facts being that I subscribed to mails long ago. I made a special inbox for them in Kmail and a filter to put mails coming from lefora there. Also a long time ago (somewhat less long then the one above), mails stopped comming. I did not bother to much, because I am rather up to date using the RSS feeds.

And now since about two days these mails are comming in. They are not comming from a lefora host, but from forum@forumnotification.com (be glad that such a nothing saying name was not filtered out by any spam filter).

They do not inform me that a new post was added to a thread I contibuted to, but tell me I did not read some posts (naughty boy), which is not true.

Another remark about the mails themselves. They are HTML formatted. Which Kmail does not render to begin with (security, security!). I consider it being a bad example using HTML coded emails. (But I am an old grumbler ).

It just struck me that the image background was not displaying for all members. I redid it. Did you folks previously see the penguin theme against a snowy backdrop?

Getting notifications working from Lefora has been a ongoing struggle since Spring hcvv. They only just recently enabled it. It is still not perfect and I will pass on your report.

Hehe!. My ISP filters spam for me and is rather good at it. From time to time I check what they put in my spam-box and empty it.

I just checked and found a mail from 11 september telling me to read posts on this forum. Apparently the first one of those was caught in the act, as I suspected in my post above. Two later mails were not accused of being spam. Don't know why.

But I suspect tthat such a never before used address (and not from Lefora) is on nobody's green list.

I like the background pic. Maybe you could put a few penguins frolicking on the water edge !!

Now with the photo in the background the contrast is ok.

The Waterfall image has too many elements that cause reading difficulty. So back to the Strolling Penguin.

Great! Keep that!