If you're one of my faithful readers who actually visits my site to read the posts, then you're in for a real treat. No more brooding, moody, black-is-the-new-black MBSL&S template! Nope, welcome to the shinier, happier, allegedly easier to read MBSL&S experience. Since I launched the blog a year and a half ago, I've never bothered to spiff-up the place. In part due to a fondness for dark colors. But mostly because I launched the blog with a Blogger classic template and was kind of worried of losing any customizations I made. All ill-placed concerns.Best of all, just check out my bitchin' new banner. Compliments of the incredible Jason Robertshaw, mastermind behind Cephalopodcast blog (that's Jason in the self-portrait at the top of the post.) Jason worked a lot of great imagery into the banner. There's an Anopheles mosquito (my bane while in the field), a stinging jelly, my beloved moray, and a sunset through the Golden Gate in my SF home. And a bonus, Jason even fit a little queer pride into the banner with a rainbow gradient. Thanks, Jason. I owe you big time!
If you like the changes, let me know. If things are hard to read, let me know as well as I'm not married to any of the colors and fonts.
11 comments:
Rick: no problem. Glad to help a fellow ocean blogger. Photo credits available here. Thanks.
Love the banner!
With my rubbish eyesight, I'm having a bit of a problem reading the small black font on the mid-green background. (I may be the only one, though.)
Dude, your gay? I thought you like ABBA because of the great music?
jk
Love it. The banner is awesome. It's easier to read than white on black, though I think you could go with a lighter background to make it even easier. Also, and this is entirely personal, but your Atheist A clashes horribly with the green background. It makes me feel a little nauseas, like when my boyfriend wore two different shades of yellow one day a couple months ago. And as long as I'm nitpicking, I might as well also mention that 10% of men are red-green colour blind and will have trouble with your red post titles on a green background. All in all though, it ROCKS.
My twenty-one year old eyes can't be failing me this early; I think there must be something wrong with the template. Green and black are not doing it for me.
I like it, and the banner does really grab you. What a nice counter-point to the name. And I like the rainbow gradient.
As for font color and background, according to this accessibility color contrast testing tool unfortunately, the contrast between font and background color only passes with large font. Folks with some vision challenges might have a hard time reading your text.
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thanks SO MUCH for the constructive feedback... i'm a complete doofus when it comes to this... please continue to give me feedback till i get something that works!
since i use a lot of images on the blog, i want a background that sets off the images well... black did that, but i was also listening to readers who said the white text on black was painful...
bear with me as i fine tune the site...
I like the banner, however; I liked the dark background on the previous layout. I found it easier to read.
SO that's what the scarlet letter stands for! I was getting ready to reread the book to see if I had missed some hidden meaning!
I like the blue better than the green, though both lack the "edge" and feel of the black.
I am one of those people who find it hard to read extended passages of white text on black background, so I appreciate the change. From a usability perspective, it is frowned on too. It is also a pain when switching back to the rest of the Net which is predominately black text on white. I think the blue is a better choice than the green.
Looks great Rick, except your in-text hyperlinks are difficult for me to see... the purple surrounded by black on blue maybe? Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?
I think TO95 is due for a makeover too.
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