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I keep the BCTS main page, as well as my own tracking page, open at all times, and routinely refresh them throughout the day to check for content. I keep the site's scaling slightly smaller than my monitor, though, so along each edge of the screen there's about an inch of the site's default background color.
Imagine my surprise today when I refreshed, and that went from a very very soft, creamy pink to a much darker maroon with dots!
After recovering from the surprise, I think I like this better though. It mellows the site's appearance a little bit. Good choice, elves!
Melanie E.
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Thank TBFS
This was a suggestion from the guys at The Breast Form Store. :) We tried it out on a test site we have running and tweaked the color about 8 times before we were satisfied. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
not red enough for maroon
not on my display.
my only issue is the majority of the content section glares white hurting the eyes.
the background colour in the nav boxes is nice, but the main content body background is way to bright.
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
Browser adjustments
The main background color is manilla cream, so if it is too bright, I suspect you should adjust your brightness and or contrast in your browser or machine.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Background color
The main background color is not brighter as before, but the dark maroon border creates a big contrast to it which almost hurts my eyes on my display (which is already at the lowest brightness setting).
Martina
Contrast
You should also have a contrast setting. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
She's probably using a glossy
She's probably using a glossy display. They glare out even with adjustment.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
huh
laptop display, with it dimmed to 60% and still the glare hurts my eyes.
the "Manila cream" is so close to white it glares, lots of sites have the same flaw, bright background ( white or near white ) that displays make glow in your eyes. even pure black is a bad background colour, it glares. displays are LIGHT EMITTING devices so backgrounds will glare unless they are designed to be dim.
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
did that
even before the border colour change.
it has always glared.
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
Glaring White
If you are a user of Windows (8/8/1 or 10) , Office and shudder Lookout then you are no stranger to lots of whitespace on your screen. Coupled to that the black on white text is not a lightish grey on white.
The usability IMHO is crap. They have gone backwards for the sake of style.
You'd better get used to it (sadly) or find a different Operatiing Systems/Browser/Email etc to use.
I hope that someone in the USA sues MS (for a gazillion $$$) for making things harder for older or the visually impared to use their products. Only then will you get some changes.
When I finally pull the plug and retire, I will be able to say good riddance to each and every Redmond product I am forced to use, sorry fight against to do my day job.
If you're going to do that,
If you're going to do that, you might as well suggest suing the monitor manufacturers for 1) making monitors so short you have to stoop to view them, and 2) using insanely high resolutions so you can't read the text unless you have a magnifying glass. (Thus turning everyone into an example of caricature Japanese from WW-II propaganda films. Stoop shouldered, squinty eyed...)
Reduce the resolution? You can't really do that - it distorts the picture, and some of them refuse to show you any alternatives until you drop to the square resolutions. I have two 19" square screens, they take up less desk space than two wide screens, and they are _just as tall_ as a 24" wide screen.
You can also yell at web sites that insist on being more than 1024 wide (scrolling back and forth is a pain). Even if they're _at_ 1024, you often end up scrolling, because the side bar on the browser takes up several pixels.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.