Link Color Scheme
 

I'm feeling a little difficulty in reading a text of an "active" link.

The new BBS has those color schemes with bright whilte background "#FFFFFF":
- Regular texts in black "#000000" -- good contrast.
- New (unvisited) links in dark grayish blue "#003399" -- good contrast.
- Visited links in brighter blue "#3366cc" -- good contrast.
- Pointed (hover) links in more brighter blue "#6699ff" -- still good contrast.
- Selected (active) links in light blue "#cccccc" -- this doesn't make a good readable contrast with my laptop's LCD display.

The color scheme is very consistent and I guess you don't want to put any other "group" of color in it, but I'd like to see at least a darker color for active links so that it makes links easier to read.

p.s.

Many of you who use only point & click to surf pages may not notice what I'm saying. If you are one of those and using IE, plase hit Tab key several times and see a highlight of links moving. It is what I'm talking about.

You can jump into the highlighted link by hitting Enter key. I use this way of navigation a lot with this forum.

For "good contrast" in the above, I would instead put "disgustingly high contrast". Every time I go look at Flyertalk now, I have to turn the brightness on my screen down to avoid feeling like my eyes will burn out.

Black and dark blue on bright white is very unpleasant. I hope something can be done to bring back the old colour scheme, or to at least make this one usable.

Kremmen,

Ok, let me correct my words -- please read as "high/low" contrast instead of "good/bad" contrast. High contrast can be lowered with brightness control, but low contract can hardly be enhanced. I'd like to see the lowest-contrast color changed a little darker.

Though I don't feel so much against the high contrast of the current color scheme, I'd cast my vote into the old color scheme. I liked it a lot.

I have to adjust the contrast and brightness on my monitor because the white ground is burning my eyes to the point of tears. Perhaps a very light blue,gray or ecru ground color will be more soothing on our eyes.

Rssrsvp-

You might try the free Opera browser downloadable at www.opera.com. It gives you almost TOTAL of the background and link color schemes and other nice thingees such as font size, heading size etc. Right now I am using black letters on a light blue background color. Usually I prefer black on white, but as the day progresses I too prefer a more muted background.

MisterNice

Rssrsvp and MisterNice,

If you ALWAYS want to see background color and text color of your choice, IE also can do it.

Select Tools->Options. Hit Color button, select whatever text color and background color you want to see, and press OK. Then press Alt-E, Alt-C (I'm sorry I can't write how these buttons read because my IE is not English version) and OK button twice.

I don't want to do that, though...

The link colcors is the only thing I can complain about in the new FT. For a person who is slightly colorblind, the lighter/darker blue color combination is not the best of choices. Couldn't the powers to be change it to something like blue/red that gives us a better contrast?

/Pete

I have another idea. Use text-decoration: underline instead of text-decoration: none ... or, better yet, just get rid of the CSS coding entirely!