I don't like to blog about blogging but...I recently saw someone on Twitter say something to the effect of "Gee whizz, I hate when blogs have white writing on a black background, that really makes my eyeballs ache. :("
So obviously I thought, "OMG!!! That's exactly what my blog looks like!!! :(((((" So I resolved to take action. Of course when I went to look at changing the design of the blog I discovered those nice new blogger templates and woo - you can change the width of columns and - oh hey you can have three columns now, wow!
By the time I was done I had a lovely new look blog with, yes that's right, white writing on a black background.
It's not that I didn't try other looks. I tried kind of a notepaper type background and some blue print. I even thought, "hey I'll handwrite a new blog header on notepaper, it'll look coool :)" (even though I'm immodestly proud of my long-standing island of Dreams header), but when it came down to it the old girl just didn't look right to me. I mean you can't get more high contrast than black and white, right?
In the interests of democracy I thought I'd solicit some opinions, so what do you think? I mean, that's if anybody reads the actual blog rather than just the feed on google reader? If you have a thought then let me know. I've put a poll in the sidebar (on the left, at the top, above my stupid face) and you get a vote - Keep the look as is or change it to something less eye-straining. You only have until the end of the month to vote though, m'kay?'Course, if you do want it changed I'd appreciate suggestions via comments please. Likewise if you have any other feelings about content let me know. Maybe you miss my reviews and occasional ill-conceived rants about television, or want to hear about my adventures in parenthood, or maybe you just wish I'd shut my damn neck.
***UPDATE (7th August, 2010)***
Many thanks to all who voted in the poll. The results were 75% in favour of keeping the old white on black colour scheme. So obviously I decided to change it. Rather than being purely down to my contrary nature this was because:
a) I had come up with a cool idea for a new banner.
b) I grudgingly admitted to myself that if anyone was finding it hard to read the blog, even only 25% of visitors, then the best course of action was probably to make it easier on the eye.
c) I do have quite a contrary nature.
Argh - I find it impossible to read white text on a black background. But I subscribe to your blog in a reader where the text shows up black on white, so this way we're both happy - you get to keep your squinty head-aching inducing blog layout but I don't actually have to look at it. Hooray for the internet.
ReplyDeleteYes, your blog is really difficult to read because of the white-on-black.
ReplyDeleteHmm, I think I see how this is going to go.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the input folks.
Helen - Readers rock, I'm a slave to my google reader account.