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ClaremontPhoto
09-02-2006, 22:17
Why are some clickys today orange and some white?
White: threads you've visited
orange: threads added to since last visited...?
The links on this forum are driving me nuts. Recently until today we appeared to have two kinds of links in the forum lists, white and gray. There was a difference but I'm not sure what it was. Maybe one was "you have looked at this thread before" and one was "you have not looked at this thread before". Whatever, I don't really care because all I want to see is threads that have been updated. They used to be in white bold at the top of each list. Simple. Now we have orange and gray. What does that mean?
In a post, we used to have underlined links with no change in font size on mouse rollover. Maybe the color changed to green on rollover. Simple. Now we have underlined gray links with a change in font size on mouse rollover that makes the rest of the text in the post jump around all over the place. I have an epileptic fit every time I do a mouse rollover in a post these days.
One of the very best books on user interface design is by a bloke called Steve Krug and it's called Don't make me think. Jorge, can we have a return to simplicity please?
Links in forum lists: Just bold white if the thread is updated. No other text decoration.
Links in posts: Make the linked text the same color as the text surrounding it (i.e. white) and underline it. On rollover remove the smaller size attribute please. If you want a rollover color change it to the green you used before the server change; it was good in terms of legibility.
Thanks!
When my daughter visited us upstate the week before last we hit the malls to do some fashion shopping. It seems that this year's fashion color is orange. Jorge is just keeping up with the times.
Kurt M.
flashover
09-03-2006, 06:07
Yuck I like the old version.
ClaremontPhoto
09-03-2006, 06:11
Jorge does like to fiddle about, colors are often weird, and interface design odd: just look under 'Main Menu' towards the top left and see two links to 'Forums'.
'The Art and Science of Web Design' by Jeffrey Veen is well-worth reading even for somebody just running an out of the box system such as RFF.
What we really could do with, if vBulletin allows for it, is a button on each post 'Alert a Moderator'.
The content here is mostly good and that makes up for the lime green one month and orange the next month.
Gabriel M.A.
09-03-2006, 06:12
It's just Halloween two months early.
Aaargh. The orange has convinced me to go out and take pictures instead ...
I see enough orange here every April 30th to last me a lifetime, so, alas, I'm not impressed. At all.
Jon, it matches your hardhat there, almost :D
Ken Ford
09-03-2006, 07:30
Why are some clickys today orange and some white?
Because it's clicky season, and they're starting to ripen...
back alley
09-03-2006, 07:36
my eyes are crossing...
tetrisattack
09-03-2006, 07:43
Orange links? That's it.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,
"I'm as mad as hell,
...and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
And then we'll see what's what.
Jorge, please go back to grey/white. You've changed the "flavour" of RFF from classy to garish.
flashover
09-03-2006, 08:00
I think Yuck says it all.
You've changed the "flavour" of RFF from classy to garish.
It's not garish at all on my Mac ... and much easier to read than the old colour scheme. However, the old one looked a lot different on Windows than it did on the Mac.
Peter
Looks like I'll be buying a Mac then, Peter! :)
Jorge if you want to add colour, try the green palette. It'll look better with the grey background.
try the green palette.
Green is almost unreadable if you're viewing the site on a Mac.
Peter
Maybe you should by a PC, Peter! :)
flashover
09-03-2006, 08:21
Green is almost unreadable if you're viewing the site on a Mac.
Peter
What's a Mac? Oh ya the thing my kid plays Candyland on.
Maybe you should by a PC, Peter! :)
I'm too pc already. :D
I think I'll just head out to the wetland and take some pics ... I'll find out what colour things are when I get back.
Peter
photogdave
09-03-2006, 08:28
Doesn't look any nicer on a mac.
Not sure if I like the specific colors or not, yet. Not too garish on my monitor so I'll get used to thm soon enough, I'm sure. I do like that the color changes seem to be based on what threads/posts I've read or not. For some of the longer threads, my practice has been to go to the last post and then backtrack until I got to one I knew I'd read, then read forward to the end. As I read more around here with this new scheme, I think it will be easier to find my place in the various conversations we are all having.
Rob
ClaremontPhoto
09-03-2006, 09:18
Orange = new (usually*)
White = already visited
White Bold = already visited and with new replies
Yellow Underline = you can click here. This is the same color yellow as other site elements that are not clicky.
* Some links (eg User CP) are white, and change to white underline to indicate you may click there.
Too many rules to remember. There should be one consistent rule for all headers and links on the site: Unvisited headers, bold. Visited headers, regular text color. Links: always underlined. That's it. Its not rocket science.
Rich Silfver
09-03-2006, 11:10
Jorge, please go back to grey/white. You've changed the "flavour" of RFF from classy to garish.
Jorge did create 'orange versions' in the layout drop-down but the old one with ONE '+' is still giving me the orange colour :(
Jorge, help!
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