[Seattle-editorial] Color scheme & readability

[sheri at speakeasy.org]

this is an ongoing issue and some imcs have resolved it by going to white background - even those imcs who consider themselves "radical" or more radical than others :))  like imc-sf.  we've had a discussion before in the editorial collective a long time ago about the site and new designs.

perhaps it's time to revisit it and invite some of the web designers and graphic artists in our new database to come and help us with redesigning the seattle site.  there are also others who have said they would help when the time came.  perhaps that is now.

sheri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gentry Lange [mailto:g at art13.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2003 05:39 PM
> To: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
> Subject: RE: [Seattle-editorial] Color scheme & readability
> 
> For my two sense, I agree with this poster. Even on our front machines,
> usually the website is way too dark to read easily. Especially the little
> tiny links at the bottom of the frontpage.
> 
> Gentry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
> [mailto:seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org]On Behalf Of
> Marcus Macauley
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:36 PM
> To: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
> Subject: [Seattle-editorial] Color scheme & readability
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This may seem petty, but I think the color scheme of the Seattle
> Indymedia website inhibits readability. I have gotten links in e-mails
> to Seattle Indymedia articles on occasion, and I like the idea of the
> site (and Indymedia in general), but I find the white-on-dark color
> scheme to be somewhat of a turn-off, both in its dark character and its
> low readability. This fact came to my attention just a minute ago when
> I followed a link to the Portland Indymedia site, which in contrast is
> very inviting and almost made me want to bookmark it and return to it
> regularly - except that I'm a Seattlite.
> 
> My sense, since I first discovered Indymedia (and the Seattle site),
> has been that I want to like this site, but for some reason I haven't
> been able to. Should the color scheme of a website be enough to turn
> away a real activist and citizen from a local independent media site?
> No. But in terms of the site's accessibility (to anyone) and
> practicality (in my life, speaking for myself), I find that with the
> current design, it is not something that I can refer to at a glance,
> that I can fit within my busy life, much as I would like to.
> 
> Just my two cents.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Marc Macauley
> 
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