FreeBSD Handbook Color Scheme

[Nigel Weeks]

How's that?

I've pushed the bgcol closer to black, removed the blue bg's(slightly darker
grey)

Looks good on an LCD - hows it look on peoples' monitors?

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle R. Green [mailto:kyle at kgreen.org]
Sent: Tuesday, 17 June 2003 10:11
To: nigel at e-easy.com.au
Cc: doc at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Handbook Color Scheme


Hi.  A couple of things:

1) I find light gray on dark gray slightly hard to read.  While the
beauty of CSS is that it allows you to create and change the
presentation of a website easily without changing the semantic meaning
of the content--as you have done--the default presentation for a
resource such as the Handbook, which is most users' introduction to the
Documentation Project, should be broadly accessible, and highly
legible.  One of the biggest things that drew me to FreeBSD four years
ago was the quality of the documentation compared to that available for
most distributions of Linux.  Documentation is still one of the
greatest factors that sets FreeBSD apart from its peers.

2) When you get to pages with lots of styles such as
<http://www.aims.com.au/nigel/freebsd/configtuning-rcng.html>, the wide
variety in colors becomes very distracting and focuses the reader's
attention on how the text is presented, usurping the content itself.
The issue is probably best seen on the above referenced page, where you
go from a dark gray background on BODY to a dark blue background on
BODY PRE.

That said, it is nice to see some different ideas floating about.  I'd
definitely keep at it.

Thanks.

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 06:57 PM, Nigel Weeks wrote:

> I had a little play with your docbook.css file, and came up with
> something
> you might like.
>
> Here's a demo of it - I did attach it to my original email, but it was
> rejected due to the fact that it contained an attachment.
> http://www.aims.com.au/nigel/freebsd/
>
> The css file is at:
> http://www.aims.com.au/nigel/freebsd/docbook.css
>
> Pop it in a document folder(backup your old one), and see what you
> think!
>
> ps. It's got unix endlines(done on FreeBSD...) ;-)
>
> Nige.
>
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