Alphecca

If Things Look Strange...

I'm messing around with the look of Alphecca. Expect some weirdness today...

My goal is to make Alphecca more readable and clean, and also to freshen it up a bit. Many readers have complained (especially those using LCD screens) that the light-gray text on a black background is hard to read. I also think it's gotten a bit "gloomy" and to that end, what you are seeing now is how I learn my way around CSS. Some colors will change because I have to go into the main template besides just the style sheet.

Your comments are most welcome. By the end of Sunday I should have it the way I want it. If worse comes to worse, I can always plug my old style sheet back in...

Update 6:30 pm:
Okay, I've got the main "blog body" looking the way I want but I still have to work on the linkage sidebar on the right. Anyway, I see by early comments that I'm meeting some "resistance". Since I want to please as many readers as possible, I'll let you all use the comments as a sort of informal "poll".

We have several choices here on my color scheme but mostly I think we're arguing over the top-photo. Let's call it the "topper". I will present the choices here now and you can all indicate in the comments as to which you prefer. In a perfect world where I'm a real geek and can program cool stuff, I'd let you choose your own look much like my friends at On The Third Hand. OR, I could do something nifty like my new friends at ARGGHHH! do, where the topper changes every time you go there.

Let me present you with your choices. I will not try to influence you in any way. I will be completely objective.

Your first choice is the fresh, bright new look which speaks optimism, confidence, hopefulness, and happy, clean, wonderful cheerfulness that I'm trying to establish around here:

OR! You could choose to stay with the depressing, dark and gloomy, somber, melancholy, despondent, depressed, cheerless, glum, doleful, dispireted, heavy-hearted, morose, woebegone, dismal, dreary, grim, desolate, somber [quite the fucking thesaurus you've got there, Jeff! --ed][Yeah, it's the best on the market...--js], miserable, heartsick, disconsolate, morbid, funereal, mopy topper that several studies I've just made up claim are favored by manic-depressive people with tiny dicks...

OR! Yes, freedom of choice around here. This was always Say Uncle's favorite topper:

Lastly, I suppose I could use the picture of porky:

So there are your choices. The comments are open. I hear and maybe, possibly, might obey...

Update Monday: If you visit regularly and you're NOT seeing a difference since last Saturday, you might need to empty your cache, especially if using IE. Then reload the page...

Posted by Jeff Soyer at July 31, 2005 08:15 AM