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Re: colors of rating digits
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 27 Mar 2000 06:14:43 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
Suggest that perhaps this is an overloaded color useage and instead of
using red, another color be chosen.

The red looks nice though :) Green/Black?

Green was actually the first color we tried.  But even mid-green is very
hard to read on white, since it is the second brightest of the four
primaries.  Blue would be great, except it's too ingrained as a link color.

But through CSS, it ought to be possible to custom-configure this.  I agree
with Larry (and Suzanne pointed this out earlier today) that the dual use of
shades of red could be confusing to a newbie.

--Todd



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(...) I'll bite, what's CSS? I sense I may have been asleep when this was discussed... PS I discovered that I can rate something, and just press the followup icon instead of pressing the rate button, then the follow up. Better yet, I found that I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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(...) The red looks nice though :) Green/Black? (...) Do you mean like a set of features/faq/help combination page, with links from all over LUGNET to it, and all indexed nicely, perhaps with a spiffy search engine on top too? <insert quick (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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