Did my text just turn blue?
Grandpa
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From: Virginia, Besieged
I'll take the opportunity to mention, while we're on the subject, that the original Jelsoft vBulletin Default Blue was put together for particular reasons related to legibility and attractiveness to a default but logically constructed demographic.
It is, in fact, an ideal theme.
The farther people get away from it, the shorter attention span posters will have when they are visiting.
Grandpa
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 7,596
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From: Virginia, Besieged
Text needs to be black.
Text fields need to alternate between white and a light maize.
Accents need to be light blue to medium blue.
That is how you will keep people interested. They won't realize that the eye relief is so good that they will read more and want to type more, but that is what happens.
I do not know why people think they know better than the decade of research that was done when the software was put together.
I'm not a big fan of the parent company (even though Grosvenor continues to own a big chunk of it), but they knew what they were doing when they bought Jelsoft and vBulletin.
After they bought it, they should have disabled a bunch of the options. :-) The back end of vBulletin, when it is fully enabled, is so heavy that a site administrator can ruin its performance as he screws around with stuff.
I'll also take a moment to mention that before these same people bought a formerly very popular Zeroforum site, it had reached as high as the 14th most popular site on the planet, and part of that formula was a very simple theme that was very close to the default Jelsoft vBulletin theme.
Sometimes designers know what they are doing, and this was just one of those times.
The farther you get away from it, the more you're ruining the experience.
/end Old Guy Rant #223
Text fields need to alternate between white and a light maize.
Accents need to be light blue to medium blue.
That is how you will keep people interested. They won't realize that the eye relief is so good that they will read more and want to type more, but that is what happens.
I do not know why people think they know better than the decade of research that was done when the software was put together.
I'm not a big fan of the parent company (even though Grosvenor continues to own a big chunk of it), but they knew what they were doing when they bought Jelsoft and vBulletin.
After they bought it, they should have disabled a bunch of the options. :-) The back end of vBulletin, when it is fully enabled, is so heavy that a site administrator can ruin its performance as he screws around with stuff.
I'll also take a moment to mention that before these same people bought a formerly very popular Zeroforum site, it had reached as high as the 14th most popular site on the planet, and part of that formula was a very simple theme that was very close to the default Jelsoft vBulletin theme.
Sometimes designers know what they are doing, and this was just one of those times.
The farther you get away from it, the more you're ruining the experience.
/end Old Guy Rant #223
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