ATS 2010 - Part Three - Dark Meat or Light Meat?

G'day

Dark is easier to read.

It also looks better, particularly when pictures, etc... are inserted.

I think it also highlights the tremendous avatar designs that are being used on ATS.

Dark also differentiates the appearance of ATS from the appearance of other sites.

Kind regards
Maybe...maybe not

Visually, they both look great, but the dark page with light text is so much easier to read. Dark, definitely.

Here also without meat, thanks you!

No really. The brighter version is far better to read, while the darker version looks better. What about the dark with that Times-like Font? A try?

ps..
The green "buttons" on the lower are almost invisible on the dark skin.

[edit on 12-2-2010 by cushycrux]

[edit on 12-2-2010 by cushycrux]

I prefer the dark as well.

Easier to read for me.

reply to post by SkepticOverlord


Dark

Easier on the eyes

Casing

As someone who does these things for a living, the answer is ALWAYS light. This goes for basically any, every and all sites. It is a proven fact that black text on a white background is the easiest overall for people to read and so forth.

It's considered a pretty big no-no to do dark backgrounds on professional sites, that is why you never see big sites with anything other than white bg/black text.

Generally speaking, sites that don't follow this are generally seen as amateurish. Mostly because for some reason, it's the color combination almost everyone puts on their first sites they make(I did) as well it may not be the easiest to read but it looks cooler to most at first.

I leave alot of sites right away if I see a black background and trust them less in general because I know a more professional site would never do it. Good lesson for any future would be web-designers.

Even when I first came to this site I didn't trust it and overlooked it for awhile due to these factors(seriously). I didn't end up joining or looking into the site deeper until after visiting multiple times from search results on different topics.

At best you can offer dark and light alternatives. But I would make the light the default view, especially for non-members.

Dark dark dark dark dark dark. Is that enough for the minimum sensor?

Dark please kind sir.

Dark please...


(I take it a one liner will be forgiven in this case?)

I prefer the dark meat. Now I'm hungry

I vote dark since there is less chance of screen burn in. Granted most people have lcd screens these days but it still happens. Plus I'm used to it.

Definately dark for me please.

Woody

Dark Meat sir....If you don't mind.

"The Light Meat" option. I prefer the site to how it was when i joined. After the designers introduced the "Cxx Matter look" i've spent far, less time, on ATS and paid attention to several different sites. Then I learnt there was option to see grey rather than black! But the drift's done, i still pay attention to them, as well as this site.

Boom head shot on the white guy. In other words, light meat.

Dark please.

Much easier on muh' eyes when I am reading ATS 10+ hours a day

reply to post by badmedia


I actually do this stuff for a living and have the opposite viewpoint.

It seems when windows 3.x first came out everyone was eager to keep everything white with black. For mast people it was their first look away from the old monochrome displays, which was black background with a light grey or white cursor and text. People where so happy to be away from that that this new white background with black text thing took off.

When I create web pages, databases or programs, I almost always use a dark background with a lighter text. Some have a light background with colored text boxes with light text but the end result is the same. People can’t believe how much more professional my apps, databases and web pages look compared to the standard, and since I have been doing it for about 18 years, my track record speaks for itself.

It is indeed better on the eyes and in effect helps computer monitors that don’t utilize screen savers from having images burned in them so easily, well at least on CRT monitors it did, do not know if has the same effect on LCD screens, because I do not know if images can be burned into those screens.

So again it is definitely Dark Meat for me.

Wow, I thought I'd never see a choice like this.

I like them both equally. Either way it looks good to me.

dark background light text please. much better for the eyes...well mine anyway

DARK please

much easier on the eyes