Comments on: Testing white background on PhotoRumors.com (please vote)

By: kukimuki

kukimuki — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:18:50 +0000

If the background is white, then narrows the pupil. Then we see more clearly, as the camera aperture is narrow…

By: kukimuki

kukimuki — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:08:55 +0000

Black background damage to the eyes!!!

By: Dylan Robinson

Dylan Robinson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:58:06 +0000

Ack!!!! I loved the dark site!!! Especially for a camera/photo site. Or given that it’s a photo/camera site, perhaps 50% gray, like a gray card. That actually is my preferred color for photo/graphics applications, like Lightroom for instance. I’m very pleased more photo apps are using the neutral interface colors. If it has to be bright, please a light gray. White is fine for print or epaper, I have no idea why it’s popular for the web intended primarily for transmissive (LCD, etc.) displays. Hurts my eyes, but perhaps I spend too much time behind the computer.

By: Rainer Lehmann

Rainer Lehmann — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:25:05 +0000

White backgrounds didturb sensibls eyes. Why black or white? Make it a bright grey, that’s the best for the eyes.

By: PR admin

PR admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:01:33 +0000

The poll is almost 50/50 – not convincing enough. I am currently working on changing everything to black, I cannot use the old theme any longer, because I had to upgrade to a new version and have to change all the color manually. I still like the white background better…

By: K. Artur

K. Artur — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:51:00 +0000

PR admin
Posted July 27, 2010 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

ok, majority is for black

Well? So why is the white background still here?

By: K. Artur

K. Artur — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:46:14 +0000

BLACK PLEASE! White is too glaring and hard for the eyes. I can always focus better (mentally) on a dark page. Thank You.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:19:54 +0000

… there are very good reasons why all the best web sites out there have white backgrounds… pretty much every study and expert review I have seen says basically that humans generally, and those folks with sight and perception difficulties particularly, prefer to read dark text on a light background. Newspapers are printed that way for a reason, so are most books you buy.

By: PR admin

PR admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:16:37 +0000

ok, majority is for black

By: JP

JP — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:16:58 +0000

White

By: Greenwood_Geoff

Greenwood_Geoff — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:28:16 +0000

I prefer the black background. The white is nice, but sure does smack me in the face when I pop over from the NR site.

By: Sky

Sky — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:57:45 +0000

Mr. Admin – one small request – can poll not be on top of the screen? Cause when I visit the site I always get confused not to see anything at all, than, after 3rd visit, I accidentally scroll down and hit the whole pile of new rumors… duh.

The new rumor should be visible right away, right now the poll takes all the place available. :/

By: David

David — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:30:24 +0000

I think this white version looks heaps better than before, but for me, harder to read (I have bad astigmatism).

By: Dale Nelson

Dale Nelson — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:51:09 +0000

The excessively bright text on black actually hurts my eyes to view, and I leave the site relatively quickly because of it.

There should be absolutely no reason not to at least offer a choice to users – css files are not exactly new technology now.

If impossible, how about a neutral grey background then?

By: Daniel Bottner

Daniel Bottner — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:16:44 +0000

I like white for info pages, and black (dark gray really) for gallery pages.

There remains the possibility you could insert a black
background area into a page for a set of images.

Of course the devil is in the details, have some real depth
to my understanding, if you wish to discuss this in depth
drop me an e-mail.

I appreciate all the effort you put into creating these web
sites and all the thoughts you share.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:34:14 +0000

white is wining, I prefer white background, admin you have to keep it white now

By: camaman

camaman — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:42:03 +0000

I think you should make the blank sides of the blog a bit darker. maybe gray…
Drop by to canonrumors.com and see what I mean. It is much easier to read and is not so bright, hard on the eyes.
Also it visually defines the content part of the blog so it is easier to concentrate on the text.
Making that content mart at least 1200 pixels wide (if now 960) would also be a very good idea.

Keep up the good work!

By: Elmo

Elmo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:03:46 +0000

There is no i don’t care option.
i prefer the black background

By: jeorcal

jeorcal — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:24:32 +0000

50% W 50% B
why not Gray ? .. a dark gray for me

By: Barbu

Barbu — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:18:08 +0000

Well, almost any other site tends to use white background. Of course, every school of design would tell you that `it’s

better` but why and how… big secret. This might get back to the first typographies and newspapers: it’s simply cheaper to

save on ink, which isn’t much of a reason fo screen. Instead all you get is an electric tan on your readers…
So let’s see: in the daylight there’s no problem with a black background and white text. At night, or in a cozy shaded room (like *photographers* should use when processing) the white background hurts the eyes.
And there’s another point which almost nobody brought up: why so many *photography* magazines use the inverted scheme, white text on black? Simple: it’s aesthetically pleasing. Shove that down the throats of the “expert” web-designers; for me save the black background, I have already all the tan I need from actually going outdoor. Thank you!