Am Freitag, 6. November 2015, 17:37:56 schrieb Ian:
> Originality might be important for art, but a website is a user-interface
> first, art (a distant) second.  With a user interface, it is very rare that
> doing something nobody else does is a good thing, normally there is a good
> reason why nobody else is doing it.

It used to be such that most programmer websites were light on
black. I trace the change of style more to the trend of more
programmers switching to Apple than to user interface research.

For an example of a really well designed site with dark background,
see Good old Games: https://www.gog.com/ (scroll down a bit, if their
background picture of the day isn’t dark). This also caters to a
similar audience as we do (i.e. by only offering games without DRM).

The main point is: Whether dark or bright, both will work if the site
is done well. That mostly requires polish — just like many other parts
of Freenet.

Freenetproject.org does not even have that much text (which people
really read in one go), so readability matters less than first
impression. And where it does have that much text, it’s mostly a user
experience problem that there is so much text, not that it is slightly
harder to read.

Best wishes,
Arne
--
singing a part of the history of free software: 

- http://infinite-hands.draketo.de

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