The Black Background,

[thecat]

Hi All! wonder if you can advise me, I have a client thats insisting that I redesign his site with a black background with yellow text, Ive tried explaining to him that nobody will be able to read it for more than 3 seconds, help me out here ,,,any ideas what i could say to him to change his mind?

cheers

thecat

[Biggles]

Why not just make a sample page how he wants it and then one with more 'easy on the eye' colours and show him the diiference.

Maybe he just dosen't realise how awful it could look !

Good Luck !

Biggles

[Eagle Imagery]

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Yellow on black's not that bad in moderation... ;)

[brian.mark]

Serve his IP address with a different CSS file than everyone else. He can see his awful design, but everyone else can see something that is truly a thing of beauty.

Or, make a default of one and allow people to choose different themes, with the black/yellow being an option.

Not that I know how to do that stuff, just that I've seen it done very well at a few sites. If you haven't already seen it, take a look at CSS Zen Garden. Maybe it'll give you some inspiration.

Brian.

[thecat]

you have set me on "The Road to Enlightenment"

Many thanks

thecat

[al_kemyst]

Originally Posted by brian.mark

Serve his IP address with a different CSS file than everyone else. He can see his awful design, but everyone else can see something that is truly a thing of beauty.

Or, make a default of one and allow people to choose different themes, with the black/yellow being an option.

Not that I know how to do that stuff, just that I've seen it done very well at a few sites. If you haven't already seen it, take a look at CSS Zen Garden. Maybe it'll give you some inspiration.

Brian.

That's got to be one of the funniest things I ever heard (or read)! Guess the moral of the story here is don't fight stupidity, make it work for you.