Comments on: Slight tweak in blog template http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/slight-tweak-in-blog-template/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/slight-tweak-in-blog-template/comment-page-1/#comment-35749 walt Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:36:56 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1033#comment-35749 OK, I added the Firefox extension–and yes, it’s wonderful. THANKS!

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/slight-tweak-in-blog-template/comment-page-1/#comment-35746 walt Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:37:44 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1033#comment-35746 Here’s another example of one thing I noted in my “Shiny toys or useful tools?” talk and article: You really can’t predict when a blog post will (or won’t) draw comments–unless it’s about death, birth, divorce, marriage or a new job.

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/slight-tweak-in-blog-template/comment-page-1/#comment-35745 walt Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:36:54 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1033#comment-35745 Steve, Thanks. I’ll look into that. (As it is, I use Firefox itself to say that I get to choose the typeface used–which is a BIG help, given my aversion to Arial/Helvetica.)

And the color-contrast site is a nice little device. According to it, #777 (=777777) is “sort of” compliant against a white background, which I think is right. #333 is a good solid contrast.

]]> By: Polly Potter http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/slight-tweak-in-blog-template/comment-page-1/#comment-35744 Polly Potter Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:29:29 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1033#comment-35744 Wow, Steve Lawson, what a difference Stylish plus Cleaner Friendfeed make to font color. Thank you for the tip.

]]> By: Lazygal http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/slight-tweak-in-blog-template/comment-page-1/#comment-35741 Lazygal Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:36:35 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1033#comment-35741 I love the look of Storytlr (http://storytlr.com) and I may import friends FriendFeed feeds and dump FF entirely.

]]> By: Steve Lawson http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/slight-tweak-in-blog-template/comment-page-1/#comment-35731 Steve Lawson Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:15:43 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1033#comment-35731 Walt, you should look in to the Stylish plugin for Firefox. I downloaded someone’s “Better FriendFeed” style which makes it more legible to me, though I don’t know that it changes the text color. But with Stylish, it would be easy enough to add another rule to take care of that.

There are several tools online for checking color contrast to see whether it meets a standard minimum. This one looks good:

http://www.snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/slight-tweak-in-blog-template/comment-page-1/#comment-35729 walt Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:55:41 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1033#comment-35729 I took it as a helpful suggestion, even if it wasn’t aimed at me. Thanks!

]]> By: Polly Potter http://walt.lishost.org/2009/02/slight-tweak-in-blog-template/comment-page-1/#comment-35728 Polly Potter Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:30:33 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=1033#comment-35728 I didn’t mean the font on your site is hard to read – I was agreeing with your C&I 9.3 about eccentric choices in blog templates. I apologize for causing confusion.

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