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phorneker

I am pleased to announce the relaunching of the Cybernightlife project, with a new URL: http://cybernightlife.50webs.com

Changes include:

- Removal of obsolete and some older material.
- Refocusing on distributions designed for home and small business use.
- New menu structures
- Image galleries are now integrated into the main website.
- Plenty of garbage removal, including SuSE support.
- Best of all, no popup advertising!

(music: Hallelujah!)

At this point, I am keeping the Cybernightlife Founder's Journal, and am looking for space for a forum.

Oh, and the current focus is on the SimplyMEPIS distribution. Other distributions will follow as time and space warrant.

M-Saunders · Moderator Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 pm Posts: 2881

Woo, I like your unique approach to a Linuxy site. I would, however, change the images from JPGs into PNGs or GIFs -- the compression artifacts are really glaring, eg:

http://cybernightlife.50webs.com/graphics/menu-linux.jpg

Resave them in PNG or GIF and they'll look a lot crisper.

M

Marrea · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject:

Yes, very stylish. But I do wish websites wouldn't use white font on a black background. So difficult to read. It puts me off straight away. If it looks like something I might be interested in, I have to copy the whole page, paste it into Word and change to a more acceptable black font on white background. Rolling Eyes

Nobber · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:54 pm Post subject:

It's very readable on my screen. Perhaps you need one of the following things, Marrea:

1. To turn up the contrast on your monitor.
2. A new monitor.
3. New eyes.

That was roughly in increasing order of difficulty, but the choice is obviously yours.
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Marrea · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject:

My choice is to convert it to black on white. Very Happy

Maybe your eyes aren't as old as mine, but even when I was younger I always found magazine articles with white font on a black background very tiring to read, so much so that I would frequently just pass over the article altogether.

The worst thing is if you do actually persevere and read, say three or four pages of white on black, and then return to the more conventional black on white ........ that takes some little while for your eyes to readjust. Shocked

I think there must be a reason why books are printed with black text on white pages?

donoreo · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:34 pm Post subject:

I just do not like "black" sites like this. It is not for the font, but just the overall appearance. It does not seem professional to me, seems like an emo teen site.
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Nobber · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject:

Marrea, I agree, white-on-black in print is generally bad, unless the print quality is very high.

On screen, though, I hate white backgrounds [1]. Hurts my (mid-30s, by the way) eyes. Konsole, Gnome terminal, urxvt, xterm - you name the terminal, the first thing I do is change the colour scheme to white-on-black. And the Writer document I've got open at the moment has a nice, soothing, grey background...

[1] "Well, turn down the brightness/contrast, then!" I hear you shout. But then I wouldn't be able to see the white-on-black so well, would I?

Marrea · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject:

I must admit a large expanse of bright white screen can be a bit too much as well (no pleasing me, is there?).

Tell you what I really hate - dark blue font on a black background. Now that really is awful !

Rhakios · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject:

Oh, how about a bright red font on a green background - see the letters dance Smile

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shifty_ben · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject:

White font on black background is far better, especially if you are reading a long article, you are in effect staring straight at a lightbulb after all. Books are printed black on white because it would cost more to print ink everywhere but the letters Wink

Nice site, good to see LXF at the top of the Linux Resources Very Happy

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Marrea · Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject:

I feel a poll coming on. Laughing

phorneker · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:01 am Post subject: Re: RE: Valentine

pootman · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Valentine

Bring Back!
Green on Black!
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wiz · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:17 pm Post subject:

Please don´t even think of using a light background.
This has been a prime hate of mine since dos gave way to gui´s with screaming white backgrounds.

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