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  • 1Michael
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 293

    What's with the Teletubbies looking web page?

    The gray letters on the pages make it very difficult to read.
    Michael
    Chesapeake Va.
  • JonMarsh
    Mad Max Moderator
    • Aug 2000
    • 15261

    #2
    We'll have to take note of that... there are big differences in basic visual acuity among folks of all age. My wife, who is younger than I am, needs close up and distance glasses and cannot read her Samsung phone sometimes without glasses even with the font sizes turned up way larger than I would ever use - she doesn't understand how I read my iPhone Pro or food package instructions. I'm 70, and have always been somewhat near sighted, but getting older my vision has become more neutral. I still use glasses driving at night, though, and I hate products that have small dark gray print on a blackground because they think it looks cool!

    OTOH, on the computer I have retina or 4K or 6K displays, with default scaling (that means large working area and small text) and the new site doesn't give me any problems. There's probably a parameter that can be tweaked, but may have to be by Sven.
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    • masterofnone
      HTGuide Maintainer
      • Jul 2022
      • 4

      #3
      Originally posted by 1Michael
      The gray letters on the pages make it very difficult to read.
      Did you try the dark theme? I didn't have a lot of time to spend on the look at this time. I was focused on getting off the old server and onto a modern OS to support TLS for HTTPS access. Do you have any example sites you can share that has colors or theme you like? I need a visual to help me see what you're looking for and then I can figure out how to do that such as adding another style or tweaking the light or dark style.

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      • Kevin P
        Member
        • Aug 2000
        • 10809

        #4
        I take it "masterofnone" is another account of Sven's?

        One note from me... the "dark theme" only makes the background/border dark, the rest (forum/thread blocks) are still white/light grey.

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        • theSven
          Master of None
          • Jan 2014
          • 855

          #5
          Originally posted by Kevin P
          I take it "masterofnone" is another account of Sven's?

          One note from me... the "dark theme" only makes the background/border dark, the rest (forum/thread blocks) are still white/light grey.
          Yes, I was testing out a registered account and I forgot I was in that account 🙄.
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          • 1Michael
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2006
            • 293

            #6
            Yea I got the same result as Kevin
            Michael
            Chesapeake Va.

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            • JonMarsh
              Mad Max Moderator
              • Aug 2000
              • 15261

              #7
              Sven, if there is a setting that adjusts the rendered size of the forum framing and text elements, this might help. I notice that many of the "supporting" items are smaller, including the renders of the user avatar, the bottom line text for "Edit, Quote, Flag, Like" and other screen elements. Possibly there is something that would bump up the size and help those having difficulty, particularly if they are not using a high res screen such as retina or 4K or Windows with screen elements scaled up for a higher resolution display?

              I have an old Compaq laptop that still runs and has some very useful impossible to get software on it- I'll fire it up later today and see what things look like on a more "normal" older display. ("Normal" and "Older" doesn't really apply to most of my computer gear in use- just to me!)
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              • theSven
                Master of None
                • Jan 2014
                • 855

                #8
                Originally posted by JonMarsh
                Sven, if there is a setting that adjusts the rendered size of the forum framing and text elements, this might help. I notice that many of the "supporting" items are smaller, including the renders of the user avatar, the bottom line text for "Edit, Quote, Flag, Like" and other screen elements. Possibly there is something that would bump up the size and help those having difficulty, particularly if they are not using a high res screen such as retina or 4K or Windows with screen elements scaled up for a higher resolution display?

                I have an old Compaq laptop that still runs and has some very useful impossible to get software on it- I'll fire it up later today and see what things look like on a more "normal" older display. ("Normal" and "Older" doesn't really apply to most of my computer gear in use- just to me!)
                I added a dark theme from the standard themes, the Quarto themes do not have a dark theme and it would take a bit of time to figure out all the colors and css modifications. Perhaps down the road I can see if a friend would do it for friend discount price 😂. The icons are controlled by CSS too, and would require playing around to see how to increase them. Unfortunately I'm not a UI guy and need help or time to read up on that. Hopefully the 3 themes available will suffice for now...

                Let me know how the resolution works on your old Compaq JonMarsh
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                • JonMarsh
                  Mad Max Moderator
                  • Aug 2000
                  • 15261

                  #9
                  I'm going to have to get an auxiliary WiFi to Ethernet router- that old Compaq doesn't work with the newer WiFi security modes, and I can't get it logged on. This Presario is from about 2004, and running Windows XP. And man, is the networking interface clunky!
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                  • JonMarsh
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                    • Aug 2000
                    • 15261

                    #10
                    checking that, will take a bit of time to implement.

                    I have an old Vizio 24" monitor with HDMI and VGA that is NOT anything close to retina (about HD resolution) so I'll set that up with one of my portables and see how it looks. This should give a good idea.

                    Of course, another aspect that may affect this is display contrast ratio and off axis behavior. My wife's Dell looks awful on all kinds of stuff! I have a newer XPS15 that is pretty decent, once you scale up Windows, as 4K on a 15" screen doesn't really work.
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                    • JonMarsh
                      Mad Max Moderator
                      • Aug 2000
                      • 15261

                      #11
                      Just for comparison and fun, here are a couple of screen shots on my Mac Pro for the HTGuide Light and the HTGuide Dark motifs. These clips are about 2300 x 2400.


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                      • Kevin P
                        Member
                        • Aug 2000
                        • 10809

                        #12
                        Ok, HTGuide dark does work and it is dark. I was in HTGuide Blue before. :/

                        I think alzheimers is setting in. Or Sven added some new themes. Or both. Probably both.

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                        • JonMarsh
                          Mad Max Moderator
                          • Aug 2000
                          • 15261

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Kevin P
                          Ok, HTGuide dark does work and it is dark. I was in HTGuide Blue before. :/

                          I think alzheimers is setting in. Or Sven added some new themes. Or both. Probably both.
                          Yeah, dats it! I'm sure! It's like when Steve and I work together, if I mess up, it's alway due to my lack of adult supervision on his part!
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                          • technodanvan
                            Senior Member
                            • Nov 2009
                            • 998

                            #14
                            Originally posted by 1Michael
                            The gray letters on the pages make it very difficult to read.
                            I think I have to agree. It doesn't really affect me, but the default text could be larger and darker. There must be a setting for that somewhere. For the record, this text is Arial 14.

                            I really like that going to htguide.com redirects to the forum now.
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                            • theSven
                              Master of None
                              • Jan 2014
                              • 855

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Kevin P
                              Ok, HTGuide dark does work and it is dark. I was in HTGuide Blue before. :/

                              I think alzheimers is setting in. Or Sven added some new themes. Or both. Probably both.
                              I did add a 3rd theme yesterday. Totally embarrassing on my part that I wasn't paying attention to the color in the middle. I had been using the google plugin for dark chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark.

                              I think I have to agree. It doesn't really affect me, but the default text could be larger and darker. There must be a setting for that somewhere. For the record, this text is Arial 14.
                              I need to explore the style options some more...

                              I really like that going to htguide.com redirects to the forum now.
                              I wanted to modernize the landing page, but I didn't have the time and migrating the forum to the new platform was priority number 1. Perhaps in the future I will get some time, but on the other hand maybe I can do it all with the forum now too. There is an ability to add pages which could be an option for a landing page. Yet I do really like going to the URL and getting straight to the forum too.
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