I don't get it.

[eliyes]

This will never cease to confuse me: why would someone post something for others to read, somewhere that invites feedback and, hey, isn't even friends-locked -- with a medium-ish lavender-grey background with slightly darker lavender-grey text? This makes it unreadable! This defeats the purpose! Why post it at all?

And, I mean, this isn't a case of the eye-blinding colours -- they're neutral, even pretty -- I'm just squinting so hard I can't see the words. My crow's feet are getting crow's feet. Thank God for whatever genius made it so that most journals can be relatively easily switched to the style I use on my own as long as I'm logged in.

If this sounds like you, well, smarten up -- but I assure you that nobody who has ever given me the slightest indication that they read my journal is the inspiration for this post. No, I got to this particular post in a fairly convoluted way, involving two and a half days of sliding around the net, from a few comms I'm on to their friends-lists, to posts on said list, to links in the comments of said posts, to memory pages of the commentators, to links from the memories pages to fic-rec posts, etc. etc.

Possibly the binge-reading is in part affecting my squinting, especially as I've also been doing it with books when not at the computer, but dammit, it was difficult to read. :<

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Comments

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

You're preaching to the choir. I know so many people on LJ with journal slike that and I cannot read a freaking thing. Drives me nutso. If you want funky colors, do it outside the text area please. Thus why my journal has a white bg with black text.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Outside the text area is fine. I for one am incredibly persnickety about my journal layouts. I'm not skilled enough to do custom things, but I've picked up a little of how to alter colours in some of the pre-made ones, because sometimes they're perfect except for, like, the glaringly clashing colour of clicked links or something. (I'm also picky about how my tags go, and how the title and subtitle look, and the text area has to be much wider than the links, and I have to see the individual post icons on the main journal page, and the text area has to be on the right for some unknown reason, but still left-justified, et cetera ;3 )

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

*g* My links have to be on the right for me, cannot explain why but they must ;)

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I am strangely okay with this on other people's pages, so long as there is at least a border between the left edge of the screen and the text. Which you have. :3

I think I'm gonna have to blame too many fics in .txt formats where there wasn't a border over there for my preference in this case. Especially Strike Fiss, because I read a lot of his stuff, and he had a habit of rewriting series from the ground up.

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

Then you'd hate my website, it has no border between menu and text area, and the text is on the left ^_^

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Eeee! D;

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

Now I know how to drive you mad. *evil cackle*

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Oh, is that what you're after? I took that ride a few times already. ;3

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

I can't help it, I'm a button pusher.