Link colour poll

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What should links in Cantr look like?

Poll ended at Wed May 18, 2005 9:55 pm

Bold, white
7
7%
Old-fashioned orange, no bold
82
85%
Don't care
7
7%
 
Total votes: 96
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Postby Slowness_Incarnate » Sat May 14, 2005 11:10 pm

Like I said before, change it back, still screaming change it back!
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Postby Stan » Sun May 15, 2005 12:24 am

I find it very difficult to find names that I'm looking for as I scroll through an events page.

Please, change it back. I'm not sure of the advantage of all white. Is there a percieved advantage?
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Postby nitefyre » Sun May 15, 2005 3:23 pm

I hate to admit it, but...

I've grown accustomed to the all white feel already.
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Postby InsaneIrony » Sun May 15, 2005 4:07 pm

The all white is a pain on the eyes, and just makes it harder to notice important things on the page. 71 to 7 right now says that the new white sucks...
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Postby AoM » Sun May 15, 2005 4:42 pm

I have not grown accustomed to the all white. And I doubt that I will, knowing how much better it was in the past, when people's names actually stood out from everything else.

I didn't even know there was a complaint before about the orange and green. Those colors were fine. I say change them back, this new white is giving me a headache and making me less likely to want to play characters in big cities. (Because I'd have to sift through all that whiteness.)
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Postby Solfius » Sun May 15, 2005 6:42 pm

Well, the problem was there's now too much orange, with buildings and vehicles and places all being dynamic. You get the same thing with the white though, but at least it blends a little better so it's easier to read
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Postby nitefyre » Sun May 15, 2005 7:51 pm

I was not the only one to complain about the orange when dynamic buildings was implemented.

With only dynamic names, yes, the orange was fine.
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Postby AoM » Sun May 15, 2005 10:37 pm

Okay well, I know it's been suggested elsewhere, but why not put the names back to orange, and have the buildings and roads be a light grey? Definitely lose the bold white. It doesn't blend in so much as intensify everything to annoying visual levels. Besides, I don't want the names to blend in with the text. That blending in is what is annoying people I think.
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Postby formerly known as hf » Sun May 15, 2005 11:20 pm

I first suggested that - different colours for buildings, places and vehicles than names - but it can't be implemented in the existing set up apparently - all links are the same - hopefully this will be changed if it's converted to a CSS stylesheet.
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Postby Birdsall007 » Mon May 16, 2005 1:42 pm

OK, so I wanted something other than orange orignally.

Now that I have it, I want it back the way it was. Sorry :?
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Postby AlTonno » Mon May 16, 2005 4:16 pm

I don't care about reading five pages right now, sorry if this had been said before... :P


What about "WHITE - NOT BOLD - BUT UNDERLINED" for links? This would both make the text easy to read and recognize the links easily as well.......


But the orange fits very well to the green of the rest, so maybe you can make, don't know.... titels in orange? Just an idea....

This would be my suggestion.....


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Postby west » Mon May 16, 2005 5:12 pm

Underlined links are tacky. Ech.
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Postby TatteredShoeLace » Mon May 16, 2005 6:10 pm

Mine just turned to bold white, and its killing me. :evil:
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Postby AlTonno » Mon May 16, 2005 8:25 pm

west wrote:Underlined links are tacky. Ech.


Of course they are, but it's one possible solution..... :roll: :wink:


Maybe a change in the general layout would bring some acceptable results, but this would go too far.... :?
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Postby SekoETC » Tue May 17, 2005 12:20 am

I think it would be a bit too much if there were two link colours, one for buildings and one for people. But still, it must be somehow expressed that the building/place/vehicle names are clickable, ne?
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