Background colour evangelism

External Since: Jun 27, 2003 Posts: 571

Submitted for your approval:

<body style="background-color:#ffffff;">

Not so hard, right? However, many designers neglect it because they assume
everyone is using white as their default background colour. Or they test
their pages on a desktop with a white background default and just forget
that they need it. With the rise of skins and themes for desktop operating
systems, the actual percentage of users with white as their default is
dropping.

So... **specify your background colour!**

I post this because recently, I found that one of the offenders was the new
design at hotscripts.com. Since I just submitted a new script there
(http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/23396.html - for anyone interested) I
had to browse their pages and noted that only the individual script pages
specified a background colour! The rest had all the white-bordered
graphics overlying grey, looking gross.

So I took a screenshot of the front page here:
http://www.greywyvern.com/img/misc/hotscripts.png and sent it to them using
their feedback form.

Today, (or last night?) the following bit was added to the body tag:
bgcolor="#FFFFFF" - and all was right with the world Wink

At least we know they read their feedback!

Grey

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External Since: Jun 27, 2003 Posts: 13

> So... **specify your background colour!**

Yes, but not with attributes in the <body> tag (deprecated in HTML 4.0), =
but with CSS 'background-color'! Smile

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