Improving the website theme

Oliver Behnke
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Hi guys,

Some of you have pointed out they're having a hard time with the current color scheme of the new website theme. As we appreciate your feedback and we do agree that easy readability and non-fatiguing use is a must for our site, we thought about a quick but effective fix to this problem. The most pressing issues seem to be:

  • Gray background reduces the text contrast
  • Light blue text color (for certain links) doesn't work well with the gray background
  • Large white areas around the content (on large screen) are glaring/fatiguing

We implemented a quick solution to this at our test project Albert@Home (not yet fully polished!). Please have a look and let us know (here) what you think about it in comparison to the current Einstein@Home theme over here. Please keep in mind that this topic is not about changing the whole design or color scheme. It's about quickly improving the current design with minimal effort and maximum effect. As we've said earlier, we will revise the current theme at a later point but now we need to concentrate of the (even) more important matters.

Thank you,
Oliver 

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archae86
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I think it is an improvement,

I think it is an improvement, mostly.  

The one problem I noticed is that the contrast for "already read" topics in the locked/featured section of the forums topics lists is marginal for readability.

Multiple other locations seem significantly better than the current scheme here (which is already better than the scheme here was at rollout).

Oliver Behnke
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archae86 wrote: The one

archae86 wrote:
 

The one problem I noticed is that the contrast for "already read" topics in the locked/featured section of the forums topics lists is marginal for readability.

No problem, we haven't yet touched that.

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How come I did not find any

How come I did not find any difference but it is running again. Also I can seemed to find a place to change the language preference.

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zastbing wrote:How come I did

zastbing wrote:

How come I did not find any difference but it is running again. Also I can seemed to find a place to change the language preference.

It's in Account -> Preferences -> Community or directly: https://einsteinathome.org/account/prefs/community

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zastbing wrote:How come I did

zastbing wrote:

How come I did not find any difference but it is running again.

Because we already deployed the changes after we had received only positive feeback Smile

Closing this thread now to avoid further confusion...

Oliver

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