Great example of an almost unreadable site

[230RN]

https://visitlaramie.org/fishing-in-laramie-wyoming

Maybe it's my old eyes but I can't make head or tails out of that site, even though I'm magged up to 200% on my 17" laptop.

What was that developer thinking?

So much for ease of communication.

Is it that bad for you, too?

Terry

[Ben]

Site looks fine to me. Your linked page doesn't show up anywhere off their main site. The fishing page link from the home page displays fine.

https://visitlaramie.org/activity/fishing

The complaint would be they appear to want to load a boatload of scripts and location stuff.

[dogmush]

It looks to me like you stumbled on a draft of the fishing page done before they finalized the color/theme.  It starts the same as the live page, but the live page is clearly a later edit, and has the proper HTML (or whatever) to adjust the background.

I can read the one you linked, but it is annoying, and I'm on a 27" monitor.

How'd you get there, Terry?  It really looks to me like a leftover from building, or an earlier version of, the site.

[Brad Johnson]

Dark text on a dark background. Yuck.

Brad

[HeroHog]

I can read it on my Notebook but it DOES suck with that color font on that color background. CTRL-A and it is all easy to read...

[Hawkmoon]

Dark text on a dark background. Yuck.

Exactly. Whoever designed that web page should not have been allowed to pass Graphic Design 101. Total fail.

[Perd Hapley]

I think we crashed the server.  I got a 502 error the first time I tried loading it.

[230RN]

I can read it on my Notebook but it DOES suck with that color font on that color background. CTRL-A and it is all easy to read...

I was looking for lakes around Laramie Wyoming using the dogpile search engine and I clicked on that one, and that's what came up.

I know about "Select All" (Control A) and I frequently do that and paste to Notepad or Word for readability with some of those designer sites.

I just clicked on my own link above and the same thing came  up as the first time.

Anyhow, I just wanted to bitch about it.

[TommyGunn]

Dark text on a dark background. Yuck.

Brad

^^^^^^
This.   Who thought THAT was a good idea?

[230RN]

Well, Ben's link is readable, so I'm going to contact them directly with my question:

FOREST SERVICE INFORMATION:

2468 Jackson Street Laramie, WY 82070-6535

Phone: (307) 745-2300 TDD Phone: (307) 745-2307 Fax: (307) 745-2398

Hours: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday – Friday (8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. during winter)

A long time ago (late 1980s or so) I was prowling around west of Laramie and found a park or recreation area which looked like they were just starting the process of making it suitable for public use.  Hand lettered signs and the like, looked like they had one picnic table for the crew, that was it.  One crude sign said it was "Lake Soderberg" or something like that.  I camped there two nights and nobody else came into the area.  Anyhow, I wanted to document some details for that but could not find it.  I don't remember which highway out of three possibles it was off of.  It was on the north side of the highway.

Anyhow, here was my camper near the shoreline.  I just wondered if they came up with a new name for that particular rec area and maybe find out a little history after I camped there.

Terry

[MechAg94]

If you can read it, the darker colors are easy on the eyes, but it would be better if the background were a few shades lighter like the main page.

[230RN]

If you can read it, the darker colors are easy on the eyes,,,

To the limit of black.

...but it would be better if the background were a few shades lighter like the main page.

To the limit of white.

[RocketMan]

The color schemes on some sites clash badly enough that they can be darn near unreadable.  The background on this one is a bit dark for my taste, but I can read the text.  It may be that this laptop is just rendering the background color a little lighter for some reason.
My RG color blindness can cause problems with reading site like this at times.

[Hawkmoon]

My RG color blindness can cause problems with reading site like this at times.

Red-green color deficiency occurs in a surprisingly large percentage of American males. I encounter web sites that are illegible due to color combinations at least weekly, and often several in the course of a week. I find it astonishing that people who get paid money to develop web sites don't know about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

This Wikipedia article puts the number at "up to" 8% of males and 0.5% of females of Northern European descent. That 8% number sounds a lot lower than numbers I think I recall reading a couple/few years ago.

[grampster]

Complaining about black on brown is raaaacisssss.