The other day I also changed the post colours to pure white on pure black rather than light grey on dark grey. I hope that improves things a bit for those who don't like white on black. I'm inclined to keep that for the posts because it does provide a much better setting for photographs.
Some time soon, I will adjust the picture to show more of the Tiber - at the request of Sir Dan of the Nesbitry.
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And do not forget those of us with fading eyes. Black on white is terrific. Some blogs I have to get a mangifing glass to and even then the colour scheme makes it difficult. A good sensible change Father Tim.
You probably already know this but with most browsers, if you press ctrl and the "+" key, it enlarges the text. (You can do it several times!) I find myself doing this more frequently nowadays.
You're dead right!
I was going to post on this issue - as I have very fast video card, yet it was struggling - but I didn't have a problem with Michael Patey's 'Northampton seminarian' - so it seemed related to file size.
NS is 197k and didn't seem to have much of performance issue, whereas your 250k did.
See 'Domesticity and Doctrine' which has the same issue:
http://domesticityanddoctrine.blogspot.com which is 349k, even though the background is hosted off the blogger server.
I think it's related to moving the dynamic central section through a static background, but I thought it was an issue for me alone.
That said, Internet Explorer dealt with it better than Firefox without the 'fix'.
Thank you for resolving it!
Father, the picture followed by a solid color works well.
However (you knew that was coming), it would probably look better if the shade of blue more closely matched the color of the Tiber. That appears to be (in two common formats): #7b8b8b or "123, 139, 139"
Paul Rodden - many thanks. I suspected that a smaller file size might help. This would mean reducing the image and then blowing it up, losing a fair amount of information, but possibly OK for the purposes of a background picture. I'll experiment with it when I get the time.
George - absolutely right, and many thanks indeed for the numbers. That is most helpful.
I think it's a lot easier on the eye now with the few wee changes than it was at first after the big transition. :-)
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