to something not so bright as this white background. Some forums let you edit the background and text colors in your user preferences.. I wonder how hard this would be for axiom to implement?

Better get yourself some cheap sunglasses.....

Ok! seriously, yah it would be nice to be able to change the colour preference to an easier-on-the-eyes colour. It could be worse though, much worse....nothing as bad as a black screen with white lettering! Brutal on the eyes!

"Your preferred stylesheet" in your preferences allows you to change the color scheme. Not many choices, but one is dark.

Holy Crap I never new that! Thanks!

Now that I have changed it dark I am not sure if I like it. The axiom logo at the top definitely looks better on a white background. The dark colors are easier on the eyes though.

There is one option to make the background dark...

Under the My Preferences drop down menu, go to My Preferences > Your preferred stylesheet > select ubbthreads-dark > and click on Submit at the bottom of the page

I never new you could change it either, maybe I'll give the "darkside" a try.

Oops looks like you guys figured it out already...

Gaaahhh! had to change it back to default....Cam's fire twirling avatar was nearly giving me seizures with a black background

Hehehe

Wow, that is trippy.

Two of them is worse.....

Was that a joke, perhaps? You don't like Maddox's site? From his FAQ:

If the print weren't enlarged on that site, Charles, I would get a headache reading on a black background or at the least it would get blurry to me. If white print on black was indeed easier or better, then 99.9% of the internet has it wrong, I guess.

Welcome to the internet.

I’ve been using “dark” for years. I also changed the font’s to large and no headaches here. Quite the opposite I find the dark background and light lettering much easier on the eyes.

Dean, by "dark", do you mean white lettering on true black or just a somewhat darker colour. It's when I try to read normal type on black background that I have problems. I do prefer some colour(light blue, green ect) in the background but prefer black type.

Ah well, that's why we have "preferences".

I agree about a black background being a poor choice for designing a website. If the room the computer is in has lot of sunlight pouring in, it really strains my eyes reading the text giving me a headhache. Usually it is white or red text in this case and it sucks.

The "Axiom" dark isn't too bad, at least it's a medium grey(on my computer).

Now, if we could get light grey background with a nice fuschia coloured print, that would be just Maaahhvelous!

I've never gotten a headache from either light or dark color schemes, so I can't really say that I have a preference. And who does their computing in a sun-drenched room? To the cave!

Here I use the ubbthreads-dark style sheet so most of the screen is dark grey, dark blue and some black with a sort of subdued white lettering. At AVS I use the blue background w/yellow lettering. I think I remember them changing that from the default a while back so I switched back over. For most other sites I just use larger fonts and stopped messing with the colours using custom style sheets. My room is very dark so when the whole screen is white it’s overpowering.

It’s been a while since I’ve played with it but even Windows allows you to change the background and text colours of some programs though it’s not a flexible as something like Linux.

You should find yourself of makes yourself some custom style sheets and have it your way.

Thank goodness for blinds.

black on white is quite pleasing on my Viewsonic Professional Series CRT. Maybe you guys should take your LCDs off torch mode.

Marina's blog is also white text on a black background.

Been running the forum in dark mode and I kind a like it, Not sure I will stick with it.....

Nothing.

Mine’s a flamethrower.

Ooh, a handheld dragon.

Running in dark mode the entire site has a very different look, the little speaker notifiers for new posts in forums are gone....