Jibbering Musings

A long time ago, the webs background colour was a really quite ugly shade of grey, and all was good with the world, as everyone remembered to set the background colour to what they want. Now of course the background colour is white, and no-one remembers - to remind me to always do it, and to make plain text and XML files render easier to read in my browser, I set mine to nice mellow yellow colour. This means I now see so many sites with weird colours, and not crappy little personal sites, but big corporate sites with big web budgets, but obviously no QA. Searching for “com” in google should return some of the major sites on the web today, and what do we see Yahoo without a background colour… Other sites I’ve noticed recently are citibank, AOL, EasyJet.

I’m sure many of these sites spent thousands just on the meetings to pick their brand colours, and then they go and ruin it by not setting the background white? Quite apart from the risk of people with a background colour that doesn’t play nicely with the text colours they choose.