: Personally I think for a site with so much of its content
: as words the brown makes it a bit annoying to read the
: Looong posts that will be appearing as soon as Myth
: III for Mac is out. In any other situation it looks
: good. However on a site where there's so much reading
: involved, it hurts the eyes, literally.
I actually changed it because I had gotten a lot of complaints to the contrary: "it's all just text on white! Augh the white hurts my eyes reading for so long! Can't you put some kind of soft background in there?"
As for the faces, I tried them first, but that big of an image (pixel dimensions) filled with a texture was MUCH bigger than that big of an image lined with an image and filled with white, so I had to make the overall image shorter, which meant I couldn't have such a long row of faces down the side... and I didn't want to have just TWO faces. (How is that reminscient of the Mill, BTW? The Mill never shared the same theme as this site... this site's theme comes from Myth Nontoxic, which long predates the Mill).
Maybe it would be smaller in JPG.... I'm gonna be changing almost all of the .html files soon (that "minor tweak" I mentioned), so I could change the background image to a JPG while I'm at it.
WRT the "grey" text... uh, the text is solid black everywhere on the site. If I made it any more black it would start sucking space and time into it. But I could try to lighten up the background a little bit, see if that helps the contrast at all.
