this forum looks awful :'-(
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i really like it but monitors/screens will display colors differently. i would like to be able to see what it looks like on the screens of anyone who doesn't like it. it looks sleek on mine. anyone who is having difficulty with the functionality of the site might need to upgrade their browser. also hopefully there will be an option for people to change back to the old theme. it disappeared when the theme was changed but im sure aalmakto will be able to bring it back. he is sitting some exams at the moment and im sure he'll get at it when he's not busy. so just sit tight !
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Peace all,
My exams are finished I've just been taking some time off to enjoy myself )Anyway the you can now change back to the old theme if you wish. Just go to Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences ->
You should see Current Theme Forum or Board Default
Click the (Change)
Look for the "Original Blue" theme and click "use this theme"Layth says this might have been causing the forum to crash, but lets see how it goes.
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Peace aalmakto,
Thank you so much. )
The original blue is so much easier on the eyes and I don't have a headache anymore while reading the forum. yay
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Peace everyone,
http//sigs.aisnet.org/SIGHCI/bit04/BIT_Hall.pdf
There is a long history of research on the impact of colors on emotions independent of computer
displays. One consistent finding is that people in general tend to find short wavelength colors
(blues and greens) as more pleasant than long wavelength colors (reds and yellows). For
example, Guilford and Smith (Guilford 1959) asked participants to rate colors based on
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preference, which resulted in the following rank ordering from most to least preferred blue,
green, purple, violet, red, orange, and yellow. A similar result emerged from a very different
study (Osgood, Suci, et al. 1957), in which participants across a number of cultures were asked
to rate color words (e.g., ?red?, ?green?) using a semantic differential scale. In this study
participants associated blue and green with ?good?. However, there was some indication that the
relationship between wavelength and preference was not the only relevant dimension. Though
yellow was associated with ?bad? and ?weak?, red was rated as ?strong? and ?active?, which can
not be conceived as the opposite end of the preference dimension. Thus there appears to be
another, somewhat orthogonal dimension to preference, which is arousal. In fact, studies of the
autonomic nervous system response to colors have also found that longer wavelength colors
elicit higher levels of autonomic arousal than short wavelength colors (Wilson 1966, Jacobs and
Hustmyer 1974). This arousal can, however, be negative or positive depending on context. For
example, in contrast to the relatively positive ?strong? and ?active? associated with red
mentioned above, another study found that long wavelength colors can also elicit higher levels of
state anxiety (Jacobs and Suess 1975).
In a more recent examination of colors on emotions, Valdez and Mehrabian (Valdez and
Mehrabian 1995) systematically controlled hue, saturation, and brightness and utilized a
pleasure-arousal-dominance emotion model for conceptualizing user responses. Users rated
colors using a semantic differential scale. In one experiment participants rated various colors
within a given hue and in a second experiment participants rated different hues. Overall, the
expected relationship between pleasure and wavelength was found ? short wavelength colors
were preferred. However, the effects for arousal were not consistent with previous research, in
that the most arousing colors included green and even blue (green-yellow, blue-green, and
green), which are short wavelength colors. The authors point out that they also found a strong
positive relationship between saturation (i.e., a color?s ?vividness?) and arousal, while they
controlled carefully for saturation in comparing colors (hues). Thus, the highly arousing effect of
red found in previous studies may have been the result of the fact that samples of red tend to be
highly saturated, so the high levels of arousal attributed to red may have been due to the
confounding of hue with saturation in these previous studies.
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There has been an increased interest in emotion as it relates to computers in the form of
?affective computing?, which is an area that has become popular in the last decade (Picard
1997). Emotional responses have been identified and are related to characteristics of the interface
and computer system. For example, Riseberg and colleagues (Riseberg, Klein, et al. 199
purposely created frustration in users by offering them a cash reward for performance on a video
game, and then purposely creating a ?stuck mouse? effect during the game. Physiological
measures of autonomic arousal differentiated between frustrated and non-frustrated states in
users. Similarly, in a recent study, increased autonomic arousal was found in response to video
and audio that was not properly synchronized (Ali and Marsden 2003). However, none of the
studies that have emerged within the affective computing research area have examined the
impact of color on perception of computer displays in general, or web pages in particular. This
topic is particularly important since color and aesthetics can be a very important part of web
design as mentioned above.
In general there are few studies that have examined the impact of computer display color
combinations on user emotions. One exception was a study conducted by Pastoor (Pastoor 1990),
which included two experiments. In experiment 1, participants viewed a set of nouns on colored
backgrounds in 792 different color combinations. The participants used a six step scale to rate
the words. They were instructed (Pastoor 1990) to ?read some of the displayed words and to
emphasize the aesthetic appearance of the screen pages in forming their ratings.? In experiment 2
a greatly reduced set of 18 color combinations was used and the outcome measures included a
reading task, and search task, and subjective ratings of aesthetics, power, legibility, and strain.
Summarizing the results of both of these studies the author points out that, although there were a
number of color effects, there was no consistent effect for hue on ratings or performance. The
only exception was that short wavelength colors are preferred for combinations with negative
polarity (light on dark). Thus, the only clear finding was consistent with the research on colors
cited above, that blues and greens are preferred, but, in general, there was minimal effect for
color combinations on subjective measures of preference/aesthetics/affect.
Lastly, we mentioned above that we would revisit the Shieh and Lin study (2000) study in which
subjective preference was examined. In this study, the measure of preference partially included
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affect. Participants were asked to rate the different color combinations on a 10 point scale with 1
representing ?very poor? and 10 representing ?excellent?. In their ratings, users were asked to
emphasize ?clearness?, ?aesthetic appearance?, and ?visual comfort? in making an overall
preference rating. Thus this question combined subjective rating of readability with
affect/aesthetics. In fact, as mentioned above, the preference ratings strongly paralleled the
readability performance. Blue and yellow combinations were rated the highest on preference,
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i must agree, i like the old blue better, for me the problem is in the posting, where i type up my post, the box that i type in is twice as long as the screen , i have to move the curser to the right in order to reach the end of the box, it ruins my concentration when im typing.
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i must agree, i like the old blue better, for me the problem is in the posting, where i type up my post, the box that i type in is twice as long as the screen , i have to move the curser to the right in order to reach the end of the box, it ruins my concentration when im typing.
I was going to mention this too, plus the absence of a side curser to move up and down the reply post
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i dont get it. why is it madness. it has the exact same layout as the default theme but the colors/fonts are changed and the "show unread" and "new replies" links are in the right corner. to anyone who is having problems could i ask you to tell us which browser you are using ? is anyone using internet explorer 6 or below ?
The forum looks less neat and the color is less pleasing to the eyes.
Please return the old forum back.
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To all those who don't like the new colour theme, please refer to reply #28. That takes care of the colour issues. For those that have technical issues, please contact Al or the Admin.
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Peace Siki,
I've investigated the spell check issue and it appears to be outside our control.The host no longer has the pspell php extension installed. It is also missing in the old theme and its got nothing to do with the new design.Regarding the text box. Can you describe what problems you are facing. I tried to contact Anna a while back but she may not have received my message. I need to know what browser version you are using. You should be able to find out by going to help -> about. Or files -> about.
It should say something like Internet Explorer 6 or 5.5.
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Thanks for attending, as for spell check, it went missing some months ago, and if it is possible somehow to have it back , it will be a good ad on tool. The text box, unlike the old one has an extended type line , almost twice the size of screen , and hence half of it is always hidden either side, and you need t scroll left and right , and it gets to correct squeeze when you post it, but the paragrphing goes weird. I have ie 6,7and 8 all with me and have tried all to see, weather it gets solved , but it does not,and when ever i revert back to old blue, it gets solved in all versions.
siki
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I'll add a review to this forum and the website.
It moved the only reason I visit free-minds.org, that article regarding Etiqutte verses of the quran by Laythingy.
On top of that, the articles look ugly.
Things looked much better before this Satanic hell red.
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I'll add a review to this forum and the website.
It moved the only reason I visit free-minds.org, that article regarding Etiqutte verses of the quran by Laythingy.
On top of that, the articles look ugly.
Things looked much better before this Satanic hell red.
Thanks for reporting the missing article. There were 3 people involved in transferring articles so obviously a mistake was made. If you find anymore missing articles please report them.
The reason for red was because the old site was red. Its the exact same shade as well, the only difference is the font size is bigger and not Arial.
http//web.archive.org/web/20080208225547/http//www.free-minds.org/
I think the left navigation needs work. But with web development its best to get something out quickly and iron out the kinks over time (as opposed to software development where you would go with a more traditional project life cycle).