Poll: Form and Function

[thefourthvine]

So, I've finished tagging all my entries. Notice my index posts that allow all of you, including anonymous users, access to all my tags.

Notice that they look fucking awful. And the print is tiny, so I'm not even sure anyone will use them. Plus, I seriously do not want these to be the top entries in my journal for however long it takes LJ to put a "Tags" link on the info page; looking at them depresses me, and I'm probably the only person who actually looks at my journal regularly outside of a friends list.

But, on the other hand, I did tag all those posts. I have no idea what the point was if I can't find a way to let everyone use them to search by fandom and theme. So this poll is asking, basically, for you to identify the lesser of the evils, because they all look fairly evil to me at this point.

And while you're here, could you weigh in on other appearance aspects of this journal? I mean, if I'm going to pitch a major wobbler over the hideousness of my index posts, surely I could also spare some time to worry about the fact that my journal is, well, pretty darned hideous? And that it may also make other people's friends lists hideous?

I mean, OK, I'm going to spare that time anyway, so I guess what I really want is for you to spare enough time to form an opinion. I would greatly appreciate it.

But mostly, please god someone tell me what to do about this whole tags issue, because - the horror. The horror. My dogs are averting their eyes from the screen, here. Dust mites are scoffing at my primitive grasp of website design. It's all very very bad and wrong. Help meeeeeee.

[Poll #518389]

Comments

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I did indeed have personal anger. A lot of it, as it turned out when I re-read my poll post in a somewhat calmer state of mind. I don't do so well when threatened with change, which, yes, I knew that, but it must've been especially bad the night I posted this, because - whoa.

And I like the phrase "radio buttons from hell." This will be the secret name of all my polls from now on. Down with friendly flexible ticky boxes! Up with the Radio Button from Hell Regime! (Only, really, not. Or...not exactly, anyway.)

Pls to leave it long thx.

Your wish is my command, or rather, it would be even if I hadn't heard a lot of negativity about the possibility of cut-tags. Which I did. And, hey, I surely did not want to use them, so yay. Down with cut tags, too!

I like the new powder blue thing, but I know how you feel about dark text/light background and the contrast required therefor. The old one was fine, esp. for people who are insistent about dark text/light background (I refer to NO ONE in particular), but I always felt as though it was a little jarring. Meanwhile, the lighter blue one is ... pretty. And happy-making. But it's your journal (I mean, really, can I talk? Mine is BROWN AND PURPLE. And I like it.)

Huh. When you get a chance, which I fully understand that you will not have this weekend, could you take a look at the new layout and then tell me what colors you're seeing? Because we are obviously not seeing the same colors. To me, your layout is orange and lavender on the laptop, and grey, lavender, and very, very orange on the desktop. Definitely not brown.

I always expect some color variation on these things, and I always wonder if I'm accidentally making something invisible to someone else. (I mean, I know a lot of people who have done just that with their layouts. The world of millions of colors is a beautiful one, yes, but also slightly dicey.) This perhaps can now be answered, at least in part.

[fanofall.livejournal.com]

See, the new layout appears to me to be varying shades of a really pretty blue. But then you're telling me that my desktop does not appear to you to be the colors that I think it is (and, to be completely fair, it's not "brown" so much as "burnt orange", so maybe that's our problem -- a lack of common color words), and I wonder if, in my quest to turn down the ridiculous amounts of contrast in the computer screen I have actually CHANGED THE COLORS OMG.

Hmm.