Lauren ([info]_sommeil) wrote,
@ 2006-03-15 17:48:00
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Colors

As a result of my combined love for web design and statistics, I have decided to devise a small experiment.

I'm interested in knowing what color combinations people like best. To find out, I've set my layout to use a random two-color scheme each time the page is loaded. Because they are randomly chosen, most of the colors do not go very well together.

On rare occasion, a scheme will be generated that actually does look nice. If you want to contribute to the experiment, you can "vote" when you get a good color combination, by clicking the plus sign at the top of the page.

Once people have voted, their choices will be sent to the results page. Anyone can participate; you can vote as many times as you want to; no personal information is collected; etc. Just make sure you only vote for the ones you like.

Thus concludes my (not-so-evil) plan. Enjoy.


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[info]__lookitssteve
2006-03-15 04:18 pm UTC (link)
Cool idea. *votes*

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[info]insanedoodle58
2006-03-15 04:35 pm UTC (link)
voted. i definitely want to try some of these color schemes.

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[info]xmidniteshadow
2006-03-15 04:35 pm UTC (link)
That's really cool. Now I'm going to sit and reload your page for some hours. :P

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[info]fame
2006-03-15 04:47 pm UTC (link)
i've voted like 10 times now...but the colors go very well together because the bkg is white / randomcolor, so they all work lovely. is my browser not compatible, and i'm voting for ugly colors??!?!

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[info]its20to1
2006-03-16 04:20 am UTC (link)
doesn't work with Mozilla

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[info]_sommeil
2006-03-16 01:10 pm UTC (link)
Huh?

S2 is a programming language, so it is browser-independent; the layout was designed in Mozilla, so I'm fairly sure it works.

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[info]its20to1
2006-03-16 01:11 pm UTC (link)
It must just be my browser then. When I hit refresh only the font color changed, the background stayed white.

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[info]its20to1
2006-03-16 01:13 pm UTC (link)
I scrolled up and the header changes. Didn't notice if it did last night, I probably didn't notice. It was late :P

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[info]_sommeil
2006-03-16 01:50 pm UTC (link)
Ah, yes, the background isn't set to change — just the header/footer and section titles.

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[info]fame
2006-03-22 06:58 pm UTC (link)
so I may be a little late but I'm still baffeled by this experiment (and i love statistics :[), but for me, the majority of the background is white, the header and footer match (#476066 right now) and the subjects of your entries match...there really is no place where anything doesn't match...and I don't wanna vote for ugly things :p

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[info]sonicwaffle
2006-03-16 07:09 am UTC (link)
You're a smartarse, you know that? ;)

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[info]_sommeil
2006-03-16 01:51 pm UTC (link)
Quiet over there, waffle girl. :P

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[info]cloche_de_matin
2006-03-16 07:48 pm UTC (link)
how do I vote? I'm so confused :o\ haha

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[info]cloche_de_matin
2006-03-16 07:50 pm UTC (link)
ok, I know you said how to vote, what I meant to say is that there is/was no plus sign at the top of the page for me :o\

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Hi
[info]sexy_jill
2006-03-20 09:22 pm UTC (link)
This is an interesting idea! I voted three times ;) I found in general though that most combinations looked fairly decent, except for a few that were a little too bright/hard on the eyes.

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[info]bertismyhomie
2006-03-22 04:21 pm UTC (link)
This is amazing. Some how my friends page decided not to show me this entry so I just thought your journal was colorific.
Hm..most of the combinations looked good to me. hehe

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[info]planetcrash
2006-03-22 09:51 pm UTC (link)
this is so cool! I keep refreshing your page, haha.

I know you probably get asked this a bazillion times and hate it by now but are any of your previous layouts public? I'm getting really frustrated with S2 layouts, although I love having a payed account.

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[info]_sommeil
2006-03-27 01:02 pm UTC (link)
I generally don't offer previous layouts for public use. This is because most of them have my username on/in the design. I'd be happy to give you the code for my current layout if you'd like it, however. (The visual design is very basic, since it's just for my experiment, but you could edit it to your tastes.)

If you're very interested in learning S2, you might check out [info]s2howto, or [info]xevinx's My First S2 tutorial. Of course, the public layers are invaluable jumping-off points. The S2 language takes a bit of getting used to, but I've found it very worthwhile. It lets you do quite a lot of neat stuff.

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[info]planetcrash
2006-04-27 03:09 am UTC (link)
thank you very much. I've been messing around with it since I just recently have gotten a payed account, so thank you for the links. I'm just starting to figure it out.

and that makes sense, for the older layouts, I guess I was just wondering :)

thanks for your help. I hope you're getting good results from this experiment! it's a neat idea :D ♥

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[info]stephatomic
2006-06-18 05:22 pm UTC (link)
could you possibly give me the codes to your current layouts. this experiment is just too cool.

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[info]_sommeil
2006-06-18 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Certainly. I saw that your journal is a free account, though — do you have a paid account you are planning to use this on? You will need one in order to create a new S2 layer to put the codes into.

Assuming you do have access to a paid account, you can find the source code at http://www.livejournal.com/customize/advanced/layerbrowse.bml?id=6129172. Feel free to use and modify it however you'd like.

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[info]stephatomic
2006-06-18 08:31 pm UTC (link)
is there any other way to use the codes or some way to make the colors change on a different layout?

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[info]_sommeil
2006-06-18 08:43 pm UTC (link)
If you are using a different S2 layout, you can copy this section from my layout's Page::print():

and paste it into the Page::print() function of the layout you are using. This piece of code will generate two different random color values. You can then call them in your HTML or CSS with the variable names $rgbone and $rgbtwo. For example:
<style type="text/css">
body{
background: $rgbone;
color: $rgbtwo;
}
</style>
this stylesheet will give your layout one random color for the page background, and a different random color for the page text.

You must still have a paid account and be using S2, however. If you have only a free account, or are using S1 on any account level, it isn't possible to generate random colors.

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[info]notacrnflkgirl
2006-04-08 07:46 pm UTC (link)
I accidentally voted for royal blue on royal blue. I don't actually like it. Please discount my vote.

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[info]rocketbox
2006-05-14 05:56 am UTC (link)
girl, you should totally apply for this: http://www.thestylecontest.com/

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Hiyo! A quick question.
[info]strandedhero
2006-08-21 01:19 am UTC (link)
I read previous comments and you said that a paid account is necessary to apply the layout you're currently using if you wanted to change the colors. Is there any way a free account can apply this kind of layout if I don't want the colors to change everytime I refresh the page?

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