Not everyone who browses the web will be using the default color schemes which would mean that the color white is used for the window and / or the desktop background color. It is that or web designers expect that everyone in the world is using Firefox or Safari.

Guess what - there are still some of us that continue to use Internet Explorer and like it.

The problem is that unless the background color in the website’s CSS Internet Explorer will default to the window; whether it has been changed manually or using tweaking utilities. What happens then is that we end up with web sites displaying like aideRSS where whoever designed the site decided to let the browser handle the page background color.

This is their CSS setting for the body tag:

No background color setting which is why their page looks like crap with the light gray background and the obvious text graphics looking like a white man at the beach in the middle of summer.

I don’t mean to pick on aideRSS as I am using their service for one of my new sidebar widgets but c’mon designers please take that one little extra step and make sure that you set the page background color because if you don’t your site will look like shit.

I realize that all you web 2.0 fancy pants designers think that Firefox rules the web and that is all you have to design for - well I tell you what … Firefox might be number one in your little corner of the world but it isn’t the only corner the room. Forgetting something this simple only makes you look like amateurs sitting on a high horse.

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