I hate---HATE---the color scheme and I can't change it. Won't work after several tries on the java-picker. Keep having to fill out their form, like I don't have enough forms to fill out on the web. Yech!

If you want to use picker and it doesn't update back to the Preferences screen, try this. Select the color you want in the picker, copy the hex # it displays, close picker, and paste Hex number diretcly into field and submit. (The color swatch next to it will NOT update.) After that they helpfully display a nearly blank page on which to preview your changes !!!

Can anyone tell me the hex numbers for the banner background? I like a uniform playing field

Well, I copied the hex code from swatches in Photoshop and pasted them in the textbox because my color choice for text was not in their picker. Got my text and background updated, but admin tells me the headers and sidebars are hard-coded and can't be changed. It is hard to read the tiny white text on the grey background. I'm certainly less than thrilled.

Found it. #524745

Dark, thin, small type on a bright background is not the best of choices for projected imagery. There's a reson why they turn out the lights in movie houses and project a bright image on a dark background. It's a lot more effective and easy to the eyes. On a more specific note some of the links to R'osity personnel on the Gallery pages are invisible, (black on black) . I realize that I have the option to change colors, but I'd make the deafault colors a little easier on the eyes.

If you want to, you can setup IE, (provided it's not your primary browser :) to read Rosity. Just chose your colours, then go to the advanced tab and tell it to ignore the site's colours, bingo, frames go the same colour as your defualt background. You could also tell it to ignore font type and style if you wish. Or you you could download Phoesn/Firebird and do the same to that if Ie is your primary browser. That way you can use one for Rosity, one for everywhere else. Cheap hack :) later jb

jb, I agree with you, certainly all those things could be done as a work-around, but the thing is they ought not to be necessary.

Style sheets would have meant that people could have easily disabled them in the majority of browsers. The teeniest bit of Javascript would have allowed simple style changes, but it seems the powers that be went for ancient representational HTML tags to define the colors. Anyone got an old green screen monitor? :P

In IE if you go into the tools>internet options>accessibility and open up your text editor and put something like this into it: font { color: #000000; } table { background: #9999FF; } body { background: #FFFAF0; } td { background: #FFFFFF; } textarea { background :#FFFFFF; } Save it as rosity.css and using the style sheet override option in the accessibility settings link to the rosity.css file. Get the picture? Will perhaps make things slightly more bearable.

Nice idea, but it doesn't work, you're stuck with white background balck text at that point, and no matter what you do it doesn't change. The table background works though, at least for table borders :) later jb

The fact that we have to mess with CSS whatzits is due to the fact that Renderosity is already uncomfortable to be at in the first place - why can't the admins get this?