Weird color schemes may be ok for the 10-to-35 set, but cut us 50+ old farts a break, willya? Especially the ones like me can’t afford an extra set of glasses just for computer use and for whom a “normal” eyes-to-monitor distance falls squarely in the crack between the close and distant focus on our bifocals! A “choose colors” option on every web page would sure make a lot of people’s live easier.

While you’re at it, how about a “solid background” option for those of us who don’t particularly want to be reminded of our last migraine?

A complete ban on point sizes smaller than 12 wouldn’t upset me a bit either —grin— or at least make every page provide a “larger point size” option or allow user override on text style.

And please don’t load up your pages with a ton of flash and splash “just because you can.” What’s going on in web design these days is distressingly like what went on in the early 90s when “desktop publishing” first took off.

Enuff already! The point of the exercise is communication, after all. If you absolutely MUST prove that you can jump through silicon hoops, spend the extra 5% of your time including a “low graphics” version.

If only I ruled the Internet……………… —sigh—

………and oh, the irony, my dear lockergnomes. All your comment boxes are in - guess what - GRAY ON WHITE! (gray on light gray, to be exact.) —another sigh—

End of rant. We now return you to your regularly scheduled eyestrain headache already in progress. YMMV/AWYSB. :-)

Well, maybe the reason is “you readers aren’t important to me and my site.”