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Yet Another Major CSS Update

Ryan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:47:42 +0000

All right, I folded. I inverted every color on this site and tweaked them a bit. Much more readable, although slightly less “cool.”

Here is the old site look, for posterity:

Another CSS Update

Ryan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:03:54 +0000

Since I myself was having trouble reading through the paragraphs of the last post, I decided to look on the internet for why that might be and solutions for that. This was a useful post. I guess my eyes are just not well suited for light text on dark backgrounds, which stinks because I really like the current color scheme. They linked to Five simple steps to better typography. This article basically told me that my measure is too large and my leading/line-height should be increased. I made those changes, and magically, large blocks of text are a little easier to read! I also made the white text a little less bright. I hope this helps. Let me know if I should change anything else with the CSS.

Colors

Ryan — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:45:39 +0000

Is this color scheme readable? White text on black / dark blue background? Let me know if it’s not. I think it’s mostly fine, although there are times when it feels harder to read paragraphs in my blog than it does elsewhere with black text on white.

Also, let me know what you think of the design in general and if anything should be changed.

What This Site Is About

Ryan — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:48:06 +0000

Now that I finally have a working, styled blog, I can write about what I’m going to write about!

I’ll be primarily writing about two things here on When Brains Fly:

1) my main interest, which is research and technology at the intersection of neuroscience and computer science, in fields such as computational neuroscience, neuroengineering, artificial intelligence, and computer vision; and

2) my adventures in technology, such as how I perform long, complicated technological tasks – in tutorial form – or useful code, for my benefit and the public’s.

And with that introduction, I hope you enjoy my blog!