Help! How to Change the Black Background of site? I'm am going blind

[gandhrav]

Can somone please tell me how do I chagne the black background of this site to something lighter or colorful?

I have weak eyes and wear big thick glass and even a minute of viewing this site bring water in my eyes, its very irritating.

[BlueLobstah]

You could try changing your user stylesheet, here's what I use to go back to a variant on the older style.

Links will be back to their old orange, posts will have their original lighter gray color with very light text.

Code:
@-moz-document domain(cheapassgamer.com) {
.alt1, .alt1Active {
background: #363636 !important;
color: #ccc !important;
}

.alt2, .alt2Active {
background: #424242 !important;
color: #ccc !important;
}

.sidebar_block {
background: #363636 !important;
}

.userinfobox: {
background: #373B32 !important;
}

a, a:visited {
color: #e7ac1d !important;
}

a:hover, a:visited:hover, a:active {
color: #ffc600 !important;
}
}

Oops, looks like my link got truncated. Here it is (more info on user stylesheets):
http://www.squarefree.com/userstyles/user-style-sheets.html

[wubb]

I use that to go with black background and white text. This only works for FireFox BTW.

I'd also prefer white bg/black text but since most of the graphics and things are built for a dark background it looks like ass if you flip things that way plus it's extremely complicated to get all the cells and everything flipped.

I'm going with this at the moment:

@-moz-document domain(cheapassgamer.com) {
div {
background: #111111;
color: white; }
}

Quick and dirty doesn't look super clean but it's higher contrast. I need to figure out how to change the colors for the text entry windows, too.

Ah, added this to take care of text entry fields and the drop down boxes:

textarea, .bginput
{
color: white !important;
background-color: #111111 !important;
background: #111111 !important;
}

select
{
background: #111111 !important;
color: white !important;
}

[gandhrav]

damn! what the heck was that, I am not techi person. I don't know what you guys are taling about.

I though just like other site this site also have a option to change the background just by choosing it in the menu. They must be crazy to don't have one. They should have at least 1 more site background which is opposite to the current one for the people with different taste. Such as a black and white. I don't come to this site alot even though I want to becasue of this black background really hurt my eyes.

[wubb]

If you use Firefox you can set this up semi easily. Let me know and I'll post better details.

I noticed that my bits to modify select and textarea seem to make text white for all domains, not just cheapassgamer so I'll probably have to remove that. No idea why. Maybe a FF bug?

[mguiddy]

Just wanted to chime in that using the firefox extension stylish (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108) makes applying custom styles extremely simple.

[wubb]

Just wanted to chime in that using the firefox extension stylish (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108) makes applying custom styles extremely simple.

Very nice.

Using that solved my problem with textarea and select affecting all domains. I could probably use the same text stylish uses in user-config.css but the extension makes it easier so I'm gonna keep using it.

[mguiddy]

Very nice.

Using that solved my problem with textarea and select affecting all domains. I could probably use the same text stylish uses in user-config.css but the extension makes it easier so I'm gonna keep using it.

Also, remember that you can submit custom style to userstyles.org (http://www.userstyles.org) to share with others.

[micro44]

How is posting comments going to help him if he can't read them? \\:D/ lol

[wubb]

Also, remember that you can submit custom style to userstyles.org (http://www.userstyles.org) to share with others.

I might do that, but I'd want to tweak it a little more first. There are some areas that aren't changed with the code I have now. Doesn't really matter for the most part - it's stuff like the Forum description at the top of each page i.e. "CAG News, Feedback & Site Assistance - The latest Cheap Ass Gamer site news will be posted here." but I'd want to have that covered for something I submit.

BL's could be CAG classic and mine would be CAG for old people. :D

[lordwow]

These posts are all racist 8-)

[CYRiX]

If your on a mac you could just invert the colors.