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I was on my husband`s computer and decided to see how my site looked on his monitor. I was appalled to see that the green that should be a light sage-olive was almost fluorescent "Incredible Hulk" green. My straw-colored tan buttons looked like bright mustard yellow. The dip mix photo looks all yucky. I think it`s just his monitor, but just in case - can someone tell me how it looks on their monitor? The colors should look very natural and mellow.
Thanks!

Hi Chris,

   I just recalibrated my monitor colors the other day, and your site looks fine to me... in a word, the overall impression that I get from the color-scheme is `fresh`-- and the green looks like wasabi that`s been nicely mixed with milk-- a very nice, light, creamy green (I mean that in a good way)

to use your words---definitely natural and definitely mellow.

Thanks! I feel better now.

Chris,

Colors look fine to me, no Hulk here.

Kevin

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Hi Christine,

Is your husband`s computer a different model than yours...and does he use a different browser than you do?

I ask because, sometimes The Pet Set can look different on IE than it does on Firefox and different on a Mac than on a PC...it drives me batty.

Chris,

That`s, unfortunately, one drawback with websites....your site may look 20 different ways on 20 different computers. 

Web designers used to stick to "web safe" colors...but with a palette of only 216 colors...that was very restrictive.  We`ve essentially thrown out the web safe color pallete since most people are now using monitors that support millions of colors.

Another issue is web browsers.  Often, a site may look different on Internet Explorer vs. Firefox (the best browser for web standards) or vs. Macintosh Safari...etc.  And don`t get me started on screen resolutions!  (please...all you remaining 800x600 people...please up your resolution one notch to 1024x768..... :)

Because the end-user ultimately has control over many aspects of how web pages are displayed, we have to accept that our designs will look slightly different depending on the computer, etc.  The good news is that people are more concerned with how your site functions...rather than how your site looks.  (here`s an article from a great site that talks a bit about web user behavior ...read the paragraph under the Success = Fun heading.  )

Best of luck to you.

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Brian Cleveland,
Web Producer,
StartupNation

Thanks guys. I`m totally aware of web safe colors, different monitors, etc. I`m a web designer, in fact I used to teach web design at a college to adults. I also took classes on color calibration - but on mac, not PC. I just needed to make sure it wasn`t my monitor that was messed up. I`m on a laptop and my LCD is different than hubby`s Trinitron. His used to be my PC so it`s weird that the colors are off suddenly. I wonder why?? His settings seemed fine and I even tried a new color gamut. Oh well. Thanks!

Hi Chris,

This happens sometimes with incorrect monitor drivers being installed.  Make sure your husband has the correct drivers (brand and model). 

Also if he`s using Windows, go to Control panel->Display->Settings tab and check the "color settings" (16 bit, 32 bit?) and you can compare that with your laptop and LCD settings.

Your website shows perfectly at my end....I like the design and colors very much!

p.s - Thanks Brian for the web safe colors link :)

Cheers,

Riham.

I am a Mac user and I looked with two browsers. First I would
say, it`s cool.

If you want to pick on it a little, I found this…

Mac G4 PowerBook

Explorer 5
There`s a very slight color shift in the green banner. It occurs
because the Shop Online (shop_flash.gif) is slightly off color
from the banner. (I have to use Explorer 5 to view SUN. Safari
doesn`t let me view everything.)

Safari
Looks Great

I know I should be using FireFox, but I haven`t installed it. I did
download it already. That means I am half way there. I hope
this was helpful.

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Vincent Wilcox (a.k.a. KRAKR)
Drummer
My band: Letters Make Words

Chris -

Lovely subtle shades here on both my Mac PowerBook and desktop systems using the browser Firefox.  The green is nice sage color - the color of my house (which we refer to as "Martha Stewart Green").  Your site is great!

- J.




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