I was again randomly browsing the vast blogosphere to find some interesting blogs (there are many good usability blogs around and of course blogs about nearly anything and then some more), to compare writing styles and to find some bad usability to point fingers at. Lo and behold! Among the first couple of specimens was yet another example of nice but distracting blog background to add to previous examples. Sunset and trees look really nice and moody, but the scenery really grabs your attention from the text even when you try hard to concentrate to read the posts. And reading isn't helped with the fact that the white text on dark background is not really ideal for reading from screen (though it is good for presentations) and in some places there is not really enough contrast between text and bacground for easy reading in the first place. Try not to overlap photo-realistic background and text, and make sure there is enough contrast between text and background to not make reading too difficult and tiresome.
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