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Love the article! But wow this site hurts my eyes. Yellow and red font on a black background aligned very far right?

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Firefox reading mode (⌥⌘R) to the rescue!

I find myself increasingly using it even on decently designed websites when I need to read a lot of text.

And the panels are overlapping. A quarter of the text is unreadable.

I actually like the yellow on black (not so much the red). There is a reason highway signs often combine yellow and black, the contrast makes it very easy to read.

I think it's the screen. It's a little painful to read and the letters around wherever I'm focusing keep sort of "dancing" and distracting me. I'm sure if this were printed with exactly the same colors it wouldn't be as distracting.

Thank you! It looks great here but I'll keep that in mind.

It looks like content is cut off no matter how I view the page: http://imgur.com/a/hqsli

Yellow font on a black background = I won't waste my energy reading it.

Just follow readability standards and people won't skip your content based on presentation.

Also, your sidebar's content is cut off and hidden... in Chrome. Which I shouldn't have to explain how problematic that is. :)

So you can see it: http://i.imgur.com/vphYLVa.png

The columns aren't lining up properly and the bold yellow is pulling my eyes away pretty harshly.

Hey jgalvez, I wanted to come back a few days later to check this out. I love the article, which I didn't mention, but I also think this format looks a LOT nicer. Thank you for changing it!

Just to add my voice to this, I read about 3 sentences before closing the tab. That is extremely difficult to read.

Also seeing issues with the right column overlapping the left

Jeez, CSS is hard :) Thanks guys, I'll get on fixing this.

If i may..? The equally symetrical layout is hard to read, you should rather use an one third - two thirds layout, or about. Then i'd try something like #FFF1CA for the left hand column, so it looks like the text (i know they right now are the exact same color but one being surrounded by black making it look lighter). Also, maybe increasing the padding up of the right col up to a 100px would prevent eyes from being lost between both columns when jumping lines. Overall contrast is way too high. Hope that helps.

Might want to fix your meta descriptions on the article -- they're set to your previous article.

Would you say the webpage is hard to vue?

OP not react as badly if it was.

and i had to tore my backbone apart so i could get closer to the screen

I mustache him what he was thinking!

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