To hard on the eyes?

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Jun 3 2005, 8:29 am
Is my site to hard on the eyes, because of the background?
http://members.byond.com/digitalsamurai
Jun 3 2005, 8:33 am
No, but it is a bit annoying to look at.
Jun 3 2005, 9:11 am
I like it.
Jun 3 2005, 10:19 am
The background draws attention away from the text.
Jun 3 2005, 11:26 am
No, but its stupid.

Never use animated images for backgrounds -_-
Jun 3 2005, 11:59 am
In response to Jamesburrow
Atleast somebody likes it.....
Jun 3 2005, 3:44 pm
In response to Smoko
*becomes blind*
Jun 3 2005, 3:54 pm
That's way too hard on the eyes: I actually started to get a headache trying to read your blog because of the animated background =P.
Jun 3 2005, 4:41 pm
In response to Wizkidd0123
What if I keep the same background, but not animated would that be better?
Jun 3 2005, 4:49 pm
In response to Digital Samurai
That would be an improvement.

Another big improvement would be to use more contrasting colours as your text and background colours. Dark shades of blue on black can be hard to read. =)
Jun 3 2005, 7:20 pm
In response to Digital Samurai
It would still look bad.

Here is an example of a repeated background, Here is another

But, not only are they good looking, they are XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 valid :P
Jun 4 2005, 7:19 am
In response to Smoko
Its kinda hard to read what you typed when your eyes keep wanting to look at the shiny background 0.o