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Is It Dark and Sinister, Just Cool, or Only a Design
Option?
What is Goth? The earliest days of the World Wide Web (1992-95) provided
essentially one background color for Web pages, at least by default:
grey. By 1995 or so, you could create a background graphic and the The first generation of geek designers to so use this option often chose the latter, because it was considered "GOTH." As in "gothic," you ask? I doubt it. As in "VisiGoth?" Perhaps. But black provided a rich saturation, helped other colors stand out and just looked cool. But does a Goth background on a Website give it Satanic overtones? Only if you want it to be, I suspect. If you want to talk about Spiritual issues, you should explore other sites so focused (including one of my own under development. And it, by the way, chooses light over darkness. In both contexts.) The deadly Columbine twosome of 1999, as I recall from news accounts, dressed as Goth cultists, only further purveying such symbolism. There is enough Goth, intentional or otherwise, in Website design to diminish any consistent correlation it might suggest with the Prince of Darkness. This site, for one, does not intend to lead its readers along the way of darkness, either implicitly through color choice or images, or explicitly through its text content. But the most practical argument against a black background on the Web is that it makes text more difficult to read. So if you choose to use a black background, as I have with this site, it argues for providing links to "printer-friendly" versions of pages likely to be sent to a printer. After all, most printers (and browsers other than recent versions of Internet Explorer) dislike white-on-black pages even more than the human eye.
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