We have three computers in the house. There is the laptop that I have appropriated (it’s really for my mom) and two desktops. Over the years, we’ve shuffled the hardware around a lot. Right now, the upstairs computer has the oldest monitor in the house. We bought it, an LG, when we were in Saudi Arabia, so that makes it at least 6 years old. In the computer world, that’s archaic. It’s practically an heirloom.

Anyway, I’ve been working on my portfolio, soon to be uploaded to likethewind. Everything is going pretty well, though I wish I’d learned PHP like I’d intended months ago; it would automate a lot of things that I have to do by hand now.
What’s not going well is the colour scheme. It’s a basic light green and white colour scheme.
Upstairs, the light green is a hideous, nauseous, neon atrocity that borders on yellow. And yes, I understand this is an old monitor, so I shouldn’t worry too much. But I have a few doubts that I can’t shake off :

  1. I’ve done all the designing on the laptop. All it takes is to tilt the screen slightly to totally destroy colour contrasts. This is an issue with all sites and most laptops. What this means is that I can keep angling the screen until I get any site to show decently, and so I have no real guarantee that the colour brightnesses and contrasts of my own sites are actually alright.
  2. Not everyone is on the bleeding razor edge of technology – which is perfectly normal. There’s no real reason to keep “updating” your computer every year when it isn’t central to your life. However, this means that there is the possibility that someone will visit ltw with a monitor long past its prime. There’s no reason to subject them to the horror that my site presents itself as in that situation.
  3. None of the other sites I visited on the upstairs computer hurt my eyes. They show up fine on all three screens; they’re thrown off only slightly by the LG. So I’m clearly missing something.

And so, as always, I turn to Google and my bookmarks. I unearthed the following resources; hopefully they’ll help me get through this. I need this folio up ASAP.