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[spookyevilone]

Thus far, I am unimpressed and I loathe their choice of colour scheme. Pink and red? Seriously? Is that supposed to inspire me to feelings of lovey dovey squishy specialness? It's like having tacky Hallmark Valentine's Day themed journals shoved down my throat every time I look at it and it doesn't even have the decency to make it cinnamon flavoured. Blech.

I will not be leaving LJ for them. The one feature I really appreciate is the ability to split groups into "I want to read you!" and "I want you to be able to read me!" That's neat.

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[jenett]

There are alternate site color schemes (and more in the planning: I believe the hope is to offer a couple of color choices in each of the basic layouts.) They're available under account settings.

(If you have other issues, of course, this won't fix those, but I thought it might be helpful for you or other readers.)

[spookyevilone.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the main DW layout - like, the main DW page - is all.. pink and gross.

The colour schemes available to me this morning were pink, pink and white, and black and white. If there are more, they're not showing up under FF 3.0 on Ubuntu.

[jenett]

Under Firefox 2 on XP, I get (by going to Organize -> Manage Account -> Display tab -> scroll to Site settings) four options -

Tropospherical Red (this is the default)

Tropospherical Purple (lavender and darker purple, but otherwise the same layout)

Celerity (pale celery green and a matching darker green, but with a vertical layout of site options down the side.)

Lynx (the light mode, with very few images, and some differentation in pale blue and a sort of salmony-pink.)

If those aren't showing up for you, they'd probably really appreciate a support request (if you make it, they'll have access to browser/OS info.)

I know they also have some other stuff that's made it to the mock-up stage. For fairly obvious reasons, site schemes were deemed 'not critical for site launch' in the same way as some other features (the payment system, the support and FAQ documentation, etc.) were, but I know they want to add more in the near future.

Red and pink are not my favorites either (especially pink), but I've personally found it surprisingly not a problem. Not sure why, even though I was expecting to be wincing every time I looked at a site-specific page up front. (I started during closed beta when the red was the only option for the first week or two. Tried purple when they added it, and decided not to switch.)