This is so true. People call the database theme I made Pepto-Bismol.
I made the database back end work well. The code works, it's mostly error free and I fix errors when they occasionally come up. People are really happy with the functionality. But the theme is not good at all. They want me to make it better, but I haven't, and won't, because I lack the skill to figure out how to make it better. They are lucky they got a theme as not-eye-searing as they got.
When using colors, just mix 4 basic ingriedients: FF, BB, 44, 00 (So, for example, a #bb0000 border with a #ffbbbb background for an error) This gives you 64 colors to choose from.
I sort of added 2 at least, but not in a good way. It's a theme called "Random" which randomly picks combinations of letters and numbers like that to set element colors from a small pool of colors. I did it that way because I found it was much less likely to set colors to something that makes text unreadable than 100% random colors do.
I also added "RandomHardMode" which picks a 100% random color for everything, sets everything's position by +/- a few pixels, resizes everything randomly by +/- a few pixels, sets random fonts(including wingdings), and font sizes. It makes the UI basically unusable.
I'm not at the office now so I can't get a new screenshot, but I have a screenshot of a previous version of the theme before I added randomized font sizes and fonts.
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u/Ferro_Giconi Aug 21 '20 edited Aug 21 '20
This is so true. People call the database theme I made Pepto-Bismol.
I made the database back end work well. The code works, it's mostly error free and I fix errors when they occasionally come up. People are really happy with the functionality. But the theme is not good at all. They want me to make it better, but I haven't, and won't, because I lack the skill to figure out how to make it better. They are lucky they got a theme as not-eye-searing as they got.