Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Is your (website’s) underwear showing?

Years ago, I set my browser’s default background color to gray, the shade of gray that the original Mosaic used. Since then, I’ve been shocked at how many sites don’t specify a background color.

Write this down. Specify a background color for your site.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Is your (website’s) underwear showing?

It's astounding how many web designers forget to specify a background color on their site.

It’s astounding how many web designers forget to specify a background color on their site. They’ll spend months iterating wireframes and design comps; write CSS hacks for browsers predating this century; test their work on everything from Blackberries to old Macs running System 7; and of course they’ll validate their markup and style sheets. But after all that, they’ll forget to apply a background color to their site, and they won’t think to check for it.

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