do coloured scrollbars look good?

[polestar]

I can't quite decide. Maybe on certain sites with a specific feel, like

http://www.amigamos.com/

Sometimes a coloured scrollbar seems to draw my eye away from the page itself.

I can't decide whether to use one.

What do you think?

 

[Gonzo]

coloured scrollbar look good on some sites. It depends what the site looks like with them, just try and make them and mess around with the colors untill you find a good match.

 

[WorldWarGeneral]

I've found that sites with a dark background - like black - fair better with colored scroll bars than sites with light backgrounds do. Few things are quite as horrifying as a page with a white background with a bright orange scroll bar. At least I think so.

 

[Epgs]

it all depends on colors, if you get it right they looks nice, otherwise they look like crap

 

[Gayowulf]

my site has them and i think they look decent. They look crappy if the wrong colours are chosen and they look 2d.

 

[bigperm]

Well, sometimes even the 2d look is good. www.f--ckedcompany.com has them, and they look 2d, but I think they look really good.

I don't like them when they don't match everything, or the website is just trying to look 'hip'. If it is part of an overall design, and fits, then it's good.

 

[Canuckkev]

I like em. I just don't like it when the page bg is white, and the track colour is alos white. Makes it look real bad. And I agree, anything but ORANGE!!!

 

[Gayowulf]

They are difintely a no-no for a professional site i.e a big company, I think they were better when they wern't so common.

 

[LeX]

It isn't "common"... only people with IE 5.5+ can see it.. then again, that's about the only browser people use these days.

 

[meow]

Ick!

 

[lord_andy]

Originally posted by Canuckkev
I like em. I just don't like it when the page bg is white, and the track colour is alos white. Makes it look real bad.

I don't agree that having a white background on your page and a white track color on your scrollbar looks bad. I've got it on my site and I think it looks cute.

Originally posted by LeX
It isn't "common"... only people with IE 5.5+ can see it.. then again, that's about the only browser people use these days.
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My site may be a rarity but 43% of my visitors are using netscape 4.x.

 

[Mandrake]

I have them on my site... Apparently they only work in newer OS's... I have Windows Millenium at home and they work there, but my two computers at work with NT4, they don't. All have IE5...

 

[akashik]

I put colored scroll bars up there with blink tags. Just annoying gimmicky rubbish. People see the window as the website not the browser. Scrollbars are a part of the browser, and therefore should just stay as they are.

I pity the day people are able to alter the browser color along with the scrollbars.

Greg Moore