SpliceToday.com has a ton of colors on their homepage, but they’ve forgotten to define a couple of other colors.

The Link

http://www.splicetoday.com/ and every other page on the site.

The Problem

The homepage is missing a background color, but the articles are missing both background and text colors. The graphics assume a white background, and you can never go wrong with black as a text color.

The Fix

Adding background-color: #fff; color: #000; to the splicetoday.css file.

The Screenshot

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You can buy almost anything at Ebay, except, apparently, a defined background color.

The Link

http://www.ebay.com/ and every other page on the site.

The Problem

No defined background color.

The Fix

Adding background-color: #fff; to one of Ebay’s bizarrely named css files.

The Screenshot

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FiveThirtyEight.com says that they do election projections right! Unfortunately, none of the 538 electoral voters were able to fix the site’s missing background color.

The Link

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ and every other page on the site.

The Problem

No defined background color.

The Fix

Adding background-color: #fff; to somewhere in the site’s CSS files.

The Screenshot

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Looks like Multicolr finally found their background color.

When a site is all about color, it should be held to a higher standard. The Multicolr Search Lab is a cool tool, but it’s missing one color.

The Link

http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/

The Problem

No defined background color. The graphics were created to be used on a white background, I’m guessing, so it seems that’s the color that needs defining.

The Fix

Adding background-color: #fff; to the body selector in the base.css file.

The Screenshot

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Ow, it burns!

The Link

http://www.zillow.com/ and many, many others

The Problem

No defined background color.

The Fix

Adding background-color: #fff; to the body selector in the master.css file.

The Screenshot

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The Baltimore Sun seems to have forgotten to define certain colors on their site, making it look a little odd.

The Link

http://www.baltimoresun.com/ and many, many others

The Problem

No defined background or text color.

The Fix

Adding background-color: #fff; color: #000; to the body selector in the global.css file.

The Screenshot

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Sideshow Collectibles always has some great, expensive toys for movie buffs and nerds. Looks like they sold their background color along the way, too. I decided to use black as my background this time, to show how badly a page can look when colors aren’t defined.

The Link

http://www.sideshowtoy.com/listing.php

The Problem

No defined background color.

The Fix

Adding background-color: #fff; to the body selector in the global.css file.

The Screenshot

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Nucleus has updated their CSS, and now all is fine!

The Nucleus Art Gallery site has got some really cool Sandman art for purchase. They also have no background color defined for the site, making it look funny to me.

The Link

http://gallerynucleus.com/

The Problem

No defined background color.

The Fix

Adding background-color: #fff; to the body selector in the www.css file.

The Screenshot

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Google is celebrating its 10th anniversary today. They even released an interactive timeline of Google events. Unfortunately, Google’s front-end coders are as inconsistent as Yahoo’s. I’ve already mentioned that Google’s search results page doesn’t define its colors correctly, and now their timeline doesn’t either.

The Link

http://www.google.com/tenthbirthday/#start

The Problem

Once again, no defined background or text colors.

The Fix

Adding color: #000; to the body selector in the display.css file.

The Screenshot

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Guilty of bad CSS on two different types of pages.

The Link

http://law.com and most of the rest of the site.

The Problems

The text color is undefined on the home page, and the background color is undefined on the article pages.

The Fix

If you combined the two pages, you’d end up with something correct: in this case, adding a background-color: #fff; color: #000; would solve both problems.

The Screenshot

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Bonus Screenshot

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