Sublime Text is a new text editor for coding. If you use it correctly, you can even fix the foreground and background colors on your website!

The Link
http://www.sublimetext.com/
The Problem
Undefined background and foreground colors across the site.
The Fix
Pop open your new fancy text editor and open the sublime.css file and add color: #000; background-color: #fff; to the body selector. Save the file. Done.
The Screenshot
sublimetext.com

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TinEye.com has a Tin Eye

October 5, 2009, 8:28 am ET by Define Your Colors

Again, sites that deal with design, style or color should be held to a higher standard.

The Link
http://tineye.com/.
The Problem
Undefined background color.
The Fix
The good old background-color: #fff addition to the body selector in the base.css file. Considering that there are other colors defined, leaving out the background color is a bad idea.
The Screenshot
tineye.com
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Newsweek’s site needs a background color defined.

The Link
http://www.newsweek.com/ and all the other pages.
The Problem
Undefined background color.
The Fix
Adding background-color: #fff; to the body selector in the CSS.
The Screenshot
newsweek.com
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Artists Should Learn CSS, Too

August 25, 2009, 8:20 pm ET by Define Your Colors

If you are a CPA and your site’s colors are undefined, I’m not likely to care. However, if you are an artist or designer or web professional, then you should pay more attention to your site’s design and CSS. I love Neill Cameron’s A-Z of Awesomeness, but the site needs some defined colors.

The Link
http://www.neillcameron.com/ and all the other pages.
The Problem
Undefined background and foreground colors. I’m using my "Joker" color theme these days, to show the lovely purple and green.
The Fix
Getting a little tired of this part, since the fix is almost always the same thing: adding background-color: #fff; color: #000; to the body selector in the CSS. This site is no different.
The Screenshot
neillcameron.com
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I guess all the western sun fried the designer/developer brains at the Salt Lake Tribune.

The Link
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13185543 and all the other pages.
The Problem
Undefined background color, though also missing a foreground color in the comments section.
The Fix
Adding background-color: #fff; color: #000; to the body selector in this file: http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/css/MNGiDefaultStyles.css. Also, to fix the comment, a color: #000 should be added to the cmtComment class.
The Screenshot
Salt Lake Tribune
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Spawn.com Should Spawn Some Color

August 18, 2009, 3:52 pm ET by Define Your Colors

I didn’t realize that Spawn was still around. It’s so 1990s.

The Link
http://www.spawn.com/news/ and most of the secondary pages. The home page is actually fine.
The Problem
Undefined background color, of course.
The Fix
It is getting old, but adding background: #fff to the /news/Styles/NewsStyle.css file will fix it.
The Screenshot
spawn.com

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Colorsuckr’s Color Sucks

August 13, 2009, 6:21 am ET by Define Your Colors

As mentioned in the comments, Colorsuckr has fixed the background color problem. And is a great tool for web designers!

Again, sites that deal with design, style or color should be held to a higher standard.

The Link
http://colorsuckr.com/.
The Problem
Undefined background color (at least for the "Light" theme).
The Fix
The good old background: #fff addition to the /css/styles.css file . I think it is funny that picking the "Dark" theme option does correctly define the background.
The Screenshot
Colorsuckr.com
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Mozilla/Google Homepage

July 11, 2009, 7:21 pm ET by Define Your Colors

Mozilla was doing so well, until now…

The Link
http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official, which happens to be the default Firefox home page, though it seems that Google is responsible for it.
The Problem
Undefined background color.
The Fix
The good old background: #fff addition. And, by the way, isn’t is about time that Google/Mozilla start using a non-tables layout on that page?
The Screenshot
Mozilla
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Why doesn’t wolfram.com have a defined background color? Once Wolfram Alpha comes online, perhaps I’ll ask it that question. In the meantime…

The Link
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/ and most of their other pages.
The Problem
Undefined background color.
The Fix
The background: transparent on the body selector overrides the background color. It should instead be background: #fff
The Screenshot
Wolfram
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For the record, I do work for a competitor to Wolfram.

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Web Designer Help Needs Help

April 18, 2009, 2:50 pm ET by Define Your Colors

Sometimes, the posts just write themselves. There is one thing worse than designers who don’t define their colors: sites that purpose to help you be a web designer, like today’s offender, Web Designer Help.

The Link
http://www.webdesignerhelp.co.uk/ and all their other pages.
The Problem
Undefined text colors.
The Fix
Adding color: #000; to the body selector in the style.css file.
The Screenshot
Web Designer Help
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