Chowhound made less annoying with CSS
Posted by Jeff June 27, 2006
Problem: The Chowhound redesign uses a freakin’ huge font (see comments here), and lots of ALL-CAPS RED text. This is annoying and hard to read. I have a way to fix it. Here is the before and after:
The after tones down/removes annoying interface elements, and gives more room to post title and contents.
If you use Firefox, you can install this style sheet:
- Install Stylish extension and restart. Open the chowhound site.
- Upon restart you should see a new icon in the lower right of Firefox:
- Click the icon, and a menu will appear. Choose “Create Style for chowhound.com”.
- Enter “Clean Chowhound” in the name field, and replace the text beneath it with the contents of this file. Clicking Apply, you should see the layout change as shown in the screenshot.
- If you like the changes, click Save — you’ll see Chowhound this way from now on!
- Let me comment if you like it, or these instructions didn’t work…
[…] Stylish “is to CSS what GreaseMonkey is to Javascript”. It lets you to modify the look and feels by modifying a site-wide CSS to a site. I used it to tweak Chowhound. Even more impressive though, is the library of existing scripts at Userstyles.org. Even if you don’t know I’ve installed the following: […]