Maestro, lol.. you probably won’t believe this, but you know what? I was just gripping about this very same thing. I was talking to Melissa (aquilus.net) about this yesterday. I told her I was thinking about purple, but then, she told me that alot of sites are doing purple as well. So, out of curiosity, I decided to check out a few of the sites out there.. and it’s true. I have come across sites that have swiped my scroll colors, etc.. it’s very disheartening.
When I first started Darkness Embraced back in 1999, it was a blue-blue.. then, over time, I seen people with the same exact colors.. so I changed it. Over the years, I have bounced around with different themes, but I always come back to bluish shades, it feels warm to me and inviting… and as you stated, obviously to everyone else as well.
I also realize that there is bound to be similar material on other sites, but lately, I have been finding people just ripping off my link descriptions left and right. Literal photo copies. At least name it something else. I don’t know why anyone would want their site to look like the vampire site next door, but, for whatever reason they do. If they are doing it because they just want to follow our foot steps with constructing a site, I feel very flattered by that, but to literally mimic it makes me feel like I am somehow being cheated of my creativity. Hopefully, these other sites will grow tired of duplicating something already out there and make a change, if not, our visitors are going to start wondering why their monitors display nothing but blue and violet colors and think it’s broken. 😉
I also just wanted to add that the Coven Organization has been using those colors for quite some time now, so I don’t think they are guilty of jumping on the blue/violet band wagon, but as for others, yes, I have made the same observation.