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Ed Hansberry
03-11-2003, 07:29 PM
As you can see by my sig, I have a very small personal web page up now and generally like how it looks, except the background color. Any suggestions? If so, let me know the general color and the HTML hex number for it. White is out, as is a dark background. I want a light pastel of some sort. I just can't get the yellow right. :?
JackTheTripper
03-11-2003, 07:47 PM
9999ff
http://www.bobx3.com/9999ff.jpg

99ff99
http://www.bobx3.com/99ff99.jpg

99ffff
http://www.bobx3.com/99ffff.jpg

cc99ff
http://www.bobx3.com/cc99ff.jpg

99ccff
http://www.bobx3.com/99ccff.jpg

ffcc99
http://www.bobx3.com/ffcc99.jpg
Janak Parekh
03-11-2003, 07:53 PM
Jack, nice work. 99ccff looks good to me. :)

--janak
Ed Hansberry
03-11-2003, 08:03 PM
Jack, nice work. 99ccff looks good to me. :)

--janak
Indeed! I like that. I'll give that a shot. Thanks Jack!
Ed Hansberry
03-11-2003, 08:09 PM
Ohh... now the red hyperlinks look goofy. Any way to change that color? Those are the ones that are not visited yet. The maroon on visited links looks fine.
Janak Parekh
03-11-2003, 08:11 PM
Ohh... now the red hyperlinks look goofy. Any way to change that color? Those are the ones that are not visited yet. The maroon on visited links looks fine.
Sure, change the LINK attribute in the BODY tag.

Have you tried using FrontPage for this, btw? It has a pretty nice color picker.

--janak
Ed Hansberry
03-11-2003, 08:15 PM
Ohh... now the red hyperlinks look goofy. Any way to change that color? Those are the ones that are not visited yet. The maroon on visited links looks fine.
Ahhh... fixed that too. :D

No. No frontpage or anything. I am using TextPad (http://www.textpad.com) for my HTML - a pure text editor. I can't stand HTML files with all that garbage in them. Do a view source on my files. So small and clean. :)
luebster
03-11-2003, 08:18 PM
You could go really nuts and use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). You can change the unvisited, visited, and hover colors of your links (among other things).
Janak Parekh
03-11-2003, 08:23 PM
No. No frontpage or anything. I am using TextPad (http://www.textpad.com) for my HTML - a pure text editor. I can't stand HTML files with all that garbage in them. Do a view source on my files. So small and clean. :)
I know. I'm revamping my website as well, and I'm going the extreme - CSS, editing it all with xemacs. It's just that FP's colorpicker is very convenient to determine the hex codes.

--janak
Ed Hansberry
03-11-2003, 08:53 PM
It's just that FP's colorpicker is very convenient to determine the hex codes.
Ahhh, I understand now what you meant. I use PaintShop Pro and it has a rainbow color selector and in addition to the RGB values, it gives hex for HTML. I am just lousy at pickt out colors.

As for CSS? LOL! No chance. I didn't even do frames.
luebster
03-11-2003, 09:04 PM
I didn't even do frames.
Thank God! Frames are EVIL.
JackTheTripper
03-11-2003, 10:18 PM
Jack, nice work. 99ccff looks good to me. :)

--janak
Indeed! I like that. I'll give that a shot. Thanks Jack!

:way to go: No prob. I love photoshop ;)

And congratulate me. I just got a job building a small web site. Pays $500. :D

(Sorry, just had to brag.:D)
Ed Hansberry
03-11-2003, 10:24 PM
And congratulate me. I just got a job building a small web site. Pays $500. :D

w00t! Congrats! :rock on dude!:
Pony99CA
03-12-2003, 12:41 AM
As you can see by my sig, I have a very small personal web page up now and generally like how it looks, except the background color. Any suggestions? If so, let me know the general color and the HTML hex number for it. White is out, as is a dark background. I want a light pastel of some sort. I just can't get the yellow right. :?
I checked the Web page out earlier when I noticed it in your sig. It looked fine, but I like the new background better. I especially liked that you showed what those icons in the launcher were, as I wondered about some of them. :way to go:

However, shouldn't this have been put in the Announcements (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=31) section? :rofl:

Steve
Ed Hansberry
03-12-2003, 12:47 AM
I checked the Web page out earlier when I noticed it in your sig. It looked fine, but I like the new background better. I especially liked that you showed what those icons in the launcher were, as I wondered about some of them. :way to go:
My next step is to create an image map of the Today image on the front page.

However, shouldn't this have been put in the Announcements (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=31) section? :rofl:
Nah. I wasn't announcing, but asking for help. :wink:

When I get done, then I'll announce and get more exposure! :lol:
Pony99CA
03-12-2003, 01:32 AM
As for CSS? LOL! No chance. I didn't even do frames.
Actually, CSS can be fairly innocuous, unlike frames. My Web pages use them to set a common background image and font size and to control the horizontal rule width. Here's all it does:


BODY
{
background-image: url(svvgbkgd.gif);
font-size: 12pt;
}
HR
{
height: 12pt;
}
HR.thin
{
height: 2pt;
}


If you save the CSS code in its own file, you can access it with the following line in the HEAD section of each HTML file:


<LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="svvg.css">

As long as you're at it, don't forget a favorite icon for IE and an address/tab icon for Netscape and Mozilla. Put the following code right after the CSS link.


<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="svvg.ico">

Copy the same icon to favicon.ico to get it work with IE. If you go to my Web site (http://www.svpocketpc.com), you should see my logo icon in the address bar (in IE, you may have to add my site as a favorite).

I wish Pocket PC Thoughts would add an icon to its pages. :-(

Steve
Pony99CA
03-12-2003, 01:37 AM
I checked the Web page out earlier when I noticed it in your sig. It looked fine, but I like the new background better. I especially liked that you showed what those icons in the launcher were, as I wondered about some of them. :way to go:
My next step is to create an image map of the Today image on the front page.

That would be cool. I haven't done any image maps, but there are tools to simplify it. Of course, if you add a new program, you'll have to redo your image map, not just your software page.

Steve
Lotto
03-21-2003, 03:26 PM
Just thought I'd add (albeit a bit late)...

If you want a great color picker, Try this one! Only a 99KB file.

http://pages.infinit.net/avenir/stuff/picker.zip

It is very small (about 1"high x 1/2"wide) and always stays on top so you can always see it. It's got a dropper you can put over any webpage (or anything open on your desktop) color and it tells you the values.

If you want to see what it looks like check it out here:

http://www.houseofgoldbergs.com/PrintMaster.html

Click on downloads and check down the page, it's got a picture.

(This is not my site.)