A Font Color Problem: www.victorian-music.com

Najoba · #1 (**permalink**) 10-31-2004, 03:11 PM

I chose antique colors for my Victorian music website at www.victorian-music.com ... "old dusty rose" background with a dark gray font. For my navigational links, I used a one-row table with a dark gray background, and off-white font. I ended up having to use the off-white font color for all hyperlinks, because I didn't know how to write the appropriate code. These hyperlinks are not easy to see against the rose background.

I would like to know what code I can use to separate the hyperlink colors so that they are off-white (or dusty rose) in the navigational tables and remain dark gray on the rose background.

I would appreciate any suggestions for appropriate source code to improve visibility on my site, and still maintain the "antique" look.

Thanks,

Nancy

www.victorian-music.com

mushroom · #2 (**permalink**) 10-31-2004, 06:03 PM

Code:

<body text="#666666" bgcolor="#E3c4ae" link="color_here" vlink="color_here" alink="#00FFFF">

You have most of it just replace the "color_here" for link & vlink.
But user preferances may over ride all your link colors.

Najoba · #3 (**permalink**) 11-01-2004, 01:19 AM

Yes, that will work for the rose-colored background, but the problem is the navigational tables. The link text in the tables has to be light (off-white) to be seen on the dark gray background. I don't know how to write specific code so that the off-white would apply only to the navigational tables.

I ended up having to make all the hyperlinks the off-white color, which works fine for the tables, but does not look good on the rose-colored background of the web pages.

speed · #4 (**permalink**) 11-01-2004, 05:16 AM

Najoba · #5 (**permalink**) 11-02-2004, 06:28 PM

Thanks, speed, for taking the time to help me. I am not very knowledgeable about code, and mostly rely on Front Page.

I'll work on this and see if I can get my site to look better.

Nancy

www.victorian-music.com

speed · #6 (**permalink**) 11-03-2004, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Najoba

Thanks, speed, for taking the time to help me. I am not very knowledgeable about code, and mostly rely on Front Page.

No problem.

We all had to start somewhere, for finding code errors try http://validator.w3.org/ and have a read up on CSS for styling your pages. There's lots about CSS at http://www.alistapart.com/topics/css/

Najoba · #7 (**permalink**) 11-10-2004, 04:54 PM

Thanks...I am "thinking about CSS" but am procrastinating in trying to learn it. I have studied it a little, and understand what it's about basically, but so far, I am still chicken to use it. I understand this will solve my font color problem, but I'm not sure if I'm up to completely rebuilding my website at this time.

Nancy
www.victorian-music.com

speed · #8 (**permalink**) 11-10-2004, 06:16 PM

You don't have to rebuild the whole site in CSS, you can start by using CSS to style parts of the site.

As and when you get more confident with CSS you can then think about rebuilding the site as pure CSS, if that's what you want to do.