Re: Pagemill and web page colors

Barry Hussey (Barry_Hussey@voyager.umeres.maine.edu)
Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:04:25 EDT

Barbara Branch <BBRANCH@ns.net> writes:
>I am using Pagemill to develop my school web pages on a Mac. The web page
>is up on the net at http://www-scf.usc.edu/~branch/. The problem is - the
>colors for the links in Pagemill have been set to shades of green but they
>show up on the web as purple. Is it because my background color is yellow.
>I tried to use our school colors of red, yellow and green but things have
>turned weird. Any Pagemill users or otherwise html experts have any input?
>I need help soon since I must present the web page development to a
>doctoral class on Thursday, August 8th. Thanks for any insight.

Barbara,

I really know nothing about Pagemill, however ALL HTML docs are
nothing but plain text. You can change them with any text editor. I may
be purist but I just use simple text for all my HTML stuff. The reason
I say this is that all the HTML editors I've seen add unnecessary code
that make the pages hard to understand / debug.

Now to your problem,

You don't really have one! The color palette of your mac must be off
or someone has reset the defaults of your browser. You page colors look
fine on my browser.

The colors for the complete document are set inside the <body> tag at
the top of the page. You have a background color set at a yellow with
the BGCOLOR="#FFFF8A" and your text set at red with TEXT="#FF0000" (
notice both are set inside the <body> tags <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFF8A"
TEXT="#FF0000>.)

Link colors can be changed using the LINK="#??????" (for the base link
color) VLINK="#??????" (for links you have visited) and ALINK="#??????"
(the color the link becomes when you click the mouse on it) These all
go inside the <body> tag. If the attributes for the link are not
included the browser uses the default values, which in Netscape are
Link is Blue, Alink is Red and Vlink is purple.

If you want your text in green just edit the TEXT="#FF0000" to
TEXT="#00FF00"

More information on working with HTML can be found by searching the
Web for HTML help pages. You can find mine at.

http://www.ume.maine.edu/~cofed/temp/HELP.HTM

(This page is on a Unix server so WATCH THE CAPITAL LETTERS.)

Hope this helps, I can be reached at
barry-hussey@voyager.umeres.maine.edu

Good luck and have fun.

Barry Hussey