Adjusting Text Colors
Now that you have customized your background either with color, image or both, you will probably need to adjust the colors of your text and hyperlinks. Here are some things to keep in mind:
- People need to be able to read your text, so choose a color that contrasts with the background color/image.
- The links need to sort of "Jump Out" and say "click me, click me, click me!" (but please not me). So choose an even more intense color for the links.
- Last, links that users have already clicked (called visited links) should sort of fade or be lighter versions of the main link.
These are general guidelines. The standard colors used for Filamentality pages are black text, blue links, and purple visited links. Go ahead and pick some color combinations. Remember to write down those yucky hexy, dexy, 6 digit RGB codes.
When you've picked the three colors you want to use (you can go with the standard colors if they look okey-dokey), then you're ready to put them into the HTML. This works the same way as for changing the background color:
- Go to your HTML document and find the body color line:
- Drag across the text, link or vlink codes and insert your own new color codes. Then do the "HTML Save Thing" and the "Browser Load Thing" to see how it all looks together. Hint: You can drag across the color codes on the Web page and do a "copy." Then go to the HTML document, drag across the code you want to replace, then do a "paste." This way you don't have to dirty your hands - or brain - with the hexy dexies.
Note: If you use Netscape 2.0 and write your pages for other people who do, you have life a little easier. You can avoid the hexy dexies and choose one of the colors below. Then instead of putting in a color code, all you do is type in the actual name of the color like this:
