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Post subject: Website Background Colour
 Posted: Dec 08, 2004 - 09:42 PM
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| Hi. To me, your website background is a grey colour. This makes the light blue link/navigation texts hard to read. This is probably because I have my WinXP default background set to grey because white is too hard on my eyes (headaches). This problem happens if I don't set my website page background colour - It defaults to grey. I assume this site bgrnd s/b white - can you sort it so non white themed XP peeps like me can see it correctly?, or maybe it's not that at all? Just wondering. Thanks! |
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Post subject: RE: Website Background Colour
Posted: Dec 09, 2004 - 08:11 PM
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I'm not sure I'm with you on this one. The background is set to white - I didnt know that users can set in their browsers to change a websites background colour.
Can you explain a little more ? I can't promise anything, but to look and see what I can do. |
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Post subject: RE: Website Background Colour
Posted: Dec 10, 2004 - 03:59 AM
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Hi, thanks. Well there is a browser that let you over-ride a websites set background colour, well as it appears to 'you' on-screen - it has a toolbar button for this job. Can't remember which one it is, though its one of the more popular IE clones. However, I'm not using that browser.
My regular XP desktop theme (Explorer, etc) is the classic (Win98, etc, one), but instead of the white background, as seen in Explorer for example, I changed it to light grey. This doesn't effect any websites I visit - they are shown as set by owner. The only time MY grey background shows on a website is if the background colour, or an image isn't set for the webpage(s). This occurs with me if I forget to set a colour from the pallet or an image in my webpage editor - though it might show in the editor as white, it appears on the web (to me) as grey.
There are a few sites I come across where this effect is shown. If I save the webpage and open it in my editor it shows that no colour or image has been set - I assume default editor colour is assumed to be already set as it is what appears to the editor of the page.
This only happens if the above is true and the page is intended to be white coding.
Hey don't rack your brains. I'll have a look at your page source and see if I can figure it out, though I know nothing about modern (css?) stuff, and get back.
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Post subject: RE: Website Background Colour
Posted: Dec 10, 2004 - 05:06 AM
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Hi again. Ok here's what I did.
1. Opened this page in my editor, stripped everything off the page - images, text, tables, so left with a blank page. Looked at the HTML
source tab and saw just regular header stuff.
2. The page source showed that the page background had no colour or image set for it, boxes were empty, so I set to white (#FFFFFF) and
viewed in preview - it still appeared as grey (just my XP theme and editor default colour).
3. However, the page settings in the editor doesn't matter as you have a style.css sorting these things out. So I looked at that and saw the
colours set for table background, but not an #...... (or an image) for the background. Now please excuse me here, I haven't much of a clue
what I'm talking about, but if you include a #FFFFFF it will take care of the background appearance.
Two things came to mind.
1. Why hasn't someone else mentioned such a problem. Well maybe because 99.999% probably use a white themed XP background, so to them the
page appears their default white.
2. And however a .css file is composed, why didn't the page show as not white. Well maybe because that's the default colour in whatever is
used to make it, but still needs to be set, or defaults to a viewers default theme colour when viewed online?
That's my brain muddled, and yours probably?, apologies. And I haven't even got Broadband! But I will have next Tuesday, oh joy!
Thanks, and sorry and everything!
Les
Oh, if there is something taking care of the background colour in the .css, sorry I'm a fool and was only trying to help ;o). If you have a white theme background, when viewing explorer say, maybe set it to grey (or blue....) and view site online, see if you have same problem. |
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Post subject: RE: Website Background Colour
Posted: Dec 12, 2004 - 09:35 AM
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| I can confirm the problem. Using Opera 7.6 with 'background colour' set to cream on Page style, I get cream backgrounds. Actually, not sure if it's a problem at all, but it certainly means we are very easily overriding/overwriting your page design. |
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Post subject: RE: Website Background Colour
Posted: Dec 14, 2004 - 02:32 AM
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Thanks words for confirming that. I just set my 'Appearance > Advanced > Window' colour to white and this page (and site) show white background - If I set blue, shows blue, etc. Doesn't matter what browser you use.
Andy: I'm sure you want to fix this so the site displays as intended. Look in the style.css file and include the code to display background as white - I think that's what's missing.
Hope that helps.
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Post subject: Re: RE: Website Background Colour
Posted: Dec 14, 2004 - 05:10 AM
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| Anonymous wrote: | | Andy: I'm sure you want to fix this so the site displays as intended. Look in the style.css file and include the code to display background as white - I think that's what's missing. |
Hi Les,
Sorry for the delay, thinks have been a bit hectic. I'll have a look at today/tonight. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Website Background Colour
Posted: Dec 14, 2004 - 01:00 PM
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| Thanks a lot Andy. Sorry to be a pain, but I'm sure you'd want to correct any problem with display/code, even though only a very few visitors may be effected. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Website Background Colour
Posted: Dec 14, 2004 - 10:30 PM
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Fixed ?
Interesting though, the problem was only seen in IE. My browser of choice is Firefox, and the backgrounds where always white, despite the CSS defining 'none' for the background. Strange.
Let me know if its not fixed as per your expectations, or indeed if anything else needs tweaking. |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Website Background Colour
Posted: Dec 15, 2004 - 04:11 PM
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Ahhh, that's better. Hey the site looks sooo much better. I'm only alergic to prolonged viewing (hours) with a white by the way - like offline personal computer use - in Word, Explorer etc...
My IE clone and the latest Firefox showed the problem. Oh well, it's sorted.
It is fixed as per my expextation and indeed your intentions. Cheers  |
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