link and text colors

Submitted by mandric on Mon, 2005-04-25 13:46.

so we have colors for links and non-links (text) ... but i don't think we've defined color for visited links. so visited links are same color as text. also, i think this was in the original design, not an effect of aden's recent style sheet changes.

i think it's somewhat useful that

1) a person knows what links you clicked and which you have not.
2) a link, after visited, still stands out from text

we might want to consider using one more color or contrast value for visited links. maybe adding some subtle difference might be good?

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category: Site development
in style sheet terms
Submitted by mandric on Mon, 2005-04-25 14:10.

this means

body text is color: #837474;

a:visited { color: #837474; }

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clarification on colors & links
Submitted by aden on Mon, 2005-04-25 14:16.

We have several issues actually.

There currently is no differentiation between a visited link & a non-visited link. Yes in the future that will should change...

I thought I would throw it back to the designer to see if they could come up w/an appropriate color scheme for that issue. Since it looks like we should have maybe four colors instead of 3.

Though, I don't think the primary links in the header need to "record" this type of movement. Currently the primary link changes from gold to a gray if that is the page that you are on. But then they go back to gold when you have left...

The second issue, which I feel is more important, is that currently links in story content are the same color as all the other text in a story content.

Therefore when a user is reading a story, they do not know that a particular text is a link as well.

For example in the story "Nothing Like a Good Yield" the title of the KRGV-TV story "Border Busts Yield 147 Illegal Brazilians" is a link as well, but a reader would not know that unlesss they happened to put their mouse over it.

The reason this is like this is because there is no distinction in the style sheet between node content and side bar content. When you change the color of a link in the node content, the links in the side bar change as well. -It looked really kludgy.

What needs to happen is that a seperate class needs to be created for node content links & sidebar content links.

It took me long enough to get "good enough" this weekend, that I left it where it was.

It is one of the tasks for the week.

I would also like to get rid of the blues & purples from the forum.

I am sure like other blues & purples that were appearing throughout the weekend, they are because the style sheet has undefined classes or ids for how the html is identifying them.

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i believe the sidebar has its own class
Submitted by mandric on Tue, 2005-04-26 12:01.

.sidebar {
/* right sidebar has fixed width */
  width: 200px;
  color: #C4BCBC;
  background-color: #C4BCBC;
  vertical-align: top;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  padding: 1em;
}

.sidebar a {
  color: #837474;
  font-weight: bold;
}

.sidebar .license {
  color: #fff;
  font-size: .9em;
}

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