[Synotic]

I want to have custom text colors for a new site idea I have. The background is white and the normal text color is lightish gray. The site's color is orange. Should the visited state be darker than the normal state? More saturated? I want my normal link colors to be orange. Maybe some green can go in somewhere. I just need suggestions on making the link colors actually work.

I also took a shot of the site idea here.

Any help is appreciated.

BTW, is it possible to do my site design without frames? That is how i have it set up right now... or if I have to use frames, is there like a Javascript that loads a totally new page when a link is pressed rather than just loading the new page in one of the frames?

[Mediaman_12]

Originally posted by Synotic:
<STRONG>I want to have custom text colors for a new site idea I have. The background is white and the normal text color is lightish gray. The site's color is orange. Should the visited state be darker than the normal state? More saturated? I want my normal link colors to be orange. Maybe some green can go in somewhere. I just need suggestions on making the link colors actually work.</STRONG>

Use CSS (style sheats) most modern WWW design apps allow you to create them. You use the CSS file to desagnate colour,type size & font to each of the type styles (normal text, link's, link mouse over, visited link, Header 3 etc) then you can link each page to the CSS file in the header. You could also do it with internal CSS tags where the CSS stuff goes in the header at the top of each page, But that way's a pain in the ass if you ever want to change anything.

<STRONG>BTW, is it possible to do my site design without frames? That is how i have it set up right now... or if I have to use frames, is there like a Javascript that loads a totally new page when a link is pressed rather than just loading the new page in one of the frames?</STRONG>

Tables are the way to go for this style of page. Load the graphic you have already got into ImageReady. Use the slice tools to break up the headers, the footer, where the content is going etc. Save out the images antd the HTML . Open up the HTML file in a HTML editor and see how It's been done.

[Synotic]

I already know how to use CSS to actually change the link colors, I just need suggestions on what they should be. What should be darker, what should be lighter etc...

Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
<STRONG>Tables are the way to go for this style of page. Load the graphic you have already got into ImageReady. Use the slice tools to break up the headers, the footer, where the content is going etc. Save out the images antd the HTML . Open up the HTML file in a HTML editor and see how It's been done.</STRONG>

I always want to have the navigation bar visible... whenever I set the table height to 100%, it goes like 5 inches more than the window size. Anyways, even if it extended to the right size, if the content was too long, then the navigation bar would be below eye level.. which I don't want.

I managed to put it into HTML... it is a bit sloppy atm, I don't think it works well with Netscape.. http://synotic.appleonlooker.com/Prototype/Scripts/

[Synotic]

I managed to make the frames work nicely...

I have one other question.. how can I make it so that when you click on the tabs, that gray stroke doesn't appear around the tab? This seems to be a feature of IE.. but it looks bad on my tabs. I have seen pages do it before. I am pretty sure this is possible with CSS. Any help is appreciated.

[Synotic]

Originally posted by Synotic:
<STRONG>I managed to make the frames work nicely...

I have one other question.. how can I make it so that when you click on the tabs, that gray stroke doesn't appear around the tab? This seems to be a feature of IE.. but it looks bad on my tabs. I have seen pages do it before. I am pretty sure this is possible with CSS. Any help is appreciated.</STRONG>

Okay, I did that as well.