For gods sake, make the links different colors

[uv23]

There's nothing special about these boards that the color can't be changed. Its just html, php for the dynamic bits, and style sheets for the look and feel. The A link entries are all (except for mouseovers) just using the same color.

I don't persist to troll. I persist because I know it'll be a hundred fold improvement.

 

[Morrus]

There's nothing special about these boards that the color can't be changed. Its just html, php for the dynamic bits, and style sheets for the look and feel. The A link entries are all (except for mouseovers) just using the same color.

I don't persist to troll. I persist because I know it'll be a hundred fold improvement.

I repeat my previous post:

I added the line Psionicist suggested (using colour #cccccc); no effect.

Therefore, attempts at persuasion are not going to change the situation - the persuasion period is over. The technical how-to period has begun.

 

[uv23]

Open your Forum's Control Panel, scroll the left frame all th eway down and click on 'Modify' under the 'Styles' header.

Click on 'Fonts/Colors/etc' of the 'Default' style (unless you are using a custom style ofcourse).

Scroll down to 'Page Layout' Header and edit the entry in the 'Body Tag' editbox.

Voila.

 

[Morrus]

Suprisingly, I did spot that post originally, but thanks for pointing it out. It makes no sense to me, sorry. Edit what entry in the 'body tag' box? - it contains about 30+ lines of code.

Remember - you're talking to a dummy here. Exact, clear instructions are what are needed if you want this changed.

 

[uv23]

Hehe ok. If someone can give Morrus explicit instructions regarding the messageboard "software" please do. If not, I can provide some details on how style sheets work so that you can manually change them.

 

[ToddSchumacher]

I added the line Psionicist suggested (using colour #cccccc); no effect.

How about using color #cccccc

 

[Morrus]

I did. The word 'colour', above, was not part of the code, merely part of my sentence.

 

[ToddSchumacher]

oops sorry, should probably keep my mouth shut on things i'm not qualified to answer

 

[uv23]

Ok, do this Morrus. It will help you understand whats going. Go to any page of the forums (like this one) and view the source. When you view the source, scroll down a bit and you will see a <STYLE> tag. This is the style sheet definition area of the page. Scroll down a bit more and you'll see:

A:link, A:visited, A:active {
COLOR: #FFFF99;
}

What this is doing is applying the same color to links regardless of whether they have been previously visited or not. So what needs to happen is those lines needs to be replaced with something like this:

A:link {
COLOR: #FFFF99;
}
A:visited {
COLOR: #CCCCCC;
}
A:active {
COLOR: #EECCCC;
}

This will change the colors for each state of the links.

Now, thats the manual way of doing things. So you could go in and edit the pages and make these changes. But I don't know how vBulletin works. It might compile the pages based on settings from some control panel. If thats the case, I'd suggest you call them or email them and ask how its done.

Hope that helps.

 

[Psionicist]

UV32, That is correct.

I assumed Morrus would remove the a:visited from

A:link, A:visited, A:active {
COLOR: #FFFF99;
}

first.

So, the clear instructions are as follows:

1) Go to the page as LeeCHeSSS described
2) Remove this

A:link, A:visited, A:active {
	COLOR: #FFFF99;
}

3) Add this in the place of the code you just removed:

A:link { 
COLOR: #FFFF99; 
} 
A:visited { 
COLOR: #CCCCCC; 
} 
A:active { 
COLOR: #EECCCC; 
}

#CCCCCC is a light grey color. You can try some other colors, as #FF7E00 for orange. It might do the trick!