Adding Color To Your Profile
Since this is buried deep in Lee's post about colors, I'll give it its own space...
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I've created some pre-done color schemes for the group. I did this because the link provided in the original post is just a "picture" of the code that can't be cut/pasted and it's easy to mistype HTML code. Also, it's easy to get confused with all the hexidecimal color representations.
This is easy...
1. Go to the FILES section of this group. You will see that I uploaded a simple text file that contains five sample color themes...including a cantaloupe/honeydew one at the end that I just couldn't resist (lol).
2. Click on the file ("Profiles Color Themes") to open it. Highlight, right-click and copy the color theme you want out of the file (JUST THE CODE!!!)
3. Go to your profile page and click on "Edit My History". Go to THE END of your history and start a blank line.
4. Right-click and paste the code you just copied at the end of your history and save.
That's it. To change your color theme, replace the code with another theme. To go back to standard Eons white, just delete the code from the end of your history section.
Note that I stripped the style sheet down to the two elements that can be easily modified: background (the body) and the section headers (h2). This causes the least amount of trouble with all the basic Eons styling on the page. I tried a really dark background and changed the "p"aragraph (text) code to white but then you have to start fooling around with all the different colors Eons uses for the links on the page. Too much crap. Just working with the background and headers is both appealing and easy. It's also less code to hang up a page, as Lee has already mentioned.
If anyone is really ambitious, they could develop more themes and post them too. Thanks to Lee for putting me on the path. Hope people can put this to some use. We could all use a little more color in our lives.
John
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I've created some pre-done color schemes for the group. I did this because the link provided in the original post is just a "picture" of the code that can't be cut/pasted and it's easy to mistype HTML code. Also, it's easy to get confused with all the hexidecimal color representations.
This is easy...
1. Go to the FILES section of this group. You will see that I uploaded a simple text file that contains five sample color themes...including a cantaloupe/honeydew one at the end that I just couldn't resist (lol).
2. Click on the file ("Profiles Color Themes") to open it. Highlight, right-click and copy the color theme you want out of the file (JUST THE CODE!!!)
3. Go to your profile page and click on "Edit My History". Go to THE END of your history and start a blank line.
4. Right-click and paste the code you just copied at the end of your history and save.
That's it. To change your color theme, replace the code with another theme. To go back to standard Eons white, just delete the code from the end of your history section.
Note that I stripped the style sheet down to the two elements that can be easily modified: background (the body) and the section headers (h2). This causes the least amount of trouble with all the basic Eons styling on the page. I tried a really dark background and changed the "p"aragraph (text) code to white but then you have to start fooling around with all the different colors Eons uses for the links on the page. Too much crap. Just working with the background and headers is both appealing and easy. It's also less code to hang up a page, as Lee has already mentioned.
If anyone is really ambitious, they could develop more themes and post them too. Thanks to Lee for putting me on the path. Hope people can put this to some use. We could all use a little more color in our lives.
John
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