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> > link="#Oc6c This discussion seems to of gone stale the past couple of days, but I haven't seen any solution set in place yet. And I do believe it is still of importance. I wrote a couple of days ago that there would probably be a server side solution to this problem, so I got to work on it. On Tuesday morning I tried my theory and I was pleased to see it work. It involves cgi, ssi, and cookies, and I have a test science section at http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Science/colours that demonstraites this. At the bottom of every page there is a link to a page that will let you change the colours of text, link, and vlink. This would require no changes to be made to the existing pages, and the only changes would be to only two of the template pages. It's not quite finished yet, but it does work. If you give it a try, set you colours (you can use red, blure, purple, green ... or any of the accepted colour names), submit it, and if you have cookies enabled on your borwser, go back a few pages and the colours should take effect. Johnathan Thibodeau Tech / Editor On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Sharon Parker wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Donna's frustration illustrates the flaw in the ointment of our webmaster > process. I'm greatly impressed with the job that Doug and Mike have been > doing on this. It hasn't been easy; it's an intricate and complicated > process. The webmaster and EIC duo is a great system, and it has taken us > into a new realm of discussion and cooperation about our website, but . . > > We need to set deadlines for our discussions, we need to make firm > decisions, and we need to designate individuals to implement solutions. > > I've added this as an agenda item for next Tuesday's Board meeting. > Perhaps the Board can help to tighten up the process for our webmaster and > our EIC. > > Let me know if you have any strong opinions on this. > > BTW, I've written a personal note to Donna -- in an attempt to explain our > growing pains. > > Sharon > > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Donna Randell wrote: > > > Gentlemen: > > > > I first brought up the colour issue shortly after the change was made and was assured that > > steps would be taken to correct it as you had received many complaints re: difficulty using > > the new pages. I wrote as a Chebucto Member - not representing NGB -although it happens to > > be a site I use frequently and am involved with. Do not presume that I represent that > > site. > > > > BUT as a Chebucto Member I complained about colour choices that are less than satisfactory > > to me. The old set-up of the Chebucto pages worked just fine- for me -but the change > > doesn't. I will also point out that you requested me to help work on new colour choices. > > Shortly before I left for vacation (three weeks ago) I was given the impression that this > > matter was resolved. > > > > Now that being said - I - as a Chebucto Member - who was assured a successful conclusion of > > this matter - request that you set aside all the technical verbiage and simply do the > > necessary tweaking of codes needed to make the colouring of the links work. The solution > > seems to appear in Andrew's letter following - or in the letter from Bob. > > > > I sincerely hope this matter is resolved shortly. The problem has been clearly defined, > > discussed and solutions have been offered which were found to work. I simply cannot > > understand what is the hold up! > > > > Please just fix the colours! > > Donna Randell > > > > Subject: > > Re: Proposed change to CCN template > > Date: > > Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:25:59 -0300 > > From: > > Donna Randell <drandell@chebucto.ns.ca> > > To: > > "Andrew D. Wright" <adw@chebucto.ns.ca> > > CC: > > ccn-webmaster@chebucto.ns.ca, aa935@chebucto.ns.ca > > References: > > 1 > > > > > > > > > > YES!!!!! THIS WORKS FOR ME!!! High contrast - and everyone can choose > > colours that work > > for them - In my case red. > > > > Thank you Andrew and all for working through this problem. I do appreciate > > all you do at > > Chebucto. And even more so now that things can work again for me, I hope > > this can go into > > place soon! > > > > THANK YOU!!!!! > > Smiles! > > Donna Randell > > > > "Andrew D. Wright" wrote: > > > > > Try http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~awright/test/recent2.htm. This one > > > does not specify a visited link color at all, using whatever your browser > > > defaults to for the visited link color. On my copies of Netscape and > > > Internet Explorer, this comes out as purple. > > > > > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Donna Randell wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Andrew and all, > > > > > > > > Yes I can see a difference with the new version - barely. I am sorry > > but pastel > > > > shades are my weakness. Again - I have never been classified as colour > > blind but > > > > strong or vivid colours work for me. Now as a woman I understand your > > trying to > > > > colour co-ordinate the page..... so could you use that pale green to > > indicate tried > > > > links..... In my humble opinion it's something like that or using > > stronger colours - > > > > like the brighter green in the Chebucto Logo...... > > > > > > > > Smiles! > > > > Donna > > > > > > > > "Andrew D. Wright" wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Donna. I've read your comments about having difficulty > > with the > > > > > visited link color on our new webpages and have prepared two test > > pages > > > > > for your viewing. Both are identical copies of the Recently Changed > > > > > Documents page from a few minutes ago. > > > > > > > > > > The first is the standard version in effect now and uses the > > > > > present visited link color. The second is a version which uses a grey > > > > > color instead of the different shade of green. Could you please take > > a > > > > > look at them and tell me if the new page is better than the old for > > > > > telling what are the visited links? Thanks! > > > > > > > > > &