Free Republic Software Update for November 25th, 2003 (Update #4)

[The Mayor]

I'm enjoying what you've been doing John.

no suggestions, just a compliment to ya.

[John Robinson]

I didn't make any links bright blue. The only blue I added was the pale background color on the sidebar. I think it might be your "Ignore Specified Colors" setting causing the blueness.

[Monty22]

I don't like the blue color on the side, sorry.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

I'm going blind!!! I need sunglasses for all the bright blue titles.

[John Robinson]

I fattened the sidebar by 5%. I wonder what havoc I may have just unleashed.

[Admin Moderator]

There is a setting in your browser to set your colors. Probably under edit, preferences. Have you tried that?

[BlessedBeGod]

...is all blue. And a bright blue, at that.

That's the way mine usually is.

[willieroe]

Is "Chat" aka General Interest broke? No articles have been posted to "Chat" (or moved to "Chat") in 2 hours now....

[smith288]

You might be able to go to your IE settings and by the "Accessibility" button is a Color button. You can change the links to something other than blue. I changed it to navy and I thought it was comfy on my eyes.

[Dog Gone]

Look, you've done plenty for one day. Very few people have even experimented with the sidebar colors at this point, because the only link to changing them is in the original post (I think).

As far as I'm concerned, changing the search function, and helping people find Chat, were the two most important changes. The spell check was also important to many here.

Thanks for what you've done so far. Anything else is gravy.

[glock rocks]

I've got "Use Windows Colors" selected, but the sidebar links are still in blue/black. The underlines will work once I get used to which is which. Could there be a color choice for default windows IE link colors?

[John Robinson]

Make them colorless here: My Subscriptions.

I think most people prefer the blue, and I think the blue generally looks better, so I made it the default, but we have the colorless option to go back to the old way.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Ahh, thank you! For some reason, they were both bright blue. They're now dark blue. Much better. Thanks!

[smith288]

There is "unvisted:" option...click it and it will give you a palette to choose from. Stick in the blue area but choose darker. You might like it better.

[MinuteGal]

See # 258...(heheh)

Thanks, Leni

[hispanarepublicana]

bump

[Semper911]

Color sucks I don't think color sucks, but one thing I can't stand is underlined links. I like the light background in the sidebar, although the lavender isn't my cup of tea. I would LOVE if the whole page was a very light gray background. Much easier on the eyes - the white is killing me. My current browser (Safari) doesn't let me set an override bg color.

[smith288]

Did you see my post a little higher up with the color schemes named?

[NovemberCharlie]

I think the old sidebar links were easier on the eyes. #000099 with no background.

[nutmeg]

bookmark bump