[thesite] user selectable style help

[.jeff]

michele,

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> From: Michele Foster
>
> | i'd just like to say that i think we need to think
> | about whether or not we want styles for the links
> | in pagetitle1 and pagetitle2.  if you change to the
> | evoltoldschool stylesheet and view an article you'll
> | see that the category name completely disappears in
> | the blue block top left just below the date
> | (pagetitle1).
>
> Yeah, cos its a link in blue on blue background.
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yes, my point exactly.  unfortunately we're going to run into this problem
again -- especially when we allow people to create their own stylesheets.

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> I'll fix it when I do all of em.  I'm thinking to just
> change the background colour of the blue box to a
> lighter shade of dark grey.  That blue is just jumping
> out too much.
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hold on there sister.  you can't just go changing someone else's stylesheet.
this particular one that has the problem i mentioned is a redo of the
original evolt.org site design.  changing the colors isn't the solution.
that's why i brought up the idea of applying a class or something to the
links within those two boxes (pagetitle1 & pagetitle2).  maybe something
like this:

.pagetitle1 a:link {  /* blah */ }

or like this:

a.pagetitle1:link { /* blah */ }

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> I'd prefer not to add any more styles, but keep within
> the same theme of a lighter shade of colour for the
> blocks (like on weo now).
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again, like above, no way.  you can't mess with the colors.

what are we going to do when we encounter this problem again when we allow
users to create their own stylesheets?  i say we address the problem right
now rather than the symptom.

sorry,

.jeff

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