Melinda, At 03:39 PM 11/10/00 -0900, you wrote: >A person has contacted me about her problem viewing my NYS Off-line >Sources at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysource/ > >Her initial note stated: > >" It is impossible to read the blue print on the black background. >Unfortunately, this section is useless because the title of the books is >illegible. I had looked forward to reading it but it is impossible. Can >the background be changed to a light color?? " > >Since I not using a black background, I her wrote back to her to see >what pages, if not all pages, she had problems with, and this is her >response: > >" I checked your Off Line site again, and everytime I found a listing of >books under any category, there appears a 2 or 3 line box which must >include the title and brief description of the book, all of which is >illegible. The black bleeds into the blue print, making it all black. I >think part of the title description is typed in black, but that of >course can't be seen either. I also tried Otsego, Delaware, Essex, and >Catt. Counties and New York City with the same result. The black box is >usually two or three lines deep and almost all the width of the page. >The box of a green-blue around the county choice is legible. " > >There is no color listed for background - all are .gif format images. Hmmmmm...... I'm not sure if this is what she is talking about but all the tables you have do have a background color of #76AAAA (type of green). The green may be coming through very dark in her monitor causing the blue links in them to be illegible???? Alot of this color thing may depend on what browser she is using, color settings configured in her browser, a dated monitor, or her video or graphic adapter needs updating. As to browsers, if she is using a Netscape browser she needs to have the settings as: Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Colors > do **not** have selected: __ Always use my colors, overriding document Microsoft Internet Explorer: Tools > Internet Options > General Tab > Colors... button > have checked/selected X Use Windows colors These are just thoughts and I'm not even sure if it is the tables giving her problems for there are none on your: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysource/ like there are on the other pages like: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nysource/history/hist001.htm --- Susan SGTAYLOR1@att.net My Genealogy Website - sgt http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/ - --------------------------------------------- USGW Mansfield, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/mansfield.html USGW New London, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/newlondon.html USGW Norwich, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/norwich.html USGW Windham, CT - http://home.att.net/~SGTAYLOR1/windham.html USGW Plymouth, MA - http://www.rootsweb.com/~macplymo/ *********************************************************