Patricia Geary wrote: > Ask yourself this question "Is Your Background Color Configured?" If > you don't know, you might want to read this article > http://www.genealogy-computer-tips.com/background-colors/ > > Why do I ask? As I look at the pages you include in your signature > lines or ask about, quite a few of the ones I check are a pretty > shade of pink. Not what you want? Then you need to se your background color. > > Unfortunately even the "big guys" don't configure their background > colors, including RootsWeb. :-) > > pat > > Pat Geary > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage Well, sure, but then again -- something like 40% of all males and a tiny percentage of females are color dysfunctional -- ie., color-blind -- to some extent. If I like this nifty shade of orchid or peach and specify, my son can't see the page because to him both colors are a shade of grey. If I get cute and use a pale pink bgcolor and a medium light green text, he's going to see grey on grey. If the only colors the visitor can see are on grey-scale, the visitor is a better judge of what he can see than I am. Cheryl -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.

At 02:55 PM 8/8/2007, you wrote: >Well, sure, but then again -- something like 40% of all >males and a tiny percentage of females are color >dysfunctional -- ie., color-blind -- to some extent. If I >like this nifty shade of orchid or peach and specify, my son >can't see the page because to him both colors are a shade of >grey. If I get cute and use a pale pink bgcolor and a medium >light green text, he's going to see grey on grey. > >If the only colors the visitor can see are on grey-scale, >the visitor is a better judge of what he can see than I am. If you specify NO color at all not even white, then it is up to the viewer's browser and how he/she has it set what he/she sees OR what there eyes perceive. All I am saying is that if you don't specify a color no matter what color, it will be seen as maybe white or gray. But for those of us who do set our browsers at some weird color so that we are sure we set our own background color, it will be seen as that color. Your choice to set it or not. pat