I agree this is a computer issue, not HTML. Donna is well seasoned in HTML. Some
libraries are simply don't update their browsers, etc. I have never had a problem
with any pages and have viewed them on windows and unix. Do you know what operating
system the library is on Donna? And also did you notice the browser/version they were
using?
Brenda
At 07:25 AM 02/16/2000 -0500, you wrote:
Donna what library in what city and county were you in. Maybe I can
help
Jean
MFLP(a)aol.com wrote:
> How does your web page appear to other people? I happened to be at the
> library this AM and was trying to help one of the research librarians find
> something I knew was online. We were going through several Georgia pages and
> I realized their system was not loading any colored backgrounds. Therefore
> any dark backgrounds were coming up white and those with white text were
> "blank". One which I did, I put on a maroon background which is one of
the
> basic colors. The yellow text was barely visible and anywhere I used white,
> you couldn't see it.
> I was very familiar with some of the pages, knew how pretty they looked on my
> computer and saw how bad they looked on theirs. How many libraries etc have
> their computers set that way? One section that I set as maroon inside a table
> came up that way. I noticed my brown links outside of tables came up blue. In
> other words if you set your page format right after the <./head>, it was
> changing the background color but not the text color.
> You might want to check yours out.
>
> Donna Parrish
>
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