strodeath Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 I uploaded a previously made template from phpBB website, and uploaded it to my forum. Now when anyone posts, the lettering is to dark to see: http://clandsc.com/forum/posting.php That's an example, in which you can't read what it says. I can edit the template, but I fail to find out which option I should change, for I don't know which option the color of the font is under. Does anyone know which one it is? Another problem I get, when under that template, I click on Ranks in the administrative tools, and it gives me this message: Template->make_filename(): Error - file does not exist I have uploaded all the required files, for I know a few people who have the same exact problem as me, and it gives them the same exact message. Quote
Deverill Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 strodeath, I looked at the link you provided. On the page my browser sees there is a line: ><body bgcolor="#E5E5E5" text="#00000" link="#006699" vlink="#5493B4"> In this line the bgcolor is the background color. The text="#000000" part of the line says to make your text black. If you change that part of the line to say text="#FFFFFF" then it is instructing the browser to make the text white. Of course, you can change the numbers to get anything in between. You can go to the page at hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/ to see all of the best color combinations to use and the code number for each of them. Since you are using templates it may not look exactly like this where you change the HTML code. You may also need to look for tags in the HTML code for your page that says something like ><FONT color=#000000> which does the same thing, but only for the words between that and the /FONT end tag. I hope this helps. Quote
strodeath Posted October 5, 2003 Author Posted October 5, 2003 Ah thanks.. ( Take note, I HAVE SAID IT. ) I've changed the font color to a different one ( One that's more readable ) but not the color I want, for the site you gave me does include the numbers and such for each color, as you said, it doesn't give me the same color as on the guide. After 5 minutes of constant color change I found that I like. If you ever do find a site that gives the exact color please post it, for I do want to change my color still. Quote
Deverill Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 You are welcome. The colors should be the same. Are you sure it is not just that the color looks different on such a dark background than it does on the webmonkey site which has a white background? Sometimes the background and choice of fonts makes one color look like a different one. You could probably do a google search for "color hex codes" and find one that has a dark background so you can see what that looks like. That's the search string I used and there were a lot of hits to choose from. Quote
strodeath Posted October 5, 2003 Author Posted October 5, 2003 Nope, the colors are completely different. :-\ I post a dark color and it gives me a light color, and vice versa. Quote
Caz Posted October 5, 2003 Posted October 5, 2003 I have found this to be a useful site for selecting colour schemes... http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/ Quote
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