----- Original Message ----- From: "alice ttlg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ryka wrote: > > Really? What color do use for text on a black background? I always found > > white text to be best. > > I use a light shade of gray, close to white but it cuts the contrast enough so > it's not so glaring, like #dddddd or #eeeeee. Hm, I might have to try that. I'll test it out on the next few stories I archive, see what people think. > > > Interesting about the printing problems, I don't think I've ever thought > > about that. My computer automatically ignores the black background and > > prints the white text in black and leaves colored text as is. > > I don't know if it's older printers or newer ones that have this problem. I > know that HP laserjets love to print colors in shades of gray (found this out > when I had color coded different numbers in a report and found the b/w HP > laserjet was printing the blue and red numbers in a light gray, eep!) Sounds like you're printing in grayscale instead of black & white. But then again, I use epson. > I can't tell you how it does it, I can't write scripts like that, I just know > it works. There's a particular script that it uses. You could download the > automated archive scripts and find that one and adapt it to your own uses... > > And even tho your archive is small still, you might look at using the > automated archive, it's much easier when you start out with it, than having to > convert hundreds of stories later when the archive gets big (alice says after > having converted a 2,000+ story archive and a couple 300+ story archives in > the last four months :-)), I run every archive I set up or maintain on the > automated archive now, even little ones. Once you get used to setting it up, > it's easy. I must admit, I haven't really looked at the automated archive. My web knowledge is currently limited to html and css. I'm slowly learning more complicated stuff. What web programming languages would I need to know? Ryka _______________________________________________ Fanficwebdesign mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://populli.net/mailman/listinfo/fanficwebdesign_populli.net
