Comments on: Tangents Site Update

By: Tangent

Tangent — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:32:11 +0000

Hmm. Looks like I’ll need to figure out how to make changes to the CSS permanent. But considering I’ve wanted to expand the width of the middle column in any event (and someone else asked if I could increase the width of the Comments field and enlarge the font of comments being typed), there’s no time like the present.

Thanks for the input. :)

Rob H.

By: Bo Lindbergh

Bo Lindbergh — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:22:59 +0000

In line 16 of http://www.tangents.us/wp-content/themes/deep-blue-wordpress-theme/deep-blue/style.css, the body background colour is set to #474747. In line 148, the text colour for the main content is set to #444, which when expanded to 8 bits per component becomes #444444, which is quite close to the #474747 of the background. The white colour you're seeing comes from the image http://www.tangents.us/wp-content/themes/deep-blue-wordpress-theme/deep-blue/img/body.gif. In short, the theme depends on images being loaded or it becomes illegible. Fortunately, the fix is easy: add a line saying

background-color: white;

as line 149 of the style sheet, just after the

color: #444;

By: Tangent

Tangent — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:39:52 +0000

That’s odd. With me it’s a white background using Firefox, with grey borders. What browser are you using? (I’m using the Deep Blue Theme, rather than something I coded; I’m afraid I’m not really sure how to code in CSS.)