Published by Linda on 03 May 2008 at 09:06 am
An Administrative Note
I’ve been meaning to mention that I’m trying to fix the fact that this theme, which I like so much in other ways, has like NO contrast between regular text and link text. But every time I change it on the stylesheet, it changes the post titles and everything else in the main part of the page that’s linked, and it doesn’t look right. So I’m trying to figure that out, and I’m having no luck. It may be that there’s no distinction in the theme between the title of the post and the content of the post (which: dumb, if true), in which case I’m going to have to look for a color that has enough contrast for a link color without looking really conspicuous and distracting in post titles. But I am aware of it, and thanks for your patience!
Katie L. on 03 May 2008 at 10:53 am #
In the meantime, we can consider your links easter eggs, which are in themselves satisifying to find.
Yvonne on 03 May 2008 at 11:48 am #
Did you already change the color? I swear links weren’t this dark purple before, but maybe I’m just mis-remembering. But in case you’re still looking for a solution:
To change the link color just inside posts, try adding this code to your stylesheet (hopefully the code won’t get all chewed up):
.post-content a:link { color: newcolor; }If you want to change the link color template-wide, but preserve the old color in the post titles, add two lines:
a:link { color: newcolor; }h2 a {color: oldcolor; }
Feel free to e-mail me if there’s a problem.
Linda on 03 May 2008 at 12:54 pm #
Unfortunately, the only thing that changed was the “Share This” at the very bottom of each post. It had no effect on the links in the rest of the post. They’ve got the actual post body stuck in some other damn classification I can’t find in the templates anywhere. I may wind up abandoning the entire theme, because I cannot for the life of me find what I need to change to get this fixed.
Yvonne on 03 May 2008 at 2:04 pm #
Doh! Sorry that didn’t work. I downloaded your theme and CSS and adding this code to the CSS seemed to do the trick:
#content .post-content a:link { color: newcolor; }When I tried it, it changed the ShareThis and all the in-post links, but left the post header and all other links the same.
And as an aside…I cannot imagine why a theme designer would think it was a good idea to make links the same color as the surrounding text and remove the underline to boot, as if blog posts wanted to host games of hide-and-seek.
Linda on 05 May 2008 at 12:06 am #
Okay, with plenty of help (thanks, everyone!), I have finally fixed the link problem. I may tweak it again if it still doesn’t seem like it’s enough contrast, but it’s better.