What is up with the link colors on this blog?! I finished designing the graphics and plugged them into a standard blogger template. I have changed the link colors a million times, but they never update. I am about to rip my hair out! ARRRRGGGGH! Guess I will have to learn some HTML. Ugh. I am a very visual person and code drives me insane. Or more insane. However you want to look at it...In the mean time, please bear with me and the horrible colors as I try to make this space a little more homey. Any tips you web-ninja types may have would be greatly appreciated!
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Does the main .php file happen to have a line #437? There may be a bit of CSS code there that is making the sidebar links blue and the visited links purple. If that isn't the culprit, and if you haven't already examined the CSS files, that's where I'd look if I were you.
Thanks, Katie! I opened the CSS files and got the sidebar link colors straightened out finally. Woo-Hoo! I'm trying to do the same for the post footer, but I'm not quite there yet.
It's strange- I sampled the blue and purple colors that seem to have taken over the links. I searched for their hex values in the code, but don't see those values anywhere. The links all used to be white, then just a few days ago changed without me doing anything. At least I don't think I did anything!
Anyway, thanks a bundle for your help!
jo
The css code seems to have it written out as "blue" and "purple" so you might search for that. I wonder if you have a separate CSS file for the footer?
Thanks for coming back to check on my color issue!
A word of caution: I am completely code ignorant. So what I'm about to type may or may not make any sense at all. I am WAY out of my element here...
That said, I searched for blue and purple and found neither. The footer section does have it's own CSS in the form of widget templates. I've expanded them in the HTML edit mode and have replaced everything I can find relating to color with a white or gray value, but see no change at all. (I've since cleared those edits) The variable section makes no reference to blue or purple, so I'm not sure where my edits are being overridden.
Somewhere in one of the CSS files may be this bit of code:
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;
}
I have a diagnostic program that turned that up.
Looks like you fixed it! Yay you! Now blog! I am looking forward to hearing more about your thoughts and your journey.
We'll just use our imagination
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