Re: check this out

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Arafat Mohamed <biku at comcast dot net> wrote:

BTW: check the date/time on your machine (you seem to be a day or so behind)

> Ossama Khayat wrote:
> > The second one is more readable than the other. But
> > the layout of the first is nicer.
> > I recommend using the first table design with the
> > color combination of the second, but with a different
> > hyperlink color.
> 
> Personally I like the second one because the background color is the 
> same as that of the whole page. This color was also used in the original 
> design.

I agree.

>        Unfortunately as you've noticed hyperlinks are hard to read. Due 
> to the limitations of css, I cannot change the color of the hyperlinks 
> just in the updates box unless I do one of the following:
> 
> 1) Change hyperlink style sitewide. Bad idea because users tend to 
> expect their hyperlinks to look a certain way.
> 2) Force everyone who adds project updates to the db to add a 
> style="somestyle" in every href tag.
> 3) Use regex to edit every href tag coming out of the project table.

Out of the three (could there be more options ?) I'd vote for #2.  The
inclusion of that style="somestyle" could be done in PHP upon pressing
of submit (ie. have the PHP code scan for href and see if the style
tag is there, if not add it).

I'm not sure how other sites do it, but I've seen many instances where
the href is different on pages depending on where you are - I guess
they all resort to the style= call.  I'm no HTML guy, but on our right
menu we have links that have the underscore show-up upon hover -- I'm
guessing that is specific per table and not link (class related).  Could 
something similar (but with regard to color only) be done for the left
menu ?

Salam.

 - Nadim


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