Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:46:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Color shift
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Adrienne and Elspeth complained about the background color on many of
our web pages.  This color was invisible to me, since on my terminal
everything is amber on black.  All I knew is it had a hex code of
"E4B0FF".

Adrienne never got back to me on hex codes for suggested replacement
colors.  But recently Gayle Surrette and Sam Lubell both suggested
"FFFFF0".  So I've gone ahead and replaced every instance of "E4B0FF"
with "FFFFF0".  Please tell me if our website looks ok.  If there
are no complaints, I will make the same change on the mirror site
(http://keithlynch.net/wsfa) in a week or so.  Meanwhile you can look
at pages there if you can't recall what the old color looked like.

I changed 502 pages, automatically changing every instance of "E4B0FF"
to "FFFFF0".  The only complications were:

* Making sure I didn't change the *discussion* of the change in the
  list archives.

* Keeping the file dates unchanged, since will I want to see when the
  last substantive change to each page was, not when this superficial
  change was.

* Noticing that the change didn't seem to have any effect, realizing
  this was due to caching, so going back and advancing each of the 502
  files' dates by one second, and seeing that this fixed the problem.

Now back to constructing a list of all Fifth Fridays, getting the
immense December 1974 WSFA Journal online, making sure no external
links have gone stale, putting together the March WSFA Journal, etc.