From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Color shift
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:00:54 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

OK, I uploaded it to my ftp space.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Haggerty [mailto:hyperian at chesapeake.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:03 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Color shift

Keith,  the navigation frame "menu.htm" has a background color
#BE93D5, which is very close visually to the old #E4B0FF.  You'll
want to do a replacement of that as well.

I think the change makes the pages look much better.

Thanks,

Paul

At 02:46 AM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
>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.