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Posted by Ben C on 04/15/07 22:26
On 2007-04-15, Clueless in Seattle <spamless.in.seattle.redux@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm disabled by chronic fatigue syndrom (CFS) and have difficulty
> sitting up at my computer for more than a few minutes at a time so
> it's a challenge to try to maintain a web page I started years ago.
>
> A few years ago I created a web page for the Seattle CFS Support Group
> using a Geo-Cities web builder program.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/seattlecfs/
>
> So far so good.
[...]
> The main problem right now is an email link that has slipped down into
> a white area so it can't be seen anymore. At least I think that's
> what's happened.
That is just what has happened. You have <font color=#FFFFFF> around the
email link, and it's ended up on part of the page which has a white
background, camouflaging it perfectly.
> I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post HTML code in messages so I'll just
> post the first line of the item:
>
><!-- "BEGIN EMAIL US" -->
>
> I'd like this email link to appear on the left hand side of the page,
> near the bottom of the orange strip that contains the "Mission
> Statement." Could someone help me with that?
The problem is your mission statement paragraphs go on for so long that
there's no orange background left.
> Also, the Mission Statement used to be formatted so the text stayed
> inside the orange strip. Now it bleeds over the right margin into the
> white space. I'd be grateful for some help fixing that too.
The real problem here is that that orange strip is not really part of
the page. It's just a background image with the page projected on top of
it. If you're lucky things end up in the right places, but this is a
very risky way to do things.
The quickest fix would just be to give the email link its default
colours. Just get rid of the <font> tag around it altogether. Then at
least it will be visible, whether it lands on the orange bit or not.
If you want to change things much beyond that just start again. The
output from that web builder program you used is not pretty and no fun
to maintain by hand.
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