Re: Embarassing Webpage Stories

It is a very good lesson.  I really hadn't thought of it myself until I
started working in an all Mac environment. The machines were relatively new
and no one had set the default background color for webpages in the browser
before I used it.  I found some "professional" local government pages which
had no background color set and defaulted to the nasty grey.  worse yet, all
the graphics were on white backgrounds (oval buttons, lots of matte showing)
and it was truly horrendous.  Since then I set my background color in a
style or in the body tag.

I'm sure it's a very common newbie oversight that most of us were guilty of.

Deb

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kemp" <SusanKemp(at)earthlink.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Embarassing Webpage Stories


> I've created a number of pages for my agency's website recently.  Its a
very
> big agency with some very touchy IT people.  Yesterday one of them showed
me
> my recently created webpage on her screen.  The background was grey.  I
said
> "that's not right.  I made the background white."  Nope.  The background
on
> my browser is white so I thought what I was seeing was what others would
> see.  Instead once it was on the server it defaulted to grey because I'd
> failed to set the background colour.  How embarassing.
>
> This was a tough way to learn how to set the background colour within the
> body tag but I guarantee I'll never forget it.
>
>
> Susan Kemp
> OCFS Internet Services
> SusanKemp(at)earthlink.net
>
>
>

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