20080415-More Modifications

Okay, I’ve done more modifications to my ‘Contempt’ theme by Michael Heilemann via WordPress.com. The first task was to figure out how to get the right combination of colors for the links. The original author’s version was too confusing to me. And I didn’t like how the colors for the active, link, hover and visited pseudo-classes were combined with the h1, h2 and h3 headers.

All I did was remove the original, repetitive ‘a:’ (or ‘pseudo-classes) from the CSS stylesheet and went back to review old themes. I sampled the colors from the [en.forums.wordpress.com] also and liked those for the appearance of the ’selectors’. So the closest colors are: pale aqua for the ‘active’, medium cyan for the ‘hover’, dark blue for the ‘links’ and light aqua for the ‘visited’. The ‘a:hover’ must come after ‘a:link’, by the way.

The next fun part was getting my usual borders to 3px and sampling the colors to determine which elements from the original author’s CSS stylesheet affected the layout of my current theme. I used ‘green’ for ‘visited’ links located within the post entry and ‘yellow-orange’ for this 3px solid line separating the post entries. Nothing else changed except expanding the h2 header with a bottom border to 3px.

I reviewed my old pages and found some of the headers for my blockquotes was not bolded. For whatever reason, the location of <strong> tag wasn’t immediately to the left of the word that needs to be bolded with the </strong> tag closing immediately to the right of the word. I had to go to the ‘html’ tab (right) and delete out these tags and go the ‘visual’ tab (left) of each page, highlighted the words and then clicked on the ‘Save’ button.

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