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May 30th, 2008 — Color stuff, Things for sale
Looking through my account, I found that the single most popular sale item was a color swatch set I made a while back. I’ve put together some color palettes. Each includes an image of each of the colors pictured in one of the vertical strips above and a larger swatch with all the hex codes labeled on it. It comes packed in a .zip file. Unpack and upload any images to your image host. Use the hex codes for text or table backgrounds or for working with images in an editor.
More color swatch sets.
I tried to put instructions for using it in the email, but the email visual code editor kept breaking it. So once again, instructions are here:
<body background=”http://your_image_background”>
May 18th, 2008 — Color stuff, Tips and tricks, html help
The old-fashioned standard html way of doing it is to put a text attribute in the <body> tag, like so:
<body text="#000000" link="#000000" vlink="#000000" alink="#000000"> where ‘text’ is the color of the text in your listing, ‘link’ is link color, ‘vlink’ is visited link color, or the color of the links that the visitor has clicked, and ‘alink’ is the color of links that are active, or highlighted.
Niteflirt won’t let you do it this way, and if you try you’ll first get a message that you can’t put “text” within the <body> tag, and then that you aren’t allowed ‘link’, ‘vlink’, or ‘alink’ either. So what you have to do is trick it. The formula that’s searching though your code for banned snippets is looking for the entire word ‘ text’ with a space before it. You can add a ‘border’ attribute and remove those pesky spaces, and even though the code is really nonstandard, it will still work.
<body border="0"text="#000000"link="#000000"vlink="#000000"alink="#000000">
will make all the text on the page black, as #000000 is the hex code for black. There are also a number of color names you can use. So
<body border="0"text="red"link="pink"vlink="maroon"alink="purple">
will give you red text, pink links, maroon visited links, and purple active links. Of course it will do it in your listing, too. You probably don’t want that. So what you do is put it at the very bottom of your listing.
You can just copy and paste this, but you should pick a different color than pink, which is really hard to see, maybe like "#ff00ff", which is a hot pink.
<body border="0"text="red"link="#ff00ff"vlink="maroon"alink="purple">
Just in general you should look at the colors on your page to make sure they are dark enough to read and pick a different color if they are not really easy to see. Yellow feedback on a white background won’t work. Take my word for it.
February 9th, 2008 — Color stuff, Tips and tricks, tutorials
A while back I downloaded the free Iconico colorpicker. I guess there are a lot of colorpickers around, but I’ve always been satisfied with this this one.
I’m going to give you a few instructions on how to use the colorpicker to help you select colors for your html site—such as Niteflirt—backgrounds and text colors mostly.
A few colors are named in html, and you can use these names in building your site. But there are millions of possible colors, and to use most of them you must find the hexcode for the color and use that instead. A hexcode takes the form “#” plus 6 letters or numerals. So “#ffffff” is the hexcode for white, and “#000000″ is the hexcode for black, both of which are named colors.
Take a look at the color pic window, which sits on top of other windows on your screen.
The red arrow is pointing at the window where you will find the hexcode for the color the mouse pointer is hovering over. Clicking the tabs at the left of the middle window will give you more options to help finding the exact color you want. There are more instructions on the
Iconico site.
Now watch color pic in action.
As you mouse over pixels on your screen, a magnified image appears in the window at the bottom, the color appears in a swatch box, and the hexcode appears in the hexcode text box.
When you find a pixel that is the color you want, hit ‘c’ on your keyboard. The hexcode for that color will be copied to your clipboard, and you can paste it into your page code.
will change your text font.
will change the background of your table.
will change the background of your page in normal html. This doesn’t work on Niteflirt pages, though. To put a solid colored background in a Niteflirt page, you will need to make an image of that color to use instead.
February 4th, 2008 — Color stuff, Things for sale
You can’t use a background color name for your Niteflirt pages, although you can anywhere else on the web.
To put a page background on a Niteflirt listing or homepage, first you need to upload the color image to a photo host. You can use PSO Hosting, use the Niteflirt photo uploader (the link is in the ‘HTML tips’ popup window on the listing edit page). There are others, both free and pay adult-friendly photohosts, but these are the ones I know about for sure.
Use the following code at the top of your listing page:
<body background=”http://yourimageURL”>
There’s a tutorial on putting colored backgrounds on Niteflirt listings by making color images in Paintshop Pro. Everybody doesn’t have Paintshop Pro, so I thought I’d make up a little pack of color swatches, images that you can use to put color in the background of your listings.
Click to buy.
Want more colors, different colors? Email me.
