Style sheet changes......problems???

[lpawsey]

I have followed the instructions in a previous post on changing stylesheets. I have tried to change the "Orange" style sheet using HEX codings where appropriate (using the search and replace command in notepad to select the colour to be replaced with the new colour) The changed settings are then pasted into one of the templates I don't wish to keep(ie Orange) and then I hit the Edit Stylesheet button for everything to load. However, when I hit refresh on the index page, nothing has changed.

I go back to check the style sheet and the HEX colours are correct (and yes, it is a web pallet).

What am I missing?????

Liz

[Chuck S]

If the changes are there and the appropriate colors are in the proper place it should display as long as there is a # before the hex code

Also make sure that the stylesheet your editing is the one your also using As in if your editing a stylesheet you dont have selected your not gonna see a change.

HINT your site is using the default stylesheet so if your editing the orange stylesheet then in layout options you wanna select orange stylesheet as the one your install uses so you can see the changes.

[lpawsey]

Yep, checked all and also made sure that the HEX numbers were all the correct case and have checked the hex numbers represent the colours I want by entering them into a "colour picker" program I have.

The style sheet is still the default as I didn't want anyone to see the "burn-your-eyeballs-orange" effect so when it didn't change, I reverted back to the default one.

Below is the text as per my changes. Every hex has the # in front of it so I can't see where my problem is.

cheers
Liz

A:link, A:visited, A:active, A:hover {
}
A:link {
color: #0000FF;
}
A:visited {
color: #80BFFF;
}
A:active {
color: #0000FF;
}
A:HOVER {
color: #FF0000;
background-color: ;
}

.onbody {
color: #FFFF00;
}
.onbody A:link {
color: #80BFFF;
}
.onbody A:visited {
color: #80BFFF;
}
.onbody A:active {
color: #80BFFF;
}
.onbody A:hover {
color: #FFFFFF;
}

BODY,P,TABLE,TD,TR {
font-size: 9pt;
color: #000000;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
FORM {
display: inline;
margin-bottom: 0;
}
BODY {
background: #99CCCC;
}
PRE {
font-size: ;
font-family: ;
}

.tableborders {
background: #660000;
}

.tddetails {
background: #FFFFFF;
}

.tdbackground {
font-size: 9pt;
font-weight: ;
color: #000000;
background: #DEDFDF;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

.tdnothumbs {
font-size: 9pt;
font-weight: ;
color: #000000;
background: #BCBDBD;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

.menubar{
background: #4D9999;
font-size: 8pt;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.menubar A:link {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.menubar A:visited {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.menubar A:active {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.menubar A:hover {
color: #00FF00;
}

.menubarnb {
background: #4D9999;
font-size: 8pt;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.menubarnb A:link {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.menubarnb A:visited {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.menubarnb A:active {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
.menubarnb A:hover {
color: #00FF00;
}

.navigation{
background: #DEDFDF;
color: #000000;
font-size: 8pt;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

.new {
font-size: ;
color: ;
}

.catcolumn {
font-size: 8pt;
font-style: ;
text-align: ;
background: #DBDBDB;
}

.photocol {
font-size: 8pt;
font-style: ;
text-align: ;
background: #F7F7F7;
}

.commentscol {
font-size: 8pt;
font-style: ;
text-align: ;
background: #DBDBDB;
}

.lastphocol {
font-size: 8pt;
font-style: ;
text-align: ;
background: #DBDBDB;
}

.lastcommcol {
font-size: 8pt;
background: #F7F7F7;
color: ;
}

.small {
font-size: 8pt;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.medium {
font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.large {
font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

.welcome {
background: ;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #FFFFFF;
}

.forumtitle {
}
.forumdescript {
font-size: 8pt;
}
.lighttable {
background: #F7F7F7;
color: #000000;
}
.darktable {
background: #F7F7F7;
color: #000000;
}
.cleartable {
font-size: 8pt;
background: #F7F7F7;
}
.alternatetable {
background: #DFDFDF;
}
.subjecttable {
background: #DEDFDF;
color: #000000;
}
.footertable {
background: #FFFFFF;
}
.formboxes{
font-family: ;
background-color: ;
color: ;
font-size: 9pt;
}
.buttons {
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color: #DEDFDF;
color: #000000;
font-size: 9pt;
}

blockquote {
font-size:9pt; border:1px solid #E6E6E6;
margin:0px 20px; padding:0px 10px
}
blockquote .small {
background:#E6E6E6;
margin-left:-10px; padding:1px 2px
}
blockquote hr {
visibility:hidden;
height:1px
}
blockquote br {
font-size:1px
}

[b6gm6n]

Nothing wrong with your styles there liz, i'd suggest choosing your newly designed style in photopost, goto your index and do a damn hard refresh! (CTRL+F5)

-T

[Chuck S]

You have orange selected and I see green thoughout the page

[lpawsey]

Now that's as weird as Chicken Teeth.... I've now refreshed so much my eyeballs feel deoderised and it's still ORANGE!!! Yet, you ARE seeing the right colours.

(Umm, I chose the Orange style sheet as I couldn't figure out how to create a new one and it was, in my eyes, the most expendable.......)

I'd blame my computer and monitor except it's a totally new system that's been set up for graphics work so that's not a viable excuse.

OK, will shut the system down and try again tomorrow........

totally, utterly and absolutely confused
Liz

[Chuck S]

Clear Your Browser Cache And All Cookies

[lpawsey]

I have done all that several times, rebooted and banged my head against the monitor ut orange is staying orange. I've confirmed that others see the right colours but my 'puter is being difficult.

Any other ideas???? I'll also be talking to my computer guru today as this is just pain odd.

Many thanks for the help so far!
cheers
Liz

[b6gm6n]

As omegatron says clear you cache, in both IE & FFX, swap browsers and see what happens, bang head one more time, then look again it'll work... check the attached, it's your style... you will see this soon enough i swear!

-T

[lpawsey]

Fianally success!! Two other possible reasons were given to me and either they worked or my computer finally decided to 'do the right thing'.

First was to clear all history (cache, temp files etc) but to also set the home page feature to " about.blank ".

Second that the DNs may take a few days to reload the page if it was cached, something I didn't have control over.

Now, I can do some further tweeking and then pray it doesn't take the rest of the week to catch up with itself.

Thanks for the help and suggestions (and the image proof!!!!)
cheers
Liz

[KevinVo]

I don't think it's your computer problem. If you are trying to edit the stylesheet from admin panel, I think you should Chmod 777 that stylesheet file so the script will be able to write the changes to that file. That's what I did.