links turning dark purple when mousing over them

[jefito]

Does anybody know what causes this? Whenever I'm in preview and mouse over the links-which are white--or click on them, they turn a dark purple and are difficult to read.
Thanks,
Jeff

[Support_EL]

When you build the website, in the build menu you can set the options for Standard, Visited and Active. Try changing to a new color for the active link as it sounds like you currently have a purple color chosen.

[jefito]

I've already done that. I'm using a font colored white, but my link when clicked on, is blue like normal. In this case, just mousing over it, not clicking, it turns a dark purple. I never had that problem in WE 5. I think the best thing is to just redo the site writing my own html because WE 6 has more faulty characteristics than I can stand.

[Dave Koehler]

We do need more control over this link color thing. Links get put everywhere on different colored panels. One size (color) fits all doesn't work well.

Any suggestions?

[vic newey]

The links are also browsers set & others may see your site differently to you according to their browser settings.
If you look in 'tools/ options / colour/ in Exporer & similarly with firefox you can set the colours for links visited /unvisited in this way & presumably this overides
website settings. Selecting' accessability' also gives you the option to ignore colours/fonts specified on webpages

vic

[VerbatimEB]

You decide the colors. WEP allows you to decide the color of standard links, visited links and active links. The mouse-over color will be the same as the vistied link color you choose. Just as Support_EL said.

It is in the "build dynamic website" box when you first upload or when you just enter the infomation. If you have not uploaded or entered the information in that box WEP will use the colors chosen for the last uploaded site or the default colors (I forget which).

I have been using WEP since v5, upgraded with each new version and could not be more thrilled with all the updates. It has been well worth the money and beats coding every time, hands down.

Also, as someone already stated, check your ie settings for color preferences. I did find that I could set up items in that first upload box and WEP saves them, even before I am ready to upload the page. That way you can set colors and other options so when you preview the site you can see what you have chosen.

Does this help?

:D

[jefito]

Thanks everyone, you're a great group! I like deep purple. I really liked "machine head". However, I don't like deep purple on my links. I've been back and forth with the build menu and the file inspector (there's also options for the link colors in there). I've said "pretty please", but nothing works. So, I decided to just take control and write the html myself. This works much better. Interestingly, this doesn't happen with WE5 which I now use as the default program. The IE browser sees and opens my page with the same colors I've written in html as the link colors chosen from the WE program.

Bottom line: the program's got bugs.
Thanks again!

[Support_EL]

The only observation I can make is the newer HTML standard we follow in version 7 may allow the user control of font colors more so than in previous versions.

The other important item to consider is using HTML with CSS or Cascading Style Sheets. This allows you to define the behavior of links in many ways through the style sheets which most browsers would recognize. There is a great section in help entitled 'Changing Default link behavior' which explain how to change colors as well as underlining, etc.

good luck!

[jefito]

Thanks for all your help. Unfortunately I've even tried that. The links will not change no matter what. That's why I just wrote my own html. It was much easier, less headaches. The new WE 6 program has failed to perform a multitude of functions that 5 still does-especially when run or previewed on 2 different browsers. Tweaking browsers to make my site work isn't my idea of the way it should be. The site I'm building right now I'm doing strictly with html and java script, no program. I still use WE for another site, but just don't depend on it is all.

[Dave Koehler]

Maybe this will help somewhere?
I convert text links to the rich text format and the link will stay the color chosen. This also works if you have a rich text paragraph and highlight some words to make them a link. It won't change color but the little finger comes up on mouseover to point out that it is a link.

Dave

[d531]

That's good info. Can you convert text to rich text in one swoop or do you have to re-enter the text individually. How to? Both my colors and fonts have changed.

[CowboyCrew]

Does anybody know what causes this? Whenever I'm in preview and mouse over the links-which are white--or click on them, they turn a dark purple and are difficult to read.
Thanks,
Jeff

Jefito,
Try the building your site differently, such as:

Build as XHTML with CSS
Build as HTML with CSS
Build as Dynamic HTML
Build as a Simple HTML

Be warned thou that once you build with CSS your print preview and printing of your pages will be messed up. But building them to see if it fixes it, then we may have the same issue going on. I found that building with CSS let my links show up correctly but my Print Preview as we all know is messed up. Now I just have to figure out how to correct it...

Russ

[CowboyCrew]

Try building in another form. What do you build your site as Dynamic HTML? I found Building as HTML with CSS made my website work perfectly, with the exception that my Print Preview was messed up. You can play with these four versions to see if one of them will work.

Build as XHTML with CSS
Build as HTML with CSS
Build as Dynamic HTML
Build as a Simple HTML

Russ

[Dave Koehler]

That's good info. Can you convert text to rich text in one swoop or do you have to re-enter the text individually. How to? Both my colors and fonts have changed.


No biggie. With the plain text chosen/highlighted go to the toolbar, click on Modify/rich text formatting. All done. You can also convert back the same way.

Dave Koehler