---------- Von: Rick Heli[SMTP:heli@best.com] Gesendet: Montag, 24. Februar 1997 20:35 An: webpages-l@genealogy.net Betreff: colors I thought I would experiment with bringing a little color into our lives... I have uploaded color versions of the top-level page for you to review. In choosing the scheme, I keyed off the blue and gold of the "G" GIF which is at the upper left corner. Then, thinking that gold is already in the German flag, I made the background black and completed the flag motif using red for the color that appears after a link has been visited. What do you think? I've also been thinking about color, when I set up the new Hesse-pages. In general, it's a good idea, but color is useful only if it enhances legibility of the pages. I doubt the presented scheme is useful for that. The links are blue, if the browser uses standard-colors (in my case of MS Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape 3.0 in Windows 95/NT), and you can hardly read the blue on the black background. Human eyes are used to white backgrounds, due to the paper prints. If we decide to use more colors, whatever which colors, we should take into account that at least PCs and Macs use slightly different color palettes to display the pages, and a different Gamma-value, so colors appear a little bit darker on the PC than on the Mac (in case of graphics). A color palette that is shared by almost all machines and browsers can be found at: http://www.heise.de/ct/clut.gif Holger H. Zierdt Muenchhausenstrasse 38 37085 Goettingen Germany Phone: +49-551-484082 Fax: +49-551-396153 hzierdt@med.uni-goettingen.de hzierdt@metronet.de