[Zope] changing standard colours

Robin Becker robin@jessikat.demon.co.uk
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 22:33:39 +0100


In article <37D578C3.A8DA02CA@profitscape.net>, Michael Bernstein
<mbernstein@profitscape.net> writes
>Robin Becker wrote:
>> 
>> My almost finished site uses a standard colour scheme throughout. As
>> part of the change to using dynamic .png images rather than .gifs I
>> found that neither IE or Netscape seem to implement png transparency
>> (alpha channel) correctly. I therefore needed to access the background
>> colour of my pages. I found no obvious method of getting this. I
>> implemented a standard_color dtml-method and modified the
>> standard_header method to use it. It occurred to me that this could be
>> more generally useful.
>> 
>> Anyone implemented a better scheme, perhaps using TinyTable or is there
>> some magical way to do this sort of thing.
>
>Squishdot uses a properties tab with a bunch of entries for colors. Generalizing
>from that, it would seem that adding some string properties to your root folder
>containing color values would give you global control over page colors, and
>still let you overide them as neccesary.
>
>Michael Bernstein.
so you suggest just having
properties

normal_text
normal_bg
normal_alink

etc etc. sounds ok
-- 
Robin Becker