Web design friends - link color question

 You can do this by specifying different color schemes for each div if you're using CSS. Explaining is too complicated adn I suck at teaching CSS because I'm not very good at it, but googling that should get you a start at the explanation you need. :)

I was hoping it wasn't going to be that complicated.

Off to Google... If I don't come back for a few hours, send Rupert out to find me.

omg I think I did it!*toot toot*s my own horn.

Web design so time consuming! In print, you just set up simple "style sheets" that define all aspects of the text styles, highlight the text you want changed and click the name of the style sheet and it's applied.

 CSS = Cascading Style Sheets. :P Sensible people do webdesign that way, too. Fireworks and Dreamweaver just suck at CSSsssssses.

Yeah I do it with CSS.  Specifying colors with HTML is no longer "kosher", I think.  A lot of stuff will work, but not pass validation so it depends on whether you just want it to work or to be correct.

I use various versions of Dreamweaver but often I'm only using it for the built-in FTP client and doing most of the work in code view.  It does not always render CSS correctly.  I've found that Sea Monkey (free from Mozilla) actually renders CSS more accurately than Dreamweaver.  It still passes validation and looks fine once uploaded and viewed via web browsers but having stuff floating all over the place for no apparent reason within the program gets annoying.

CSS works just like you are describing.  You set up your styles (css file) then when you start a new htm file you point it to the css files you want to use.  Then you can highlight text or objects or anything and apply your styles.

Liesje

Yeah I do it with CSS. 

Me, too. I just open a plan old notepad file and go from there with the html. There are a couple of good "get started" html books if you want to learn from that perspective. I've tried Dreamweaver and a couple others and don't like any of those. I haven't tried Sea Monkey; I might have to give it a shot (though I don't like Mozilla/Firefox, so we'll see...).

To follow with Liesje point about validation--I try to check all my pages. You can use W3C's markup validation checker at:

http://validator.w3.org/

 (There's a ton of good info at that site, too, but it can become overwhelming quickly!) I'm sure there are other checkers, too.

Yep that's the one I use.  Another slam on Dreamweaver since it's supposed to code to the standards but does not.  I don't really care for my personal stuff but for commercial sites for clients I want it to pass validation, both CSS and HTML.

Well, I thought I had it. It looks perfect in Dreamweaver, but when I upload it, some images are all weird and missing, and most of the text is MIA also. *sigh*

Maybe the problem is that I had the file open, then created the CSS file. Hmmm. I am spending way too much time on this.

 Do you have the files uploaded somewhere where we can see them?

In web page:

 
Menu Item





Normal link

In CSS file:

a.menulink, a:visited.menulink{
color:blue;
text-decoration:none;
font-style:sans serif;
}

a:hover.menulink {
color:green;
text-decoration:underline;
font-style:sans serif;
}

a:active.menulink {
color:green;
text-decoration:underline;
font-style:sans serif;
}


a.normallink, a:visited.normallink {
color:pink;
text-decoration:none;
font-style:sans serif;
}

a:hover.normallink {
color:green;
text-decoration:underline;
font-style:sans serif;
}

a:active.normallink {
color:green;
text-decoration:underline;
font-style:sans serif;
}

I haven't had time to work on it, but here's the file:

http://tlc-dogtraining.com/conceptsFall2010/index.htm

It's probably a complete mess. 

 The layout is pleasing, but there are no links anywhere....

Here are some screenshots. The links are in the nav bar (it's supposed to underline on rollover), and the email address at the bottom.

Dreamweaver:

Firefox:

 Interesting... have you uploaded the file with text from dreamweaver to the internet site?  I don't know why the text would not show up unless it's using some code to pull from a database.