Pan homes are made out of tables. This has the effect or allowing you to
use two different background images or colors if you like. These are some
combinations:
This home has
no background images or colors. |
This home has
just a body background. |
This home
has just a table background. |
This home
has both body and table backgrounds. |
Profile pages are a little different ... here are the same four combinations
used on a profile page.
This profile has no background images or colors.
|
This
profile has just a body background. |
This
profile has just a table background. |
This
profile has both body and table backgrounds. |
Things to note:
- Background images appear over the top of background colors.
- Backgrounds can be fixed - that means that when you scroll
down the screen the background remains in the same place. Check the box to
fix your background in place.
- Colors should be either color names or hexidecimal values
- for example: black or #000000. Click on the question mark next to the color
options for a color chart.
Text
You have a wide variety of options available to you for adjusting the
appearance of your text. The image below demonstrates which areas of
text this section of the form deals with.
Things to note:
- Fonts are tricky! If you are using a non-standard font not everyone
will be able to see it. You might like to specify an alternative,
and you can do that
by separating a list of fonts by comma - eg Lithos Pro, Arial, san-serif.
Click the help button next to the font family text box for some
common font-family combinations.
- Choose a size which is appropriate for all the fonts you have listed.
Sizes are in points, so open up your favourite word processing program
to judge relative sizes.
Headings
Heading tags affect particular parts of text on Pan homes.
There are six heading tags, but only the H3, H4 and H6 tags are a significant
part of your home's template.
- Fonts are tricky! If you are using a non-standard font not everyone
will be able to see it. You might like to specify an alternative, and you
can do that by separating a list of fonts by comma - eg Lithos Pro, Arial,
san-serif. Click the help button next to the font family text box for some
common font-family combinations.
- Choose a size which is appropriate for all the fonts you have listed.
Sizes are in points, so open up your favourite word processing program
to judge relative sizes.
- There is some coding in place in the template which will continue to
affect the way your heading tags work.
H3
H4
H6
Links
Links have a series of "states" they go through.
A:link shows that there is link on the page. A:visited shows
that the link has already been clicked or visited.
A:hover occurs when the mouse is hovering over a link, before it is clicked.
A:active happens when a link is clicked,
or if you have a framed page when the link is displayed inside one of the
frames. Each of these states will have their own line
in your style sheet.
A:LINK
A:VISITED
A:ACTIVE
A:HOVER
Scrollbars
Scrollbar colors can be adjusted, but will only be visible
in Internet Explorer. Here is a handy guide to which part of the scrollbar
each section refers to.
located directly
below your home avatar. When you have uploaded your images Pan will generate
a snippet of code, and it will look something like this:
button
for extra advice.