Does anyone feel like making a quick CSS style sheet for me?

[dibbs]

Sorry for the pointlessness/obnoxiousness of this post, but was curious if anyone adept in this could help me with this as I'm decent with html markup (this is for some computer literacy requirement) but am kind of lost with CSS.


Basically, I want the CSS style markup that would make a page have Times New Roman font in white with a black background, hyperlinks in blue/underlined and already visited links in like a darkish purple. Standard margins and stuff.

Figured I'd take a shot as I don't know this stuff but assume that anyone in here who knows it, it would only take a few seconds to bang out.

Thanks guys.

[numeri]

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body {
background-color:#333333;
font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
color: #CCCCCC;
}
a {
color: #0066cc;
}
a:visited {
color: #9966CC;
}

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Google is your friend. Here's a basic CSS site.

Also, FYI, black backgrounds are horrible. They're hard for visitors to read and basically bad design. I made your background and fonts shades of grey. It's marginally better, but there's a reason why all the good sites you see have plain light backgrounds and dark text.

Oh, and you want sans-serif fonts. Times New Roman and other serif fonts are better in print, but sans-serif fonts are better to read on a computer screen.

Here are some of the parts of my basic style sheet:

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body {
margin:5px;
padding:0px;
font: 12px verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color:#fff;
}
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #06c;
}
a:hover {
background: #ccc;
}

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The beauty of style sheets is more than formatting fonts, though. Good luck with your project!

[TomCollins]

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but there's a reason why all the good sites you see have plain light backgrounds and dark text.

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All good sites?


The Best Page In The Universe

[dibbs]

Thank you very much sir, this is awesome.

I admit I have weird taste, I've always been told to avoid black backgrounds but when I was thinking of the sites I found the easiest to read I thought of all black backgrounds, funny Tom mentioned Maddox's as that was one that popped in my head.

Thanks again.

[numeri]

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but there's a reason why all the good sites you see have plain light backgrounds and dark text.

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All good sites?


The Best Page In The Universe

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Touche. I should have phrased it "...all the sites that don't make my eyes bleed..." [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[numeri]

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I admit I have weird taste, I've always been told to avoid black backgrounds but when I was thinking of the sites I found the easiest to read I thought of all black backgrounds, funny Tom mentioned Maddox's as that was one that popped in my head.

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Ah well, if it's your personal page - who cares! If you're designing any sort of business page or a page that you hope to generate traffic with, I'd suggest another route. Either that, or have some really unique content. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]