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Fun With Font Colors (and about those cool headers)

Hi everybody. Here are a couple of updates on...stuff.

As you know, when we rolled out Journals 1.9 (all these projects get version numbers), we changed the archive navigation, which is much improved except for one small thing -- the comment text in the archived entries is always black. This obviously becomes a problem (well, it's obvious now) if you have a black or dark background in your blog.

The tech folks are working on a fix for this, but we don't have a timeline yet. Fortunately, there is a workaround, which is to switch to a lighter-colored background (I know, I know, it's not as k-R4d k3wl).

I'll let you know when it gets fixed.

On a related note, blogger Marie asked me about a problem she was having in her Journal, Photographs & Memories. For some reason, the description text (right below her Journal title) wasn't showing up. Well, I asked Ian (the Journals Product Manager) to take a look, and he quickly found the answer: In the color scheme she had chosen, her Journal's background was red, the body text was white, and the header area with the description field was also white. You can probably see how this ends.

Anyway, it's fixed now.

Speaking of the header area, a lot of folks have been asking how they can get cool header graphics like you see on many of the AOL Editors' Journals. Right now, you can't -- in order to upload header graphics, you have to have superuser access rights, and there are very few superusers (they have a lot of power, so it's wise to keep the number down).

However, the good news is that the team is looking at custom skins for a future release -- it's on the 2005 plan. It's not fully-spec'ed out yet, but it will likely be a lot more robust (and easier to use) than just a header graphic, so I think it will be worth the wait.

Anyway, that's it for now...have a good weekend. -- Joe



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