Just wanted to say great job on the site (I finally signed up)!!
Can I make one suggestion? Can you make the bg lighter on the list of dogs. It's really hard to read white on black. Or light on dark. I can't read the list very long and I want to.
Well Cheryl, I hope you're at least somewhat high-tech.
I added the ability for users to set those colors in all listings, under the User Profile -> Personal Info section there are 3 new fields:
Listing Foreground Color
Listing Background Color
Other Listing CSS
Valid values for the colors follow cascading style sheet (CSS) rules. This web page has a list of color names that are recognized:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa358802.aspx.
The next two paragraphs get pretty complex, so if it will blow you out of the water, skip over it, ok?
If the first character of a color value is # it expects 6 hexadecimal characters (0-9, A-F) to follow; they define the color numerically, the first 2 characters represent the red component, the second 2 represent green, the third 2, blue (it's an RGB value.) The higher the number, the lighter the color will be, so #FFFFFF is white and #000000 is black. Any value with all 3 pairs the same will be a shade of gray, like #A9A9A9 or #808080.
The "Other Listing CSS" field offers ultimate power, if you know how to use it, you can set font-size, font-face, and most any other of the hundreds of style attributes defined by CSS. Here's an exhaustive description:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh869403(v=vs.85). For example, if you enter "font-size: xx-small;" (without the quotes) the letters will be what we programmers call "very very small."
If you enter something invalid it will be ignored; if your colors are invalid you'll end up with grayish (#686868) on a sort-of pale yellow (#FFFFCC) that's used over most of the pages.
If all of the above was just way too much, let me know what you'd like to see, and I'll suggest some values.
To sum it all up, in the immortal words of Metallica, careful what you wish, you just might get it.
