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This page is devoted to the static page style of Jemima's Trek. For blog-specific styles, see the blog page.
Experience the Yellow
Here's a little form you can use to see the different modes of my
three main style sheets. (The JavaScript-generated sample page will open in
a separate window.)
I like yellow, Jade likes blue, and MJB, who is HTML-aversive, got an equally bright Original Series era color I adapted from an LCARS color page (orange). These style sheets all work with a class selector in the body tag, like this: <BODY class="mjb">. That class selector tells the style sheet to apply, for example, the .mjb rules to all the tags inside the page body. The box class requires an extra div in the body of those pages.
If I haven't scared you off yet and you want to see the stylesheets that were used to format those pages, you can view jp_box, view jp_core or view jp_story. To download them you'll have to right-click (option-click) on the following links and download/save them directly, because stylesheets won't display by themselves in most browsers: jp_box.css, jp_core.css and jp_story.css. Or you could save the others and change the extension afterwards, but you might not know what I was talking about if I said that. >8)
I wrote the stylesheets myself, using StyleMaster at first, and found the chevron gif (in yellow) on a free backgrounds site. Feel free to use them and adapt them in any way.
Images
I don't know much about graphics - just enough to fudge things a bit using a graphics program. My favorite program for basic fudging is GraphicsConverter for the Mac, which I've used to edit the colors of my chevrons, the SevTrek banners and the little YMMV jpeg that I sliced out of one of their site banners.
I used CorelDRAW 8 LE (free for the Mac) to make a banner for the site, and a Mac shareware program called QuickNailer to make the thumbnails on B'Elanna's Award Shelf. It's important to make thumbnails rather than resizing an image in the html code - it saves on download time. Another way to speed up your web pages is to use an image cruncher like those at Spinwave.com.
You can find all the programs mentioned in this section at Pure Mac. You can take a look at my images in the gifs directory. Freeshell will show you the directory, if one of the other mirrors refuses to.
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