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Written by Tom Anson
March 7, 2006

Hi, fellow LED-ers.

I've just come across a problem with my website that totally mystifies me.  I'm hoping someone can give me some help.

As I was working on a new page of my website (using Dreamweaver 8), I noticed almost inadvertently that some of my links had gone from a readable teal to an almost invisible white.  More specifically, while viewing the pages in FireFox, of a list of five list items, the first three changed to white, the fourth stayed the same and the fifth turned to white.  In Internet Exploreer, all five links are white.  They are all coded the same, so I can see no reason for this.  And any work I was doing on the page should not have affected this anyway.

I've checked the CSS; but even if there was a problem there -- related to something else I'd done to the page -- why wouldn't it affect all of these list items the same?

The only thing I can think of that could at all be a factor here is the Amazon link.  I had changed it from whatever it was before to the new iframe format.  But even when I remove this link, the other links remain white.

Any ideas?  Your help would be very, very much appreciated.  Thanks.

Tom Anson

Essential-Vitamins.com

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Written by Tom Anson
March 8, 2006

My first thought is to reboot the computer.  I have often run into similar problems with coding websites.  If you work any way similar to the way I do you have about 8 or 10 windows open at one time - including an image editor.  You're jumping around from one to the other.  Windows is not the best memory manager in the world, and RAM can, and does, get corrupted.  I'm running a machine with 1 Gb RAM and a 128 Mb video card, and memory still gets corrupted.

If you always leave your computer on, it's a good idea to reboot it once or twice per week anyway just to reset the memory if nothing else.

Good luck,

Kerry Branham

K-S Marketing

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Written by Tom Anson
March 8, 2006

Hi everyone.  I'd like to thank all of you LED-ers who took the time to take a look at my website (www.essential-vitamins.com) to see what was going on with my links.

In the time between sending in the question and its publication, I found a solution.  The issue was visited links.  Apparently, for some reason, they decided to switch to white.  They were not told to do this and had not done it before.  All I can figure is that the Amazon link must have changed the dynamic of the page somehow.

Anyway, all I had to do was define a color for visited links in my CSS.  I have three other sites up, all using basically the same styleSheet; this is the only one where I had to define this -- and I hadn't needed to it here just a few minutes before.  I really do tend to believe in gremlins.

Thanks again to all of you who took time to help with this.  I really appreciate your efforts.

Tom Anson

Anson Aromatic Essentials