Login before you post ;)

Don't forget to login before you post CombatSquirrel. :)

This is why i tell everyone here to change their theme. GOTO your User Settings and scroll on down to 'Theme Configuration'. Change your theme to anything but the default theme. Now, when you bring up Perlmonks in your browser, if you see the default theme - you know you are not logged in. Also, while you are at your User Settings, feel free to add some custom CSS - i have added background images to mine. Know i really know if i am logged in or not!

Another problem is accessing http://www.perlmonks.org vs. http://perlmonks.org - it is possible to set your cookie for one and not the other. This too, can cause you to think that you are logged in, but you aren't. Again, if you use another theme (especially one like the Dark Theme with a black background) you will know you are not logged in (unless you are drunk!). ;)

jeffa

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Re: Login before you post ;) by CombatSquirrel (Hermit) on Aug 23, 2003 at 16:12 UTC
Yeah, sorry, jeffa. I'm fiddling around with the CSS at the moment; the only problem is that I like the standard theme too much - I hate those overloaded web pages, or me, beauty lies in simplicity. I'll try to make the CSS affect only an unimportant portion of the page that I'll nevertheless notice. I just tried `font[size="2"] { color:blue }`, but that made all the replies colored blue - quite ugly. Well, thanks for your reminder anyways. CombatSquirrel. P.S.: Changed it to `form { color:blue }` - still sub-optimal, but a lot better.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Login before you post ;) by daeve (Deacon) on Aug 23, 2003 at 17:25 UTC
I also like the default but it is hard to tell if I'm are logged in. After fighting with the other themes a bit I started playing with the CSS and changed the color for the links. That way when I log in my links are a bit brighter (and it's much easier for me to see where I have been too). My CSS is as follows: `a:link { color: #0000FF } a:visited { color: #800080 } a:active { color: #0000FF } textarea { width: 100%; height: 460px; }` [download] The text area makes for a nice big text entry box too. HTH Daeve	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Login before you post ;) by CombatSquirrel (Hermit) on Aug 23, 2003 at 17:33 UTC
Good idea ++. I finally went with `body { background-color:#f7f7f7 }`, which is somewhat striking yet acceptable. Thanks a lot for your tip, though. CombatSquirrel.	[reply] [d/l]