Unreadable part of talkmail
 

I get talkmail in gmail.

Along the left are links so that someone can go down to
specific articles in the html message.

In my email, the links are blue letters on a blue background,
and are totally unreadable. I think that making links blue
is pretty standard, so this is a poor choice of background.

Hmm... not seeing this. The links are white on a blue background. Browser setting?

Paul

Thanks
It is blue on blue for me in firefox, seamonkey, explorer and chrome.

I agree there is probably a browser setting. But I use the defaults for all of them.

If it is any help, I can send you some screenshots.

For me, the email itself arrives just as the OP describes, but there is also an html attachment to the email, and if I open the attachment, the text appears as IBobi describes, white text on blue background. I don't use a web-based email service, but rather a company email system that uses FirstClass email servers.

sosafan, does your email also come with an html attachment? If so, try opening the attachment and see if it appears correctly then.

No, I don't see a separate attachment. I assume the default for gmail is to show .html code inline.

Last month the word "talk mail" appeared once in the box,
along with the date, before the unreadable links.

This month the "TalkMail" appears twice in white, with the
date in between, followed by all the unreadable links.

Besides appearing that way with 4 browsers, I have also
checked it on 3 other computers; one running windows, one
running Linux, and one Mac, and they are all unreadable links.

It happened again today. I've now checked 5 different browsers on 4 different computers. I suspect it is your browser setting which is different from the default that most of us have.

TalkMail is being redesigned. This should be resolved with the next version. Not sure if that will be the next issue, but they are working on this :)

Paul

Yep, same problem using GMail (and Chrome).

In a blue box:

appears as blue links in a blue sidebar, just barely readable. Glad to hear of the redesign.

It is six months now, and I totally agree that this is not a big issue. I suspect that we are talking about one line of html somewhere, though it may not be a line that is easy to find.

I am curious, however, and haven't figured out; is there anyone who reads gmail in a browser that can see the links?

Agreed. But, my TalkMail newsletter still shows the blue box with the slightly different shade of blue web links, difficult to read.

I am having the same issue with the TalkMail in my Gmail inbox as well. :(

Reformatting TM is an agenda item -- hang in there, we're looking to revamp its look from the top down!

Paul

That is usually a bad thing.

Do you have a timeframe in mind? I am still seeing the same issues from the latest TalkMail (12.18.2012).

I think early 2013. Nothing more firm at this time.

P.

Found the problem

The command <font color=3D"#FFCC00"> in front of the date does not affect the links.
Add style="color:#ffffff" to their <a> tags if they want the links to be white, because where the color:#ffffff definition is won't work in most email browsers.

Here is how they should look in the html:

<a href=3D"#13eeff89ba5f76c7_story1"> <font color=3D"#FFFFFF"> News &amp; Views</a><br><br> </font>
<a href=3D"#13eeff89ba5f76c7_story2"> <font color=3D"#FFFFFF"> Hot Threads</a><br><br>
<a href=3D"#13eeff89ba5f76c7_story3"> <font color=3D"#FFFFFF"> Notable Quotes</a><br><br>
<a href=3D"#13eeff89ba5f76c7_story4"> <font color=3D"#FFFFFF"> FlyerTalk Bio</a>
<br><br><a href=3D"#13eeff89ba5f76c7_story5"> <font color=3D"#FFFFFF"> TalkMail Tips</a>
<br><br><a href=3D"#13eeff89ba5f76c7_story6"> <font color=3D"#FFFFFF"> Trip Reports</a><br><br>
<a href=3D"#13eeff89ba5f76c7_story7"> <font color=3D"#FFFFFF"> Community Page</a><br><br>
<a href=3D"#13eeff89ba5f76c7_story8"> <font color=3D"#FFFFFF"> At The Gate</a> </font> <br><br>

If this was coded in dreamweaver, they don't realize what the code is, merely that they've put in white font, but it isn’t working.

Let me ask our Talkmail manger to look into this! Thanks sosafan!

I’ve got the blue-on-blues
Ron Santo bled Cubby blue-on-blue
That old blue-on-blue moon
Baby makes her blue-on-blue jeans blue-on-blue
Even when I’m blue-on-blue
The red, white and blue-on-blue
And Talkmail is still blue-on-blue

Last month and this month it has been fixed.

Thanks!

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