Re: [css-d] What tag to use for the company's slogan?

2007-10-27 Thread Steve Olive
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:39:58 am Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
  I have a website that has a header with a Title and a slogan something
 like Company - Your road to success. I've put Company inside a h1
 and used CSS to text-indent:- should I put the slogan inside the h1
 as well? I want to keep semantics good enough.

 Thanks,

 Marcelo.

Ask yourself - is this the most important content on the page? If so it rates 
a h1 setting.

You may decide that the company name and slogan rate a h1 and the first 
content heading both rate as h1. You can even style them differently using 
CSS.

IMHO it is a personal preference, there is no definitive answer that is 
always correct.

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Re: [css-d] newbie help please

2007-10-12 Thread Steve Olive
On Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:58:26 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello people
 I am very new to this forum or indeed any forum so forgive any protocol
 errors, I did read the list but unsure about some things.
 I am fairly new to css, relied on Dreamweaver usually but after reading
 lots of articles and visiting some great css sites (in particular css/edge
 and resources) I want to convert! I re-wrote a table based site and
 although both the html and css validates in w3 and despite it looking as
 it should on my computer, on an old monitor (mozilla, opera, netscape and
 ie6) when it is viewed on my friends computer it is out of whack. She runs
 Microsoft office 2000 and uses ie6.Plus it is her site so thank goodness
 she is a friend!!! I have no idea how it looks on a Mac or a larger
 screen. any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 The site http://fruvenu.com.au/index.htm

 The css http://fruvenu.com.au/iemain.css

 Regards :) Angela


Hi Angela,

I have checked in Safari, Firefox (Windows XP, Linux, Mac OS X), Opera (Linux, 
Mac OS X, Windows XP)  and IE7 on Windows XP. The layout issues occur across 
all browsers.

I tend to agree with David that a clean sheet approach is best, get rid of 
tables except for tabular data. IMHO there is not a better starting point 
than the layout guides from Thierry Koblentz at TJKDesign:

http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/one_html_markup_many_css_layouts.asp

I think the layout you are looking for is CSS Layout 8:

http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/liquid/8.asp

Whilst looking at the source code I also noticed that you started your 
headings at Level 4 (h4). Headings should start at Level 1 (h1) and CSS 
should be used to create the right size and style. This is the basis of 
semantic markup and CSS.

I know this is really hard to start with but keep trying and it becomes very 
easy to quickly layout and construct sites as your skills with CSS improve.

Good luck and I hope you continue with the CSS journey!

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Re: [css-d] Double space after a period

2006-10-17 Thread Steve Olive
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:11 am, Kathy Wheeler wrote:
 On 16/10/2006, at 10:30 AM, michael ensor wrote:
  As someone who worked as a proof reader on a morning newspaper in the
  hot metal days, I can tell you that the double space after a
  period was a
  function of the typesetting machines, because the full stop slug
  and the following
  capital letter 'created' that appearance, not some received style
  guideline.

 Interesting. However I seem to remember that my mother, who was
 trained as a secretarial typist just after WW2, was meticulous about
 using double spacing after the period. This was with old fashioned
 mechanical typewriters and paper in an office situation. Nothing to
 do with press or pre-press.

 IMHO although unnecessary it may be, double-spacing after the
 period does improve the legibility and feel of typography. It would
 be nice if there were some simple way, with CSS perhaps, to allow for
 double spacing for those who cared, without affecting those who don't
 give a hoot.

 Cheers,
 KathyW.

IMHO, the only reason that the double spacing appears in US based material is 
because of the standard font point size used in the US. Standard font sizes 
used in the rest of the world are larger and more easily read than the dense 
10 pt preferred in the US. As Michael has correctly pointed out the illusion 
of a second space in hot metal typesetting was the positioning of the full 
stop (and other punctuation if I remember correctly from my print estimator 
days) towards the left of the metal slug and not central like all the other 
characters.

Heavy text sites should be encouraged to use slightly larger fonts and more 
white space to make the page/screen more readable. Quality over quantity 
always wins :-)

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