Re: New layout test

2005-01-07 Thread Frank Mamone
Thanks! On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:07:49 -0600, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's like font-family but for speech. It's intended to support > non-visual browsers by providing different voices to give a different > flavor to certain pieces of text. Much like you'd use times for body > text

Re: New layout test

2005-01-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
It's like font-family but for speech. It's intended to support non-visual browsers by providing different voices to give a different flavor to certain pieces of text. Much like you'd use times for body text then a large, bold, sans-serif for a callout or nav area. Unfortunately, no browsers (that

Re: New layout test

2005-01-06 Thread Frank Mamone
What's a voice-family ? - Frank On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:57:16 -0500, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Mind critiquing my first real CSS layout attempt at > > http://www.lyonsmorris.com/test/index.htm > > any and all comments about the page are welcome. > > thx, > > larry >

Re: New Layout Test

2005-01-04 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I have not experienced any of that. I've not had any problems with DWMX 7.01. Mind you I've not bothered with the Design view, staying strictly with the code view and using a browser for viewing the finished page. larry On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 15:08:54 -0400, Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: New layout test

2005-01-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Larry C. Lyons wrote: > You must have a better I than I do, I couldn't get it to do that in > Firefox 1.0. Not necessarily a better eye, just a higher latency and a cache set to always validate the original. Jochem ~| Protect

RE: New Layout Test

2005-01-04 Thread Angel Stewart
Oh..because I found out the hard way that design view in Dreamweaver MX seldom works with CSS site layouts with the DIV tags etc. :-\ Strangely enough, DW 6 seems to edit the pages just fine, while 7.0.1 can't make sense of it. I really think it is usually much too long between releases for DWMX

Re: New layout test

2005-01-04 Thread Larry C. Lyons
You must have a better I than I do, I couldn't get it to do that in Firefox 1.0. larry On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:06:31 -0400, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > > > I'm still experimenting with the page. The flash to white is happening > > because of an IE glit

Re: New layout test

2005-01-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > I'm still experimenting with the page. The flash to white is happening > because of an IE glitch with CSS images. Probably something like > dynamically positioning will solve that problem. Happens on Firefox too (but only once for the first menu item). Jochem ~

Re: New layout test

2005-01-04 Thread Larry C. Lyons
thanks jerry. I'm still experimenting with the page. The flash to white is happening because of an IE glitch with CSS images. Probably something like dynamically positioning will solve that problem. larry On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:59:35 -0500, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to

Re: New layout test

2005-01-04 Thread Larry C. Lyons
thx. larry On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:01:31 -0400, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry C. Lyons wrote: > > Mind critiquing my first real CSS layout attempt at > > http://www.lyonsmorris.com/test/index.htm > > any and all comments about the page are welcome. > > If I change the font

Re: New Layout Test

2005-01-04 Thread Larry C. Lyons
i used the codeview in Dreamweaver MX 2004. But it could also have been HS+ etc. larry On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:22:05 -0400, Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks nice. > > How do you edit the site? In Dreamweaver or in a code only solution like > Homesite or CF Studio? > > -Gel >

RE: New Layout Test

2005-01-04 Thread Angel Stewart
It looks nice. How do you edit the site? In Dreamweaver or in a code only solution like Homesite or CF Studio? -Gel ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffu

Re: New layout test

2005-01-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Larry C. Lyons wrote: > Mind critiquing my first real CSS layout attempt at > http://www.lyonsmorris.com/test/index.htm > any and all comments about the page are welcome. If I change the font size the blue bar starts behaving funny. Jochem ~~~

Re: New layout test

2005-01-04 Thread Jerry Johnson
You need to use SMALLER words. Even the "Lorem Ipsum" is easier to understand than "restricted isovolumic cochrane graviton-prediction" =) I don't like the flash-to-white when hovering over a blue menu item on the left. I would like a touch of right gutter in the main content window. I would lik

Re: New layout test

2005-01-04 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Hi, Mind critiquing my first real CSS layout attempt at http://www.lyonsmorris.com/test/index.htm any and all comments about the page are welcome. thx, larry ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Troubl

RE: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Michael Dinowitz
That's exactly what I needed. Thanks FA looked kind of bad on IE in many cases and this helps it greatly. > There is a know bug in IE when using em's for font-sizing. The fix is to > create an initial parent that is sized with percent usually the body or > something like that. After that one can

RE: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Michael Dinowitz
The sizes seemed to have been giving me a problem when combined with inline. > Huh? What about IE doesn't allow you to alter H1/H2, etc? > > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:14:13 -0500, Michael Dinowitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeh, that's a problem with IE. It does not allow you to alter the

RE: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Ian Skinner
There is a know bug in IE when using em's for font-sizing. The fix is to create an initial parent that is sized with percent usually the body or something like that. After that one can use em's to correctly size fonts. -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org

RE: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Angel Stewart
You tried using IE7? :) -Gel -Original Message- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeh, that's a problem with IE. It does not allow you to alter the H1/H2 etc. tags and make them inline or change their size. Nasty. I'm going to have to remove them and alter sizes across

RE: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Thank you. It seems that if you just do a 'display: inline' for an H element in CSS, IE has problems. If you put in a font-size of 100%, then it comes out properly. Now it looks better in IE. I'll alter things for it. > Ummm, this code works just fine for me in IE 5.5? Is there something else >

Re: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Deanna Schneider
Huh? What about IE doesn't allow you to alter H1/H2, etc? On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:14:13 -0500, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeh, that's a problem with IE. It does not allow you to alter the H1/H2 etc. > tags and make them inline or change their size. Nasty. I'm going to have to > r

RE: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Ian Skinner
Ummm, this code works just fine for me in IE 5.5? Is there something else you are trying to do? Untitled Document h1 { display: inline; font-size: 200%; } h2 { display: inline; font-size: 50%;

RE: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Yeh, that's a problem with IE. It does not allow you to alter the H1/H2 etc. tags and make them inline or change their size. Nasty. I'm going to have to remove them and alter sizes across the board. And margins as Jochem mentioned. > Hmm...I think the text font size is too big. Should be smaller,

RE: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Angel Stewart
Hmm...I think the text font size is too big. Should be smaller, it makes everything lookgarish (IE 6). Other than that, it's a simple design. So not much can be done with it unless you wanted to get more complicated. The colors look ok. -Gel ~~

Re: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I've added 2 of his books to my amazon wish list. I've got a birthday next week so I'll probably treat myself to those and maybe something else from the list. Maybe spur me to get that book review section of HoF back up. :) > CSS layouts are here. Spend some time with an Eric Meyer book or two >

Re: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Michael Dinowitz wrote: > OK, this is an actual live representation of the new layout. > http://fusionauthority.com/test3.cfm What I dislike is the number of columns: 5 is too many. Depending on how many featured articles you intend to have vs. nrmal articles I think you should consider having y

Re: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Michael Dinowitz wrote: > It's easier to design in tables and then break a brain or two to get it > into proper CSS. I have to disagree with you here. It is easier to design a semantic structure first. If you have a proper semantic structure, several presentation issues follow from that naturall

Re: New layout test

2005-01-03 Thread Michael Dinowitz
OK, this is an actual live representation of the new layout. http://fusionauthority.com/test3.cfm Needs: 1. CSS conversion 2. Shrinking logo to 120x120 to fit with CSS 3. add margins 4. connect links 5. news section headers The changes to make the same work for HoF are even less. ~~

RE: New layout test

2004-12-30 Thread Michael Dinowitz
It's easier to design in tables and then break a brain or two to get it into proper CSS. On the whole, looking at the people who come to the site, they want the content and don't care all that much about how the layout was created. Out of about 20k unique people (non-bots) a day, I can say that 1/

Re: New layout test

2004-12-30 Thread Kevin Graeme
No offense, but I think you're missing the mark entirely. Your audience is very tech-savvy but you're using 90's layout techniques, namely tables. I personally I find the new design clumsy and ugly, but I know you've never claimed to be a designer. Aesthetics aside though, if you're going through t

RE: New layout test

2004-12-30 Thread Michael Dinowitz
This is exactly what I need. The header image might be to large which is throwing you. I'll shrink it some. Are you sure the FA letters don't line up on bottom? They should, though the image is aligned to the top which may look strange. When you say the banner competes for attention from the text,

RE: New layout test

2004-12-30 Thread Tangorre, Michael
> From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > OK, I think this is close to the finished product. > http://fusionauthority.com/test2.htm > > Smaller banner area and larger content area, 1 option for a > graphic banner, cleaner code, less images and an all around > tighter layout. I've go

Re: New layout test

2004-12-30 Thread Michael Dinowitz
OK, I think this is close to the finished product. http://fusionauthority.com/test2.htm Smaller banner area and larger content area, 1 option for a graphic banner, cleaner code, less images and an all around tighter layout. I've gotten both good and bad reviews of the new header with white abov

Re: New layout test

2004-12-28 Thread Dana
I am talking about the blue/white area to the far right. the left margin of that could stand to be a couple pixels wider imho. Also, while I am critiquing, is there supposed to be a curled upper left corner on the FA logo? If so it's slightly overlapped by the atom graphic and it's a bit confusing

RE: New layout test

2004-12-28 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Inside the blue or outside it? I'm going to try to shrink down the logo size a bit as it's too eye catching. Might pull away from the content. It's the same dimensions as the older logo but less 'fluff' around it. It's actually smaller in file size though. > I think the ads could use a few pixels

Re: New layout test

2004-12-27 Thread Dana
I think the ads could use a few pixels of breathing space on the left. imho Dana On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:05:45 -0500, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look at this one. I think it's getting a lot closer to what I want: > http://fusionauthority.com/test1.htm > To do includes removing

New layout test

2004-12-27 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Look at this one. I think it's getting a lot closer to what I want: http://fusionauthority.com/test1.htm To do includes removing the bottom gradient and replacing it with a dark purple bar with the copyright info. That will give a nice framing of the content. Ads are in 3 areas. Top (part of the t