Good morning -
My business client donates a website for the Flag Day Parade here in Appleton,
WI, USA. Each year the site lists all the participants. I’ve normally done that
by converting a docx file to an html table. But with my limited import
experience and my limited code skills, that
Bet I can make some dearly-departed conscientious types roll over in their
graves by mentioning:
1. Begin with an H1 which states the subject matter as directly
and plainly as possible -- and which is white on white or placed off the page
with negative X margin. Whatever works, if
On Jun 1, 2013, at 4:58 AM, Karl DeSaulniers k...@designdrumm.com wrote:
Don't know if you've found a solution, but I cam across this and thought I'd
share.
Just in case you or anyone else may find it useful for responsive web design.
Haven't worked with it myself, but looks like it is
Sorry to Tom for first sending this to him, not the list.
On May 20, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote:
I recommend Mobile First and Responsive Web Design from abookapart.com
I'd recommend a book with the same title but with Jump Start at the beginning:
Jump
On Feb 23, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Koen van der Drift koenvanderdr...@gmail.com
wrote:
Check out this article:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/20/typographic-design-survey-best-practices-from-the-best-blogs/,
it has a lot of useful info. There are also some good articles on the IA
On Oct 27, 2011, at 8:34 PM, ChrisIzatt wrote:
So you don't agree that letter-spacing should be able to be adjusted on text
that isn't large? Why?
When I tried it a year ago, using small amounts on text-size type, it would
have no affect as I increased the amount. And then one additional
On Oct 25, 2011, at 9:10 AM, John wrote:
Can anyone recommend some good tutorials on how to make web banners using
CSS?
As a Sitepoint customer I just got an email with this:
As a SitePoint customer, you're invited to join tens of thousands
of students learning PHP, JavaScript, jQuery,
On Jun 10, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Nazish wrote:
I'd like to create a popout box...
Project 7 has a product called Tooltip Magic that quite impresses me.
http://www.projectseven.com/products/tools/tooltips/index.htm
Chuck M
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On Jun 4, 2011, at 4:46 AM, Gabriele Romanato wrote:
As always, if you notice anything strange
In my Mac's Safari (latest version) and Firefox (latest version), I noticed a
small detail I've noticed on sites I'm working on.
The letter-spacing for text is IMHO a bit too tight. Reading on
On Jun 4, 2011, at 9:42 AM, David Laakso wrote:
Personal Opinion:
Play at being a web designer rather than being a type designer. Do not
letterspace text for desktop. Sometimes when used with discretion and
depending on the font letterspacing of a heading /may/ be appropriate.
This
On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:16 PM, David Laakso wrote:
Fwiw, some captures...
http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=549084
~d
Am I right that none of them look like a true reflection would look? That the
bottom image is in no cases a vertical flip of the top image?
It challenges my
On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Venditelli, Daniel - Web Development Administrator
wrote:
*Can't even begin to count the number of sites that had some snippet of
useful text just begging to be copied into my research notes only to
discover the text is a graphic. grumble
Guilty. Flat out
On Mar 4, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
So the problem would have been had you thought it was windy.
I did : I was just too shocked to comment, given that you had
suggested it was overkerned. Remember, please, Goudy's aphorism.
Might that be: First do no
On Jan 24, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kevin A. Cameron wrote:
http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2007/09/18/png8-the-clear-winner/
Thanks a useful link to an interesting article. It appears that Fireworks
PNG-8s made with alpha transparency eliminate the need for code hacks, work as
intended for variable
On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:01 AM, David and Vince wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I would just like to say that I am new here...
Welcome to the list!
I offer an outlier's welcome. I post here seldom and softly - since the list
has requirements that aren't congenial for me.
I'll try to list them for
?) on an embedded URL in order to visit it ?
Hi tedd-
Yes, I'm confused as well: I can tap on the URL and it will take me to the page
pointed to by the address.
What's up on your end that this isn't working?
Best, Charles
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on your perspective).
Any idea what I'm doing wrong, or need to do to fix this? I haven't yet found
anything that addresses the issue on the Internet, but I can't imagine this
hasn't been observed/addressed.
Thanks so much!
Charles Turner
further comments about this, I'd be most appreciative.
Best wishes,
Charles
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? Or is there a better way to achieve that?
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Christian,
Thank you for the explanation. Per instruction, I used short version as
(images/newimg.gif). It works. Thanks again,
Charles
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Three good people have now requested and received copies of the code we're
using for a simple login page. I have no problem sharing it, but if, bottom
line, I am being helpful or if I'm luring folks into flawed practice.
If one of the sage veterans on this list would care to review what we're
On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Reese wrote:
I'd be happy to take a look, I'm always on the lookout for good
login scripts and I'd be happy to provide any feedback I can.
Here's what I've been sending out.
After making the offer, it occurred that it's been so long since I started
using
On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:01 PM, John wrote:
I would like to create a page or section of my website which requires
a password for the user to gain access to.
For 8 years a client and I have been using a simple chunk of code for password
access to half of his website. It's worked fine, with
I have two questions about protocol, or whatever it might be called.
1. Is it considered proper to put the reply after the quote? I personally
much prefer the reply first. If I'm reading a thread, I have the quote already
in mind, and like it when I don't have to manually scroll down to see
That's the other thing I need to wrap my brain around. Reply going to OP.
Begin forwarded message:
On Mar 25, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Brian Funk wrote:
So, what happens when you click on the list's email address which is the
first item in every list signature at the bottom of each email?
On Dec 30, 2009, at 12:49 AM, Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy wrote:
Could somebody suggest me resources (sites,books as well) for
web design??
If you use Dreamweaver, I personally can warmly recommend Dreamweaver CS4, The
Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland. It doesn't just
(this was initially sent to the individual, not the list. sorry.)
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From: Charles Miller chuckmil...@new.rr.com
Date: October 31, 2009 9:23:46 AM CDT
To: David Dorward dorw...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [css-d] hello this is my first post i just can get this
to look
On Sep 15, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Shawn Lawler wrote:
I think this what you're looking for mate:
http://www.scottjehl.com/v7/index.php/process/html_text_drop_shadows
The Matas text comes off to my eye with much more finesse. Don't think
it's just white vs dark blue. The example on the Jehl site
I needed a link in the tfoot part of a table to be white, while links
in the body were black. So I defined a rule for tfoot a:link. That
did it in Dreamweaver. But Safari showed the link in default blue.
Blue on red is a mess.
Intermediate practitioner that I am, I spent two hours trying to
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com wrote:
On Mar 30, 2009, at 1:27 AM, Charles wrote:
How can I select an element combining nth-of-type() and a class/ID?
I tried for instance li.new:nth-of-type(2) but it doesn't work. You
can't combine both pseudo classes
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com wrote:
On Mar 30, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Charles wrote:
I understand your rationale. Now, what if, among the list items that
have a new class, I want to select the second item? Please note in
my case there may be a variable
Hello,
How can I select an element combining nth-of-type() and a class/ID?
I tried for instance li.new:nth-of-type(2) but it doesn't work. You
can't combine both pseudo classes...
See: http://www.adsweep.org/nth-of-type-class-id.html
Any idea?
Thanks,
Charles
://snipr.com/3uxp5
http://snipr.com/3uxpc
Does anyone have any further ideas for snippet pipes? If you do, post
them here and I'll see if I can create them.
Charles
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This is possibly the most useful of the lot, especially the rendering
switcher for testing compatibility between 7 and 8.
Charles
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Is it possible with CSS to control a footer, in a three column format,
which will float up or down below the changing vertical height of the
three columns?
Charles Haynes
Mighty Jams LLC
712 Boulevard SE
Atlanta GA 30312
(404) 310-7161
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/float-unequal-heights/
The only workaround I can think of is to have all the divs be of equal
height, but have the content of the floated divs be of variable
height. However, this workaround can quite easily create a large
vertical space between 'rows'.
best,
Charles
feature of an additional
scrollbar at the bottom of the page, ignoring any overflow:hidden set in
the page.
I've spent far too much time tossing hasLayout triggers around, applying
position:relative, and removing position:relative, all to no avail.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
-charles
, as opposed to learning a bunch of
bad habits that I later have to unlearn.
:)
Best regards,
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Is there a good beginner explanation for how to deal with browser
tests and incompatibilities? Ie, proper syntax for how to provide
some CSS code that would only be applied to IE5 (or IE6 - or IE7)
for example?
I've seen a few examples, but didn't understand how they worked,
and I'd rather
this problem?
Thanks,
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this problem?
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that, but loading just one image file
is faster (less 3-way TCP/IP connections).
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is a problem (just
downloaded the 9.02 after it not working in 8.0).
What's happening is the footer with an image of brown grass isn't showing.
I've tried all sorts of things to no avail.
I can see the brown grass footer, using Opera 9.10 build 8666.
-Charles
for *tons* of IE problems.)
By coding for Firefox and debugging with its DOMi first, then using IE's Web
Developer toolbar and adding IE version-specific fixes in separate
stylesheets using conditional comments, you have a great workflow guaranteed
to help maintain your sanity.
Charles
interest in this. Now that the site is live,
I'd like to fix this IE7 bug ASAP. I really feel exposed.
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: 2px solid #eef3f8 ;
display: none; z-index: 1000; overflow: hidden; }
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On 11/24/06, francky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Dimpie,
It is the IE Three Pixel Text-Jog, described in the special Position
Is Everything IE-compartment:
Wow this is better solution, add height: 1% to the div#text dd styles.
-Charles
not less that the required spaces of the menu content
.navigation { width: 200px; }
Setting the width will also makes the menu appears like a block element in IE.
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Basically to remove the left padding on the menu you would need to
change the padding in
#menuh ul { padding-right: -2em; }
into something like
#menuh ul { padding: 0 2.5em 0 0; }
Cheers,
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On 11/23/06, Richard Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I want this site to sit to the left of the screen but in WinIE it is
aligning centre. Could someone tell me why please?
http://alexander.cregy.net/
http://alexander.cregy.net/wp-content/themes/NewSite/style.css
Clearly because you have
menu-min.js).
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On 11/24/06, Mario Merino (gmail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello I want to include several CSS buttons on a site Im building. I have
looked at the following article
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/rollover-buttons.sh
tml but I would have to build the same amount of
is much appreciated.
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- but need to get the basics right.
Thanks for the compliment.
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duplicates elements with a
class name and assign the duplicates another class name.
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. I don't know how else to
prevent this from happening in IE. (All's fine in Firefox.)
The site is slated to go live within the week, and having this problem right
on the header is a real show-stopper. Thanks for your help!
Charles
Responding to my own message with an update... if anybody cares. =}
charles wrote:
I've recently run into a new (to me) bug in IE6 and IE7 regarding
fieldsets and legends. I've been bashing my head against my desk for a
couple days now and would appreciate it if anybody could let me know
...
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-charles
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At http://03.infocopa.com/programmes/efficacite.html , you'll find a little
note icon in the second paragraph, right after dans le monde. In
Firefox, hovering over the icon displays a footnote, as a block positioned
right next to the icon. In IE, unfortunately, the hover doesn't work.
I know
At http://02.infocopa.com/test.html is a page describing my problem, with
screen shots and everything. The problematic test document is at
http://02.infocopa.com/toto.html .
It's an IE problem where divs don't extend the whole desired width. (Two
versions of the problem, each affecting a
Please have a look at the test page at
http://00.infocopa.com/apropos/toto2.html . I'm testing in FF 1.5.0.7 at
first.
I can't get the (beige, red border) body to span the entire height of the
page. Works fine if the text is shorter than the viewport (zoom font size
down to see), but if the
display is gone, and I'm suitably red-faced.
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How can i make this webpage display same thing in all browser.
It seem fine in IE but doesnt look good in other browser since the navigation
bar on top always spans to the right.
www.e-creationz.co.uk/eye4film/index.htm
I would require help to this one fron anyone.
Thanks
Charles
, at least).
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I hate having to ask this question in public, but I have no choice. You know
how sometimes, everything you thought you knew seems wrong? This is one of
those times. Here's a beginner question from a not-so-beginner.
Have a look at this demo page:
http://blaqzone.com/Temp/toto.html
I'm
glory, can be found here:
http://www.spiritone.com/~charlesd/newsite/funkylist.html
Code below.
Thanks all!
-charles
Relevant CSS (note that the colors for the rounded divs aren't right in
this snippet below. Just ignore that... along with the fact that the
page has no actual content yet
New member here, impressed with the congenial atmosphere of the list. (Truth
in advertising dept.: I have posted this problem to another list 6 days ago,
and to Usenet 2 days ago; no usable answers have been received. I hope this
is a long enough delay to warrant posting to CSS-D.)
My latest
layout so that
savvy users could make dramatic changes by just editing the CSS.)
It's important to me to try to make the right decisions early on, since this
theme will be eventually be used by tens of thousands of people.
-- Charles
Zoe: I appreciate the do not reply note. This hasn't been
. ***
I'd really appreciate more feedback before I dive into this. I'd love to
here some yes, definitely base your theme on this, but I suspect there may
be some newer resources I'm not aware of.
-- Charles
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pointers on the right way to do this, or to links that cover
best-practices for 2- and 3-column layouts, would be /very/ much
appreciated.
I just started Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards, but I'd love to be
able to help solve this before the style is released!
-- Charles
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release at http://playbacktime.com/.
Thanks for listening!
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putting the images in divs with and without paragraphs, I
tried setting margin, padding, and even border on everything I could find to
zero, but none of it removed the gap.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Many thanks!
Charles
style sheet...
That fixed it -- MANY thanks!!!
Charles
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, and this tuning makes them closer to FF and IE. Is that
right?
Thanks again!!!
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some more.
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the width down a few pixels.
Thanks again to all!
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any
ideas about how to move that line back to the bottom, I'd be grateful.
(It's supposed to give the illusion of the current page being attached to
the tabs and the other tabs not so.
Thanks!
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problems.
May I ask for more details on what might happen if I use this in my site,
how likely or frequently that might happen, and what I should consider as a
better alternative?
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the
class. I'm sure there was a reason; I just don't know what it is. Can
anyone tell me why it's necessary or a good idea to add that class to
identify the image?
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examples online.
A solution would be much appreciated!
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for any reason, I'd appreciate the feedback!
-- Charles
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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 8:37 PM
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Subject: [css-d] Beginner Q: Aligning left and right on same line?
Hello,
I've been
{color: red};
I'm sure there's a reason you did it with this universal selector (the use
of which in general I don't understand very well), but I don't know what it
is. Can you help me understand the difference and how that might play out?
Many thanks again to you both!
Charles Dort
hello everyone.
I am trying to create images with captions. I have code that works fine
except that I can find no way to centre the div within my container div.
any ideas?
div.image_plus_caption {
padding: 0;
padding-bottom: .8em;
border: 2px solid black;
margin:
It all looks fine in Safari 2.0. Nice work.
On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:17 PM, David Boddie wrote:
Hello,
I've been working on building a nested list menu for my new design
for my work site for over a week, and I've finally opted on a
Suckerfish menu. Could someone take a look at these pages
.
Thanks for any help. Have a nice long weekend if you're somewhere
where it is a long weekend.
best,
Charles
On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:28 PM, Charles Stuart wrote:
Hi,
I need to set an absolutely positioned a to the same height as
the parent div. Or... find a different way to do this. I
using two dd's? Is that valid?
best,
Charles
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On Jun 27, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Richard Grevers wrote:
On 6/28/05, Charles Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I need to set an absolutely positioned a to the same height as the
parent div. Or... find a different way to do this. I have
accomplished this in Safari and FF. IE is not working
-to-chicago/
*the CSS*
http://enure.net/photos/enure-photos.css
Thanks for any help. I'll be publishing the photo gallery (PHP/CSS/
XHTML) once I finish this... Email me off list if you're interested.
best,
Charles
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hello people.
I want to add a feature to my web pages.
briefly, I want something like this:
in the html code:
span class=lookuptantalising/span
in the css:
span.lookup {
something. not sure yet.
}
javascript either in the css or in the header.
result:
in the web page, the reader
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