Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Alan Gresley
On 12/02/2011 9:18 AM, James Sheffer wrote: George- [snip] My idea is that this will all be torn down and rebuilt without the use of the tables but for not I'm hoping to get it to work with the tables until I have more time... Do it bit by bit. Just one segment of the HTML. href="index.

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Alan Gresley
On 12/02/2011 9:10 AM, Gail Issen wrote: Also, if you have never worked with the validator before, you may be surprised to see that correcting one error frequently also corrects a number of others as well. For this reason, I suggest that you revalidate each time after you correct an error. To

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread G.Sørtun
On 11.02.2011 23:18, James Sheffer wrote: George- Actually, the image "thetoyz_logo.jpg" is just the part "up to" the "shop" link. The rest of the "image" is actually a background image that is repeated (a 5px wide image of only the blue bar). On top of that background image are the text link

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: If the code is not valid, you cannot predict how the page will be displayed. Fixing it may solve your problem. Quite correct. Invalid HTML may *be* the issue. You cannot know until you have fixed it. Also correct. The number of error shown may be misleading. O

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread James Sheffer
George- Actually, the image "thetoyz_logo.jpg" is just the part "up to" the "shop" link. The rest of the "image" is actually a background image that is repeated (a 5px wide image of only the blue bar). On top of that background image are the text links and the "separator" 2px vertical images.

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, James Sheffer wrote: Thanks for the validation news - I guess If I asked someone to validate my code I would have put in the email... If the code is not valid, you cannot predict how the page will be displayed. Fixing it may solve your problem. I also guess since I

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Rich M
Good luck with the fix. For what it's worth, I glanced over some of those validation errors and a fair amount are associated with the markup being inconsistent with the doc type declared. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> The site is declaring

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread John Beales
Also, > http://new.thetoyz.com/navcode.abc Wow! 636 Errors, 576 warning(s) Yeah, that's kind of a huge number, but don't be too discouraged. I haven't looked at your code, but often the va

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Gail Issen
James, Chris came across very abruptly, but he does have a valid point. Very frequently, once you get rid of the validation errors, you find that your site displays as you intended. A lot of your errors deal with the meta tags. As a first step, you may want to comment out these lines in your cod

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Chris Blake
On 12/02/2011, at 6:02 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: Though Chris *may* have sounded a bit curt (email is notorious for not conveying tone), it's fair for others to assume that your issue may be *because* of invalid code. Not the other way around. I agree, he wasn't being nasty. It's just standar

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread James Sheffer
Tom- I understand - I guess I was just looking for a possible solution to my problem and not what I got from Chris. It's been a bad day but I'm not one to blame my actions on that, so I do apologize to all (including Chris)... I do understand the "invalid code" issue, and perhaps it does have

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Tom Livingston
Though Chris *may* have sounded a bit curt (email is notorious for not conveying tone), it's fair for others to assume that your issue may be *because* of invalid code. Not the other way around. That said, Georg, as always, has a fine solution for the nav gap. Give that a go. Then try tackling the

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread James Sheffer
Chris- Thanks for the validation news - I guess If I asked someone to validate my code I would have put in the email... I also guess since I'm having an issue with this page that it obviously wouldn't validate correctly and I wouldn't be spending my time validating it until I fixed the issue.

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread G.Sørtun
I've been designing/developing web sites since 1996 or so, so I've made my fair share of mistakes :-) Welcome to the club... :-) http://new.thetoyz.com/ Make the right end of the 'graphics/thetoyz_logo.jpg' image sooo much longer - 500-1000 px or something - and style it: float: left;

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread James Sheffer
Not sure if this message got through so I apologize for the re-post if it did :-) -- Sorry all, I'm not sure if i'm coming or going today! I had forgot to set up our external DNS server for the address http://new.thetoyz.com It is now set up and should be pointing to the server. T

Re: [css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, James Sheffer wrote: ... http://new.thetoyz.com/navcode.abc Wow! 636 Errors, 576 warning(s) Once the errors are fixed, ask again. -- Chris F.A. Johnson,

[css-d] New to the list and a question..

2011-02-11 Thread James Sheffer
Hello everyone! Glancing through the posts in the archive, this seemed to be a very active list so I decided to join and check it out - I hope I'm right! I've been designing/developing web sites since 1996 or so, so I've made my fair share of mistakes :-) For the past several years I've been u