[wdvltalk] Re: Questions regarding CSS

2003-02-12 Thread michael ensor
mary, a very handy online quick reference for css and other things is w3schools: http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 27/01/03

[wdvltalk] Re: Questions regarding CSS

2003-02-12 Thread Mary L Rusinko
Michael, Thank you for the w3c link; I have gone through the html and css classes there! I am also considering delving into some of the other offerings there, but haven't had the time to brain cells to do so yet! But I still continue to look at other sources for more clues in my search for writing

[wdvltalk] RE: [OT] Microsoft Word and Excel question

2003-02-12 Thread astralgirl ...
Hey Pablo Have the Excel file with all relevant info open, as well as the Word document that you wanna past the stuff into. All you do is to copy the graph/table/chart. in Excel (Edit Copy, or use the short-cut key) Then in Word, go to EDIT PASTE SPECIAL Select Microsoft Excel Worskeet

[wdvltalk] IE Page load time limit?

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Cork
Hi All, Can anyone tell me if there's a limit to how long IE will wait for a page to load? I have some reports on a client's intranet which they keep changing and adding to, and sometimes the exec time is getting to be rediculously long. Was just wondering if anyone knows if this will cause a

[wdvltalk] RE: IE Page load time limit?

2003-02-12 Thread Adam Cork
Jon, Can anyone tell me if there's a limit to how long IE will wait for a page to load? Yes, there is, but I'm not sure exactly what or how it's triggered. On my box IE seems to give up after about a minute (at least, that's what's happened when, say, DNS servers haven't been available) Hmm,

[wdvltalk] Re: Questions regarding CSS

2003-02-12 Thread sherry young
Michael, Eavesdropping again. Thanks for this reference. It's new to me and looks good. S. michael ensor wrote: oops, sorry mary btw amongst the best reference books O'Reilly's are considered to be up there, and apologies in advance if you already have come across this, but the NY Public

[wdvltalk] Re: Questions regarding CSS

2003-02-12 Thread michael ensor
sherry!!! you are never eavesdropping. smack your hand at least three timesNOW /stop btw the best advice I ever had was to do the basic site in NN and then add embellishments. another and perhaps better way : always run things through the W3C validators. [ what I keep on forgetting to do, when

[wdvltalk] Re: Questions regarding CSS

2003-02-12 Thread Trusz, Andrew
http://www.westciv.com has excellent css1 and css2 courses. Inexpensive. And once you get the hang of it, the w3 specs are actually useful. drew -Original Message- From: michael ensor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 3:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[wdvltalk] Re: Questions regarding CSS

2003-02-12 Thread sherry young
Michael, You said btw the best advice I ever had was to do the basic site in NN and then add embellishments. This is exactly my (admittedly unfashionable) approach. I figure if it'll play in the Peoria of NN, it'll play anywhere. Besides, I'm very uncomfortable leaving out a large segment of my

[wdvltalk] Re: SCR: http://www.outrageousevents.net/videoclips.html

2003-02-12 Thread Janet Russeau
I was not able to click on the very first click, I think it was the Batman one. There did not appear to be any hyperlink. When I clicked on the next one, I first received a MIME Type Configuration error message that stated that one or more of my MIME types were associated with a different

[wdvltalk] Re: Questions regarding CSS

2003-02-12 Thread Trusz, Andrew
Micheal wrote: snip btw the best advice I ever had was to do the basic site in NN and then add embellishments. /snip Why NN and not Mozilla? I tend to use Mozilla with allowances for IE width issues. The code generally then validates with no more than minor issues. Although with tswebeditor I

[wdvltalk] Re: Questions regarding CSS

2003-02-12 Thread michael ensor
sherry. you know that I am a masochist, so I always hand code, but: it does make you learn! hey if you can make it look reasonable in plain old html [ 4.01 transitional recommended ] it will look reasonable in NN4, ie it can be easily followed. add a few bells and whistles for NN4, and then

[wdvltalk] Re: Questions regarding CSS

2003-02-12 Thread michael ensor
yes but that was then, Mozilla [ the stable version ] is now but there are still ( ok minor ) issues but if you want a real ruler over your code without going to the validator or using your own server, use NN ( not IE, still too forgiving of mistakes ) I haven't tried Opera 7 yet but still the