[wdvltalk] [OT] CV help?

2005-03-22 Thread Tristan . Pretty
I'm a fairly confident PHP/MySQL developer... I know that I've not yet met a chanllenge I couldn't do (with some trial and error). So I'm working on my CV, and I'm very bad at technical 'bigging up myself'. I've built CMS's, admin tools, download capture and reporting systems that talk to e

Re: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd

2005-03-22 Thread Portman
Hi Jan, Thanks for the feedback. The td.middle and td.main are set to 80% in all the pages so I am not sure why it is appearing odd on the About Us page. I will try the 100% though. The client really likes the background. I don't really like the idea of brown, blue and yellow together but .

RE: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd

2005-03-22 Thread Hewitt, Cheryl
Riva, The only differences between the pages that I can find are: 1.) The doctype lines are different, and Pages with correct style: About Us: (on two lines) http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> 2.) the style tag is a bit

Re: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd

2005-03-22 Thread Portman
Hi Cheryl, Thanks for pointing that out. Every time I ran my page through the w3.org HTML checker it told me that my doctype was wrong and the

[wdvltalk] Some CSS layout problems

2005-03-22 Thread John Hughes
Folks, I have a problem best illustrated in Netscape 7.1 on the PC in the following example http://aodhruadh.org/funding/lotto.php As you can see, if you have that browser, the left menu panel and the contents of the right column spill over the footer section. Put baldly, is there a way to stop

Re: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
Hewitt, Cheryl wrote: 2.) the style tag is a bit different, too. Pages with correct style:

Re: [wdvltalk] Some CSS layout problems

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
John Hughes wrote: Folks, I have a problem best illustrated in Netscape 7.1 on the PC in the following example John, The problem's also there in FireFox and I'd dare say that it's probably there in any standards compliant browser. The happy thing is that it's an easy fix. You've got two floats

Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] CV help?

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone got any advise, about how to word what I've mentioned above... to put it in the proper context... Tristan, I think the 'proper context' for what you're describing is a portfolio. Something I've done in my CV is to have it describe my education and experience

RE: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd

2005-03-22 Thread Hewitt, Cheryl
True. What I was trying to do was show her the only differences between her pages. By 'pages with correct style' I was meaning the pages where she like the way they were displaying vs the page that was causing problems. -Original Message- From: Stephen Caudill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
Hewitt, Cheryl wrote: True. What I was trying to do was show her the only differences between her pages. By 'pages with correct style' I was meaning the pages where she like the way they were displaying vs the page that was causing problems. Ah. Gotcha. Yes, well... Continue where you left off. *c

[wdvltalk] Table

2005-03-22 Thread debram
Hi everyone,   I have just started working on this site. It is an existing design that needs some help. The table has a graphic that divides the sections. When I first got the files, the graphic and table (grayed) scrolled across the page and added a scroll bar at the bottom. What I am tr

Re: [wdvltalk] Table

2005-03-22 Thread Portman
I am not sure what you mean. My resolution is high but I don't see the scroll bar across the bottom.Is it "Beginning Classes start..." part of the page? What graphic are you trying to align? Riva debram wrote: Hi everyone, I have just started working on this site. It is an existing desi

[Fwd: Re: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd]

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
It occurred to me that the *cough* thing could've been interpreted the wrong way... I actually meant to poke fun at myself for not actually looking at the page and just being a stickler on the validity of the code. So I hope I've not put anyone off with my misguided attempt at self-sarcasm. -

Re: [Fwd: Re: [wdvltalk] Website text appears odd]

2005-03-22 Thread Portman
Not at all. I understood it the way you meant it. :-) Riva Stephen Caudill wrote: It occurred to me that the *cough* thing could've been interpreted the wrong way... I actually meant to poke fun at myself for not actually looking at the page and just being a stickler on the validity of the code

Re: [wdvltalk] Table

2005-03-22 Thread Scott Glasgow
Thank you, Riva. I was wondering if it was just me. (BTW, I don't get scrollbars either.) Debra, you need to be a little clearer about what it is you're after. First, there is no "the" table. There are seven in total: one outer container table for everything, one upper table containing two more

[wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Matt C.
Can someone tell me why the following page doesn't work in IE, but Firefox/Netscape works fine? http://www.digitalmeca.com/ie_redirect.html -- - Matt Crampton Sr. Webtechnologist Time Warner Inc. aim:[ MattCCrampton ] email:[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] • The WDVL Discussion List from W

RE: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Rajput, Goutam
Try this http://www.google.com');">GOTO GOOGLE -Original Message- From: Matt C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 22, 2005 3:17 PM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE Can someone tell me why the following page doesn't work in IE, but Firefox/

RE: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Linden, Todd
Matt, You put the JavaScript in the href. Try this... http://www.google.com');">GOTO GOOGLE - Todd -Original Message- From: Matt C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:17 PM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE Can someon

RE: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Matt C.
The thing with using "#" is that if the page is scrolled, the hash symbol will kick the user back up to the top of the page. Not the greatest user experience :( - Matt Crampton Sr. Webtechnologist Time Warner Inc. aim:[ MattCCrampton ] email:[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Li

RE: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Matt C.
That certainly seems to work fine. Is this a more standard way of executing javascript from an anchor tag? I thought onClick was the "right" way to do it, perhaps this is just an IE bug? - Matt Crampton Sr. Webtechnologist Time Warner Inc. aim:[ MattCCrampton ] email:[ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Rajput, Goutam
This works for all the browsers. -Original Message- From: Matt C. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 22, 2005 3:30 PM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE That certainly seems to work fine. Is this a more standard way of executing javascri

Re: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Bj
Your link works (calls the redirect() function correctly with the URL) but the function doesn't. No idea why! Leaving that aside, to clear up any confusion about the link, usually you would put "javascript:" in front of the JS code, i.e. http://www.google.com');"> You can just put the JS in t

Re: [wdvltalk] Some CSS layout problems

2005-03-22 Thread John Hughes
Stephen, I could kiss your rosy red cheeks. Thanks a million. John. > add "clear:both" to #footer. That's it. > > hth, > Stephen > > • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • > To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or > use the web interface http://e-newslette

Re: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Matt C.
What's more interesting is, using href="javascript://" onclick="etc" works fine for calling the function, yet the location.href="etc" doesn't work, but when you call the function using href="javascript: redirect()" the location.href=etc works fine. Really weird. - Matt Crampton Sr. Webtechnolo

Re: [wdvltalk] Some CSS layout problems

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
My cheeks are duelly notified and shall henceforth be very wary of you, Mr. Hughes. Very wary, indeed. :D seriously though, glad to be of assistance! ttfn, Stephen On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:52:34 -, John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen, > > I could kiss your rosy red cheeks. >

Re: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Stephen Caudill
I think what you're looking for is this: http://www.google.com"; onclick="window.location=this.href;">Go to Google This ensures that folks without JS enabled still get a functioning link (the browser simply ignores the onclick) and folks with JS enabled get the fancy JS version... But why? If yo

Re: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Bj
Erm, > Just FYI: ... > the pseudo-protocol is definitely *not* necessary from > within an event handler such as "onclick" Well.. OK Javascript is the default scripting language, so it's not actually *necessary* any more than it's necessary to start a script with

Re: [wdvltalk] Table

2005-03-22 Thread jdmajor
I am using Mozilla, and I am getting a horizontal scrollbar. I did look at the code "briefly", and couldn't find what might be causing the problem, but I think the whole page is a mess of code. There are many inner/outer tables which could be messing up the layout. Have you tried to validate the

Re: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread jdmajor
Matt, you're right, it doesn't work in IE. I'm wondering why you created a javascript when you could do it this way: http://www.google.com"; target="_blank">GOTO GOOGLE that works. hth Jan Matt C. wrote: Can someone tell me why the following page doesn't work in IE, but Firefox/Netscape works fi

Re: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Matt C.
This was more of an example of the bug I was seeing. In the actual application I'm working on, I build a url using several JS vars, and then redirect the browser to it. - Matt Crampton Sr. Webtechnologist Time Warner Inc. aim:[ MattCCrampton ] email:[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Tue, 22 Mar

RE: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread Cheryl D Wise
Target is part of the frameset doctype and is not part of the specification. Under the current W3C standards opening a new page should be done with javascript not target. While it works in a transitional doctype it may not work with a strict one in newer browsers. Cheryl D. Wise Certified Profess

Re: [wdvltalk] Simple JS not working in IE

2005-03-22 Thread jdmajor
You're right Cheryl, I only use the transitional doctype. Jan Cheryl D Wise wrote: Target is part of the frameset doctype and is not part of the specification. Under the current W3C standards opening a new page should be done with javascript not target. While it works in a transitional doctype it

RE: [wdvltalk] Table

2005-03-22 Thread debram
Sorry for the muddy request. Scott you have nailed what I was looking at with the structure of the page. I was trying to line up the menus and the tan-brown-yellow-green-etc. horizontal rule. My initial thought was to scrap what is there and start over. Thank you for taking a look. Deb -Ori

RE: [wdvltalk] Table

2005-03-22 Thread debram
Hi Riva, Sorry I was not more precise in my question. Scott did a very good evaluation of the problem. Deb -Original Message- From: Portman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:53 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Table I am not sure what you m

Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] CV help?

2005-03-22 Thread David Blakey
I need to comunicate to a potential employer, that I have skills, and I'm not afraid to use them, but what I've got at the mo, jsut says that I've built a few systems... Has anyone got any advise, about how to word what I've mentioned above... to put it in the proper context... Two things: First,

Re: [wdvltalk] Table

2005-03-22 Thread Scott Glasgow
Hi, Deb. I think you're correct in your assessment. From looking at the code, it appears that someone used Dreamweaver's WYSIWYG table layout mode for a "quick-and-dirty." The code's a mess (trying to visualize all those nested tables from the code could give a person gastric spasms pretty quic

RE: [wdvltalk] Table

2005-03-22 Thread debram
Hi Jan, Thank you for the response. As I stated in my response to Scott, that was my initial thought to start over. I did try to validate the page and it does not. No big surprise there. :-) Deb -Original Message- From: jdmajor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:3