RE: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

Nope, Visual Studio is for developers. Expression Web is for designers. Microsoft tends to see things in the "corporate" environment where people work I teams. Expression Web is for the layout and design, to use the asp.net code behind pages created in VS (like with Dreamweaver you cannot create co

RE: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

Cheryl D Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The next version of Word will allow you to take basically > clean XHTML out for blog posts, etc. If you use the new > document format you can also the content as pure xml. > > FrontPage is terminal. There will be no new version. > Expression Web w

RE: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

The next version of Word will allow you to take basically clean XHTML out for blog posts, etc. If you use the new document format you can also the content as pure xml. FrontPage is terminal. There will be no new version. Expression Web which is the tool replacing it has several options for bringin

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On 10/27/06, Portman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh. Didn't think of that. Well, I removed the position:relative; and changed the doc type. I had to reposition a few items, but it worked beautifully. Um . . can't think of what else I did. (Just got back from getting my car looked at -again. They

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review

Oh. Didn't think of that. Well, I removed the position:relative; and changed the doc type. I had to reposition a few items, but it worked beautifully. Um . . can't think of what else I did. (Just got back from getting my car looked at -again. They replaced the fuel pump a week or two ago and I

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On 10/27/06, Portman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you all for the feedback. It seems as though I fixed the IE6 bug. Just working on the grammar and spelling now. Riva Oh, come on Riva, after all of that you aren't going to tell us what you did? drew • The WDVL Discussion List from

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Riva Conyers, Dwayne wrote: I cringed when I saw bare e-mails on the page. That may get these poor guys inundated with spam from bots. Otherwise, the pages came up quickly. I wonder if Jessica can help me with the little stiffness in my back. :-) • The WDVL Discussion List from

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I cringed when I saw bare e-mails on the page. That may get these poor guys inundated with spam from bots. Otherwise, the pages came up quickly. I wonder if Jessica can help me with the little stiffness in my back. :-) -- I made magic once. Now, the sofa is gone. http://dwacon.blogspot.com

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LOL. Or psycho therapist? Riva Conyers, Dwayne wrote: Reminds me of the old Benny Hill gag where he painted a sign on a sliding door for "Therapist." When he opened the sliding door, it said, "The rapist." • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email T

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Also Spracht Portman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > * Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous: > www.whorepresents.com > > * Experts Exchange, a knowledge base for programmers: > www.expertsexchange.com > > * Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island: > www.penis

RE: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

Joseph Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wroted: > > From: "Portman" > > > > > > I do find, in general, that a lot of people today have no > > idea about good spelling and good grammar, but maybe > > that's just me. > > :-) > > > > Riva > No, Riva, it is not just you!!! Both drops in educa

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My boss did a blog post on how people don't read what they "write" sometimes: * Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous: www.whorepresents.com * Experts Exchange, a knowledge base for programmers: www.expertsexchange.com

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

Ross you left out one of my favourites (sob) You, Ewe and Yew!! (Now all three of them can get back to work!) I assume Ross, you have read that great little book by Lynne Truss entitled "Eats Shoots and Leaves"? Covers punctuation and grammar in depth but is easily read and very amusing. T

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

your and you're there, their and they're lose and loose and my personal favourite: incorrect apostrophe's just like that, especially when referring to plurals of acronyms. LDMs, PS2s, PCs not LDM's PS2's and PC's - where is the ownership in that??? So add me to the cynical club lol. My gramma

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Thank you all for the feedback. It seems as though I fixed the IE6 bug. Just working on the grammar and spelling now. Riva • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com

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I remember seeing a sign for a garage sale that said "GARAGE SELL". A pet peeve of mine is "your" and "you're". P.S. My father always told me never to use a preposition to end a sentence with! ;-) Riva Joseph Harris wrote: No, Riva, it is not just you!!! Both drops in education standards

Re: [wdvltalk] Site review - and grammar

From: "Portman" I do find, in general, that a lot of people today have no idea about good spelling and good grammar, but maybe that's just me. :-) Riva No, Riva, it is not just you!!! Both drops in education standards and freedom for more people to have their words seen has increased th

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Thanks Drew. I will look into that. Riva Drew Trusz wrote: Not good in IE6. The background of the nav list jumps all over the place. This probably has to do with the layout you are using (see below). First you need a complete doctype to get IE out of quirks mode. You might be having a variati

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Thanks for the reply Ross. I did ask them if they wanted me to edit it and they said yes. Probably what happened, now that I think about it, was that they made changes to what they had on their computer and just sent it to me without updating their copy (of the text) on their computer. I do fin

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On 10/27/06, Portman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I would appreciate it if someone could look over my new site and give me feedback? The url is http://www.1stchoicept.us. TIA, Riva Not good in IE6. The background of the nav list jumps all over the place. This probably has to do with the

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Riva In regards to body text I regularly have the same problems and I explain to the client that my job isn't just to make the site look pretty, it's to make the entire user experience a good one, which includes quality-checking the text content too. My compromise with them is that I fix spe

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Hi Peter, Thanks. I will follow your suggestions. It does bring up an interesting point - do I edit the text the client sends me? On the one hand, I want the site to be a good reflection of me (and my work) but on the other hand, when I made edits and sent it back to them, they made more edit

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Hi Deb, There is no text as of yet on the home page. I am still waiting for them to send me something. I don't know what to do about the bottom blue in IE. When you scroll down and up again it changes. Any ideas? Thanks for looking, Riva PBC Web Design wrote: Hi Riva, I'm not seeing any te

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At 11:21 PM 10/26/2006, you wrote: Hi all, I would appreciate it if someone could look over my new site and give me feedback? The url is http://www.1stchoicept.us. Hi Riva, I'm not seeing any text on the home page. Looks different in IE than it does in Firefox. The bottom blue is moved way

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Nice clean easy to navigate site. I'd move "About us" up to position two on the menu list - it's the first thing people might want to know having found the site! I personally always put contact us last - on the grounds that the rest of the options should answer questions and only if that is