RE: [WSG] Looking for help and critiques on a new site

2004-06-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Ben, Thanks, that's great. I hadn't come across that one before. :) How about the rest? Anyone got any ideas there? Cheers, Seona. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ben Bishop Sent: Tuesday, 29 June 2004 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: [WSG] Web Design Price & Web Design Development - Document

2004-06-28 Thread Ben Bishop
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:51:39 +0100 (BST), Viking Karwur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need your information about web design price and web > design/dev document... Viking, I don't think you will find such off-topic information on a mailing list devoted to Web Standards - certainly not from th

ADMIN Re: [WSG] Web Design Price & Web Design Development - Document

2004-06-28 Thread Lea de Groot
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:51:39 +0100 (BST), Viking Karwur wrote: > I need your information about web design price and web > design/dev document... This is not a discussion related to standards. Could any replies to this be made off list, please? Viking, could you please try to stay ontopic? warmly

Re: [WSG] Looking for help and critiques on a new site

2004-06-28 Thread Ben Bishop
> The final problem is when I try and validate the page. Everything validates, > except the JavaScript for the menus. Now, this JavaScript is taken directly > from the "Son of Suckerfish" so I was surprised to find that it was coming Hi Seona, Quick (but proper) fix for the JS validation, start w

[WSG] Web Design Price & Web Design Development - Document

2004-06-28 Thread Viking Karwur
Hello Guys, I need your information about web design price and web design/dev document... Or where I can found it ? Thanks in advanced. Regards, V. Karwur --- = -- Viking Karwur. New Media Designer, vikingkarwur.com [p] +62-815-9170755 [w] www.vikingkarwur.com _

Re: [WSG] As Good As the Weakest Link

2004-06-28 Thread Lea de Groot
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 16:09:36 -0700, ckimedia wrote: > When styling a group of links one can simply change the display of > the a:link and a:visited state to display block, making a simply > line of links into a list. What is the advantage of using a for > links as opposed to the aforemention

Re: [WSG] CSS Block Element Probs...

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Stratford
Ahhh great thanks russ... What I will do is, remove the XML bit... then change the css, and see how it looks then! :) Thanks a lot! - Chris Stratford russ - maxdesign wrote: Chris, >From a quick look, you seem have two problems - the box model issue and a border issue: 1. IE misinterpret

Re: [WSG] CSS Block Element Probs...

2004-06-28 Thread russ - maxdesign
Chris, >From a quick look, you seem have two problems - the box model issue and a border issue: 1. IE misinterprets the box model so your "navigation" div appears thinner in this browser compared to other browsers. http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/about-boxmodel.htm There are many ways to

Re: [WSG] As Good As the Weakest Link

2004-06-28 Thread Iza Bartosiewicz
It is also important to use proper markup for lists (and every other element) to ensure accessibility compliance, see WCAG checkpoint 3.5 http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT-TECHS/#tech-list-structure. cheers Iza >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29/06/04 12:01 >>> I believe its because, when you style it

Re: [WSG] As Good As the Weakest Link

2004-06-28 Thread rob
Well you use lists because that's what navigation is, a list of links. To give them letters, use the CSS property: list-style-type:lower-alpha; on your elements. Chris Stratford wrote: I believe its because, when you style it in CSS. And make the LINKS, BLOCK ELEMENTS - without using 's. Without t

Re: [WSG] 100% height columns - problems again

2004-06-28 Thread Isabel Santos
Quoting a recent post of mine on http://www.webxpertz.net/forums/showthread.php?t=29509: "A 100% height table is 100% of the body. And the body is smaller then the screen, so the table goes up to the bodys size. Now, if you want a table to fill the whole screen, you must define 100% height of the

Re: [WSG] As Good As the Weakest Link

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Stratford
I believe its because, when you style it in CSS. And make the LINKS, BLOCK ELEMENTS - without using 's. Without the stylesheet, the links will bunch up without any spaces or gaps. So you use a and 's - just for the fact that it will be backwards compatable with browsers which dont support CSS, an

Re: [WSG] CSS Block Element Probs...

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Stratford
No one can help? I know its a stupid little task... I tried encasing it in another div... but thats no good... I know there are a lot of divs - SHELL, BODY, TITLE, NAV, CONTENT, FOOTER, COPYRIGHT i need the shell and body - because i want a background image running up the sides of both of

Re: [WSG] As Good As the Weakest Link

2004-06-28 Thread ckimedia
Hi, I meant , and I too agree that semantically the list seems more sound. Thanks. C On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 05:05 PM, Mordechai Peller wrote: ckimedia wrote: When styling a group of links one can simply change the display of the a:link and a:visited state to display block, making a simpl

Re: [WSG] comments on redesigned www.collovet.com.au pls

2004-06-28 Thread Neerav
Thanks Bart & Craig I'd completely forgotten about all those emphasise tags, have replaced with styled em's. Other suggestions will have to wait for the next round of cleaning out old code. -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Web Development & IT consultancy Mobile: +61 (0)403 8000 27 http://

Re: [WSG] A question about names

2004-06-28 Thread Mordechai Peller
Ted Drake wrote: As far as I know, the name attribute for creating anchor tags is being depricated. Is that the same for our forms? If I am using an input or selector, should I only use an id attribute or should I continue using the name as well? Not just anchors, but for almost all elements. O

Re: [WSG] As Good As the Weakest Link

2004-06-28 Thread Mordechai Peller
ckimedia wrote: When styling a group of links one can simply change the display of the a:link and a:visited state to display block, making a simply line of links into a list. What is the advantage of using a for links as opposed to the aforementioned, if any? is actually more common, and u

[WSG] Looking for help and critiques on a new site

2004-06-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I have a new site that I'm working on for a client and am doing my best to make it as standards-driven as possible. So aside from having a look and telling me how I've done so far, I'd also like some help in fixing a couple of little glitches that are annoying the heck out of me. The fir

RE: [WSG] As Good As the Weakest Link

2004-06-28 Thread Ted Drake
gives your links the number 1, 2, 3, etc. On this line, how do I change it to A, B, C, a, b, c, etc. Ted -Original Message- From: ckimedia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] As Good As the Weakest Link Hi, When styling a

[WSG] As Good As the Weakest Link

2004-06-28 Thread ckimedia
Hi, When styling a group of links one can simply change the display of the a:link and a:visited state to display block, making a simply line of links into a list. What is the advantage of using a for links as opposed to the aforementioned, if any? #navbar a:link, #navbar a:visited { display

[WSG] A question about names

2004-06-28 Thread Ted Drake
I need some clarification if possible before I get too involved in re-building some forms. As far as I know, the name attribute for creating anchor tags is being depricated. Is that the same for our forms? If I am using an input or selector, should I only use an id attribute or should I contin

[WSG] Web Essentials Early Bird registration

2004-06-28 Thread russ - maxdesign
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[WSG] CSS Block Element Probs...

2004-06-28 Thread Chris Stratford
Hey Everyone, www.neester.com is what I am working on. I just made a new stylesheet for the site. I just need some help with the DIVs... Its a big issue at the moment. I have right floated Navigation... the Content, is just a DIV which is by default a BLOCK element, and therefore uses all te

[WSG] 100% height columns - problems again

2004-06-28 Thread Razvan Pop
Hello. Never managed to make left and right columns with 100% height. Please take a look here: http://seoed.cpea.ro/seo-terms-glossary and tell me if you have some ideas. CSS files: http://seoed.cpea.ro/stylesheets/left.css http://seoed.cpea.ro/stylesheets/right.css http://seoed.cpea.ro/styleshe

RE: [WSG] comments on redesigned www.collovet.com.au pls

2004-06-28 Thread Craig Stump
Still looks like there's a few unnecessary tables in there - namely the ones you are using to hold the images within the content. What is this: ? Use and style using CSS Just one minor warning when validating your CSS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WSG] The Melbourne meeting tonight

2004-06-28 Thread David McDonald
A big thanks to everyone who turned up to the Melbourne WSG meeting tonight. We had 24 people turn up, which is a record for the Melbourne meetings. Our diverse range of standards afficiondos included two people who drove down from Ballarat (thanks guys - I really should learn to remember everyone

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Firefox flicker problem

2004-06-28 Thread Peter Costello
Hi Avril, The problem was due to having all my divs floated left in the one containing div and relying on the containing div's width to make them wrap, forcing them down into position. Over the weekend, I split the content into two divs. Top and Bottom rows. I believe that separating out the conte

RE: [WSG] How to insert QuickTime on website and validate like XHTML?

2004-06-28 Thread McCain
A solution very good to avoid "embed" tag. But to fulfill the norms of WAI accessibility I must have an alternative auditory description, and when putting it like "Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" they simultanealy leave the MOV and the WAV to me. Some solution? One assumes

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac-friendly drop down menus

2004-06-28 Thread dan
There are two reasons we changed over to using window.attachEvent. Firstly, its is a IE only method so in effect it does its own branching for IE and secondly, you can add multiple events on the same handler which means you could lump several functions onto the onload handler rather than just the

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac-friendly drop down menus

2004-06-28 Thread Kay Smoljak
awesome - thanks so much! Does that change have any negative side-effects? On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 09:27:32 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can make the suckerfish dropdowns work on IE5 Mac by using window.onload to > trigger the suckerfish function rather than window.atta

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac-friendly drop down menus

2004-06-28 Thread dan
You can make the suckerfish dropdowns work on IE5 Mac by using window.onload to trigger the suckerfish function rather than window.attachEvent So you can use if (document.all && document.getElementById) window.onload = sfHover; instead of if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", sfH

[WSG] comments on redesigned www.collovet.com.au pls

2004-06-28 Thread Neerav
Any comments about http://www.collovet.com.au/ would be appreciated I have just stripped out a lot of tables and old style code and replaced them with css menus and styling. It should work in IE, Mozilla, Opera and Safari 1.2 degrading gracefully for older versions (fingers crossed) -- Neerav B