Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-23 Thread Tim
Only have safe sex with wombats they are promiscious and many have a sexual transmitted disease clymidia. You guys are sick today eating roots and leaves, off topic. Tim On 23/05/2007, at 8:37 AM, John Faulds wrote: gay wombat sex is rightly prohibited in Australia Mabye Australia doesn't

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-23 Thread Tim
It amazes me that they would rather spend money on solicitors than web design. I am tracking this sites as well, only 500 html validation errors today. The web design team are Bullseye Design which is a trademarked Target Brand. Maybe they have in-house solicitors sitting around with nothing

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-23 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
John Faulds wrote: As I said, I couldn't say for certain what the relationship might be, but my guess with the example given, as it's a photo gallery site, would be that the photographer/artist feels like the photos should be in a certain sequence, perhaps to facilitate the telling of a story

RE: [WSG] div hiding and expanding

2007-05-23 Thread Chris Taylor
Hi Kevin, The most obvious way to do this is using JavaScript. There are loads of different JavaScript methods, however I've come up with a small library of functions based on the Prototype framework that lets you do this kind of this, completely unobtrusively and without non-standard markup.

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-23 Thread Jamie Collins
Ive put together a quick article regarding forms. Ive had to place it on some random server at work for now. http://www.viberate.co.uk/ws/styling-a-form/styling-a-form.html Theres 3 pages in total, the last page goes through 3 methods of creating a form with and without a DL. Its been created

RE: [WSG] div hiding and expanding

2007-05-23 Thread Chris Taylor
Hi Kevin, The most obvious way to do this is using JavaScript. There are loads of different JavaScript methods, however I've come up with a small library of functions based on the Prototype framework that lets you do this kind of this, completely unobtrusively and without non-standard markup.

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

2007-05-23 Thread Steve Olive
On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:19:46 pm Hassan Schroeder wrote: Parker, Simi (DPS) wrote: I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media player, I would

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-23 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Quoting John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was talking about an ordered list over an unordered list. I never said anything about using tables. Ah, yes, I missed how the argument moved on to ordered vs unordered lists. I was under the impression that this branch of the discussion (the order

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-23 Thread Designer
John Faulds wrote: As I said, I couldn't say for certain what the relationship might be, but my guess with the example given, as it's a photo gallery site, would be that the photographer/artist feels like the photos should be in a certain sequence, perhaps to facilitate the telling of a

[WSG] Australian University webpage reviews and WANAU membership

2007-05-23 Thread Tim
For some reason my membership of WANAU has been lost, ignored or denied by the WANAU moderator. My emails to Dey Alexander to comment on this research have received no reply. I have spent a few hundred hours of my time unfunded to produce a webpage that is highly relevant to WANAU's objectives

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-23 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Quoting Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A significant number of photographers regard a 'collection of photographs' as being 'the work', and the way that work is shown (the relationship between one image and it's adjacent images, and indeed, to the whole) is of paramount importance. What I'm

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-23 Thread Designer
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Quoting Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A significant number of photographers regard a 'collection of photographs' as being 'the work', and the way that work is shown (the relationship between one image and it's adjacent images, and indeed, to the whole) is of paramount

[WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

2007-05-23 Thread contact
Hi All: My name is Puneet, web designer based in Dubai. Recently I have revamped my website with tableless design and xhtml, keeping the web standards in mind. I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at : www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your comments/suggestions. Also if

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

2007-05-23 Thread Barney Carroll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All: My name is Puneet, web designer based in Dubai. Recently I have revamped my website with tableless design and xhtml, keeping the web standards in mind. I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at : www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your

RE: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-23 Thread michael.brockington
I think the primary issue you have here is the assertion that Images, however artistic they may be, qualify as 'data'. I cannot see that connection, and therefore cannot agree with the use of a table. Further, the 'relationship' between two images may change if they are moved, but the 'meaning'

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

2007-05-23 Thread Cameron Singe
I like the site, the only issue i could see that the site does not degrade gracefully when you disable javascript, this can some times be hard to a achieve, however in your case you are using javascript for simple navigation movements. What I would suggest is have your links go to say

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

2007-05-23 Thread Anders Nawroth
I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at : www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your comments/suggestions. Really nice work! The form does not validate, it's easy to fix that, check the validator output:

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-23 Thread Designer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the primary issue you have here is the assertion that Images, however artistic they may be, qualify as 'data'. I cannot see that connection, and therefore cannot agree with the use of a table. Further, the 'relationship' between two images may change if they are

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

2007-05-23 Thread Christian Montoya
On 5/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All: My name is Puneet, web designer based in Dubai. Recently I have revamped my website with tableless design and xhtml, keeping the web standards in mind. I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at :

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

2007-05-23 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All: My name is Puneet, web designer based in Dubai. Recently I have revamped my website with tableless design and xhtml, keeping the web standards in mind. I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at : www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your

Re: [WSG] Tiling image problem

2007-05-23 Thread Sherwin Techico
Hey Cole, This might be another way, but have you tried it with extra markup? That is, possibly using z-index to layer your containers? Regards, Sherwin On 5/20/07, Cole Kuryakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All - I'm setting a 1px by 770px image to repeat vertically within a wrapper

RE: [WSG] RE: Error help

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Bennett
In my experience, browser crashes == bad JavaScript or bad video In Firefox and Opera - the flash video shows the message 'a required component is missing from your system! Click here to add component' (no js errors in either browser) there are a lot of requests to dev.theweddingshow.com.au

Re: [WSG] RE: Error help

2007-05-23 Thread Nick Roper
Hi Mike, When you say it crashes, what exactly happens? any error messages for example? Nick michael (SydneyWeb) wrote: Hi can anyone help with this customer question Im not sure if its because this client is always complaining or whether we have missed

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-23 Thread Jason Robb
You are right about the links, they shouldn't be side by side, the div solution is clearly not best. Rob mentioned that if the page is viewed with CSS off, the images would stack up and create a rather long page. That's definitely something to consider, but most likely something worth

Re: [WSG] RE: Error help

2007-05-23 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Paul Bennett wrote: In Firefox and Opera - the flash video shows the message 'a required component is missing from your system! Click here to add component' (no js errors in either browser) Unless you consider it a logic error to prompt the user to download an ActiveX DLL to a Linux system

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-23 Thread Lucien Stals
Sounds like you need Wordpress. http://wordpress.org/ From what you describe, it can do all that. It's also highly themeable if you need a specific custom look and feel. L. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lisa B McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24/05/07 8:41 AM Calling all blog wizards! I need

[WSG] Form drop-downs for countries

2007-05-23 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi folks, Just wondering what you think about form usability scenarios for drop-downs for countries. I currently maintain a database of countries which is displayed alphabetically in a form drop-down. To save the user having to scroll, I'm considering repeating common countries at the top of

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-23 Thread John Faulds
When you say you've been looking to no avail, what have you looked at and why were they no good? On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:41:04 +1000, Lisa B McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling all blog wizards! I need a stand alone blogging software that I can insert into a client's website so

RE: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-23 Thread Michael (SydneyWeb)
http://www.vbulletin.com/ http://www.phpbb.com/ Kind Regards, Michael Doyle Managing Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel- 02-9699-0088 Tel- 02-9699-4099 87-97 Regent Street, Chippendale, Sydney, 2008 www.sydneyweb.com.au www.sydneyseo.com.au get your website found by search engines.

[WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Reith
Hi there, Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? (Photoshop?) Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!! Cheers, Doug -- Douglas Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (0)4 1042 1081 mobile

Re: [WSG] Form drop-downs for countries

2007-05-23 Thread John Faulds
There was a discussion on this on Roger Johansson's site last year: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/selecting_country_names_in_forms/ On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:58:16 +1000, Sarah Peeke (XERT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Just wondering what you think about form usability

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-23 Thread Mariusz Nowak
Jamie Collins wrote: http://www.viberate.co.uk/ws/styling-a-form/styling-a-form.html http://www.viberate.co.uk/ws/styling-a-form/styling-a-form.html I must say that I disagree with some points stated in these article, shared also with stronger tone in previous posts (that is Tables for forms =

Re: [WSG] Form drop-downs for countries

2007-05-23 Thread Karl Lurman
How are you producing the select and option html? If you are producing these on a webserver via a scripting language, its probably best to do the grouping there. Use the Optgroup tag (which I believe is fairly well supported) to group the list of common countries together with a nice label. Not

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-23 Thread John Faulds
I use Fireworks. On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:22:42 +1000, Douglas Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? (Photoshop?) Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!! Cheers, Doug -- Tyssen Design

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-23 Thread Nick Cowie
I agree with Lucien unless there are other requirements (ie no php must bet .NET) go wordpress, *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-23 Thread Cameron Singe
If your on linux you can GIMP do mock ups of the site. Normally for the 'design' I use photoshop and play around will colours and ideas However the best place to start is actually either a pen and paper or a word processor of some sort to layout the user interface. (I don't mean the design or

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-23 Thread Travis Hensgen
Yeah, I like Fireworks too, although for some reason, a lot of designers don't. Fireworks is particularly good for laying out Web Application interfaces IMHO. The CS3 version has some really useful features in that regard, such as the 9-slice scaling guides, which let you better define

RE: [WSG] Tiling image problem

2007-05-23 Thread Cole Kuryakin
Sherwin, and all others who had responded to this thread - This design is to be used in a blogging system and their HTML is already hard-wired and cannot be changed - so that suggestion is out the window by default. However, I have convinced the client to dump the patterned background in

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-23 Thread Gary Barber
You could try Expression Engine, the core is free to Non-profits. http://expressionengine.com/ Other than that - wordpress. Gary Barber http://manwithnoblog.com Lucien Stals wrote: Sounds like you need Wordpress. http://wordpress.org/ From what you describe, it can do all that. It's also

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-23 Thread Susie Gardner-Brown
Photoshop ... :) I do use Fireworks sometimes, but know Photoshop better. - susie On 24/5/07 9:22 AM, Douglas Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? (Photoshop?) Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-23 Thread Christian Montoya
Douglas Reith wrote: Hi there, Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? (Photoshop?) Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!! Cheers, Doug I make graphics with GIMP Inkscape (both open source) as well as Photoshop and Illustrator,

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-23 Thread Raine
I love WordPress. I recently tried to install Drupal but didn't have LOCK table permissions on my server that is required for installation. ByteDreams wrote: http://www.drupal.org Can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be.

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-23 Thread David Laakso
Douglas Reith wrote: Hi there, Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? (Photoshop?) Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!! Cheers, Doug Notepad. Best, ~dL *** List