RE: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website

2007-06-18 Thread Gav...
>>I think the inclusion of the postcodes in the tags is a little clunky, > and not very intuitive. > > I've had no direct involvement with the makeover, but I happen to know > the reasoning behind the postcodes. There are a number of different > towns and cities with the same name all over Austra

Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website

2007-06-18 Thread Cameron Singe
Yeah I was there today, I loved the quick video from all the reports concerning a new article. Top work! On 6/19/07, John Horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think the inclusion of the postcodes in the tags is a little clunky, and not very intuitive. I've had no direct involvement with the m

RE: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website

2007-06-18 Thread John Horner
>I think the inclusion of the postcodes in the tags is a little clunky, and not very intuitive. I've had no direct involvement with the makeover, but I happen to know the reasoning behind the postcodes. There are a number of different towns and cities with the same name all over Australia. "Sprin

[WSG] site check please

2007-06-18 Thread Jermayn Parker
Hi folks, just wondering if people can have a quick look at the following website for any major errors, suggestions etc The one thing that has given me major trouble is aligning the columns the same over browsers (I am sure I have a few gray hairs from that), so unless its horriable wrong, I am n

RE: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website

2007-06-18 Thread Webb, KerryA
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Peter Ottery > > ditto - love it. an amazing achievement to get that up and out. i > particularly like the nice little attention to detail like the css > hovers/icons on the links and the inline video. the video section > itself is

Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website

2007-06-18 Thread Peter Ottery
Brad wrote: Really enjoying the new ABC News website here in Australia. http://abc.net.au/news/ ditto - love it. an amazing achievement to get that up and out. i particularly like the nice little attention to detail like the css hovers/icons on the links and the inline video. the video section

Re: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Tee G. Peng wrote: On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: I may be wrong, but I'm not sure ie6 does transparent border (if I recall, it turns them black). Yeah, it doesn't. I actually not sure how to write the rule. I had {border-top: 5px transaprent}, {border-top: 5px; b

Re: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: I may be wrong, but I'm not sure ie6 does transparent border (if I recall, it turns them black). Yeah, it doesn't. I actually not sure how to write the rule. I had {border-top: 5px transaprent}, {border-top: 5px; border-color: transa

RE: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> On Behalf Of Robert O'Rourke > > One other thing I noticed was when you hover the large links they > change > height slightly, looks nice but when you hover just on the edge you get > some mad flickering. You could maintain the height by replacing the > padding with a transparent border. I may

Re: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Tee G. Peng wrote: On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Robert O'Rourke wrote: Hi Tee, nice looking page! It doesn't get a vertical scroll bar though (firefox 2 latest)... could you attach the background image to the bottom of the main content area as opposed to a fixed position on the body? that w

Re: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Jun 18, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Robert O'Rourke wrote: Hi Tee, nice looking page! It doesn't get a vertical scroll bar though (firefox 2 latest)... could you attach the background image to the bottom of the main content area as opposed to a fixed position on the body? that way it would move

Re: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Tee G. Peng
Hi Jamie, Rob and Thierry Have you tryed giving your #wrapper a height or min-height: should i say. Yeah! min-height works better and I needed to move the photo to the #container I would have a poper look but remove that stupid password because every time i try and use firebug to edit t

RE: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Thierry Koblentz
> On Behalf Of Jamie Collins > There is no way to have the bottom of your graphic 'Cut-Off' but you can > stop your wrapper from resizing itself when the font goes smaller. I believe it could be cut-off if Tee was using "#wraper" instead of "body" to hold that background image. I agree that min-

Re: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Robert O'Rourke
sorry Tee, misread your question. Put the background image in the div that has the white background (#container i think) and it won't show up below the footer. @Jamie: that password isn't stupid just because it gives firebug a hard time. Why not use chris pederick's developer toolbar AND fireb

Re: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Tee G. Peng wrote: In this page I have the photo placed in body background with fixed position. When fontsize enlarge, the bottom part of the photo shows the background color which is fine because I intentionally wanted it appears as if it's part of the design, however when fontsize reduces, t

Re: [WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Jamie Collins
Have you tryed giving your #wrapper a height or min-height: should i say. There is no way to have the bottom of your graphic 'Cut-Off' but you can stop your wrapper from resizing itself when the font goes smaller. I would have a poper look but remove that stupid password because every time i try

[WSG] auto-hiding bottom part of bg image when resizing fontsize

2007-06-18 Thread Tee G. Peng
In this page I have the photo placed in body background with fixed position. When fontsize enlarge, the bottom part of the photo shows the background color which is fine because I intentionally wanted it appears as if it's part of the design, however when fontsize reduces, the footer moves

Re: [WSG] Web Publishing Guide

2007-06-18 Thread Mark Harris
Terrence Wood wrote: You can always use New Zealands: http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/web-guidelines Now known as "NZ Government Web Standards and Recommendations v1.0" http://www.e.govt.nz/standards/web-guidelines/web-standards-v1.0/ So update your links, everybody. (And I didn't have anyth

Re: [WSG] Web Publishing Guide [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-06-18 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, Maybe, http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/reqs_bestpractices.shtml On Mon, June 18, 2007 4:18 am, dwain wrote: > Dale, Tim wrote: >> >> Today, AGIMO released the Web Publishing Guide - >> _http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/_. >> The Web Publishing Guide brings together Australian (Commonwealth) >