Re: [WSG] Simple to use page layout 'tool' ?

2007-03-12 Thread Sam Brown
NR A client wants to be able to create some draft page layouts that they NR want achieved. Basically, they want a simple piece of software that they NR can use to drag drop things like buttons, lists, input fields etc onto NR a page in order to create an initial draft requirement. No

Re: [WSG] css buttons only hot over text in ie

2005-08-31 Thread Sam Brown
--- kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the best way to make the bellow css buttons hot for the entire height in ie? Right now there just hot over the text. I tried adding a fixed pixel height to the a: rule but that didnt work so well. I've seen this solution online somewhere before

Re: [WSG] html design - best practices

2005-08-16 Thread Sam Brown
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a page with text that i want highlighted. i currently have the text in atext/a and styled with css. what is the best practice, semantically, to achieve this, as strong is not what i want, because i don't want someone to get yelled at by their

RE: [WSG] html design - best practices

2005-08-16 Thread Sam Brown
--- Drake, Ted C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to avoid using spans as much as possible. It's not that they are bad, but that they could be avoided in many instances. I agree with your comments here, Ted, I just didn't have any context to provide a more meaningful explanation. Personally,

Re: [WSG] hooked floating divs

2005-05-07 Thread Sam Brown
RL All of the images are inserted in a floating div. When one of the floating RL divs in the line is taller than the last one on the line the next floating RL div seems to get hooked up on the longer one. Can anyone suggest another way RL of laying out the images that doesn't have this problem? I

[WSG] DTD is a formality?

2005-02-15 Thread Sam Brown
A project I am working on requires the use of a menuing system (as in, it isn't my choice). In an effort to achieve similar rendering across browsers I added a Transitional DocType to all of the pages on the site. This made things MUCH easier for me to work with, but it also broke the menu

Re: [WSG] DTD is a formality?

2005-02-15 Thread Sam Brown
However the doctype tag is really a formality used for checking compliancy and nothing more. As you see, it is not a formality, but neccessity to get proper document (styles) interpretation. Removing the tag will solve your rendering problems. ...will cause... Heh... my thoughts

Re: [WSG] Changing Standard

2004-12-11 Thread Sam Brown
b Why using a:link ? b a /a means that the word inside is a link b a { color:blue; text-decoration:underline; } b is the same as setting b a:link { color:blue; text-decoration:underline; } b Link is a redundant tag I don't know the intricacies of all this, but I believe there is a

Re: [WSG] font too small??

2004-11-26 Thread Sam Brown
SJ You define font-size for the #content text to 80% of my preferred SJ font-size. For me that's too small for reading comfortably, especially SJ if I don't use Verdana but another less huge font. And on the other hand, I find the 0.8em to be just fine. In fact, I set much of my font sizes to