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> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:32:24 +0100
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> I guess we don't go to boldfish.co.uk for compassion!!!
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> On 24 Aug 2011, at 07:16, Tony Crockford wrote:
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>> On 24 Aug 2011, at 01:09, Jay Tanna wrote:
&g
On 24 Aug 2011, at 01:09, Jay Tanna wrote:
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> You are doing an online course and yet you don't know how to find out what is
> included in the Web design suite! How about going to Adobe's website and do
> your own research? You never know this could help you fine tune your
> research skills.
ufon/wiki/About
and the generator:
http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
@font-face:
http://www.miltonbayer.com/font-face/
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
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On 13 Aug 2010, at 18:51, Ted Drake wrote:
> You need to build a site to learn HTML5 semantics, it's like the old days of
> hybrid table-based layouts. 7 years ago you really needed to ditch tables to
> truly understand CSS.
Are you suggesting that to switch to HTML5 we should avoid the use of
On 18 Dec 2007, at 23:32, Michael Horowitz wrote:
People may remember I'm working on an issue where when I click on
one link on my site http://theatomicconservative.typepad.com/ other
links such as Subscribe to this blogs feed turn red as if they were
visited.
Doing more testing I starte
On 14 Dec 2007, at 19:50, Michael Horowitz wrote:
Anyone know a good online resource or book that discusses how to
decide the best color combinations for use on the web.
there's a lot of good information here:
http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/Default.htm (see the resources
section)
(
On 14 Dec 2007, at 18:06, Michael Horowitz wrote:
Figured it out. You can ignore this question.
no fair!
you're supposed to tell us what it was!
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On 14 Dec 2007, at 17:32, Michael Horowitz wrote:
I am wondering if there is an issue in how I am redefining
.module-content
{
margin: 5px 0 20px 0;
color: #FF;
font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: medium;
line-height: 150%;
On 29 Nov 2007, at 10:46, James Leslie wrote:
Thanks everyone for your responses to this.
I might give the stylish extension a try or just stick to removing
them
by hand in the web developer extension.
Sorry, bit late to the party, but FontExplorer X allows you to
activate and de-activa
On 20 Nov 2007, at 14:53, Christian Montoya wrote:
Here is a screenshot of a page from my site in Firefox 2.0.0.9 on
Leopard 10.5.1:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thephotoherald/2049540131/
I have no idea why so much text is not appearing at all. Could someone
with Leopard look into this for me
On 29 Oct 2007, at 17:43, James Jeffery wrote:
I highly doubt that presentational styles will effect SEO.
When you use display:none you are not removing the
content from the source, you are just hiding it from
users viewing the web page.
If you was to remove the element from the source using
On 29 Oct 2007, at 15:46, Simon Cockayne wrote:
Hi,
I am sure I read that CSS's display: none has a detrimental on SEO.
Is this true* or did I dream it?
*To clarify...I am keen to know if it is true that there is a
detrimental impact...not whether it is true that I read it or not.
Google s
On 20 Oct 2007, at 10:18, James Jeffery wrote:
Should i use my essay and examples and
take it to the head of
the college? I really don't know how to go about this, but its
definatly a
problem.
Who set the syllabus?
Assuming it's the college administration, then they are the people to
d
On 17 Oct 2007, at 08:01, Michael Kear wrote:
Nick I'm away from my Mac machine for a couple of weeks .. Do you
think you
(or someone else with a mac) could do me a favour and have a look
at the
page in question and tell me if the problem is fixed or not on your
mac?
I see the dropdown
On 17 Oct 2007, at 04:56, Nick Cowie wrote:
I was experimenting with HTML over flash, and while name="wmode"
value="transparent" /> works great on Windows. The flash plugin
could not
get the order right for OsX or *nix, no matter what I tried (source
order,
z-index etc). It was purely rando
On 5 Oct 2007, at 10:03, Geoff Pack wrote:
Tony Crockford wrote:
we don't have "finders-keepers" and "it's mine, I saw it first"
or "give it to me or I'll pull your hair" as social rules outside
the playground (and I suspect our educators a
On 5 Oct 2007, at 08:15, Christie Mason wrote:
There are many ways to change a culture, but legislating is not one
of them.
what you appear to be missing is that when all other attempts fail,
legislation and enforcement of legislation is the only socially
acceptable way left.
Target
On 5 Oct 2007, at 06:02, Christie Mason wrote:
No one has a "right" to shop at Target.
I think that's the real point of disagreement in this whole discussion.
As a society we have allowed the concept of ownership and commerce[1]
and in order to enable those concepts to work we have rules a
On 4 Oct 2007, at 17:27, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I try to ensure my professional work is accessible, but I am far from
being persuaded that legislation of this nature can ever be effective,
without also being a burden on smaller sites, particularly those that
are no longer actively maintaine
On 4 Oct 2007, at 08:33, Rimantas Liubertas wrote:
Speaking only of businesses int he United States, no government
entity should be telling a private business what it must do
WHAT?
with that one line you have just summarised all that is strange about
America. Private business is above the l
On 4 Oct 2007, at 04:33, Jim Davies wrote:
Speaking only of businesses int he United States, no government
entity should be telling a private business what it must do
WHAT?
with that one line you have just summarised all that is strange about
America. Private business is above the law?
On 27 Sep 2007, at 09:48, James Jeffery wrote:
And i also said a blind person can create graphics, but only at a
certain
level.
there are also degrees of sight impairment.
I think we should all review our attitudes to sight and sightedness
before assuming that vision impairment and the
On 26 Sep 2007, at 18:15, Tom Livingston wrote:
Does anyone have a favorite
resource for dealing with forms.
how about:
http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-tools/form-
builder/default.php?type=css
http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/stylish_accessible_forms.html
On 20 Sep 2007, at 21:28, Rick Lecoat wrote:
On 20/9/07 (20:57) Rafael said:
I'm looking for a good offline (printed version) magazine to stay
tune
with the latest news about Web 2.0, Javascript, Ajax, CSS and Web
Standarts.
Do you have any ideas?
I get Web Designer (Imagine Publishing)
On 7 Sep 2007, at 00:39, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/09/06 20:42 (GMT+0100) Tony Crockford apparently typed:
so, what happens if a user has their default font set larger than the
browser default in this case?
Can't happen. Browser default == user default. :-p
You *know* I
On 7 Sep 2007, at 00:03, Felix Miata wrote:
Don't what? Don't understand your instruction? Don't believe your
instruction? Don't let you try to instruct them? Don't look at the
good example sites you offer them? ? ? ?
yes to all of those.
most real world clients I am aware of are being d
On 6 Sep 2007, at 20:32, dwain wrote:
Tony Crockford wrote:
I'm still looking for a best practice solution to reducing font
size to the *norm* and not causing problems when I do so.
have you any suggestions on that front?
in web design and the way the viewer can set font limi
On 6 Sep 2007, at 18:30, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/09/06 17:58 (GMT+0100) Tony Crockford apparently typed:
- and if the client is looking
at their site compared to everyone else they also expect it to look
similar, not have massive fonts.
You're the expert. Your clientele is a li
On 6 Sep 2007, at 17:39, Rick Lecoat wrote:
The issue of whether an unchanged default setting, except when left as
it is by deliberate choice, should be considered a 'user
preference' in
the context of "most people have their preferred size set to 16px" has
not really been decided for me, bu
On 5 Sep 2007, at 22:04, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/09/05 21:06 (GMT+0100) Tony Crockford apparently typed:
I don't remember the last time I visited a mainstream site and found
the fonts smaller than normal.
can you point to some popular sites (I mean mainstream popular sites)
wher
On 5 Sep 2007, at 20:15, Felix Miata wrote:
There's already proof in the results - the web is overwhelmed by
sites that set fonts
smaller than the defaults - and the consequence that normal web
users don't like it. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html
Is it possible that the
On 5 Sep 2007, at 15:21, Felix Miata wrote:
Who made this a fact? Just because web designers, a group with the
following
characteristics (creating a bias among them) to distinguish it from an
average member of the general public:
1-detail oriented (more comfortable than average with small t
On 30 Aug 2007, at 17:51, Designer wrote:
ght!
Surely, there ARE cases where a purely visual site can NEVER be
presented 'accessibly' in any eaningful way?
yes, but you're not thinking big picture enough (excuse the pun) alt
attribute text provides more than just explanation for screen
On 9 Aug 2007, at 07:27, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/08/07 20:38 (GMT+0100) Alastair Campbell apparently typed:
You could take Jacob Neilsons finding that small fonts were the most
popular 'mistake' as proof that people don't know how to change their
settings
Or you could take it as proof th
On 4 Aug 2007, at 08:49, Cole Kuryakin wrote:
Why, however, do you wrap your link text in a ? Are there
standards -
or some other - issues I'm not aware of if you simply border your
"landing-page" link text with the 's without span elements?
I use the span to apply other styling to the cont
On 4 Aug 2007, at 05:46, Cole Kuryakin wrote:
er-riding user styles??? I've never run into that one before.
Irritating.
Aside from the !important solution or the (as yet untried) focus
solution
that Kepler suggested, does anyone else have an even more elegant
option or
... for my issue
On 17 Jul 2007, at 11:40, Nick Roper wrote:
I have stared at it until I can't see wood for trees any more. I
even tried adding an inline style attribute into the H1 tag - but
that didn't work either. Am I missing something startlingly obvious?
assuming windows actually has the font insta
Paul Collins wrote:
The font stays slightly larger than 11px, when
I set it to 1.1em. this has worked fine on other sites, so not sure
why it isn't working here. Any ideas?
check that you haven't set a minimum font size in your browser preferences.
;)
Nick Gleitzman wrote:
Exactly. But I still contend that my company name, being most likely
more unique than any name of goods or services that I provide, doesn't
require as much semantic weight in my markup and it will *still* be
easily found by those who already know I exist - but that the st
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Of course the branding shouldn't be an .
Totally disagree.
Why?
Seriously.
Why is the company logo and strap line the most important thing on every
page of a web site.
isn't the page content more important than the branding?
isn't the headline for the page cont
Joseph Taylor wrote:
this conversation says that I should probably
markup pages like:
My big page Heading
Seems pretty straight forward. If the logo needs to be an image, we can
make a vcard entry for that. CSS will handle how it looks size-wise
etc
Thoughts?
Add in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tend to agree with James Jeffery on this one. I just checked one of my
sites front page and found not a single h1, h2 or h3. Yet many of my key
words like 'group health insurance' or 'freedom blue ppo' show that site
on Google first page. Oh how I wish I knew how som
James Jeffery wrote:
Tony, while i can see your point, i dont agree. Nothing against your
views but its
the way you put a few things.
A search engine will not just search the by the H1, actually no-one
actually knows
how a search engine works, its a secret to the creator, but what we do
know
James Jeffery wrote:
So basically what your trying to say is that branding is the least
important part
of the page, so place it in a ?
no, I'm saying what the page is about is the most important, so put that
in the h1
take a multiple page site with branding on every page - after the first
Web Man Walking wrote:
Glory Days
tickets, accommodation & travel packages for major events
throughout the uk, europe and worldwide
Rugby World Cup 2007 Packages
Would I penalised for something like this?
My understanding would be that the first h1 is the ones the search
spiders us
Chris Taylor wrote:
However that means it's probably not going to be the first heading element
on the page, which is frowned upon by some. Can anyone else expand on the
reasons for that?
I think we need to be careful how we visualise page structure.
I prefer the pragmatic headed paper approac
James Jeffery wrote:
H1 should be your company name, or logo.
Why?
shouldn't stuff that appears on every page, maybe in a div id=branding,
be of less importance than the subject of the page?
I'd be doing:
Rugby World Cup 2007 Packages - Glory Days
Glory Daystickets, accommoda
James Leslie wrote:
Just to add to the confusion... I have winXP SP2 with quicktime installed
(previously, not as part of the safari install) and am having no problems at
all with it. Fonts all seem to render nicely, even the bug button brings up a
bug reporting page for me directly.
Me too
Micky Hulse wrote:
Tony Crockford wrote:
http://www.boldfishclient.co.uk/go/flash
(uses the UFO embedding method with wmode set to transparent)
Ooooh! I like UFO! Thanks for sharing link. Can I link to this example
from my Sitepoint posting? If not, I totally understand. :)
feel free.
;o
John Gribben wrote:
Does anyone have any experience floating HTML elements over Flash via
absolutely-positioned divs? I know that this is possible with the most
up-to-date browsers, but I’m not aware of how wise this is in terms of
backward-compatibility. Can anyone point to successful exampl
Cole Kuryakin wrote:
Besides a book, are there any on-line, step-by-step “foundation to
penthouse” curriculum course that anyone knows about and TRUSTS by
experience?
Thanks to all for weighing through this windy post; and advance
appreciation to all who care to comment.
I'm guessing, that
Designer wrote:
Ludicrous! I see the point, obviously, but really!!!
not really, you're missing the obvious.
the links should be
buy book on cooking ISBNx
buy book on Shiatsu ISBNx
buy book on Vegetarian cooking ISBN
etc and the visual styling would be a graphic "buy now" (usi
kevin mcmonagle wrote:
Hello,
This has been discussed before but i was wondering about new input.
I've tendered on a big job and i will be up against a lot of competition.
What are some web standards selling points that might get through to a
completely uniformed, unsavy client.
MACCAWS was a
At 11:30 on Tuesday, 16 Nov 2004, Natalie Buxton wrote:
It wont do that unless he puts the CSS in the img {}. You can do it
inline for a specific image, paragraph, whatever, or in a span
specifically for that purpose.
You dont have to specify it globally for all images.
sure, but then you have to k
At 03:52 on Tuesday, 16 Nov 2004, Chris Stratford wrote:
Wow, that is something I didn't realise existed!
That is great!
Thanks a lot Natalie!
- Chris Stratford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Natalie Buxton wrote:
Armit
You can force a page break before an image using css.
page-break-before: always;
Nat
At 05:14 on Tuesday, 16 Nov 2004, Nick Lo wrote:
By the way it can be solved by adding padding to it's container:
div#content { margin-left: 190px; margin-right: 200px; padding-top: 3pt;
}
However I'm still not clear why.
I'd imagine this might explain:
http://www.complexspiral.com/publications/
At 15:53 on Wednesday, 06 Oct 2004, Kim Kruse wrote:
Now I would like to know what your arguments would be for using xhtml.
Not that I can't think for myself... but I'm in doubt if I'm going in
the right direction.
I would really like to hear your opinions on this matter.
I timely post, just
At 09:47 on Tuesday, 05 Oct 2004, Peter Goddard wrote:
Just because the table contains links to an edit page doesn't need for
it to
be defined in a form. Surely the solution is to present the information
in a
table and then style the 'edit' links with css, taking advantage of the
querystring.
S
At 07:48 on Tuesday, 05 Oct 2004, Peter Ottery wrote:
Is there a best-practice way to build an item
display with multiple columns, but without using tables?
Name Price Quantity EditDelete
Apple $5.0025 [edit] [delete]
Pear $4.00 3 [edit] [dele
At 09:34 on Thursday, 30 Sep 2004, Mugur Padurean wrote:
Tony Crockford wrote:
I'm a bit confused, if I go to http://www.yahoo.com/ I'm still seeing
the tabled version.
have they got some clever locale sniffing going on or what?
(I'm in the UK)
Here you go:
http://www.yahoo.co
I'm a bit confused, if I go to http://www.yahoo.com/ I'm still seeing the
tabled version.
have they got some clever locale sniffing going on or what?
(I'm in the UK)
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At 07:15 on Wednesday, 14 Jul 2004, Donna Jones wrote:
Hi everyone, I just signed on to this list today and just set up a new
filter and corralled all the messages.
I would like to download this new toolbar for accessibility testing.
Everyone's talking about it but I couldn't find a url - anyo
At 14:10 on Thursday, 10 Jun 2004, Jad Madi wrote:
guys what is KHTML ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
and you'll probably like this:
http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com
(I'll get my coat)
;o)
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At 08:35 on Sunday, 06 Jun 2004, Sean M. Hall AKA Dante wrote:
Self explanatory, see subject.
As I said before: syntax highlighting and no automatic insertion.
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
small footprint.
code folding
loads of syntax highlighting
hth
At 05:07 on Sunday, 06 Jun 2004, helmut wrote:
What CSS/XHTML/HTML editors do you guys use for hand coding and testing?
Topstyle Pro 3.1 is my choice. Simply the best windows application for
handcoding html / CSS includes most language syntax coloring and mapping
for local live previews via
At 13:02 on Friday, 04 Jun 2004, Jamie Mason wrote:
What's the difference of linking by;
@import url(styles.css);
And
If any?
@import will hide your stylesheet from older browsers.
Different syntax of the @import line has slightly different effects:
http://www.workalone.co.uk/index.php?p=22
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