Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-04 Thread standards
Thank you Lea. I removed the tag, and added the tag with a rule applied to the cite element that bolds the authors name. Seems to be the best of both worlds. Kind regards, Mario > On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 22:58:19 -0400, Christian Montoya wrote: >> Isn't < b > still valid? If you want to have a weig

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-03 Thread standards
Michael, I understand that the Internet is an electronic medium, and I’m quite aware of all the browser nuances and additional devices employed to render websites. However, what I said was that the Internet is also a visual medium, which is an important aspect of site design that must be consid

Re: Use of cite WAS: Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Andrew Krespanis
On 10/3/05, Joshua Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So... is there any way to define this relationship? Or is it just > order-of-content and hoping it makes sense? What if you were to put the > cite after the quote for whatever reason (style guide convention, etc)? Sorry Josh, there's no attrib

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Michael Wilson
Paul Bennett wrote: Joe Coyle, President, www.coylemedical.com Mr. Cisneros and his team have an extraordinary talent for customer communication, market vision, and web pageb design. There seems to be a tendency lately to use definition lists for way more than I think they're supposed to be

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Lea de Groot
On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 22:58:19 -0400, Christian Montoya wrote: > Isn't < b > still valid? If you want to have a weightless way of bolding the > text, but don't want to mess with a span, use < b > . Yes, its 'valid', for low values of valid, but wrapping a cite element around the name screams 'this i

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 22:58 -0400, Christian Montoya wrote: > Isn't < b > still valid? If you want to have a weightless way of > bolding the text, but don't want to mess with a span, use < b > . Yes. It's in the presentation module for XHTML 1.1 ( http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/abstra

Use of cite WAS: Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:39 +1000, Lea de Groot wrote: > I would give strong consideration to: > Joe Coyle, President > .testimonialname cite {font-weight:bold} > > and think about working a q element into the actual quote-paragraph. This immediately seems to make sense, but I'm left wondering

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Christian Montoya
Isn't < b > still valid? If you want to have a weightless way of bolding the text, but don't want to mess with a span, use < b > . On 10/2/05, Lea de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:23:50 +1000, Joshua Street wrote:> Joe Coyle, President and add> the rule> .testimonialname

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Lea de Groot
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:23:50 +1000, Joshua Street wrote: > Joe Coyle, President and add > the rule > .testimonialname span {font-weight:bold} I would give strong consideration to: Joe Coyle, President .testimonialname cite {font-weight:bold} and think about working a q element into the actual q

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since the testimonial is basically a quote, why not use the element? > Then use the presidents name within the element. This way it is > semantic, and you still get to style the presidents name any way that you > feel fit! > > Chee

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread leenath1
ilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com Hi, I haven't followed this thread completely, but I wanted to comment on this specific post because some of your comments caught my eye and another vi

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Brett Taylor
On 3/10/2005, at 2:28 PM, Paul Bennett wrote: There seems to be a tendency lately to use definition lists for way more than I think they're supposed to be used for. As someone who was at WE05, Tantek mentioned that using DL, DT and DD for anything other than definition lists is "abuse!": <

RE: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Paul Bennett
> > Joe Coyle, President, www.coylemedical.com Mr. Cisneros and his > team have > an extraordinary talent for customer communication, market vision, and web > page > design. feel free to bite my head off - I haven't been following this thread closely. There seems to be a tendency lately t

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Michael Wilson
Hi, I haven't followed this thread completely, but I wanted to comment on this specific post because some of your comments caught my eye and another view may come in handy. However, I think using to emphasize the author of the testimonial is perfectly acceptable. Because it's not going to

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 12:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I appreciate your input, and I concur with some of your points, and will > apply the changes > accordingly. However, I think using to emphasize the author of the > testimonial is > perfectly acceptable. To create a rule and use tag i

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread standards
Hi Josh, I appreciate your input, and I concur with some of your points, and will apply the changes accordingly. However, I think using to emphasize the author of the testimonial is perfectly acceptable. To create a rule and use tag is overkill. Additionally, the image is to provide a soft vi

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-02 Thread Joshua Street
Okay, most of the points I made still apply. 1) is out, because you've ditched the JS menu. 2, 3, 4, 5 (less now) and 7 still apply. You've got images where you could be using background images in a H4 for the special offers section, and I'd lean towards doing part of your testimonial bit different

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-01 Thread standards
Josh, My sincere apologies!! I failed to provide the URL to the development environment for the redesign: http://www.webnetdesignstudios.com/index1.htm This is my current site, and one of the reasons I've decided to implement a re-design. Sorry for the miscommunication. Kind regards, Mario

Re: [WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-01 Thread Joshua Street
A few suggestions, in order of markup. 1) The JS menus are okay, if everything listed in them is accessible some other way. 2) Your non-JavaScript link list (topnavbar) should be a list. And the bullet images would be better as background images or list-style-image's. 3) Instead of having an ima

[WSG] Homepage Review: webnetdesignstudios.com

2005-10-01 Thread standards
Dear Mates, I'm in the process of re-designing my company site, and I've started with the homepage. Please know that it's in development environment, and I plan to re-do all the interior pages once I'm confident that my CSS, XHTML and design are standards compliant. Obviously, I thought it prud