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Regards, Sam Sam Lawry Acting Content Manager (Mon-Wed) Online Services Victoria Legal Aid www.legalaid.vic.gov.au 9269 0279 >>> <wsg@webstandardsgroup.org> 12/03/10 09:10 >>> ********************************************************************* WEB STANDARDS GROUP MAIL LIST DIGEST ********************************************************************* From: "Peter Larsen" <p...@rts.dk> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:16:46 +0100 Subject: Autosvar - Ikke til stede: WSG Digest Jeg er ikke på skolen i øjeblikket. Men vender tilbage så hurtigt jeg kan I am not at the college at the moment - but I will get back to you as soon as possible Med venlig hilsen/best wishes Peter Larsen Center for Medie og Kommunikation Roskilde Tekniske Skole ********************************************************************* From: "Jon @ The PixelForge" <jon.war...@thepixelforge.net> Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:53:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [WSG] Need a fresh eye - can anyone see what's wrong please? I agree, consolidate background-image, background-repeat and *-position into one 'background' statement. Easier and saves a few bytes. Regards, Jon Warner Tel: 0788 99 424 30 http://thepixelforge.net/ 57 Arnold Road Eastleigh Hampshire SO50 5AR England On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Debbie Johnson <d...@danceofthebee.com> wrote: > Mike - > You have put the background color and image under background-image. Why > don't you consolidate all of your backround statements into one: > #footer { > color: #d9d9d9; > background: #333333 url("images/Footer_background_s1.jpg") repeat-x > top; > min-height: 96px; > } > Otherwise, you need to separate background-image and background-color. > Debbie > > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:50:16 +1100, "Mike Kear" <w...@afpwebworks.com> > wrote: > > I have a draft layout for a client that is fine in all respects except > that > > in IE8, the background image in the footer is missing. > > > > Here's the page concerned: > > http://afpwebworks.com/strikingdistance/index.cfm > > > > And the footer div rule is as follows for IE (I have a IE-only style > sheet) > > : > > > > #footer { > > color: #d9d9d9; > > background-image: #333333 url("images/Footer_background_s1.jpg"); > > background-repeat: repeat-x; > > background-position: top; > > min-height: 96px; > > } > > > > Both the HTML and the CSS validate ok. > > > > > > So does any one see what I have wrong for IE? > > > > Cheers > > Mike Kear > > Windsor, NSW, Australia > > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > > AFP Webworks > > http://afpwebworks.com > > ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > > ******************************************************************* > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ********************************************************************* From: Paul Novitski <p...@juniperwebcraft.com> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:38:14 -0800 Subject: seeking JavaScript Bible reviewers Hi all, I'm looking for established reviewers of programming books to whom to send copies of the JavaScript Bible 7th Edition (Wiley, 2010). http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470526912,descCd-description.html If you're interested please write to me off-list, let me know what publications you write for, and include links to some of your published book reviews. Thanks, Paul __________________________ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com ********************************************************************* From: "Mironov, Alexander" <alexander.miro...@ato.gov.au> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:53:18 +1100 Subject: Online/web visual style guide [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Hi My team is currently developing an online visual style guide/brand, is anyo ne able to send me links or pdf's of examples of other organisation's onlin e visual style guide for us to use as a reference? Thanks Alex Mironov Web Project Officer Web and CMS | Publishing | Corporate Relations Australian Taxation Office Phone: 02 621 61598 | Facsimile: 02 621 62875 ATO Centenary | Working for all Australians ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT The information transmitted is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged material. 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All I need will be the PSD files and I will handle all the coding etc. If anyone could recommend someone that would be greatly appreciated. Cheers ********************************************************************* From: Graham Weldon <gra...@grahamweldon.com> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:05:41 +1100 Subject: Re: [WSG] Freelance Designer Needed Not a freelancer, but I highly recommend: http://fluidlino.com.au Cheers, Graham Weldon http://grahamweldon.com e. gra...@grahamweldon.com p. (+61) 0407 017 293 On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Daniel Anderson <daniela...@gmail.com>wrote: > G'day, not sure if I am allowed to ask this on this list or not, but I am > struggling finding someone. > > I am in need of a Guru designer to team up with on a few jobs that I have. > All I need will be the PSD files and I will handle all the coding etc. > > If anyone could recommend someone that would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* ********************************************************************* From: "Goodyer, Lynne" <lynne.good...@dbcde.gov.au> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:15:51 +1100 Subject: Re: [WSG] Online/web visual style guide [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Hi Alex I work for the federal government and we use the Australian Government branding guidelines, it is a good place to start at least. Below is a link to the online version. http://webpublishing.agimo.gov.au/Visual Design and Branding Cheers Lynne Goodyer graphic designer | Design and Interactive Communication Section |Communication and Media Branch | Phone +61 2 6271 7013 www.dbcde.gov.au Department of Broadband Communication and the Digital Economy Level 2, 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603 GPO Box 2154 Canberra ACT 2601 On 2/12/10 2:53 PM, "Mironov, Alexander" <alexander.miro...@ato.gov.au> wrote: Hi My team is currently developing an online visual style guide/brand, is anyone able to send me links or pdf's of examples of other organisation's online visual style guide for us to use as a reference? Thanks Alex Mironov Web Project Officer Web and CMS | Publishing | Corporate Relations Australian Taxation Office Phone: 02 621 61598 | Facsimile: 02 621 62875 ATO Centenary | Working for all Australians ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT The information transmitted is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, disclosure, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may result in severe penalties. 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We currently getting our approved so I can't send it to you yet. Cheers Lynne Goodyer graphic designer | Design and Interactive Communication Section |Communication and Media Branch | Phone +61 2 6271 7013 www.dbcde.gov.au Department of Broadband Communication and the Digital Economy Level 2, 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603 GPO Box 2154 Canberra ACT 2601 On 2/12/10 2:53 PM, "Mironov, Alexander" <alexander.miro...@ato.gov.au> wrote: Hi My team is currently developing an online visual style guide/brand, is anyone able to send me links or pdf's of examples of other organisation's online visual style guide for us to use as a reference? Thanks Alex Mironov Web Project Officer Web and CMS | Publishing | Corporate Relations Australian Taxation Office Phone: 02 621 61598 | Facsimile: 02 621 62875 ATO Centenary | Working for all Australians ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT The information transmitted is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential and/or legally privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, disclosure, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited and may result in severe penalties. 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On 12/2/10, Daniel Anderson <daniela...@gmail.com> wrote: > G'day, not sure if I am allowed to ask this on this list or not, but I am > struggling finding someone. > > I am in need of a Guru designer to team up with on a few jobs that I have. > All I need will be the PSD files and I will handle all the coding etc. > > If anyone could recommend someone that would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* -- Sent from my mobile device ********************************************************************* From: Russ Weakley <r...@maxdesign.com.au> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:45:22 +1100 Subject: Re: [WSG] Freelance Designer Needed Hi all, This list is not about jobs or freelance connections. please do all further communications off list! Thanks Russ On 02/12/2010, at 2:59 PM, Daniel Anderson wrote: > G'day, not sure if I am allowed to ask this on this list or not, but I am struggling finding someone. > > I am in need of a Guru designer to team up with on a few jobs that I have. All I need will be the PSD files and I will handle all the coding etc. > > If anyone could recommend someone that would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* ********************************************************************* From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Felipe_Guimar=E3es?= <machado.guimar...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 09:06:11 -0200 Subject: Re: [WSG] Online/web visual style guide [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Wow, I'm really impressed with the UX documentation of the Australian Government. Good example for other Countries! On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Goodyer, Lynne <lynne.good...@dbcde.gov.au>wrote: > Hi Alex > > I also know that the Department of Immigration has a great internal style > guide. We currently getting our approved so I cant send it to you yet . > > > *Cheers > ** > Lynne Goodyer > graphic designer | Design and Interactive Communication Section > |Communication and Media Branch | > *Phone +61 2 6271 7013 > www.dbcde.gov.au > > *Department of Broadband Communication and the Digital Economy > *Level 2, 38 Sydney Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603 > GPO Box 2154 Canberra ACT 2601 > > > > On 2/12/10 2:53 PM, "Mironov, Alexander" <alexander.miro...@ato.gov.au> > wrote: > > Hi > > My team is currently developing an online visual style guide/brand, is > anyone able to send me links or pdf's of examples of other organisation's > online visual style guide for us to use as a reference? > > Thanks > > *Alex Mironov* > Web Project Officer > Web and CMS | Publishing | Corporate Relations > Australian Taxation Office > Phone: 02 621 61598 | Facsimile: 02 621 62875 > > *ATO Centenary** **| Working for all Australians** * > ********************************************************************** > IMPORTANT > The information transmitted is for the use of the intended > recipient only and may contain confidential and/or legally > privileged material. 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Any revi ew, > re-transmission, disclosure, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any > action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other th an > the intended recipient is prohibited and may result in severe penalties. > > If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the Security > Advisor of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital > Economy, 38 Sydney Ave, Forrest ACT 2603, telephone (02) 6271-1376 and > delete all copies of this transmission together with any attachments. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > * > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > * > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > -- *Felipe Machado Guimarães *felipeguimaraes.cc/blog* * <http://felipeguimaraes.cc/blog> ********************************************************************* From: Chris Beer <chris-b...@grapevine.net.au> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:14:30 +1100 Subject: Re: [WSG] Document Formats Hi Kevin You're also touching on accessibility issues there, as well as gov business processes, legal requirements etc etc. One thing I thought worth raising and worth considering though is copyright - do you even have permission to alter the format of the document as submitted to you? US is different to us, I know, but something to keep in mind... We deal with multiple formats in my workplace constantly. Best approach we find, when you can, is HTML first, PDF for print as needed. We try to steer clear of using any file format that isn't an open standard (eg we don't use.xls when we can use .csv) etc as it can imply inferred support or approval for a vendor. Cheers Chris On 12/1/2010 6:52 AM, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote: > Hi All, > The website I work with receives a lot of documents to be posted that > come in the form of Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. And now, with > the release of the latest versions of Ms Office, they are coming to me > with an "X" on their extensions. I have information in the footer of all > the web pages for access to free viewers for all documents including > these latest extensions. This may be an adequate CYA but I am not > convinced it is the best practice. I know this must be confusing for > some of our visitors. > I would like to ask any of you if you have had to deal with multiple > document formats and how you handled this for the best user > accessibility. > I am thinking the best practice is to have, first, a browser/HTML > version, second, a PDF version, and after that whatever version the > document was created as, i.e. Ms Word, PowerPoint, etc. > Example: > <ul> > <li> > Title<a href="info.html" title"Title Web Page"> (Web > Page)</a> <a href="info.pdf" title"Title in PDF Format"> (PDF)</a> <a > href="info.docx" title"Title in MS Word Format"> (Word)</a> > </li> > </ul> > > Thank you very much for sharing your experiences on this, > > Kevin > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ********************************************************************* From: "Erickson, Kevin (DOE)" <kevin.erick...@doe.virginia.gov> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:37:29 -0500 Subject: RE: [WSG] Document Formats Great comments and advice to all who helped me with this. I can't thank you enough! I know HTML is the best way to go. I am in a unique situation. It's slow to change but I am working on it. :) Kevin -----Original Message----- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Chris Beer Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 7:15 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Cc: Erickson, Kevin (DOE) Subject: Re: [WSG] Document Formats Hi Kevin You're also touching on accessibility issues there, as well as gov business processes, legal requirements etc etc. One thing I thought worth raising and worth considering though is copyright - do you even have permission to alter the format of the document as submitted to you? US is different to us, I know, but something to keep in mind... We deal with multiple formats in my workplace constantly. Best approach we find, when you can, is HTML first, PDF for print as needed. We try to steer clear of using any file format that isn't an open standard (eg we don't use.xls when we can use .csv) etc as it can imply inferred support or approval for a vendor. Cheers Chris On 12/1/2010 6:52 AM, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote: > Hi All, > The website I work with receives a lot of documents to be posted that > come in the form of Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. And now, with > the release of the latest versions of Ms Office, they are coming to me > with an "X" on their extensions. I have information in the footer of all > the web pages for access to free viewers for all documents including > these latest extensions. This may be an adequate CYA but I am not > convinced it is the best practice. I know this must be confusing for > some of our visitors. > I would like to ask any of you if you have had to deal with multiple > document formats and how you handled this for the best user > accessibility. > I am thinking the best practice is to have, first, a browser/HTML > version, second, a PDF version, and after that whatever version the > document was created as, i.e. Ms Word, PowerPoint, etc. > Example: > <ul> > <li> > Title<a href="info.html" title"Title Web Page"> (Web > Page)</a> <a href="info.pdf" title"Title in PDF Format"> (PDF)</a> <a > href="info.docx" title"Title in MS Word Format"> (Word)</a> > </li> > </ul> > > Thank you very much for sharing your experiences on this, > > Kevin > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ************************************************************** ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
