RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Jason Turnbull
Bellamy wrote: http://216.119.123.23/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalogue.ListProductsID=2c at egory=Subcategory Have a look, tell me what you see. If you can see them fine, then I think I might just go quietly insane... ;) There was definitely a problem in IE6 the whole navigation was invisible

RE: [WSG] Titles Acronyms Abbr etc

2004-07-21 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Looks distinctly like a case of totally unnecessary to me but we have a difference of opinion in the office... Even if it was written as VDS, it would be an abbr(eviation): abbr title=Vent Door SystemsVDS/abbr A couple of other points to consider: 1. Is the use of h5 appropriate here

Re: [WSG] Titles Acronyms Abbr etc

2004-07-21 Thread Jackie Reid
Wonderful...thanks to you all... :o) Jackie Reid - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Titles Acronyms Abbr etc Shortened forms on the Web - Abbreviations, Contractions, Acronyms, Initialisms,

Re: [WSG] Re:

2004-07-21 Thread t94xr.net.nz webmaster
Yes i agree highly - im glad you brought tho my attention. We should discuss this to the highest level of WSG discussion. _Cameron W (aka t94xr)http://freelance.t94xr.net.nz/XHTML CSS Compliant Webdesigner.Taupo, NZ.Mob: 021 050-7304 - Original

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hmm... Thanks, that did seem to make a difference. At any rate, the images are showing up. But instead of tiling nicely across the page, they're showing one to a line and spreading over the whole width of the panel. I've had a look, and I'm not sure how to fix that. (It still works fine in Moz)

Re: [WSG] Re:

2004-07-21 Thread russ - maxdesign
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RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Jason Turnbull
Seona Bellamy wrote: Hmm... Thanks, that did seem to make a difference. At any rate, the images are showing up. But instead of tiling nicely across the page, they're showing one to a line and spreading over the whole width of the panel. I've had a look, and I'm not sure how to fix that. (It

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Aha! Thank you so much, that's fixed the problem nicely. This is what happens when you work from two different tutorials in two different files - you lose track of what changes are going to affect something else. :) The tabs are now behaving themselves nicely, and so is my main navigation (I

[WSG] IE/Mac Floats right

2004-07-21 Thread Lucian Teo
Hi Folks, Just when I thought everything was fine, my site (http://www.navmedia.com/books/) messes up in IE/Mac. I used Dan Cederholm's faux columns and created a main content and a right sidebar. It works fine (http://www.navmedia.com/) until I have images with float:left inside the main

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Jason Turnbull
Seona Bellamy wrote: As far as hiding from other browsers, I was aware that it was hidden from IE/Mac by the commented backslash (that's what the tutorial said, anyway) but is there a more effective way of hiding it from all the browsers that we don't want to see it? My apologies, saved

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
No probs. :) Thanks for the tip, I'll have to have a look at that one. And thanks for all your help this afternoon. It's been really appreciated. You've saved me hours of work and a head of hair. ;) Cheers, Seona. Quoting Jason Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seona Bellamy wrote: As far as

[WSG] Is Mac IE 5 Support It ?

2004-07-21 Thread Neerav
http://photomatt.net/2004/07/16/mac-ie/ -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Web Development IT consultancy Mobile: +61 (0)403 8000 27 http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/ - Ramblings Thoughts http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/neerav * The

RE: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Repor t

2004-07-21 Thread Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns
Susan, So nice of you to offer to host a meeting. Shingle Springs is gorgeous! Lucky you living there! I'm in the Sacramento area, so I'd be fine meeting in Shingle Springs, Sacramento, or the San Francisco area. I also agree that due to California's size that regional meetings may be better

Re: [WSG] Is Mac IE 5 Support (Worth) It ?

2004-07-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On Wednesday, Jul 21, 2004, at 18:21 Australia/Sydney, Neerav wrote: http://photomatt.net/2004/07/16/mac-ie/ Current stats from Apple indicate that around 50% of Mac users worldwide have made the move to OSX. The other half - still on OS9.x - are very likely to be using IE5. Even some OSX users

Re: [WSG] IE/Mac Floats right

2004-07-21 Thread Lucian Teo
Thanks Philippe and Nick. Your advice and resources were invaluable. Lucian On Jul 21, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Jul 21, 2004, at 5:00 pm, Lucian Teo wrote: Just when I thought everything was fine, my site (http://www.navmedia.com/books/) messes up in IE/Mac. I used Dan

Re: [WSG] Is Mac IE 5 Support (Worth) It ?

2004-07-21 Thread Sarah Sammis
Remember that few people are as 'browser-aware' as we developers. Most people just want to get on with their lives and businesses. The technology they use to do so should be, ideally for them, transparent. So for now, yes, I test and hack where necessary for IE5. To not do so is to

[WSG] About the standard Price for our website design .

2004-07-21 Thread ailingwebss
Hey,all : Just likeevery one inour group,I am one ofGraphic web designer, workinfreelance. I have oneproblem need to ask the help : About the Price standardfor ourwebsite design . Like we know everybody, Design one website from begin and end, took us so much time, and

Re: [WSG] About the standard Price for our website design .

2004-07-21 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Call me overly cautious, but I don't think this is a topic for discussion... http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Acollusion Patrick H. Lauke __re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively. [latin : re-,

Re: [WSG] The best way to make a tabbed menu with a dynamic number of items?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Thanks Mordechai. I played around with it a bit and got it so that it doesn't seem to work too badly. Is there a way of centring a set of floated items? I think it would look better if the second line only has a couple of items if they were all centred. I'm guessing that putting the whole lot

Re: [WSG] technique of converting to tablefree layout

2004-07-21 Thread Lachlan Hardy
Lea de Groot wrote: What are people's preferred techniques for 'screen scraping' existing sites to get the text from a tag-soup table layout? When a page has copious links and such, simply copying the text from the browser doesn't always give enough content to be a useful quick method. I do the

Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files?

2004-07-21 Thread Lachlan Hardy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: script type=text/javascript src=thing.js/script I do it as per Dan's example above. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and I haven't identified any problems with it Cheers, Lachlan * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] technique of converting to tablefree layout

2004-07-21 Thread Andrew Sione Taumoefolau
Hi Lea, What are people's preferred techniques for 'screen scraping' existing sites to get the text from a tag-soup table layout? $ lynx --dump url works wonders if you have easy access to lynx (and the site that you're scraping doesn't have too horrible a structure :). Cheers, Andrew

Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Just a quick related question, but when you put your javascript into an external file, do you need to put the script tags into the file as well? Or do you just have the code in there and then call it in via the script tag below? Cheers, Seona. Quoting Lachlan Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files?

2004-07-21 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Of course you don't want to have the script tag in the external js file. script is an (x)html tag, so it does not belong in a text/javascript file. Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used

Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Thanks. I thought that might have been the case, but I wasn't sure so it never hurts to check. Cheers, Seona. Quoting Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Of course you don't want to have the script tag in the external js file. script is an (x)html tag, so it does not belong in a

Re: [WSG] About the standard Price for our website design .

2004-07-21 Thread scott parsons
While in some countries it imay be considered illegal to even discuss prices for services, unless laws have changed in the last few years it is not illegal in Australia or the EU. Actual price fixing may be, but professionals discussing how to work out what to charge and what to charge for is

Re: [WSG] About the standard Price for our website design .

2004-07-21 Thread Mordechai Peller
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Call me overly cautious, but I don't think this is a topic for discussion... http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Acollusion You're overly cautious. There's a huge difference between discussing what goes into setting a price or expressing opinion on what is a valid

Re: [WSG] About the standard Price for our website design (THREAD CLOSED)

2004-07-21 Thread David McDonald
This discussion may be OK or not in certain countries, but it doesn't have much to with web standards. Let's close the thread now please. Guys, feel free to discuss it with each other offlist or in another appropriate forum. Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Call me overly cautious, but I don't think

Re: [WSG] About the standard Price for our website design (THREAD CLOSED)

2004-07-21 Thread Chris Stratford
I didn't think there would be a problem discussing this issue... I was actually quite interested in seeing how you all charge your clients and on what basis. Sometimes I charge a flat fee - kind of a contract. Say - $3000 and I set it all up from start to finish. But two days ago I scored my

Re: [WSG] technique of converting to tablefree layout

2004-07-21 Thread Lea de Groot
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:18:35 +1000, Lachlan Hardy wrote: I do the same as Patrick. The regular expressions in DWMX 2004 are really powerful - once you work out what you're doing. Yes, once someone said 'regexp' i went Doh! and got on with the job :) What can I say, except I have a headcold?

Re: [WSG] About the standard Price for our website design .

2004-07-21 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 7/21/04 3:42 PM Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: Call me overly cautious, but I don't think this is a topic for discussion... http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Acollusion I agree, FWIW. Rick * The discussion list

RE: [WSG] technique of converting to tablefree layout

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Kear
I've mostly used the good old MkI delete key - the most-used key on my keyboard. When I started renovating web sites, and using word docs and FrontPage sites, I tried using automated methods - search and replace and the like - and found there was always something left. A single b or a i

[WSG] Accessible image rotators

2004-07-21 Thread rlnarain
hello, i am using a image rotator php script in the home page of the site. The problem will image rotator scripts either in PHP or Javascript is that, they rotate the images from a particular folder randomly. But when you validate, the image will not have alt tag or a title tag to make it

RE: [WSG] Accessible image rotators

2004-07-21 Thread Lee Roberts
Instead of having the images pulled randomly from a directory, I would recommend you pull the information from a database or XML file. Then you can better control the accessible elements required. It will save you a major headache attempting any other method. Lee Roberts