[WSG] yuzgen.com review please

2004-11-22 Thread Boke Yuzgen
Hi, Can you please review this site? Site language is not English. http://yuzgen.com/ Thanks in advance, -- Boke Yuzgen __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

[WSG] Site review - torresburriel.com

2004-11-22 Thread Daniel Torres Burriel
Hi all! I'd like you to review my personal site. All pages validate (I think) except the weblog section, under PMachine engine. http://www.torresburriel.com Thanks in advance! -- /* Daniel Torres Burriel - www.torresburriel.com /* Web design - Usability consulting - IT Press /* More info bio:

Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Manuel González Noriega
[UTF-8] it will be stored correctly and rendered as expected, as long as you remember to put a meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=utf-8 in your page's head. Actually, what you should be doing is getting the server to send the right content-type header. Meta elements are

Re: [WSG] Site review - torresburriel.com

2004-11-22 Thread Boke Yuzgen
- Nice, clean layout. Align the dotted line to the top photo or blue rectangle on the homepage? - IMO there is a contrast problem, which makes reading harder. Black instead of gray? - Too small font on 1600x1200 resolution. - Your pages jump when I click a link to the left or right about 5 or

RE: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
Please change html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=en lang=en to html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=tr lang=tr Have you considered using UTF-8, rather than charset=iso-8859-9 ? Hope that helps, RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info:

RE: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please

2004-11-22 Thread Boke Yuzgen
Idid it first, but my pages won't validate if I use UTF-8. --- Richard Ishida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please change html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=en lang=en to html xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml; xml:lang=tr lang=tr Have you considered using UTF-8,

RE: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
Interesting. Which validator are you using? By rights, it shouldn't validate as is, since XML requires an XML declaration (ie. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-9?) when not using utf-8. Did you note the comment about lang attributes? RI Richard Ishida W3C contact info:

RE: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
Hello Julin, At the W3C we wrote some material to answer your questions. Please see: http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/ and http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-character.html (still early draft!) Please take a look (and let me know if there is any

Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Dejan Kozina
Manuel Gonzlez Noriega wrote: [UTF-8] it will be stored correctly and rendered as expected, as long as you remember to put a meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" in your page's head. Actually, what you should be doing is getting the

RE: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Richard Ishida
Hola Manuel, Dejan, There are pros and cons to using the HTTP header to declare the encoding. At the W3C we recommend that you always declare encoding inside the document, whether or not you use the HTTP header. Unlike something like language declaration, the meta statement for character

Re: [WSG] choosing encoding, charset and using special characters

2004-11-22 Thread Manuel González Noriega
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:51:24 -, Richard Ishida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola Manuel, Dejan, There are pros and cons to using the HTTP header to declare the encoding. At the W3C we recommend that you always declare encoding inside the document, whether or not you use the HTTP header.

Re: [WSG] Site review - torresburriel.com

2004-11-22 Thread standards
Very well done Senior Burriel!!! Excellent color scheme, layout, use of white space and navigation! My compliments, Mario S. Cisneros Hi all, I'd like you to review my personal site. All pages validate (I think) except the weblog section, under PMachine engine.

Re: [WSG] Site review - torresburriel.com

2004-11-22 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Daniel Torres Burriel wrote: Hi all! I'd like you to review my personal site. All pages validate (I think) except the weblog section, under PMachine engine. http://www.torresburriel.com Look out for the top section and those images... Absolute positioning there makes the page unreadable upon

[WSG]

2004-11-22 Thread Tom Livingston
Here's my situation: I have 2 divs on a page. top and topprint. In my screen style, #topprint is set to display:none; #top is styled and appears normal. In my print sheet, #top is set to display:none; and #topprint should... well... print. My problem is with Safari. In Safari, when I print a

Print Style Issue (was: Re: [WSG] )

2004-11-22 Thread Tom Livingston
Oops. No subject! So sorry!... Here's my situation: I have 2 divs on a page. top and topprint. In my screen style, #topprint is set to display:none; #top is styled and appears normal. In my print sheet, #top is set to display:none; and #topprint should... well... print. My problem is with

Re: [WSG] Help with suggestions

2004-11-22 Thread Will Jensen
I visited your site. I understand it is a work in progress. There are too many comments I could make. I limited myself to those that need most attention first: 1. Why is there a doorway or front page? Such pages make me want to leave - not enter. It is downright unfriendly to expect me to waste

[WSG] image captions?

2004-11-22 Thread designer
Hi all, I am putting a few small images into a body of text, and am defining a very simple declaration for them, according to whether I want them flush left or right: e.g. .imgleft{ float : left; margin : 20px;} Doing this enables me to have the body of the text flowing around the image, with

RE: [WSG] image captions?

2004-11-22 Thread Ted Drake
enter the ever popular definition list dl class=image dtimg.../dt ddcaption/dd /dl This gives you lots of flexibility and keeps it semantic. Ted -Original Message- From: designer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:55 PM To: webstandards group Subject: [WSG]

RE: [WSG] yuzgen.com review please

2004-11-22 Thread Boke Yuzgen
Lang attributes: Fixed. UTF-8 instead of ISO: Here's the validator's message: Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on lines 7-9, 11, 79, 84, 86-87, 89-92, 101, 104-107, 114 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not

Re: [WSG] image captions?

2004-11-22 Thread Thorsten
greetings, e.g. .imgleft{ float : left; margin : 20px;} Doing this enables me to have the body of the text flowing around the image, with a nice 20px gap around it. However, I would like to add a small caption to the image, underneath it. One or more of you will have already done this I'm

[WSG] turkish text - can you assign a language or encoding to a div?

2004-11-22 Thread Ted Drake
If you are doing a web site and you only have sporadic use of turkish characters, can't you wrap that text in a div and assign it a language? I haven't done this before so I'm asking not suggesting. But I thought that I have seen that as a semantic way to show that there will be languages other

[WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread john
Hi group. I'm wondering if there's some easy (and free) way to convert text from a WORD document into clean XHTML that retains the formatting. Thanks. -- ~john _ Dr. Zeus Web Development http://www.DrZeus.net content without clutter

RE: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Hill, Tim
I do not know of a program you can download to work on your computer. But Dean Allen of Textism fame has this online. http://textism.com/wordcleaner/ Tim Hill Computer Associates Graphic Artist tel: +612 9937 0792 fax: +612 9937 0546 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Wybrow, Mark
There is a tool in Dreamweaver that can auto generate but I must admit I have never used it ... a plugin that works in [ free xcellent ] HTML-Kit - http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john Sent: Tuesday, 23

RE: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Paul Hempsall
XStandard will do this on-the-fly. It's a WYSIWYG editor plugin for CMSs, not a stand-alone product. http://www.xstandard.com/ Paul Hempsall Web Developer Lake Macquarie City Council Tel: (02) 4921 0713 Fax: (02) 4958 7257 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.lakemac.com.au

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Antti Tuppurainen
Wybrow, Mark wrote: I'm wondering if there's some easy (and free) way to convert text from a WORD document into clean XHTML that retains the formatting. I have been using this from MS http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=enFamilyID=209adbee-3fbd-482c-83b0-96fb79b74ded It

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Lachlan Hardy
john wrote: I'm wondering if there's some easy (and free) way to convert text from a WORD document into clean XHTML that retains the formatting. If you have Dreamweaver, try using the 'Clean Up Word HTML Tool'. Then 'Convert to XHTML'. Any gunk left over after that is easily cleaned out using a

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Terrence Wood
I've always found that you still need to eyeball the code because Word does some very strange things to lists, and headings in particular. Also a lot of Word documents are not styled properly to begin with (e.g. bold+font-size, instead of headings) which leads to added complexity to resolve.

Re: [WSG] Site critique please

2004-11-22 Thread Damian Sweeney
I like the design. You're getting a couple of CSS validation errors. Also, I think you should be consistent in the positioning of your main menu. If you need the left column for sub-navigation inside the site, then use the horizontal style on the home page as well. Damian Hi everyone Would

Re: [WSG] Site critique please

2004-11-22 Thread standards
Hi Lyn, I really like the color scheme and navigation! Excellent use of white space. My only suggestions would be to export what appears to be a backgound image as a jpg because it's a gradient and if you look close enough you'll notice that it's producing a banding effect (ripples), which

RE: [WSG] Site critique please

2004-11-22 Thread Ted Drake
Once again, the everpopular dl list to the rescue div id=right dl dtJANUARY/dt dd class=nomeetingNo meeting this month. First meeting for the year will be Tuesday 15 February./dd dd Our speaker will be member and well-known local amateur botanist strongPeg Foreman/strong/dd /div This would be

[WSG] Fangs Screen Reader Emulator

2004-11-22 Thread Joseph Lindsay
I've just a cool firefox extension: Fangs: The Firefox Screen Reader Emulator at standards-schmandards. The developer has released it so the they can get feedback and suggestions. http://www.standards-schmandards.com/index.php?2004/11/22/8-fangs-release-05

Re: [WSG] Site critique please

2004-11-22 Thread Steve Winter
Lyn, It may be worth your taking a look at the site with a reasonably high resolution set...some of the background images don't work so well (IMO) at high resolutions (eg 1280 x 1024) Cheers Steve Hi everyone Would very much appreciate feedback as to any problems or mistakes. Thank

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Hope A. Stewart
On 23/11/04 9:19 AM, Wybrow, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a tool in Dreamweaver that can auto generate but I must admit I have never used it ... I've found that the Clean Word HTML command in Dreamweaver helps but still leaves too much junk I don't want. If you use Mac OS, cut and

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Joseph Lindsay
Textism have a word cleaner that works quite well: http://textism.com/wordcleaner/ On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:45:30 +1100, Hope A. Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/11/04 9:19 AM, Wybrow, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a tool in Dreamweaver that can auto generate but I must admit I

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Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Lachlan Hardy
john wrote: I'm wondering if there's some easy (and free) way to convert text from a WORD document into clean XHTML that retains the formatting. Another addition: I just remembered that recent versions of Word allow you to save as HTML, Filtered. This is MS-speak for removing all Office

[WSG] please unsubscribe me

2004-11-22 Thread Sarah Moss
To whom it may concern, I joined this web group as part of the research i'm undertaking for my masters at uts and i've enjoyed the communication very much. i wish there was someway i could maintain my connection with this group for future reference without receiving daily posts, if there is a

[WSG] Correct use of fieldset

2004-11-22 Thread braddles
Hi all, This is my first time posting to this forum, so...hi there! Question: Is it acceptable to use fieldset tag outside of the form element? The official word from the W3C states: "The FIELDSET element allows authors to group thematically related controls and labels. Grouping controls makes it

Re: [WSG] IE5/Mac Help

2004-11-22 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 23 Nov 2004, at 12:12 PM, Jonathan T. Sage wrote: If someone on IE5/Mac could shoot me a screenshot of this, I would be forever grateful. trying to create a IE5/Mac safe layout. Only about 1.5% of my audience base seems to use IE5/Mac, but I know the current stylesheet makes it a bit unhappy.

Re: [WSG] IE5/Mac Help

2004-11-22 Thread Matthew
Nick Gleitzman wrote: Something to do with the @import syntax? I don't have Mac IE handy, but Mac IE doesn't like single quotes in the import, it wants double. .Matthew Cruickshank http://holloway.co.nz/ ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] converting WORD text into clean XHTML

2004-11-22 Thread Nick Lo
I asked much the same question a little while back and what I got together was: First have the doc saved as HTML (Filtered) if it's coming from Word 2003 (earlier versions can get the filtered thingy someone else mentioned). Then in my case I wrote a filter for the content management system I

Re: [WSG] Correct use of fieldset

2004-11-22 Thread Justin French
On 23/11/2004, at 2:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every example I've come across so far (and I've seen *a lot* of examples) has used it within this context. Is it just that grouping input is the most logical and common used example? Or can it be used in other contexts? It's only intended to

Re: [WSG] please unsubscribe me - ADMIN

2004-11-22 Thread russ - maxdesign
Please don't send these requests to the list. To unsubscribe, please go to http://webstandardsgroup.org/ log in and select Unsubscribe. There is a password retrieval system on the login screen in case you have forgotten your password. If you have trouble or want to comment on the running of the

Re: [WSG] Correct use of fieldset

2004-11-22 Thread Mark Stanton
Hi Brad Welcome to the list. According to the HTML 4.01 DTD, Fieldset can live outside a form block. But it you find yourself putting outside one you're probably due for a sanity check. Are you using it for semantic purposes or just for presentational purposes? If you're using it for semantic

Re: [WSG] Correct use of fieldset

2004-11-22 Thread Mark Stanton
Sorry missed one part of your post: For example, can it be uses to group a number of related links together? I'd suggest that Fieldset in this context is meaningless - its not ArchorSet, its FieldSet - its for form fields. Use a list (ul or ol) for links. -- Mark Stanton Gruden Pty Ltd

RE: [WSG] Correct use of fieldset

2004-11-22 Thread braddles
Hi guys, Many thanks for your advice on the subject. I guesskind of got caught up in the part that said"the proper use of this element makes documents more accessible." I've never actually sat down and properly read through these documents "cover to cover" and so I've started pickinga different

Re: [WSG] turkish text - can you assign a language or encoding to a div?

2004-11-22 Thread Roger Johansson
On 22 nov 2004, at 23.00, Ted Drake wrote: If you are doing a web site and you only have sporadic use of turkish characters, can't you wrap that text in a div and assign it a language? I haven't done this before so I'm asking not suggesting. But I thought that I have seen that as a semantic way

[WSG] W3C Event - XML Workshop, Brisbane - 14 January 2005

2004-11-22 Thread Webstandards
Hi all.. Just saw the following page which I thought looked interesting: XML Workshop, Brisbane - 14 January 2005 DSTC and the Australian W3C Office is pleased to present an intensive one day workshop on W3C's XML activities by the international experts creating XML Recommendations. The