Re: [WSG] Quick Site Check - CSS Problem?

2006-02-21 Thread David Nicol
Hi again, Thanks for all the recent advice. I'll modfy the CSS so that the site can better handle font re-sizing. I'm not sure how much success I'll have, though, as the current page layout does not really accommodate large font sizes. My take on this is that layouts should be tested against

[WSG] Quick Site Check - CSS Problem?

2006-02-20 Thread David Nicol
that your feedback will enable me to solve this problem. Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.I appreciate it very much. Kind regards David Nicol www.nbcommunication.com

Re: [WSG] Quick Site Check - CSS Problem?

2006-02-20 Thread David Nicol
Hi again, Thanks for your help. Although I have not yet been able to verify what caused the problem, I'm glad that no-one else seems to be having the same issues. Cheers David

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-12 Thread David Nicol
Hello everyone, What can I say? Your advice and assistance has been tremendous. I completely appreciate it. It looks like I've got a bit of work to do sorting out a series of problems with the site. I'll get stuck into this work and will, I hope, geteverything working properly before the

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-12 Thread David Nicol
Hi Roberto, Many thanks for spotting this. Much appreciated. Cheers David http://www.nbcommunication.com On 1/12/06, Roberto Santana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello David, I've just check your site, its fantastic, but I've discovered a bug. If you're at cart.cfm page with some products added

[WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread David Nicol
Hi everyone, I'd appreciate it very much if you could take a quick look at: http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/ All comments welcome. In particular, please let me know if you spot anything that I'd need to fix before my client begins to promote the site. Thank you in advance. Kind regards David

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread David Nicol
Hi Peter, Many thanks for spotting this. I'll get on to it right away. Cheers David http://www.nbcommunication.com There appears to be some problems in FF1.5 in WinXP in your headersection.Location of screen shot: http://www.maestropublishing.com/examples/shetlandcoffe_ss.png

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread David Nicol
://www.shetlandcoffee.com/ All comments welcome. In particular, please let me know if you spot anything that I'd need to fix before my client begins to promote the site. Thank you in advance. Kind regards David Nicol www.nbcommunication.com http://www.nbcommunication.com

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread David Nicol
Thomas, Collin, Thanks for your feedback. I'll re-visit the header part again and will hopefully get it to look right in all browsers. cheers David http://www.nbcommunication.com

Re: [WSG] Mambo Accessibility

2005-12-02 Thread David Nicol
Hi all, Weused Textpattern for http://www.bustahouse.com/and http://www.selfcateringshetland.com/ It's a really nice solution for putting together sites. My main concern with Textpattern is teaching clients how to use it, as the sections/categories model is sometimes a little tricky for them to

Re: [WSG] Specifying Web Standards and Accessibility Requirements

2005-08-23 Thread David Nicol
Thank Peter. I had totally forgotten about the NYPL styleguide, something that I studied extensively in the past. Thanks for the reminder. Cheers David J Zeldman had a lot of input to the New York Public Library Styleguide which incoroprates a lot of the sort of info your are wanting I

[WSG] Specifying Web Standards and Accessibility Requirements

2005-08-22 Thread David Nicol
Hello all, I often hire freelancers to do visual design and template coding work for me. To make project communication easier I plan to draw up a document to detail my requirements with regard to standards-compliant coding and accessibility. It is my intention that this document would be

Re: [WSG] Specifying Web Standards and Accessibility Requirements

2005-08-22 Thread David Nicol
Thanks for the excellent link Michael - much appreciated. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help

Re: [WSG] Need recomendations for CMS system

2005-08-17 Thread David Nicol
Textpattern gets my vote too - I've found that it is very flexible. We've used it for several sites including www.cope.ltd.uk and www.selfcateringshetland.com. All the sites we've used it for so far have been static, i.e. 'non-blog' - there is no real problem setting this up once you understand

Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-03 Thread David Nicol
in front of the image … lota depends on designer. Hmmm… I think these suggestions make sense. Please let me know what do you think. Thanks. Best Regards, Amit Pimpalnerkar David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I would really appreciate your comments

[WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
Hello everyone, I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site. Please do not be scared to be critical. I'm keen to improve the site in any way possible, so please let me know what you think we could do better. FYI, I'm not convinced

Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
Prabhath, Thanks for your thoughts about the Advanced Search - I totally agree that we need to improve this element. We'll experiment with some ideas. Regarding the banner, we will be selling this space again soon. I'm not sure if it would be sensible to retain a 'veto' on the banner designs

Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
admit that I hadn't checked this out before, so it is hugely informative. Thanks again David On 8/2/05, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Nicol wrote: Hello everyone, I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site

Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
: David Nicol wrote: Hello everyone, I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site. David Nice stuff(I mean Salmon), David. I had to go rather extraordinary means to find any problem-- if, in fact, some

Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
Ed I'm inclined to agree with you about there being no need to duplicate 'salmon' so much. We did debate this quite a lot in the office, and I suspect we'll change this next time we do any work on the menu system. cheers David On 8/2/05, Ed Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Initial

Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
, David Nicol wrote: Hello everyone, I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site. Please do not be scared to be critical. I'm keen to improve the site in any way possible, so please let me know what you think we could do

[WSG] Looking for a standards-compliant classified advert solution

2005-05-31 Thread David Nicol
Hello everyone, I am seraching for a standards-compliant classified ad solution. The best non-compliant solution I've found is this: http://www.geodesicsolutions.com/products/classifieds/classifieds_enterprise.htm Does anyone know of a standards-compliant solution that is comparable to this?

[WSG] Valid Code, but Poor Accessibility

2005-03-30 Thread David Nicol
Hello everyone, This is my first post to the group I would be very grateful if someone could direct me to an existing resource or article addressing the subject of how a validly-coded web site can fail to be truly accessible. i.e. why valid code is not, in itself, enough to guarantee