Re: [WSG] CMS review

2008-02-28 Thread John Faulds
Me, personally, I wouldn't use a CMS that produced mark-up like that. Especially not when I know there are others out there that will do a better job (haven't explored Powerfront too closely to find out whether it's possible to alter the output mark-up). I'd have to ask though: why are you

Re: [WSG] CMS review

2008-02-28 Thread John Faulds
Please consider that a cms is a tool too allow people to add there own content. So the inline styling may in fact be added by the end user. For the example site linked to - http://www.goodshepvic.org.au/ - I didn't even get as far down to what might've been user entered content. Incomplete

Re: [WSG] books

2008-02-19 Thread John Faulds
And now you don't even need to buy Sitepoint reference material: http://reference.sitepoint.com/css On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:50:59 +1000, Paul McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also reccomend the Sitepoint books. Work well as a reference when your working too, or just forgot something

Re: [WSG] tableless forms !!!

2008-02-12 Thread John Faulds
Plenty of references here: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11/11/css-based-forms-modern-solutions/ On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:01:26 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , Could anyone tell me which is the best way to build a form without tables in w3c standards. I would really appreciate

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-11 Thread John Faulds
the flaw in this approach is the potential for adding divs for styling purposes only which is hardly ever necessary. I'm not saying that at all. Every layout is going to have containers; use the ones you've already got. Adding styles for every element has the potential for 'bloating' your

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
I'd say the only time you need to use paragraphs inside list items is when a list item's content is made up of more than one paragraph. On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:13:54 +1000, Tim MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Taco, In the case of the example you provided I'd say definitely no need for

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
If you have two paragraphs you might want to reconsider the use of a list. I don't agree. Consider as an example a 'list' of services - it may take more than one paragraph to adequately describe each service, but it is still a list. -- Tyssen Design http://www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph:

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
If the lists have a number of levels like Services Web Site Development Graphics SEO and more About Us Me You Someone else I'm not talking about presenting a list of links; I'm talking about presenting the actual content on a page. From your example above, it's

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
Assign the paragraph style to a HTML tag that is surrounding all other tags? If so, I would not feel comfortable with that. Why not? If this is your HTML: div class=content psome text/p ul lisome text/li /ul /div This .content { color: red; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5 } makes more

Re: [WSG] use of p in li

2008-02-10 Thread John Faulds
If you apply the style to the container, then you don't need to assign styles individually to different elements (except where you want them to be different). On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:22:52 +1000, Taco Fleur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim, What I mean by duplicate style is that if I

Re: [WSG] PHP includes

2008-02-05 Thread John Faulds
Also is their a preference in web standards for using PHP includes or something like SSI? SSI stands for server side include which is essentially what a PHP include is. The only difference is the syntax used to call the include. -- Tyssen Design http://www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07)

Re: [WSG] long description and its implementation

2008-02-02 Thread John Faulds
You don't need a longdesc in that example because you're already linking to it by an anchor. On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:34:09 +1000, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: here's the link to the example: http://studiokdd.com/sandbox/abstract-christian-art-new-testament.html i have the jesus and

Re: [WSG] Explorer woes with list dropdowns

2008-01-28 Thread John Faulds
IE6 doesn't respect the *:hover pseudo selector if I remember rightly... It only supports it for anchors, e.g a:hover You may have to look at a small bit of javascript to 'activate' this behavior. No, because he's using one of Stu Nicholl's js-free menus. The trade off is a lot of IE

Re: [WSG] Compatibility and IE8

2008-01-24 Thread John Faulds
It's disturbing how well lemurs can illustrate the issue, too: http://www.katemonkey.co.uk/article/48/x-ua-lemur-compatible (the Zeldman lemur cracked me up completely) That's awesome! We can opt to save our energy for standards-based browsers and not bother learning new versions of IE.

Re: [WSG] Acronym element

2008-01-08 Thread John Faulds
e.g. Web Standards Group (WSG) the WSG wouldn't benefit from the acronym element. No, I believe you only then need to use the acronym or abbr tag for the first instance of it following where it appears in brackets on any one page (ie at the start of a new page, you'd expand the

Re: [WSG] Re: inline styles theoretical question

2008-01-01 Thread John Faulds
A textpattern form with inline styles, only gets loaded once and when a change is made to it every page on the site is globally updated. You may only have one file to edit, but what gets sent to the browser is still a different page for each entry with the inline styles needing to be

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Faulds
Seems like someone is listening! The color buttons is gone No they're not. Unless you're referring to something different. -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread John Faulds
Yeah, that's right. I can still see them and they still change the colour of the page. On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:31:49 +1000, Kim Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well they are on my computer! (we're talking about the 4 colored buttons that changed the colors of the page... right?) John Faulds

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-17 Thread John Faulds
Oh come on, let's not be so blinkered that we can't appreciate really good work in most areas! Felix isn't the only one who has a number of issues with the new design and for entirely different reasons - http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/bbc_homepage_redesign/ I'd have to

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread John Faulds
First, it requests the Commission to obligate Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop. I can't see that flying. Is anyone going to ask Apple to stop shipping their OS with Safari? On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:05:11

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread John Faulds
Delivering their OSes with half a dozen pre-installed standard-compliant alternatives to IE/win isn't a technical problem, so why not? I'm no lawyer and I'm also no MS fanboy, but I think 'why?' is as equally a valid question as 'why not?'. My latest computer with Vista came pre-intalled

Re: [WSG] Opera files antitrust against MS: standards one part

2007-12-13 Thread John Faulds
but their os should be able to run other optional packages that the customer chooses. Out of all the applications Gav I mentioned previously, all the alternatives are easily installed on Windows (including Vista), and that's certainly the case for other browsers, so I don't really see

Re: [WSG] Comment mark

2007-12-09 Thread John Faulds
It should be: !-- ... -- (no 2nd !). On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:40:52 +1000, Hayden's Harness Attachment [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !-- ... --! -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590 ***

Re: [WSG] CMS and site design

2007-12-03 Thread John Faulds
I'd think a little bit more about what you want your CMS to do before jumping in with Joomla. I've only given it a cursory look over before because I wasn't that impressed particularly by the sort of templating it uses and the code it outputs. If your client just wants to edit pages

[WSG] Markup question

2007-11-28 Thread John Faulds
I have to mark up a club constitution where all the paragraphs are numbered but there are also headings that are supposed to relate to paragraphs, e.g.: Heading 1 1. Paragraph goes here 2. Paragraph goes here 3. Paragraph goes here Heading 2 4. Paragraph goes here 5. Paragraph goes

Re: [WSG] Markup question

2007-11-28 Thread John Faulds
want to read the full discussion. John Faulds wrote: I have to mark up a club constitution where all the paragraphs are numbered but there are also headings that are supposed to relate to paragraphs, e.g.: Heading 1 1. Paragraph goes here 2. Paragraph goes here 3. Paragraph goes here

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-22 Thread John Faulds
Hi Georg, Yep, that did it. It looks like it was the % padding causing the problem. Huge thanks for the time and effort you spent helping me out on this one! Cheers John On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:56:44 +1000, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Faulds wrote: I appreciate all your

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
The pixel-based min/max version is a much easier solution then, but yours needs adjustments. The 4% missing with a fluid state of 96% width, is not identical to the 18px you have between attack and max-width values, and same goes for the 'min-width' part. It is percentage of the body-width you're

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
The purpose of max-width loses if it can't overruled the ems behavior. It's not a case of max-width overruling ems. Ems is related to font-size which is why it's used for fluid/elastic layouts - it's *supposed* to increase as you increase the text size. If you don't want your layout to

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-21 Thread John Faulds
: John Faulds wrote: Could you show me what you've got in your corrected copy because I'm unsure which values I'm supposed to be tuning? Ok, here's a smooth-working version... * html #wrap { width: 95%; width:expression(((document.compatMode document.compatMode=='CSS1Compat

[WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-20 Thread John Faulds
Hi I've got a page shift happening when you hover over certain elements in the right column on this page: http://www.gbjt.org.au/competitions/enrolment/ It happens when you hover over the links in the top box and over any of the form inputs, but not on the links in the two smaller boxes.

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-20 Thread John Faulds
Hi Georg, It's at: http://www.gbjt.org.au/css/IE.css On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:08:11 +1000, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Faulds wrote: I've got a page shift happening when you hover over certain elements in the right column on this page: http://www.gbjt.org.au

Re: [WSG] Page shift in IE6

2007-11-20 Thread John Faulds
1: the large shifting is easiest solved by deleting all R:P styles on sidebar... #sidebar { position: relative; -- delete z-index: 200; -- delete } I had that there because the top link in the sidebar seems to get partially obscured by the transparent PNG of the ball. I'm sure it was

Re: [WSG] Web Form Best Practices

2007-11-14 Thread John Faulds
Here's a recent one that might prove useful: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/redesigning_ebay_registration/ On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:55:46 +1000, Howard Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I'm doing some research on best practices for

Re: [WSG] Best way to clear a float

2007-11-12 Thread John Faulds
*Sometimes* I find this works: #parent {overflow: auto;} You need to combine that with a width for it to work in IE. You might also find in some situations that you need to use oveflow: hidden as auto will create scrollbars. -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb:

[WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread John Faulds
http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/sites/evolved/sax/ I can't figure out why the dropdowns fall behind the content below them. Can anybody see what I'm obviously missing? :? Cheers John -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590

Re: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread John Faulds
I've z-indexed just about everything on the page to no avail so far. On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:35:31 +1000, Chris Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Faulds wrote: http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/sites/evolved/sax/ I can't figure out why the dropdowns fall behind the content below them. Can

Re: [WSG] z-index problem with dropdown menu

2007-11-04 Thread John Faulds
#header { position: relative; z-index: 999; } I've z-indexed just about everything on the page to no avail so far. Right, well obviously I hadn't. I could've sworn I'd done that for #header as well. Oh well, thanks for the extra sets of eyes guys! :) -- Tyssen Design

Re: [WSG] How z-index works

2007-10-30 Thread John Faulds
That's weird, it's working today. :? On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:57:05 +1000, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip http://tjkdesign.com/articles/z-index/teach_yourself_how_elements_stack.asp OK, this is obviously not an isolated occurrence anymore. I've tried to look at your site 3

Re: [WSG] How z-index works

2007-10-29 Thread John Faulds
OK, this is obviously not an isolated occurrence anymore. I've tried to look at your site 3 times now in the last couple of weeks Thierry and can never get it to load. On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:52:32 +1000, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate any comments that would

Re: [WSG] CSS display: none has SEO impact?

2007-10-29 Thread John Faulds
This might prove useful - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/guide-to-hidden-text My understanding is that yes, SEs do view some use of CSS dubiously, but it's also been my understanding that it only applies to inline CSS (not external stylesheets) and as an added safety measure, you can always add

Re: [WSG] Re: worst site I've seen lately

2007-10-29 Thread John Faulds
whisperI actually quite like it./whisper I thought it was pretty cool too. A bit of experimentation shows that there's actually been a fair bit of work put into font-previewing interface. Definitely nowhere near the worst site I've seen recently. -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au

Re: [WSG] How z-index works

2007-10-29 Thread John Faulds
: John Faulds wrote: OK, this is obviously not an isolated occurrence anymore. I've tried to look at your site 3 times now in the last couple of weeks Thierry and can never get it to load. On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:52:32 +1000, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip mac

Re: [WSG] Re: worst site I've seen lately

2007-10-29 Thread John Faulds
http://www.ourtype.be/ On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:57:02 +1000, Travis D. Falls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed the URL for this. can someone send it out again? I want to see what has everyone in a tizzy. J travis From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris

Re: [WSG] CSS display: none has SEO impact?

2007-10-29 Thread John Faulds
So the question is still open for me, and I'm curious; what is your source of information for thinking that the big G only looks at inline CSS? It was a couple of years ago that I came across articles that suggested this (I can't remember if anyone provided hard evidence to back it up). So

Re: [WSG] skip to content: care of accessibility causing usability

2007-10-27 Thread John Faulds
Been working on this site in the last 2 days, I find that I am getting so annoyed by the surprise' everytime the hover pops up. There is no way to miss it everytime I move the cursor to the top. Leaving aside considerations as to whether you should actually be bothering after the client

Re: [WSG] Re: Alt text for purely aesthetic images

2007-10-26 Thread John Faulds
If the images are in the CSS, then there's no need for alt attributes. Conversely, if you believe an image should have alt text, then it shouldn't be in the CSS as a bg-image. On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:20:23 +1000, Simon Cockayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again... Whoops...butterfingers

Re: [WSG] Floated list items of differing heights

2007-10-24 Thread John Faulds
I've managed to avoid doing this for while, but I'm doing a CMS job and the content in a floated group of LI's is going to be differeing heights. They need to wrap onto a new line when they hit the right edge of the container, causing layout problems. Would need to see what you have at the

Re: [WSG] Which screen reader to test with?

2007-10-16 Thread John Faulds
Here's a list of free screenreaders: http://access.benjaminhawkeslewis.com/free-screen-readers.html On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:35:13 +1000, Simon Cockayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What screen reader(s) should one test with? Seemingly WSG is keen on the development of web sites that are

Re: [WSG] source order

2007-10-13 Thread John Faulds
Remember that a screen reader user has no idea how long a page is until they get to the end. They may be one line from the end, yet still have no idea what percentage is left. I'd have thought that would be a fairly useful feature to have. I often judge whether I'm going to read something

Re: [WSG] Form styling

2007-09-26 Thread John Faulds
http://www.dave-woods.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/accessible-forms1.html With your labels set to display: block, you don't realy need the extra br at the end of each one. ;) -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590

Re: [WSG] Accessible Open Source CMS

2007-09-12 Thread John Faulds
I use both Wordpress and Expression Engine and don't find WP any less capable of outputting exactly what you put into it than EE. The only time I find you ever have to edit core WP files is if you're using the inbuilt sidebar widgets functionality; otherwise it's not an issue. On Wed, 12

Re: [WSG] Standards friendly 'page tagging' web stats

2007-08-26 Thread John Faulds
Have you looked at Google Analytics? On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:52:44 +1000, Paul Hempsall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm investigating improving our current method of reporting our web traffic - we currently use server logs only (with an annual community survey for good measure). I'm

Re: [WSG] IE help

2007-08-23 Thread John Faulds
I can download them OK and am running both hardware and software firewall with Avast antivirus. On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:24:08 +1000, Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some users have complained that when they go to this page http://www.fifeweb.org/wp/lib/lib_current.html and try to

Re: [WSG] IE, alpha transparency and sliding doors...

2007-08-21 Thread John Faulds
We're probably going to need to see your code and/or a link to the page to be able to make any reasonable comment. On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:28:57 +1000, minim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - I've been set what I believe to be an impossible challenge, but before I admit defeat I thought I

Re: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-15 Thread John Faulds
That's a shame because I really need stunning examples of accessible, standards-compliant design to show our clients what is possible. Is there nothing on Accessites.org that makes the grade? -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb: 0405 678 590

Re: [WSG] Usability Accessibility Over Design?

2007-08-14 Thread John Faulds
Web Standards, Accessibility and Usability needs to be put right at the top of the list, way before design. I won't argue with that but all of those things are generally a harder sell to a client than the more superficial aspects of a project like the graphic design. -- Tyssen Design

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

2007-08-13 Thread John Faulds
I've only used Expression Engine and Wordpress but they'll output whatever HTML you put into your templates so how standards-friendly is entirely up to the user and there is no limitations imposed by the CMS. On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:01:32 +1000, Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi;

Re: [WSG] Standards and Blogs

2007-08-13 Thread John Faulds
Most HTML tags get written into your template by you. There's only a few functions I can think of that output tags as well as a content and most of the time, it's perfectly valid HTML. On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:24:36 +1000, Rick Lecoat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/8/07 (11:57) John said:

Re: [WSG] IE: footer jumping

2007-08-09 Thread John Faulds
Stuff jumping around like that in IE usually indicates a hasLayout issue. An easy way to test is to do * { height: 1% }; it'll probably do strange things to the layout, but if it stops the jumping, you know you then only have to narrow it down to the offending element. And no, the

Re: [WSG] IE: footer jumping

2007-08-09 Thread John Faulds
, Jermayn Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i test it with the 1% height, the jumping stops like u said but how do I test it for what the problem is?? sorry if this sounds a dumb question On 8/9/07, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuff jumping around like that in IE usually

Re: [WSG] designing for handheld

2007-08-05 Thread John Faulds
So which emulators (simulators) are correct? They probably all are but just as Opera renders differently from IE6 on a desktop, Opera Mini (or Mobile) renders differently from other mobile browsers. In fact, there's more difference among mobile browsers than there is desktop browsers and

Re: [WSG] designing for handheld

2007-08-04 Thread John Faulds
The only site I've done with a handheld stylesheet is: http://www.thiesskentz.com.au/ As far as testing goes, not sure how reliable DW's previews would be considering how bad their design view is. Other testing options include: http://www.operamini.com/demo/

Re: [WSG] designing for handheld

2007-08-04 Thread John Faulds
The obvious different is that there are two Thiess Kents logo, one big, one small, the small one overlapping the Engineers Constructors Actually, that was an oversight on my part. It's fixed now. Thanks! You can also get an idea of what your site will looked like on handhelds using Opera

Re: [WSG] Background image in IE

2007-08-02 Thread John Faulds
It's being affected by the float on #nav so you need to clear the content that comes after it correctly. On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:21:29 +1000, Lyn Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning http://www.plecomadness.com/index.html Can someone tell me why my background image on

Re: [WSG] Shadow validation

2007-07-09 Thread John Faulds
Text-shadow's part of the CSS3 spec and not CSS 2.1 isn't it? So if you're validating against CSS 2.1, you'll get an error. On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:03:46 +1000, Dean Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand what the W3C validator is objecting to here: Value Error : text-shadow

Re: [WSG] Page Structure

2007-06-27 Thread John Faulds
In the past, I've set the company name or logo in an h2, reserving the h1 for the actual page heading. That'll only work if the page heading actually comes before the company name, otherwise your heading hierarchy is broken. -- Tyssen Design www.tyssendesign.com.au Ph: (07) 3300 3303 Mb:

Re: [WSG] Container Background Image Does Not Appear in Firefox

2007-06-19 Thread John Faulds
We need to see more of your code or a link to your page but I suspect your container probably contains floated content and you haven't cleared your floats properly. I have to ask though, if your image is just creating black borders on either side of the container, why don't you use borders

Re: [WSG] Container Background Image Does Not Appear in Firefox

2007-06-19 Thread John Faulds
background images often, and they usually aren't as simple as a border. Thank you. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Faulds Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 7:00 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Container Background

[WSG] Mac test please (was Safari now on Windows)

2007-06-12 Thread John Faulds
By posting to the Web Standards Group mailing list (with the subject line, Mac test please). Well, as you mentioned it: I downloaded Safari for Windows today and didn't have any problem with it except that my own site looks completely screwed in it. It didn't look like that last time I

Re: [WSG] Mac test please (was Safari now on Windows)

2007-06-12 Thread John Faulds
Hi Philippe, Yeah, and, you load stylesheets via xml PI. Safari/WebKit doesn't recognise media types in that case. It applies all your stylesheets. Yep, that was it. Thanks for that. But I'm curious why it's only a problem in v3 and not earlier versions. -- Tyssen Design

Re: [WSG] Safari now on Windows

2007-06-11 Thread John Faulds
Just left a comment about this on 456 Berea St - seems to be working OK for me although other Windows users seem to find it pretty much unusable. On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:26:24 +1000, Geoff Pack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will be interesting... Safari 3 Public Beta:

Re: [WSG] Help with css cascade problem from external style to internal style

2007-06-06 Thread John Faulds
style type=text/css #every_page #index, #every_page #index:hover { color: #4F; background: #003173; cursor: default;} /style should do it (you're also missing the # from index:hover). On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:40:35 +1000, JS Bracher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #every_page -- Tyssen

Re: [WSG] What does Semantic mean?

2007-06-05 Thread John Faulds
Well if we're going to talk about 'pedanticness' it has to be pointed out that there's no such word; the word you're looking for is 'pedantry'. On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:54:04 +1000, Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ben and others, Here is my own bit of pedanticness... --

Re: [WSG] Firefox bug with legend tag

2007-06-01 Thread John Faulds
Hi Tee, I wrote something about styling legends a while ago which might help: http://www.tyssendesign.com.au/articles/css/legends-of-style/ On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:12:59 +1000, Tee G. Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am working on a form layout that utilize fieldset and legend and I

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

2007-05-30 Thread John Faulds
It probably shouldn't be used for pairing as you describe, but rather a group of inputs that all share some common-ground. In my case I use them to contain groups of required versus non-required inputs as well as the type of information sought (contact info, etc.). Sorry to bring this up

Re: [WSG] Content Management issue ?

2007-05-30 Thread John Faulds
I've not had that much experience with DW/Contribute, but I know they've both got pretty ordinary CSS support which means in a lot of cases you have to create separate Design Time Stylesheets just to get your layout to look presentable in Contribute. On Thu, 31 May 2007 09:50:33 +1000,

Re: [WSG] Suggestions Please for: CMS / E-commerce Solutions

2007-05-28 Thread John Faulds
Additionally, code redundancy is also a problem when it comes to templates (though, some would say this is a feature of EE) I've not found that so far. Once you get your head around the way you can embed templates in other templates, it's just like using includes. -- Tyssen Design

Re: [WSG] Content Management issue ?

2007-05-28 Thread John Faulds
I liked what I saw of Silverstripe but unfortunately it has a certain PHP memory limit requirement which my web host wasn't willing to change so it ruled it out for me unless I wanted to change hosts. On Tue, 29 May 2007 08:50:15 +1000, Robin Gorry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have head

Re: [WSG] The use of asterisks in forms to indicate required fields

2007-05-27 Thread John Faulds
But sometimes at least one phone number might be required but others are optional (e.g. mobile, home, fax etc) - doesn't seem as logical to split your phone number fields up into different groupings. On Mon, 28 May 2007 10:26:31 +1000, Mike at Green-Beast.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread John Faulds
Looks good. Only comment I'd make is about your skills and their ratings: at the moment that information is only really of value to people already in the web dev game and not really useful to anyone who doesn't know anything about web development but who wants a website done. If you're not

Re: [WSG] Map of Australia Image Map

2007-05-24 Thread John Faulds
You could probably use this techique: http://alistapart.com/articles/sprites On Fri, 25 May 2007 11:44:15 +1000, Felisimina Jom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone We are trying to put together a map of Australia where the states appear on hover and are clickable. As I understand

Re: [WSG] A CMS for POSH sites?

2007-05-24 Thread John Faulds
Surely Wordpress (can't speak for Textpattern) will output whatever you put into your templates, including doctype? On Fri, 25 May 2007 13:55:47 +1000, David Hucklesby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following up on Lisa McLaughlin's recent query about blogging software, I wonder if anyone can

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

2007-05-23 Thread John Faulds
When you say you've been looking to no avail, what have you looked at and why were they no good? On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:41:04 +1000, Lisa B McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling all blog wizards! I need a stand alone blogging software that I can insert into a client's website so

Re: [WSG] Form drop-downs for countries

2007-05-23 Thread John Faulds
There was a discussion on this on Roger Johansson's site last year: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/selecting_country_names_in_forms/ On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:58:16 +1000, Sarah Peeke (XERT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Just wondering what you think about form usability

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

2007-05-23 Thread John Faulds
I use Fireworks. On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:22:42 +1000, Douglas Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? (Photoshop?) Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!! Cheers, Doug -- Tyssen Design

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup semantics

2007-05-22 Thread John Faulds
Does it even have that relationship? Does it matter to anybody other than some twonk from merchandising whether the blue sweater comes before the red dress? If a list is to be used (and I don't disagree with the use of a list in this case) then it seems to me that an unordered list should

Re: [WSG] IE6 problem

2007-05-13 Thread John Faulds
I'm not seeing the problems as you describe - the content appears in the same place in FF IE6 on both pages. There are couple of other problems in IE6 though: on the form page, your textareas are aligned right and not with the text above them and on the calendar page, none of the links in

Re: [WSG] IE6 problem

2007-05-13 Thread John Faulds
/07 11:05 AM, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not seeing the problems as you describe - the content appears in the same place in FF IE6 on both pages. There are couple of other problems in IE6 though: on the form page, your textareas are aligned right and not with the text above them

Re: [WSG] Help needed

2007-05-10 Thread John Faulds
1. In the lefthand nav I would have liked to have some of the 2nd level Œlink¹s not links. But my code is up the creek and I can¹t make them line up or be the same font size unless they¹re all links. Any clues on what I¹m doing wrong here? Are these IE problems? If so, it's because the

Re: [WSG] Help needed

2007-05-10 Thread John Faulds
Gardner-Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/5/07 12:30 PM, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Are these IE problems? If so, it's because the anchors are set to display block which causes a bug in IE which can be reset by also giving the anchors a dimension. No I'm looking

Re: [WSG] Help needed

2007-05-10 Thread John Faulds
issue? I haven't come across that before ... - susie On 11/5/07 1:27 PM, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't help you with your Mac problems, I can only tell you what I see in Windows (and the suggested fixes will still apply), but for the footer problem, remove */ from just above

Re: [WSG] markup for headline and tagline

2007-05-06 Thread John Faulds
What markup do you favor for a headline-tagline pair? (The second element could be a tagline or a byline.) h1Thundering Pigs/h1 citea blog by Bob/cite No, cite is for citations. A question on cite: is this an appropriate usage? pThe SitePoint book citeBuild Your Own Web

Re: [WSG] markup for headline and tagline

2007-05-06 Thread John Faulds
You might find the ideas on the following link interesting: http://www.pearsonified.com/2007/04/definitive-guide-to-semantic-markup.php Not a particularly good article in my opinion. He recommends serving site taglines in H2s and then post titles in H1s which in most cases would mean the H2

Re: [WSG] markup for headline and tagline

2007-05-06 Thread John Faulds
If the content in the main body of the page starts with a H1, why shouldn't the sidebar content start with a H2? And I've seen sites where the sidebar isn't just an aside - both columns present information of equal weighting. The point is, you can't make blanket statements about what the

Re: [WSG] What do we say if we don't say click?

2007-04-19 Thread John Faulds
Doesn't More details on product x mean exactly the same thing as Click here for more details on product x if the whole line is a link? Surely people recognise links enough that they don't need to be told to click every single one? On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:10:12 +1000, James Leslie [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Global and page-specific style sheets

2007-03-13 Thread John Faulds
Basically if I'm looking to change something in the main nav, I look in mainnav.css, if I'm altering a header for a table in our content area, I look in contentTables.css etc, etc. Or if you've got Firebug, right-click on an element, 'Inspect element' and it tells you exactly what line

Re: [WSG] target and accessibility

2007-03-10 Thread John Faulds
a href=esim/btsa_pt2.htmlWhat the critics say/a a href=mk/introduction_pt3.html What the critics say/a Same text - different destinations. On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:43:51 +1000, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a href=mk/introduction_pt3.html What the critics say/a -- Tyssen Design

Re: [WSG] Alpha transparency problem

2007-03-08 Thread John Faulds
Have you tried: #yourDiv { background-image: none; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='yourImage.png',sizingMethod='scale'); } I've used that before for a PNG shadow that runs down the sides of a site. On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:48:16 +1000, Keryx Web

Re: [WSG] Drop down list IE6 issue

2007-03-08 Thread John Faulds
This looks like it fixes it: #links ul ul a { height: 1% } On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:53:49 +1000, Christian Fagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I have a baffling issue with a drop down list in IE6. The page is here: http://www.fagandesign.com.au/PROJECTS/MEC/index.html The CSS is

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