[WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Shane Helm
Hello WSG! I have been using CSS for text styles for the last few months, but now I want to make my sites with divs and no tables! I began over the weekend learning the process and working on my first non-tables site. I have been overly excited about the process and everything was going fine

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Jeff Davies
Looks good in Firefox .9. In IE 6 the For more information contact: column appears bottom left rather than on the right Jeff At 07:36 22/06/2004, you wrote: Hello WSG! I have been using CSS for text styles for the last few months, but now I want to make my sites with divs and no tables! I

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Jeff Davies
Looks good in Firefox .9. In IE 6 the For more information contact: column appears bottom left rather than on the right Jeff At 07:36 22/06/2004, you wrote: Hello WSG! I have been using CSS for text styles for the last few months, but now I want to make my sites with divs and no tables! I

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Jeff Davies
Looks good in Firefox .9. In IE 6 the For more information contact: column appears bottom left rather than on the right Jeff At 07:36 22/06/2004, you wrote: Hello WSG! I have been using CSS for text styles for the last few months, but now I want to make my sites with divs and no tables! I

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Hugh Todd
Shane, It looks fine in all of the Mac browsers I've tried it on... IE 5.2.3, Opera 7.5, Firefox, Safari. Are you having problems with PC versions of IE? I notice from the CSS that you are not specifically using inheritance for your elements. For example, in the right hand column you have used

[WSG] :focus not applying to all elements in form

2004-06-22 Thread Neerav
Hi I've been experimenting with :focus on form elements (input textarea) at http://www.bhatt.id.au/contactus.php , but have struck a strange problem where the change in background-color on focus works on all but one element ( #full_name ) in Firefox Opera. Of course in IE theres no

Re: [WSG] Mac testers please

2004-06-22 Thread Andy Budd
Very slick. Nice Marc Greenstock wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to test my site using IE for Mac 5+ and Safari http://www.v2.shockmedia.com.au Thanks. Andy Budd http://www.message.uk.com/ * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Mac testers please

2004-06-22 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 6/22/04 1:52 AM Andy Budd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: I was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to test my site using IE for Mac 5+ and Safari http://www.v2.shockmedia.com.au I see no flaws in my Safari. That is impressive site. Rick Faaberg

Re: [WSG] Recommended Books

2004-06-22 Thread Andy Budd
Here are my book recommendations. http://www.andybudd.com/books/ Jamie Mason wrote: Hey all, The Head of Design here is ordering in some books soon for the designer's reference, I was wondering whether anyone has any recommended books on;   CSS Designing for Web Standards

Re: [WSG] :focus not applying to all elements in form

2004-06-22 Thread Neerav
Thanks Patrick Specificity was the problem, and i grabbed your Javascript to make it work in IE as well :-) Is there a name for what your javascript does, someone was trying to explain applications of the DOM to me the other day, would this be an example of that? -- Neerav Bhatt

Re: [WSG] Recommended Books

2004-06-22 Thread Kay Smoljak
Designing for Web Standards I can't recommend Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing for Web Standards enough. It's the absolute bees knees :) CSS Eric Meyer's books are great - Eric Meyer on CSS. I think the next one is called More Eric Meyer on CSS but I don't have it yet. Accessibility I've heard

Re: [WSG] Recommended Books

2004-06-22 Thread Neerav
Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization is a must, $ for $ it has been the most useful reference book i have purchased. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735713243/ref%3Dnosim/websiteoptimi-20/103-4423944-0927841 -- Neerav Bhatt http://www.bhatt.id.au Web Development IT consultancy

Re: [WSG] Recommended Books

2004-06-22 Thread t94xr.net.nz webmaster
HTML XHTML - The Definitive Guide 5th Edition (O'Reilly-2002) O'Reilly Cascading Style Sheets The Definitive Guide New Riders - Speed Up Your Site- 1st Ed 2003 [CHM] Website Analysis Reporting Generally anything I mean ANYTHING of Eric Meyers Camz

Re: [WSG] Mac testers please

2004-06-22 Thread t94xr.net.nz webmaster
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to test my site using IE for Mac 5+ and Safari http://www.v2.shockmedia.com.au Thanks. Damn, forget the rest of the site - put her as the only thing on the page and you'll have everyone still agreeing its a great site.

Re: [WSG] Mac testers please

2004-06-22 Thread ckimedia
Hi, Works good in safari, you could force white space so the site does not jump horizontal when a scrollbar is needed. On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 02:14 AM, t94xr.net.nz webmaster wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to test my site using IE for Mac 5+ and Safari

[WSG] small gap

2004-06-22 Thread Kim Kruse
Hi, I'm sorry to ask this question but I've been looking at this page for too long and I can't see why there is a small gap between the top nav and the content. The page is located here http://www.mouseriders.dk/index.htm I would really appreciate a pair of fresh eyes. Thank you Kim

Re: [WSG] Mac testers please

2004-06-22 Thread Shane Helm
Looks great in Safari. Nice clean design. Great work. The site is not centering in IE 5 on the map. You have about 200px of white space between site and right border/shadow. I'm interested to know CKIMEDIA is saying about forcing white space so that the site doesn't jump horizontal when a

Re: [WSG] small gap

2004-06-22 Thread Mordechai Peller
Kim Kruse wrote: I'm sorry to ask this question but I've been looking at this page for too long and I can't see why there is a small gap between the top nav and the content. #menu #current a {padding-bottom:5px;} versus #menu a {padding-bottom:4px;} Change either to match the other and you

Re: [WSG] small gap

2004-06-22 Thread Anton Andreasson
I'm sorry to ask this question but I've been looking at this page for too long and I can't see why there is a small gap between the top nav and the content. I think it's due to the padding-bottom in the #current selector. Try to apply the padding to the links just once, then add

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Shane Helm
Thanks Hugh. Thanks for saying it looks superb. I guess I'm too dependent on the Flash cool factor. I have changes somewhat. I steer clients away from total Flash sites. Especially after the length of time it took me to make http://www.johngrammatis.com/ So a good rule of thumb is use

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Shane Helm
Thanks Jeff. Shane Helm On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:49 AM, Jeff Davies wrote: Looks good in Firefox .9. In IE 6 the For more information contact: column appears bottom left rather than on the right Jeff At 07:36 22/06/2004, you wrote: Hello WSG! I have been using CSS for text styles for the last few

[WSG] definition lists

2004-06-22 Thread Ted Drake
I feel stupid. I put together this huge collections project that was built on the back of the mighty definition list. Now, a mere 3 months later, I can't even get a simple dl list to line up the dt and dd elements without throwing everything out of whack. I remember there was a great tutorial

RE: [WSG] definition lists

2004-06-22 Thread Stephen Capp
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/index.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ted Drake Sent: Tue 6/22/2004 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] definition lists I feel stupid. I put together this huge collections project that was built on the back of the

Re: [WSG] definition lists

2004-06-22 Thread Shane Helm
I'm not sure if this is what you need, but try these links: http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/basics/cssbasics12.html http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/basics/cssbasics5.html Good luck, Shane Helm \\ Sonze Design Studio On Jun 22, 2004, at 12:35 PM, Ted Drake wrote: I feel stupid. I put together this

Re: [WSG] Recommended Books

2004-06-22 Thread marlice dourden
Hey everyone! This is my first post in the list, although I´d read it a long time. I am from Germany so please be clemently with my English ;) Here is another book for usability: Don´t make me think! Steve Krug I like this very much. Greetings from the other side of the world ;) Ute

Re: [WSG] small gap

2004-06-22 Thread Kim Kruse
Thank you very much... oh boy do I feel stupid :o) Kim - Original Message - From: Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 7:03 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] small gap Kim Kruse wrote: I'm sorry to ask this question but I've been looking at

Re: [WSG] Recommended Books

2004-06-22 Thread James Ellis
Hi all To not lose these examples in a thread somewhere I have set up a resource category on the website. As with code editors, please put your recommended books up on the site in the category Offline resources (books, magazines etc) We can then refer back to this listing if the topic comes up

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Hugh Todd
Shane, you said, Sorry. I am so new. I'm not sure what you mean by inheritance for my elements. Are spans bad? Your aim should be to create HTML that is clean and independent of your particular style sheet. I say *aim*, because it's a difficult goal to reach entirely. This is where

Re: [WSG] Site looks fine when previewing in IE, but messy in IE online

2004-06-22 Thread Shane Helm
Wow Hugh. It's great that you took the time to help me and grant me encouragement. I greatly appreciate it. This makes all the sense in the world. The one thing is I was confused about was dl, dt, dd. I found some info online to learn up on it. I really can't thank you enough. Shane Helm

[WSG] Accessibility in FLASH MX 2004

2004-06-22 Thread ckimedia
Hi, Before dashing the XHTML/CSS solution to my interface execution, how robust is the accessibility feature in MX 2004? The interface must be as 508 compliant as possible. Don't Crucify the Flash Guy, Chris * The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Mac testers please

2004-06-22 Thread ckimedia
http://www.webstandardsawards.com/tests/bigtext.php Twinsparc Tuesday April 6th, 2004 It's easy to forget that a powerful design doesn't have to be chock full o' graphics. Twinsparc lives up to their own credo of Smart Design for Print and Web by taking full advantage of web standards,

Re: [WSG] Mac testers please

2004-06-22 Thread Shane Helm
Thanks Chris. Shane On Jun 22, 2004, at 6:44 PM, ckimedia wrote: http://www.webstandardsawards.com/tests/bigtext.php Twinsparc Tuesday April 6th, 2004 It's easy to forget that a powerful design doesn't have to be chock full o' graphics. Twinsparc lives up to their own credo of Smart Design for

RE: [WSG] Recommended Books

2004-06-22 Thread Nick Cowie
Kay wrote: Designing for Web Standards I can't recommend Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing for Web Standards enough. It's the absolute bees knees :) ditto, very good book, my copy is making the rounds at work, everybody is very positive. It has not made it into the hands of the one and only