RE: [WSG] What if (element width + margin ) container width?

2008-07-25 Thread Jens-Uwe Korff
For example, you could add overflow-x: hidden to the container to stop the expansion Hi David, that's what I did (to Blueprint CSS actually). Since the overflowing bit was just a margin anyway I could accept this fix for IE6. Cheers, Jens The information contained in this e-mail message

[WSG] Advice on design

2008-07-25 Thread Web Dandy Design
Hi, I'm looking for some advice on the best way to put together the navigation for the following design: http://www.webdandy.co.uk/navigation-slice.jpg, so that it's standards compliant and accessible (and if at all possible avoids using images for the text under the nav buttons). Thanks,

Re: [WSG] Advice on design

2008-07-25 Thread Krystian - Sunlust
hmm, well if u - used images as background for the effect and text on it in html then you could add a nice highlight effect when people hoover them... - you can always use plain text but I'm not sure about the positioning - you can also use just images and use a nice swap technique - and provide a

Re: [WSG] Advice on design

2008-07-25 Thread Gaspar
hello, i will do it in this way http://www.gaspar.com.pt/ex/banner.gif Cut the bottom of banner and then slice every images of the menus then cut the image height. Then in each link you put the image with diferents height and then the text. Problems of this solution, if u use hover, you have to

Re: [WSG] Advice on design

2008-07-25 Thread Piotr Zalewa
I'd say ul id='menu' li id='home'a href='/whatever'Home/a/li [...] /ul In CSS make the a work as a block and assign relevant background + set the padding to make the text appear in needed position. Be careful about size and padding. To avoid that problem add span tag inside:

Re: [WSG] Advice on design

2008-07-25 Thread Martin Heiden
Elaine, on Friday, July 25, 2008 at 11:42 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: I'm looking for some advice on the best way to put together the navigation for the following design: http://www.webdandy.co.uk/navigation-slice.jpg, so that it's standards compliant and accessible (and if at all

Re: [WSG] Advice on design

2008-07-25 Thread Prisca schmarsow
Hi, I would suggest you use the popular sprite technique for this. Using HTML text as link text - applying a background image to the link, changing its background positioning on rollover (if you do want to use a different visual for a mouse over effect). I wrote a quick tutorial for my

[WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd
I'm still working on a tight layout for a soon to end client. I'm trying to write a price list page for them, but the height of the page is fixed to 550px, and for the life of me I can't think of how to make the DIV scroll without having a vertical scroll bar and for it to still work in IE6, 7 and

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Darren Lovelock
Hi Mat, Can you show us an example? Not really sure how you would want it to scroll without a vertical scrollbar, unless you want it to scroll horizontally? To create another method of scrolling I would presume that you will have to use javascript. I'm thinking though that the simplest idea

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd
Hi Darren, Just realised my error, I want to use a vertical scroll bar but not have the horizontal one showing. I've uploaded an example of the page as it is now, but all the text hide's because of the fixed height, I've tried to have my client allow me to expand the height from 550 to

Re: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Piotr Zalewa
Hi Just add to the style of the div containing the content to scroll overflow: auto; On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 12:10 +0100, Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd wrote: I’m still working on a tight layout for a soon to end client. I’m trying to write a price list page for them, but the height of the page

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd
When I do that the horizontal scroll bar shows aswell -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Piotr Zalewa Sent: 25 July 2008 13:43 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling Hi Just add to the style of the div containing

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Darren Lovelock
Mat, Ah I see! Have you tried adding in something like: overflow-y: scroll; overflow-x: hidden; to your CSS? Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd Sent: 25 July 2008 13:39 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Piotr Zalewa
It will work with overflow: auto, just one of the parameters (width/height) have to be smaller than the size of the box. div id='static' div id='scrolled' content here /div /div #static { width: 200px; height: 300px; overflow: scroll } #scrolled { width: 400px; height: 270px; } /* there

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd
That's what I was tying to find last night, Is there a way to make it so the scroll bar only show if the content requires more space than what the box allows? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Lovelock Sent: 25 July 2008 14:41 To:

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Darren Lovelock
Yes I believe if you change the css to auto it will only show the scroll if it's required. So.. overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: hidden; In theory it should work. Cheers, Darren -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Essential eBiz Solutions

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd
Thanks for that Darren, works perfectly without any ugly hacks, and it passes w3c. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Lovelock Sent: 25 July 2008 15:52 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling Yes I believe

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Darren Lovelock
No problem, glad I could help :) BTW, I sent you a message about your blog (www.i-matto.co.uk) through your company's website contact form. (Couldn't find a way of contacting you on the blog) There was some error coming up that I thought you should know about! Cheers, Darren -Original

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd
Hi Darren, Would you be able to send that info again for me, would be really appreciated, and thanks again for the info on the scrolling -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Lovelock Sent: 25 July 2008 16:19 To:

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Darren Lovelock
Sure, no problem. I'm using FF3 and this message comes up: Reported Attack Site! This web site at www.i-matto.co.uk has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences. Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your

RE: [WSG] Vertical Scrolling

2008-07-25 Thread Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd
Hi Darren, Thank you for that, I did have 6 comments that were pending for a week while I was aware so it maybe those, I double checked all my comments and definitely going to upgrade to the new wordpress release. Thanks for the heads up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Advice on design

2008-07-25 Thread Ian.chamberlain
It may be worth taking at look at listamatic, I borrowed a nab bar solution that copes with zooming quite well from there a while back. Regards Ian http://www.chamberlainsofharrogate.co.uk Sent from my Ipod touch On 25 Jul 2008, at 11:17, Martin Heiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Elaine, on

[WSG] Out of Office AutoReply: WSG Digest

2008-07-25 Thread Kittle, Jere (DOE)
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Re: [WSG] desktop application usability

2008-07-25 Thread sri ni
Naveen, I think you can get some idea from the following resources... http://garrettdimon.com/archives/2008/7/7/gorilla_usability_testing/ http://www.betterdesktop.org/ Web Usability Vs Desktop Usabilityhttp://www.webmasterworld.com/forum36/423.htm -