Re: [WSG] Is a degree necessary?

2004-05-13 Thread Jeremy Flint
well without a degree, but why risk it. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Gabriel Vasquez wrote: Hi Everyone, I apologize if this is off topic but this is one of the few places that I would be able to talk to web designers and get their opinions on this. I've been attending school to get

Re: [WSG] Design Philosophy

2004-05-12 Thread Jeremy Flint
sure, go ahead. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com !!blue wrote: Jeremy, Can I copy your statement, paste it in Illustrator, make it prettty bold, and post it here at work on the bulletin board? Please?! Too many creatives here (at where I work) don't seem to understand this concept

Re: [WSG] Design Philosophy

2004-05-12 Thread Jeremy Flint
Actually, I think it was Jeff Veen who mentioned something along those lines at SXSW. Kind of stuck with me. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com !!blue wrote: Jeremy, Can I copy your statement, paste it in Illustrator, make it prettty bold, and post it here at work on the bulletin board

Re: [WSG] Design Philosophy

2004-05-12 Thread Jeremy Flint
. you can't design a site to pixel precision and expect others to see it that way. so it's not really a matter of statistics. its more a matter of how widespread the medium has become, extending to non-traditional devices and browsers. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com P.H.Lauke wrote

Re: [WSG] css and accessibility question

2004-05-12 Thread Jeremy Flint
by a link? would the title attribute of the link be sufficient? - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Brian Foy wrote: Hi Luc, It's my understanding that if you want the page to validate and pass some basic 508 stuff, ALT tags must be present for any images that are included in the page

Re: [WSG] EMBED tag

2004-05-11 Thread Jeremy Flint
first, then just drop the embed tag in there. If it is the only thing causing a site not to validate, what harm is it really? - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon all, I'm trying to design and create all my sites in 2004 using the XHTML and CSS

Re: [WSG] ahem class (was: Pre-Site Launch Input)

2004-04-29 Thread Jeremy Flint
what you did, and what steps they can take to make their experience with the site more enjoyable (downloading firefox or some other standards-compliant browser). - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Chatham, Will wrote: Tony, can you explain that a little bit more? I understand your point about

Re: [WSG] left margins on lists

2004-04-06 Thread Jeremy Flint
Set the margin for the ul, not the li. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Barbara Dozetos wrote: This may be a really stupid question, but I've searched high and low and can't find the answer. Is there any way to set the left margin on a list? I'm not talking about the space between

Re: [WSG] hiring a standards-savvy designer

2004-03-31 Thread Jeremy Flint
Have they ever used Dreamweaver without going into the WYSIWYG. Do they KNOW HTML? Could they code a site with nothing but notepad? - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Kay Smoljak wrote: Hi guys, At work, we're about to hire a new graphic designer, as our guys are flat out. We're looking

Re: [WSG] IE doesn't like my positioning

2004-03-30 Thread Jeremy Flint
I am going to guess it has something to do with the fact that you start your HTML document twice. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Barbara Dozetos wrote: Hello all -- This is probably a really simple thing, but I'm growing incapacitated by my frustration. Working on the layout

Re: [WSG] Somewhat frustrated

2004-03-29 Thread Jeremy Flint
sure. why not. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Luc wrote: Good evening Jeremy, It was foretold that on 29-3-2004 @ 12:29:47 GMT-0600 (which was 20:29:47 where I live) Jeremy Flint would mumble: snipped a bit JF BTW, even with tables, sites will look differently on different JF

Re: [WSG] tab navigation in CSS

2004-03-23 Thread Jeremy Flint
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/ These work great. Here are some other examples using lists as navs. Some are set up as tabs, but the sliding doors article will give you what you want i think. http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/ - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com

Re: [WSG] Background image

2004-03-23 Thread Jeremy Flint
body{ background: url(image.jpg) center center no-repeat; } - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com theGrafixGuy wrote: Is there anyway to center the background image on a page withoiut resorting to a div? * The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] link or style block when @importing? [WAS: Opera 7 problem with horizontal nav list]

2004-03-22 Thread Jeremy Flint
some people that will use @import in a linked stylesheet do so in case they happen to use a new stylesheet and want to call it by a different name. this way, you only change the css file in the @import once, rather than changing it in the header of everypage on the site. - Jeremy Flint

[WSG] Problem with layout, content of one box offsetting against other

2004-03-22 Thread Jeremy Flint
to be an extra buffer left of the list items until the nav box ends. can anyone help me out? -- - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] Problem with layout, content of one box offsetting agai nst other

2004-03-22 Thread Jeremy Flint
holy crap. thanks will. that worked perfectly. you have saved my head. look for 2 tylenol in the mail. :-) - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Chatham, Will wrote: Hi Jeremy, I have run into this same problem before. It seems to be a bug in IE PC at the very least (go figure), as I don't

Re: [WSG] CSS Shorthand for color

2004-03-22 Thread Jeremy Flint
The great thing about CSS is that you can specify what devices see what stylesheet. So write a stylesheet using all the colors in the rainbow for screen, and write one using the websafe variety for handhelds. - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Leo J. O'Campo wrote: Simon Read the reply

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremy Flint
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Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremy Flint
you're supplying the message... Nate .: Nate Cook : 773 405 4073 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : www.natecook.com :. On Mar 17, 2004, at 8:17 AM, Jeremy Flint wrote: you can also use .hide { display: none } div class=hideMessage to non-stylesheet browsers/div russ weakley wrote: These guys use

Re: [WSG] dreamweaver

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremy Flint
I assume that everyone mentioning how great DW is for them is using it mainly in the coder (homesite) version. how many are successfully using the WYSIWYG on a consistent basis and doing standards compliant work? Sooner or later, you have to get into the code. Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com

Re: [WSG] Hiding styles message to certain browsers

2004-03-17 Thread Jeremy Flint
as well as the media setting for the stylesheet screen, print, etc - Jeremy Flint www.jeremyflint.com Jeremy Flint wrote: would it also depend on the method used to include the stylesheet: @import vs. link? russ weakley wrote: Nate, First of all, that wasn¹t my technique, just the one

Re: [WSG] Pixy's Rollover IE Flicker Fix - Good or bad?

2004-03-16 Thread Jeremy Flint
I don't think you have to have an extra div for each niviation item? If you are using an unordered list, you can apply the background image to the list item. see dan cedarholm's Accissible Image Tabs at www.simplebits.com for an example --jeremy flint www.jeremyflint.com Jaime Wong wrote