Re: [WSG] no scrollbars in ff

2009-06-09 Thread kevin mcmonagle
michael.brocking...@bt.com wrote: Kevin, I think that was meant to be a hint that we might be able to debug your code if we could see some of it - very few of us enjoy the extra challenge of 'working blind'. Mike Ok, it's just that I'm still working on the site still and don't want to

Re: [WSG] no scrollbars in ff

2009-06-09 Thread kevin mcmonagle
...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of kevin mcmonagle Sent: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 9:49 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] no scrollbars in ff michael.brocking...@bt.com wrote: Kevin, I think that was meant to be a hint that we might be able to debug your code if we

[WSG] no scrollbars in ff

2009-06-08 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Whats the problem with firefox and vertical scroll bars. I have a centered layout here most of the pages would require scrolling but no bars show up in ff. I've tried all the solutions on this page: http://hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/forcing-scrollbars-now-even-better but no use. Any

Re: [WSG] no scrollbars in ff

2009-06-08 Thread kevin mcmonagle
thanks david. David Dorward wrote: kevin mcmonagle wrote: Any suggestions? I suggest not asking people to debug code based on third party examples that work instead of the code that actually causes the problems

[WSG] floats that go out of the box

2009-02-01 Thread kevin mcmonagle
What is it that makes floats not wrap to the width of their containing div in the new version of ie? Its happened to me on a couple site's image thumbnail galleries. best kevin *** List Guidelines:

[WSG] icons for navigation - was positioning help needed

2008-12-11 Thread kevin mcmonagle
ebiz wrote Your problem is the sidebar, you need to make the position of it relative, then the footer will pop underneath it. To keep the sidebar liquid just float it to the right and use em's for the height, width etc. Thats a good solution. Thanks for the feedback everyone, especially

[WSG] positioning help needed

2008-12-10 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi I'm trying to modify this template to work with a footer. The problem is getting a footer to float below the right side div. I can't figure out how to keep #sidebar liquid but still float a footer under it. Is it possible. Here is the css on that div: #sidebar { position: absolute; left:

Re: [WSG] positioning help needed

2008-12-10 Thread kevin mcmonagle
David Dorward wrote: ... is not floating. Unless you can predict the height of absolutely positioned content (you usually can't) or want to rearrange the document with JavaScript after initial rendering (nasty), then placing content below absolutely positioned content should generally be

Re: [WSG] hover state on icons(indivdual li backgrounds)

2008-12-08 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi Ebiz, Thanks for the selector tip. Heres how what im using now, works in ff and safari. will test it in ie shortly. = #home a{border:0px solid black; background-image:url(../images/icons/area.gif); background-repeat:

[WSG] li hover bg preloader

2008-11-06 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hhi, Whats the cleanest way to create a css prelaoder for li hover states. Heres the site in question. http://cosanglas.com/ -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] li hover bg preloader

2008-11-06 Thread kevin mcmonagle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.igenerator.com.au http://www.igenerator.com.au On 07/11/2008, at 10:27 AM, kevin mcmonagle wrote: Hhi, Whats the cleanest way to create a css prelaoder for li hover states. Heres the site in question. http://cosanglas.com/ -best kevin

[WSG] need to get a negative margin working

2008-10-28 Thread kevin mcmonagle
div id=leftcol a href=# h2 class=cosanhead *(I need this heading to have a negative left margin over the leftcol div but it wont budge)* /h2 /a .. /div heres the css : a:link h2.cosanhead { height:90px; margin-left:-57px; width:150px;

[WSG] how come

2008-10-27 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, How come you cant change the list-type from none to circle(or anything else) on li a:hover? -kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] how come

2008-10-27 Thread kevin mcmonagle
The list-style appears on the li element. The selector li a:hover matches the a element, which isn't display: list-item and so can't have a list marker. Additionally, CSS provides no way to select an element based on its children, so you can't match the list item based on the hover state of a

[WSG] div over flash

2008-10-23 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, forgive me if this it ot, if so please reply off list. Whats the best cross-browser way to get a div on top of swf with css. If i use: param name=wmode value=opaque / with z-index will it be sufficent? -best kevin ***

Re: [WSG] div over flash

2008-10-23 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Mark Stickley wrote: It is impossible to get a div sitting on top of flash in all browsers. hi mark, which browsers/versions would give me problems? Your best bet is to hide the flash while your overlay is showing and show it when it hides again. If the blank space where your flash was will

Re: [WSG] div over flash

2008-10-23 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Ted Drake wrote: The YUI container library offers the iframe shim, built in for ie6. Watch the wmode:transparent if your flash movie contains actual content. Wmode:transparent makes it justifiably invisible to screen readers. It’s basically telling the browser and screen reader the flash

Re: SPAM-LOW: [WSG] CSS editors

2008-10-20 Thread kevin mcmonagle
there is a free version of bbedit called textwrangler if you can hardcode. Gicela Morales wrote: Hi Everyone, I've just migrated form PC to a new macbook :-) but was wondering about the best xhtml/css editors for macs around that people can recommend? I can see that BBEdit is still

Re: [WSG] Email form builder

2008-10-20 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Paul Collins wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a free online resource for building a form that sends an email? One that's aimed at people with limited knowledge of databases. I'm trying to locate one for a friend. He'd like to add his own customisable fields too. Most of the ones I am

Re: SPAM-MED: Re: [WSG] Flash replace Javascript in Future?

2008-10-20 Thread kevin mcmonagle
micheal md wrote: I tend to avoid using anything that needs flash player 9 where possible and so far I haven't found anything I needed to do that really needed actionscript 3 How about flv? -best kevin *** List

Re: [WSG] old horizontal list formatting issue in ie

2008-10-11 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Matijs wrote: Hello Kevin, Not sure what you mean by stretch to the width of the ul in ie Do you mean to distribute them evenly within the width of the ul? Hi Matijs, Floating the images/ anchors contained in the li's left next to each other is what im trying to do. But right now each

Re: [WSG] old horizontal list formatting issue in ie

2008-10-11 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: You're running into specificity problems... ahhh... thanks George. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm

[WSG] old horizontal list formatting issue in ie

2008-10-10 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi, Its late and i forget what makes these li's stretch to the width of the ul in ie? ul.bos_image_index { margin-left: 0; padding-left: 0; white-space: nowrap; } .bos_image_index li { display: inline; list-style-type: none; border:1px solid black; } .bos_image_index li a { border:1px

Re: [WSG] Accessible menu lists - using the pipe character as separator?

2008-09-27 Thread kevin mcmonagle
I use those sometimes if theres a load of dynamic links in the footer but never as the primary navigation bar. It would probably be torture for someone using a screen reader. Use a list with the border if you can. Hello all I can't seem to find a definitive answer on this via

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] semantics of a simple form

2008-09-26 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi Drew, Thanks for the feedback. The aspx programmer is open to standards and may be receptive to my advice. how about this: fieldset legendRoom Search/legend div class=checkin labelCheck-in Date:/label select name=... option value=101/option /select .. /div div class=checkout label

[WSG] suckerfish problem - ie6

2008-09-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi, Having a problem with suckerfish drowndowns, ie6 shows the nested lists expanded to the full height of all li's. Im doing the css for a programmer and im not sure whats going wrong. is it possible the javascript fix isnt being picked up? Im not doing that part of the programming. Anyone

Re: [WSG] suckerfish problem - ie6

2008-09-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
cheers george. i thought the !important; fixed that but apparently not. menus height ok in ie6, just have to give it a conditional comment for the width now. -thanks a mill kevin Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Sure, IE6 has no respect for declared dimensions - !important or not, and expands

Re: [WSG] Is it a good/bad practise to have more than one same link url?

2008-09-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
im not an expert but i dont think it would help tee. dont think google favors duplicate content anymore. but i dont know. tee wrote: I was thinking maybe it's a SEO question and shouldn't post it here, however, the more I think about it, the more I feel it deserves a semantical perspective

Re: [WSG] suckerfish problem - ie6

2008-09-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Thanks, Only other services and local information have drop downs and they are showing up in ff3 for me. what version are you using? Essential eBiz Solutions Ltd wrote: Your top links aren't working in Firefox, the nav li's need a z-index to appear above the flash.

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] suckerfish problem - ie6

2008-09-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hmm, drop downs are not showing up in safari either. I do have z-index defined so not sure what the problem is. #mainMenu li ul li { padding-right: 1em; width: 13em; text-align:left; text-indent:5px; border-bottom:solid 1px #fff; z-index:1002; } and also on the li ul { z-index:1002;} hmm

[WSG] semantics of a simple form

2008-09-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
im not an expert on this but should there be a fieldset or legend around this? not even sure if it qualifies as a form, although it has a submit button. h4Check-in Date:/h4 select name=... option value=101/option . /select select name=... id=... option selected=selected

Re: [WSG] suckerfish problem - ie6

2008-09-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, Thats strange eBiz, The dropdowns are working over the flash in ff3 mac for me. Anyway im getting that or a very similar problem in safari so will def try your suggestion tomorrow. Actually the hover states are not even working in safari though so it might be another issue alltogether.

Re: [WSG] semantics of a simple form

2008-09-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
is an aspx page, theres a form around the whole page, so theres not an individual one around this content block. ok i will use fieldset and legend. -best kevin Todd Budnikas wrote: i assume there is a form tag wrapped around this you didn't include? Would obviously require that to qualify

Re: [WSG] Google chrome...

2008-09-04 Thread kevin mcmonagle
what do you all think about the way chrome re-sizes (ctrl +) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Google chrome...

2008-09-04 Thread kevin mcmonagle
First i thought it felt unfinished, but then the minimal design grew on me. Very uncluttered. And drop down menus consolodate a lot of screen real estate. Well designed gui, all its needs now is firebug and id use it. And i like the incognito windows, thats a slick feature.

[WSG] doctype validation and jello layout in ie issues

2008-09-01 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi im developing a site and have a couple problems. www.pattersonskitchens.ie First I cant get the doctype to validate, not sure why 2nd: cant get the expanding/repeating background div on left hand side to work in ie. theres a few other issues but these are the two that have me stuck.

Re: [WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-08 Thread kevin mcmonagle
christian wrote: line-height: the ugly henchman lurking in the shadows, ready to strikewhen margin and padding have been defeated. yes exactly that meyer reset addresses line height setting it to 1.5 ems i think, the equivelent of 18pixels. But I dont think he had forms/input boxes in mind

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Ok here it is-Im just putting this up here as a last ditch effort. http://67.199.64.89/newtable3.html Can anyone offer advice on fixing/locking table cell/row height across browsers? The main problem is making the two adjacent tables appear to be one continuous table. Getting the cell

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
yes if i was doing the asp i would have looked at that for a solution. But still its very tabular as well. EBS wrote: Could you not do this with div's and use an unordered list? Mathew O'Connor Essential eBiz Solutions \**

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
cheers joseph, its two different tables because of some show hide function that requires that. I pushed for one table but apparently that cant be done. Thanks for the tip on the images, that was causing a problem, im going to clear them and use text. Regarding this: td { min-height: 50px;

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
yes for some reason programmer needs two tables which was the big issue for me. I have the height alignments just about worked out now though. Regarding the color, there isnt much color in the table layout, unless you counting black which is a shade like white. The input boxes have to be

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
joseph what browser is that screen shot from? i wasnt getting the left hand text overflowing like that in any of my browsers. -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] form from the 7th level of hell

2008-08-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
joseph i keep my brightness at 0, and thought it matched. thanks for the tip Joseph Taylor wrote: Kevin, If I may make a recommendation, adjust the background color of your cells to match the bottom color of your background gradients so when text gets enlarged it still looks smooth inside

[WSG] resetting input boxes

2008-08-06 Thread kevin mcmonagle
can they be set for consistency across browsers? if so what are all the attributes that need to be reset, i missing something. -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] stupid table question

2008-08-05 Thread kevin mcmonagle
how can I lock down tr / td height so it wont expand to the size of the text contained within? is it possible? something like overflow:hidden for a cell? thanks kevin *** List Guidelines:

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] Marking up a Calendar

2008-08-05 Thread kevin mcmonagle
theres a good standards based calendar tut here: http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/a_css_styled_calendar/ -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-30 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi I've been asked to redesign the gui on a hotel booking engine / room allocation web app. Its basically the busiest example of tabular data ive ever seen - most data in the cells is input. Any Advice on styling an overwhelming amount tabular data? -best kevin

Re: [WSG] form from hell - difficult redesign

2008-07-30 Thread kevin mcmonagle
, LLC /Clean, Simple and Elegant Web Design/ Phone: (609) 335-3076 Fax: (866) 301-8045 Web: http://sitesbyjoe.com Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kevin mcmonagle wrote: Hi I've been asked to redesign the gui on a hotel booking engine / room allocation web app. Its basically the busiest example

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-18 Thread kevin mcmonagle
its used as a shim. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry folks, but am I missing something here? Why do you think that it is important to stuff something invisible inside an (otherwise) empty div? Regards, Mike *** List

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-18 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Of kevin mcmonagle Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 10:33 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height its used as a shim. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry folks, but am I missing something here? Why do you think that it is important to stuff

[WSG] old underscore hack question

2008-07-18 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, i want to use the underscore hack instead of conditional comments because it will be easier to keep track of image paths. Its only an ie6 because transparency workaround. In my understanding the below code should only serve the gif to ie 6, not later versions? but IE net renderer is

[WSG] ie six download?

2008-07-17 Thread kevin mcmonagle
I bought got an old laptop for testing sites-it has ie 5.5 on it now, Anybody know where i can download an upgrade to ie6 for windows 2000 proffessional? best kevin *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-17 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Andrew Newman wrote: a little more valid / semantic div.clearer {clear: both; line-height: 0; height: 0;} div class=clearernbsp;/div On 17/07/2008, at 4:04 AM, kevin mcmonagle wrote: now i can validate. thank you -kevin

Re: [WSG] ie six download?

2008-07-17 Thread kevin mcmonagle
thanks for the links. -best kevin David Hucklesby wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:35:32 +0100, kevin mcmonagle wrote: I bought got an old laptop for testing sites-it has ie 5.5 on it now, Anybody know where i can download an upgrade to ie6 for windows 2000 proffessional? Assuming you

Re: [WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-16 Thread kevin mcmonagle
in an inner wrapper with no heights set anywhere /unless /the outerwrapper was floated left or right itself.. -best kevin David Hucklesby wrote: On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:08:47 +0100, kevin mcmonagle wrote: hi, I have a wrapper in that wont scale to its contained content/divs

[WSG] firefox treatment of wrapper overflow height

2008-07-15 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, I have a wrapper in that wont scale to its contained content/divs but there are no heights set in the divs that i can see. Is there something else that can cause this? -best kevin *** List Guidelines:

[WSG] visibility problem in ie...z-index maybe?

2008-07-14 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, im using negative margins to put a png half over the edge of a wrapper div. Works good in ff, but breaks the layout in ie. Is there anything i can do to get ie to display the div like fire fox does or is this to tall an order for ie? -best kevin

Re: [WSG] visibility problem in ie...z-index maybe?

2008-07-14 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Thanks David, That works well in ie 6 7. I only had to add a negative margin in a conditional comment to the div that was getting pushed up. -best kevin David Owens wrote: Hi Kevin, You might be better off using position: relative; top: -35px; instead of the negative margin

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] list links

2008-07-11 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi, Is it possible to target specific classes in a list to apply different background image to the different links in a list nav? tried everything i could think of but cant get it to work. something like: #navlist li .furniture a or applying the different images to the anchors instead of

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] list links

2008-07-11 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Rick Lecoat wrote: Note the removal of the space; li.furniture refers to a list item that has the class 'funiture'; li .furniture refers to some other element with a class=furniture *that is contained within* a list item. oh boywell that explains it.. Thanks for the tip on the

[WSG] list links

2008-07-10 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, im doing a list with a background image and some text. how can an make the whole li area hot and not just the text. i forgot how to do that -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

Re: [WSG] list links

2008-07-10 Thread kevin mcmonagle
doh, thanks. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] list links

2008-07-10 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Rick Lecoat wrote: The main thing is to make sure that the list item is set to display: block. I had tried that rick but i was putting the padding in the li not the li a. Do i still need to make li's block elements for ie? -best kevin

Re: [WSG] list links

2008-07-10 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Sorry Kevin, I meant to say that the a *inside* the li should be set to display: block. list items are block level by default. no problem thanks for the help. Theres another issue with this nav bar. There are 3 primary links that have images - the rest are just text. Ive used an id

[WSG] putting inline styles into an external stylesheet

2008-07-08 Thread kevin mcmonagle
What is the software, plug in or extension that does this automatically? -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help:

Re: [WSG] flash navigation - Devils advocate

2008-06-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
to navigate how will it impact seo? Patrick H. Lauke wrote: kevin mcmonagle wrote: Using swf object 2.0 embeded swfs as an xhtml sites primary navigation - what are the liabilities? without flash, no navigation; not crawled/indexed by search engines; not keyboard-accessible in firefox; even

Re: [WSG] flash navigation - Devils advocate

2008-06-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Rick Lecoat wrote: If the visitor has Flash then the Flash swf replaces the alternative content. If they don't (or if they don't have javascript turned on) then they'll get the fallback content, which should also suffice for search engines. (Of course, don't make your fallback navigation

Re: [WSG] flash navigation - Devils advocate

2008-06-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Thank you matijs thats what i was wondering, you make a good point about using javascript but im not an expert in using it. Matijs wrote: There isn't really a way for a search engine to see how many times a link has been clicked. It is however possible for a search engine to see / count how

[WSG] flickr streams

2008-06-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
any good standards based tutorials out there for adding them to regular xhtml pages? -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] flickr streams

2008-06-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Thanks thats just what i was looking for. Melissa wrote: Best one I've seen and used is at Veerle Pieters' blog: http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/fickr_badge_w3c_valid/ *** List Guidelines:

[WSG] flash navigation - Devils advocate

2008-06-24 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Using swf object 2.0 embeded swfs as an xhtml sites primary navigation - what are the liabilities? -kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] html vs. html

2008-06-21 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi, Are there any free services like net renderer that show firefox 2x. scree captures? -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] firefox 3 beta5

2008-05-19 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Recently it was pointed out to me that a site I built is breaking in firefox 3 beta five. How close is this to release? Do i need to worry about this? the site works fine in current browsers-firefox and otherwise. -thanks in advance kevin

Re: [WSG] Full flash websites

2008-05-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Michael Persson wrote: Do we still want the money to produce their website or do we say no because we are web standard freaks and would never touch such a bad usability and accessibilty project dirty money hahaha.. Well would we...?? If all they want is eye candy give it to them and take

Re: [WSG] Full flash websites

2008-05-05 Thread kevin mcmonagle
What do you people, professionals and hobby standardists think about full flash websites?? where is the usability and accessibility for flash in general?? Im a big fan of xhtml/flash hybrid sites myself. Usually I'll consider using flash for anything but links(usability reasons) and the

[WSG] will this ever validate?(swfobject 2.0)

2008-05-01 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi, Im trying swf object 2.0. http://www.seaviewnightclub.com/mockup2.html Im using the static-standards compliant method that uses conditional comments. I thought it would validate better than this. Theres a lot of unclosed errors on the param tags. Should i just self close those i

Re: [WSG] valid video in (x)html?

2008-04-28 Thread kevin mcmonagle
try these, http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] why

2008-04-25 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Is this wrapper floating over the mast div in ie7 only? ahhh. http://www.seaviewnightclub.com/mockup.html http://www.seaviewnightclub.com/css/boxes.css -best kvn *** List Guidelines:

[WSG] selectutorial

2008-04-17 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, My friend wants to learn about css so i told him to do the selectutorial on the maxdesign site. It says to reset the margins in the body then use ems for padding. I was reading somewhere that cancelling out the margins in the body tells the browsers to go through all the tags and cancel

Re: [WSG] seo / standards question

2008-04-14 Thread kevin mcmonagle
, 2008, at 14:36, kevin mcmonagle wrote: hi, im generating a list of page links from my cms, its not really for a nav bar just a section of the site that has a number of related articles. im using h2 for the over all list label but am wondering what

[WSG] seo / standards question

2008-04-09 Thread kevin mcmonagle
: h2section title/h2 h3apage name/a/h3 h3apage name2/a/h3 ... thanks in advance -kevin mcmonagle www.mcmonagledesign.com www.donegalimage.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http

[WSG] ie background img positioning

2008-04-09 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, I have a bg image set for heading links like so: h3 a:link, h3 a:visited, h4 a:link, h4 a:visited { overflow:visible; background: url(/images/arrowh3.jpg) no-repeat 100% -1px; padding: 0 40px 0 0; } The problem is that if a long heading breaks to two lines the background image

Re: [WSG] Dreamweaver CS3

2008-04-04 Thread kevin mcmonagle
I think its very handy even though i hardcode most stuff. Its good for organizing your work flow, with document tabs and what not. The code is pretty clean these days and theres a good built in validator. I think even object embedding (.flvs and what not) is pretty unobtrusive. Sorry if thats

the soundtrack was Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2008-03-19 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, thanks for the reply but im going go with the a controllable music player that ill do up in flash. The main problem was that he wanted a continuous song going on the site which would have been impossible without frames. But as some members suggested a controllable player is much more

Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-17 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, Im doing a site for a nightclub. So im doing a hybrid. The owner has demanded a music track playing continuously. What would you lot do if you had to put in a continually playing music track? I mean the only solution that is a frameset right but i just want some feedback of the dangers of

Re: [WSG] SEO, fact or fiction

2008-03-17 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, i think if i cold sell him on a player that would be user controlled. I will tell him he can put in more tracks by his dj's. Sorry i meant to change the title of the post. thanks a million. -kevin *** List Guidelines:

[WSG] ie8 flash scripts

2008-03-04 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, anyone know how ie8 will work with ufo flash detection js and and the standard dreamweaver flv embedding scripts? thanks in advance kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] ie8 flash scripts

2008-03-04 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Patrick Lauke wrote: There's not even a downloadable beta of ie8 out yet...so I think there won't be much of an answer beyond speculation? suppose your right early days yet. *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] CMS review

2008-02-28 Thread kevin mcmonagle
That code isn't standards based. Use textpattern. -kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WSG] background-position:top center; IE6?

2008-02-24 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, is there any way to get ie6 to accept this property: background-position:top center; i have a tabular nav bar with different width tabs, the background image needs to center itself. thanks kevin *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] PNG in IE6

2008-02-21 Thread kevin mcmonagle
If its not a repeating background this is the easiest way to get png support: http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/ -best kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

[WSG] repeating background png support ie6

2008-02-19 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi, Whats the standards way to handle or degrade ie6 png support for a repeating background img? Im having problems solving this-ies4mac doesn't seem to do well with conditional comments and png hacks-so i cant tell whats working. Im thinking about putting the wrapper div with the repeating

Re: [WSG] repeating background png support ie6

2008-02-19 Thread kevin mcmonagle
of IE6/7 I use the netrenderer: http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ and for more advanced checks use browsershots: http://browsershots.org/ Cheers, Tony kevin mcmonagle wrote: Hi, Whats the standards way to handle or degrade ie6 png support for a repeating background img? Im having problems solving

[WSG] ie problem

2008-02-15 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi, Im frustrated with a margin difference in ie6. Im modifying a zen cart install and didnt create the style sheets and dont have much control over the html. The problem is the two links (log in and home) at the top right of the page header. Ive added The borders just so you can see the

Re: [WSG] hello

2008-02-12 Thread kevin mcmonagle
yes its a buzzword mostly but from a design standpoint its also a genre. Thomas Thomassen wrote: Nothing. Web 2.0 is a buzzword. There's nothing truely new. It's often accociated with social networking. Sites where the users provide the content.

Re: [WSG] running ie7 on my mac??

2008-02-07 Thread kevin mcmonagle
note to anyone who wants to run ies4mac. install wine verstion .51 the current version doesnt work. -kevin *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] running ie7 on my mac??

2008-02-03 Thread kevin mcmonagle
of windows. On Fri , kevin mcmonagle sent: Whats my cheapest option for getting ie7 to run on my intel based mac. Is it basically an option between boot camp, parallels or virtual pc? *** List

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] running ie7 on my mac??

2008-01-27 Thread kevin mcmonagle
2008, at 16:16, Gregory Alan Gross wrote: Had a terrible time on my Intel MacBook with Parallels Desktop; it refused to play nice with OS X Leopard. Wouldn't even install properly. Switched to VMware Fusion, and haven't had a problem since. g. On Fri , kevin mcmonagle sent: Hi

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] running ie7 on my mac??

2008-01-27 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi, just a quick follow up. After 20mins downloading and installing and no cost im running ie6 and 7 natively in tiger with ies4osx. It aint pretty but it works. -best kevin kevin mcmonagle wrote: thanks for the good reply's guys. I think im gonna try this one first: http://macapper.com

[WSG] running ie7 on my mac??

2008-01-24 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Hi, Whats my cheapest option for getting ie7 to run on my intel based mac. Is it basically an option between boot camp, parallels or virtual pc? Very frustrated with discrepancies at the moment. -best kevin *** List Guidelines:

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