[WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Well, after lurking on here for several weeks, I'm finally taking the plunge and asking a question. (And getting rather alliterative in my subject line... Sorry...) I have a navigation bar with sub-menus based on the list structure and run primarily by CSS. The problem I am having is

RE: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
ansitional.dtd" Notice the key word right after the !DOCTYPE declaration - xhtml. It needs to be html. HTH, Martin E. - Original Message - From: Seona Bellamy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:48 PMSubject: [WSG] Making my menus work across

RE: [WSG] Making my menus work across multiple browsers

2004-01-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
I love you forever. *grin* It works just fine now in both. Thank you thank you thank you. :) Cheers, Seona. -Original Message- From: Simon Jessey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 January 2004 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Making my menus work across

[WSG] Could someone please do a little testing for me?

2004-02-04 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi all, I need to do a small test in IE5, but I don't have access to a copy of it. And since the bit I need to test is the hover action on the menus, BrowserCam is not going to do the trick I think. So could someone who has IE5 please have a look at http://www.flemingclinics.com.au and run the

[WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Is this even possible? What I have is a site that gives people a chance to set up their own information sections where they can record their own content. I would like that an account holder can state which colours, font sizes, font styles, etc they want for their section and have this

RE: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
Beau -- Beau Lebens Information Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dented Reality - www.dentedreality.com.au Information Architecture, Usability, Web Development Seona Bellamy said: Hi guys, Is this even possible? What I have is a site that gives people a chance to set up their own information

RE: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
- Original Message - From: Seona Bellamy To: WSG List Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:31 PM Subject: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets? Hi guys,Is this even possible? What I have is a site that gives people a chance toset up their own informatio

RE: [WSG] Dynamically populating stylesheets?

2004-03-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
an Apache config has? Cheers James Seona Bellamy wrote: Hi guys, Is this even possible? What I have is a site that gives people a chance to set up their own information sections where they can record their own content. I would like that an account holder can state which colours, font sizes, font

RE: [WSG] This sounds really silly BUT

2004-04-13 Thread Seona Bellamy
If you are working on a CF server, you probably have to escape the # since this is something used by CF in a different context (i.e., for designating that you want to work with the value of a variable). I think you do it by doubling up the hashes: ## See if that works. Cheers, Seona.

[WSG] Having problems with backgrounds and rounded corners

2004-06-13 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm in the middle of designing a site for a client, and I decided to have a go at a 100% tableless layout. It's the first one I've done with this level of complexity, and it's been... interesting. :) I've got most of it working as I want it, and am waiting on the logo and main header

RE: [WSG] Order of a state (link, visited, etc) styles in a stylesheet

2004-06-17 Thread Seona Bellamy
Yes, to the best of my knowledge that is correct: order does matter (although only in some browsers I think) and that is the correct order. And I think that if you don't style everything, it takes the value for the last one in the order (e.g. if you don't style active, it will assume the

[WSG] Looking for help and critiques on a new site

2004-06-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I have a new site that I'm working on for a client and am doing my best to make it as standards-driven as possible. So aside from having a look and telling me how I've done so far, I'd also like some help in fixing a couple of little glitches that are annoying the heck out of me. The

RE: [WSG] a few question on accessibillity

2004-07-03 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Kim, I'm not so sure about the second issue, but the first one is talking about having the same piece of text pointing to different URLs in different places on the page. I can't seem to figure out where that is happening on your page, but I think that's partly because I can't read the

RE: [WSG] Looking for help and critiques on a new site

2004-07-03 Thread Seona Bellamy
Well, I've been away from email for a few days, and I've carefully combed through the ton of posts I came back to, but it looks like the response to my queries has been truly underwhelming. I do offer my sincere thanks to the two people who responded to my JavaScript problem, but I must confess to

[WSG] The best way to make a tabbed menu with a dynamic number of items?

2004-07-20 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm wanting to make a tabbed menu like the one suggested in ALA's Sliding Doors I II. All well and good, but the menu will be dynamically generated and won't have a fixed number of items - from page to page it will differ. There could be as few as four or as many as 12. Therefore, I

[WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-20 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Well, I got the tabs behaving nicely in Mozilla and decided it was time to have a quick peek at them in IE. Ack! The background images that make the links into tabs have completely vanished in IE6/Win and I can't make them come back. I've used the Sliding Doors method from ALA, which

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-20 Thread Seona Bellamy
You're kidding?? Well, here's an example: http://216.119.123.23/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalogue.ListProductsID=2category=Subcategory There should be two or three rows of tabs (unless you're running at some ridiculously small resolution), but in IE all I see is a big space where they should be. I

Re: [WSG] Titles Acronyms Abbr etc

2004-07-20 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Jackie, To the best of my knowledge, you would only use Acronym if the visible text read VDS - the user can only see the acronym, so the acronym tag allows them to mouse-over it and see what it stands for in case they aren't familiar with it. If you are displaying the full name, then I think

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hmm... Thanks, that did seem to make a difference. At any rate, the images are showing up. But instead of tiling nicely across the page, they're showing one to a line and spreading over the whole width of the panel. I've had a look, and I'm not sure how to fix that. (It still works fine in Moz)

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Jason Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seona Bellamy wrote: Hmm... Thanks, that did seem to make a difference. At any rate, the images are showing up. But instead of tiling nicely across the page, they're showing one to a line and spreading over the whole width of the panel. I've had

RE: [WSG] Why won't my background images show up in IE?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
No probs. :) Thanks for the tip, I'll have to have a look at that one. And thanks for all your help this afternoon. It's been really appreciated. You've saved me hours of work and a head of hair. ;) Cheers, Seona. Quoting Jason Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seona Bellamy wrote: As far

Re: [WSG] The best way to make a tabbed menu with a dynamic number of items?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
of them into a div will probably come into it somewhere, but what do I do to the div? Cheers, Seona. Quoting Mordechai Peller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seona Bellamy wrote: I'm wanting to make a tabbed menu like the one suggested in ALA's Sliding Doors I II. All well and good, but the menu

Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Just a quick related question, but when you put your javascript into an external file, do you need to put the script tags into the file as well? Or do you just have the code in there and then call it in via the script tag below? Cheers, Seona. Quoting Lachlan Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files?

2004-07-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
://redux.deviantart.com - Original Message - From: Seona Bellamy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Comment syntax in external javascript files? Just a quick related question, but when you put your javascript into an external file, do you need

[WSG] Wierd spacing issue after floats

2004-07-22 Thread Seona Bellamy
Another question for all you clever folk in Standardsland, and I can't help but feel that the answer will probably be something really simple. I can't find it though. If you go to the link below, you will see that there is an odd space between the rows of tabs and the start of the content.

[WSG] Why has the background jumped to the right in IE?

2004-08-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, If you have a look at this page in IE6/Win (not sure if it does the same in IE5 or not) you might see that the Today's Special box is floating out over the main content. It is supposed to sit under the picture that it beside it and to the right. It did this perfectly yesterday, and does

RE: [WSG] Why has the background jumped to the right in IE?

2004-08-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
://www.photographia.co.uk | http://redux.deviantart.com - Original Message - From: Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WSG List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 1:16 AM Subject: [WSG] Why has the background jumped to the right in IE? Hi guys, If you have a look

FIXED: [WSG] Why has the background jumped to the right in IE?

2004-08-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
__ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively. [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] http://www.splintered.co.uk | http://www.photographia.co.uk | http://redux.deviantart.com - Original Message - From: Seona Bellamy [EMAIL

[WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please?

2004-08-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I have a couple of issues with the site I'm working on. They have been reported by the client, and I'm having trouble reliably replicating any of them so I can't work out how to fix them. Can someone please take a look at http://216.119.123.23/ and look for the following errors: * On

RE: [WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please?

2004-08-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lachlan Hardy Sent: Tuesday, 17 August 2004 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please? Seona Bellamy wrote: * On pages like About Us and Contact Details, the centre

RE: [WSG] Can someone reproduce these issues for me please?

2004-08-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Gleitzman * On pages like About Us and Contact Details, the centre banner apparently stays stuck at the top of the screen (i.e., the content of the page disappears under it as you scroll, and

[WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm hoping that this doesn't count as off topic, but I need some help figuring out the best way to mark up a section of code. What I need it to do is operate with the toggle DOM script from Zeldman's 'Designing With Web Standards'. I've already used this script successfully on a

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
Thanks for the help, guys. I've gone with the dl as suggested by Mordechai, and the script that was in Zeldman's book (sorry, Mordechai, but it seemed like a slightly simpler, more flexible way of doing it - or maybe it's just that I've combed through it so often that I actually understand what it

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
Well, I've found a way around the problem (used an incrementing counter instead of the ID-number from the database, so each item has a unique ID) so this question isn't exactly pressing any more. I'd still love to know the answer though, if for no other reason than that there's a good chance I'll

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Gleitzman Seona, depending on the doctype you're using, ID's that are just numbers won't validate. They need to start with an alpha character - for XHTML 1 Strict, at least. But there again, if

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Manuel González Noriega The script, for those who don't have the book, is as follows: function toggle(targetID) { if (document.getElementById) { target =

RE: [WSG] Can someone help me figure out some semantic mark-up, please?

2004-08-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Manuel González Noriega Shouldn't that be target.style.display = block; Err... which one? The first one or the second one? Confuzzled, My fault entirely, i trimmed a little too

[WSG] Anyone know of any good DOM tutorials?

2004-09-03 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Anyone know where I can find a good, easy to follow online tutorial on using the DOM to control elements on a webpage? Specifically, I need to change the class of an element to a different class. Cheers, Seona. __ ella

RE: [WSG] Anyone know of any good DOM tutorials?

2004-09-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
... perhaps someone more knowledgable can check it when they read this! Hope it helps! -Michael. On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 07:42, Seona Bellamy wrote: Hi guys, Anyone know where I can find a good, easy to follow online tutorial on using the DOM to control elements on a webpage

RE: [WSG] A web standards group survey

2004-11-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
One thing I was disappointed with in the survey: the question have you ever attended a WSG meeting? only allowed three options and there was no other option. So how could I say that I'd love to attend a WSG meeting and would if it didn't always happen on a Monday when I have a regular prior

[WSG] Are conditional comments the way to do this?

2004-11-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I have a site I'm doing for a graphic designer friend of mine, and one of the things I needed to do was to absolutely position each element of the navigation because she wanted to have them follow the shape of the design. So far so good, and I put together a working template on her Mac

RE: [WSG] Are conditional comments the way to do this?

2004-11-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
hack if you can do it: * html {//stuff} for IE /* \*/ {//stuff}/* */ to hide rules from Mac IE HTH Terrence Wood On 2004-12-01 6:08 PM, Seona Bellamy wrote: Hi guys, I have a site I'm doing for a graphic designer friend of mine, and one

RE: [WSG] Are conditional comments the way to do this?

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
No, if it was just IE, it would be easy and I wouldn't have needed to ask the question. The trouble was that exactly the same problem was occurring in Firefox. So I needed to isolate both. It's better now, thanks to using the IE/Mac comment hack to just feed a new set of values to everything

[WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Could I please have a few Mac users (both IE and Safari) have a look at this page and tell me if it's working right? My friend has looked at it on her Mac and reported a few problems, but since her computer's been playing up lately I want to check that there is actually a problem and not

RE: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
] Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2004 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac) Seona Bellamy wrote: Any PC users who want to look and give opinions would also be appreciated. :) The site: http

RE: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
Would you please send me screenshots of these problems off-list? If I can at least see exactly what is happening, I might be able to fix it. Email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Seona. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of

Re: [WSG] Site check please (especially Mac)

2004-12-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
at a total loss. Cheers, Seona. Quoting Jixor - Stephen I [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe add a slight outline/glow/etc effect to the menu items as they don't stand out too well, especially when hovering. Also find a way of reducing image size that doesn't result in noticeable grain. Later Seona

[WSG] Is IE/Mac still messing up my page?

2004-12-02 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, According to my friend, her site is now displaying perfectly in Safari and I can see it looking just fine in a bunch of PC browsers (thanks Georg! :) ). It is, however, apparently still misbehaving in IE/Mac. Can I please get some verification of this, first of all? I know that her

RE: [WSG] Popups

2005-01-13 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Novitski Subject: Re: [WSG] Popups Also, while it's convenient to insert javascript event handlers into HTML markup when demonstrating an example, in practice it's probably best to leave the script out of the markup and

RE: [WSG] Popups

2005-01-13 Thread Seona Bellamy
@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Popups At 01:20 PM 1/13/05, Seona Bellamy wrote: -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Novitski Subject: Re: [WSG] Popups Also, while it's convenient to insert javascript event handlers into HTML markup when demonstrating

RE: [WSG] Why DO floats not stretch their containers?

2005-02-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
I believe that it is because floated elements are removed from the document flow just like absolutely positioned elements are. So the rest of the elements on the page, including the containing element, literally can't see the floated element. If they can't see it, then they can't accommodate its

[WSG] Can Mac people please have a look at this?

2005-02-21 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I've had someone tell me that this page is doing odd things on a Mac. Apparently the navbar is falling out of the content pane. Can someone please have a look and a) verify this, and b) tell me how to fix it? Site: http://www.dare2.com.au/productsservices.php CSS:

RE: [WSG] Floated list items not floating on a Mac

2005-02-24 Thread Seona Bellamy
://www.accessibility1st.com.au From: Seona Bellamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:26:47 +1100 To: WSG List wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Floated list items not floating on a Mac Hi guys, The problem I have is with my menu bar at the top of http

[WSG] Site check (esp. Mac): One House

2005-02-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Can I have some people look over this site for me please? Especially Mac users, since I don't have a Mac to check it on but my client does (so I know she's going to comment on how it looks on a Mac). http://www.onehouseproductions.com Since I didn't have total control over the creation

RE: [WSG] Site check (esp. Mac): One House

2005-02-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
*grin* Cool, thanks for the links. I'll have to check them out. I'm sure it will be much cheaper than buying a Mac. :) Cheers, Seona. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jan Brasna Sent: Monday, 28 February 2005 12:42 PM To:

RE: [WSG] Site check (esp. Mac): One House

2005-02-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Laakso And then along comes a *nit-picking bozzo,* still on the back of the bus, with XP_SP2, who finds that: Nit-picking is good. It helps me build better sites. Hopefully I can fix the

RE: [WSG] Why won't my list items centre?

2005-03-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Claudia, The site has undergone a transformation since then, and not necessarily for the better. The layout I had before was very unstable from a cross-browser point of view, and since we needed it for going into a client meeting this morning I ran out of time to debug it fully. So it's now

RE: [WSG] Unofficial Melbourne meetup

2005-03-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi, I'm certainly happy to put my hand up for this. It also gives me a chance to meet and greet some folks, since so far the official meetings have never been on a night I can attend. So, any day other than Monday is good for me. :) Where in Melbourne are you staying? We could always meet at an

[WSG] A few positioning problems

2005-04-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Working on a site for a client, and having trouble figuring out a few things. 1/ The navigation buttons are currently text links sitting on top of backgrounds. I'm having trouble getting them to centre nicely though. If someone could have a look and give me some ideas of how I can make

RE: [WSG] A few positioning problems

2005-04-11 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Stuart, 1/ The navigation buttons are currently text links sitting on top of backgrounds. I'm having trouble getting them to centre nicely though. If someone could have a look and give me some ideas of how I can make everything line up nicely, it would be greatly appreciated. The

Re: [WSG] Longhorn Avalon - seismic shift for web standards?

2005-07-14 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 15/07/2005, at 11:40 AM, David Pietersen wrote: But, if you're in the business of building web apps that target a specific platform.. :)   We all do, really.  I am at home, and don't have the research here, but current statistics show that 97.4% of all devices accessing web content

Re: [WSG] Newbie Questions: East-Asian Character Sets and Marking-up Poetry

2005-08-07 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 08/08/2005, at 1:47 PM, Kwok Ting Lee wrote: 2. Additionally, I am likely going to be posting entries that will be partly in Chinese (quotations from the original text together with my translations and comments, so that knowledgeable readers can refer to the original themselves to judge

Re: [WSG] td != div

2005-09-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/09/2005, at 9:31 AM, Kenny Graham wrote: In most of the previous table layout vs css layout arguments I've seen on here, people refer to divs vs tables. Now, I never learned table based layouts, and don't understand them (spacer gifs, etc). Because of this, I don't/can't think along

Re: [WSG] Tables and divs and soon

2005-09-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/09/2005, at 1:50 PM, Peter Asquith wrote: Al Sparber wrote: I'm not evangelizing table-based layouts, although for real-world clients they sometimes are the right choice. Presumably, in this case, the right choice is the choice that limits the up-front cost and training required to

Re: [WSG] Educate the educators (was) Barclays standards redesign

2005-09-07 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 08/09/2005, at 9:14 AM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: On 8 Sep 2005, at 8:59 AM, Craig Rippon wrote: by-the-by: I am a web development student at Yeronga TAFE college in Brisbane, Australia. One of my instructors has never heard of DOCTYPE, refuses to put tags in lowercase and also refuses to

[WSG] Looking for help with standard-based JS rollovers

2005-09-14 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, Here's an outline of the requirements: The site I'm working on has a dynamically-generated menu (a nested list with Son of Suckerfish dropdowns) running horizontally underneath the banner section. In order to add a little more life and interest to the pages, we want to have the

Re: [WSG] standards, accessability and validation?

2005-11-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 01/11/05, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I told them that they need to start with web standards and get thier pages to validate before they start on accessability. Was that sound advice? Well, while validation might not be seen as technically essential to accessibility, I'd say that

Re: [WSG] standards, accessability and validation?

2005-11-01 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 01/11/05, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks seona and josh, You're welcome. :) -thats a key point, i design with standards in mind but they've been slicing my ai files into a tables and calling it a day. I am meeting with them this week to talk about this. I will try and talk the

Re: [WSG] advices for using headings more correctly

2005-11-03 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 04/11/05, Julián Landerreche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at some pages where h1 for the website name is only used in the homepage. Then, in internal/content pages, the h1 usually goes for the section name or the article title. Of course, this second approach seems to need a

Re: [WSG] Fluid problems

2005-11-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 17/11/05, Adam Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having BIG problems trying to get the content of this site to be held within the image 'containers' I've used. Help me, please?! I'm beginning to lose it. Adam http://www.janelehrer.co.uk/live5 I've had a look, and the paragraph that is

[WSG] A floating menu that keeps folding where it shouldn't (repost)

2005-12-05 Thread Seona Bellamy
At least, I think it shouldn't. It doesn't in Firefox anyway, but IE is insisting on not sliding under my banner properly. Have a look at http://www.renovate.com.au The issue arises when you view it at 800x600 or so. In Firefox, it all works nicely and the out-hanging tab in the bottom row

Re: [WSG] A floating menu that keeps folding where it shouldn't (repost)

2005-12-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
Thanks for the advice, guys. I'll have a look into it all and see what I can do. Or maybe I'll just try and convince my boss that it's not too long before we completely redesign the site, so we should just wait and redo it properly then. ;) Cheers, Seona.

[WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-08 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I've used the Jello Mold Creator at Position Is Everything to handle the sizing issues for the site I'm redeveloping. Seems to be working fine in Firefox, but when I opened it in IE I found that it was far too wide. Ugly sideways scrolling, content vanishing off the right side of the

Re: [WSG] Dynamic DIV Height

2006-01-08 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 09/01/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody!I have two DIV's: DIV A and DIV B.DIV B is inside DIV A.When DIV B has text it expands outside of DIV A(DIV A stays the same height). How can I make it so DIV A height expands as DIV B height expands? Your problem is that the contents of

Re: [WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-09 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 09/01/06, Philippe Wittenbergh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't had a look at your page in IE win but noticed one thing inthe source code.In your conditional comment, the width of the _expression_ is set to anegative % value. Don't think that is correct. !--[if IE] style type=text/css #sizer

Re: [WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 11/01/06, Thomas Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 9, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Seona Bellamy wrote: Can anyone who is running a larger resolution than 1024x768 please have a look and tell me if the layout is holding up? Sorry no time to peek, but I am using this on a current project

Re: [WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 11/01/06, Duckworth, Nigel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone who is running a larger resolution than 1024x768 please have a look and tell me if the layout is holding up? Looks good at 1600-1000px. Scrollbar appears at 999px. -Nigel Thanks Nigel. That's exactly where the

Re: [WSG] Dynamic DIV Height

2006-01-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 10/01/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the help Seona,I followed the advice in the URL you sent me andeverything works great. Well, sorta...Adjusting the height created another issue in Opera 8.It's no longer displaying the background image for #sitewrapper. I'm not sure if it's a

Re: [WSG] Jello Mold not working right in IE/Win

2006-01-10 Thread Seona Bellamy
Thanks Scott and Paulo, those were excellent definitions. I understand it a lot better now. So back to fiddling for a while. Cheers, Seona.

[WSG] Margin being inherited. Why?

2006-01-15 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm trying to figure out why one single form element is inheriting the left margin of the containing div in spite of the fact that I'm setting it to a different value further down the stylesheet. Page: http://staging.renovate.com.au/admin CSS:

Re: [WSG] Margin being inherited. Why?

2006-01-15 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 16/01/06, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seona Bellamy said: form element is inheriting the left marginYou have conflicting id's for content. Change to the textarea's id tosomething else. *blush* Whoops Fixed now. Thanks. :) Cheers, Seona.

[WSG] Allowing users to select and sort items

2006-01-18 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm wanting to create an interface similar to the one I've taken a screen shot of here: http://www.staging.renovate.com.au/example.png (this is from My Yahoo! when you go into Change Layout) In my case, I only need to have the ordering on the right-hand box. The left-hand box will

[WSG] Equal Height Columns vanishing in IE

2006-01-30 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I'm using the Equal Height Columns technique from PIE's 'One True Layout', along with the Any Order Columns technique from the same. It works fine in Firefox, and used to work fine in IE, too. That was when I was using the Jello Mold technique to size the site. Now, however, the word

Re: [WSG] No style

2006-01-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 31/01/06, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to specify in CSS that a certain area is to have no style at all. Let's say I have my global style sheet where I style my ph1 etc. but on one page I have a div with id #editableArea I want that div to have

Re: [WSG] No style

2006-01-31 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 01/02/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's still going to be 1em of whatever 1em becomes by the time youget down to #editableArea (i.e. 1em of (x) on #editableArea of (y) on#body of (z) on #html), isn't it? Hmm... good point. Might need some tweaking, but I'm not sure how.

Re: [WSG] Questions about Data Tables and Accessibility

2006-02-02 Thread Seona Bellamy
Well, I can't answer all of your questions, but I'll do what I can to get the ball rolling. :) 2. How to tell when one table or two tables is better? When is it better to split up the data? What happens if you have two columns with the same name? Is this badtable structure? I have two colgroups

[WSG] DL for Form display misaligning in IE/Win

2006-02-15 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi guys, I've been using this technique for styling DLs to take my forms: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/dl-table-display.htm Everything was working fine, I though, but I've just had it pointed out to me that one of the forms is acting oddly. Instead of aligning nicely with

Re: [WSG] Breadcrumb as Section Heading H1

2006-02-20 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 21/02/06, Terrence Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking out aloud here: not sure why, but using a list forbreadcrumbs doesn't quite sit right with me, despite it being a type ofnavigation device. I think it is due to list structures replacing thedir and menu elements - and the notion that

Re: [WSG] form button css

2006-02-27 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 28/02/06, Ted Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #foo form { text-align:center; padding:0; }#foo label { color:#fff; font-size:85%; margin:0 5px; font-weight:bold; }#foo input{ margin:0 5px;}#foo button {border:none; height:23px; background:none; padding:0 0 0 0; margin:6px 0 -6px 0;} Just a

Re: [WSG] tableless layout stuff

2006-03-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/03/06, Jack Pivac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But does anyone have any idea how to put that alongside the title andimage etc without using a table? or should i just use a table? The simplest way would be to wrap the bits you want to have on the left (title, pic, price, etc) in some sort of

Re: [WSG] tableless layout stuff

2006-03-06 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/03/06, Jack Pivac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest way would be to wrap the bits you want to have on the left (title, pic, price, etc) in some sort of containing element such as a div and float it left.but if i float it left.. then doesn't that mean i have the wrap the whole lot in

Re: [WSG] Styling Fieldset and Legend Elements

2006-03-07 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 07/03/06, Darren West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would advise against * html hacks though - http://www.webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2005_12.html#a000598 Daz On 07/03/06, Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know, but the following addition makes it look pretty ok in my IE6...* html

Re: [WSG] Employee Hierarchy in CSS

2006-03-16 Thread Seona Bellamy
Hi Sarah, Haven't got time to work this up properly, but what about something like: div id=tier1 spanMD information in here/span /div div id=tier2 spanGM information in here/span spanFinancial Controller information in here/span spanPA information in here/span /div div id=tier3 spanManager

Re: [WSG] pop-up - onblur question

2007-03-29 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 30/03/07, Donna Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have the href attribute point at something sensible (not #). Have the JavaScript do what you want, and return false from it to prevent the link being followed. i suppose i understand what you're saying but i don't know javascript, i don't

Re: [WSG] There's no back button on this website...

2007-04-11 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 12/04/07, John Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put another way, the injunction is don't comply *unthinkingly* with user requests -- don't give them what they say they want, give them what they *mean* they want... That's a very good point. I've often found that outside of the world of

Re: [WSG] Page Structure

2007-06-28 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 29/06/07, Sander Aarts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, Sander, but that logic escapes me. Of course I don't know what goods a certain company sells if I don't know they exist. But I know what goods I'm looking for, so that's what I'll search on. Sometime you're not looking for goods,

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 05/07/07, Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like Bruce's suggestion for a break down, but he too acknowledges the grey area around development. And I'd say that once you touch the db, you are definitely back end, not front end. In the end I guess I question the validity of defining

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 05/07/07, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seona Bellamy wrote: My definition of designer vs developer is these days coloured by the company I'm working for. The designers are the people who come up with the ideas and the layouts and the graphics. The developers are the people who write

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 05/07/07, John Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i wouldn't advertise the fact i can do 'ALL' the jobs on my own in the same time it would take a team of developers. To much hard work, so little money. That's an interesting point in itself. Should you try to be a one-stop-shop? It's

Re: [WSG] Who's A Front End Developer?

2007-07-04 Thread Seona Bellamy
On 05/07/07, Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do the rest of you do? How many of us *don't* have to be a jack-of-all-trades? I guess that partly depends how you define all trades. Now that I no longer have to do graphical work, I simply consider myself a web developer. That said,

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