[WSG CMS] Textpattern
Hey Jonathan, Thanks for the links. I also signed up for the forum. Cheers, Elle On 16/01/2007, at 6:32 PM, cms@webstandardsgroup.org cms@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: From: Jonathan Rez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:02:55 +1100 Subject: Re: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org Elle, I know you said you've been to text book, but I remember myself really getting lost there at first. Have you read these¿ http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Glossary#Tag http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Form and http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php? title=Textpattern Semantic Model#How things Fit Together You'll likely find an answer to your htaccess question at http:// forum.textpattern.com/ ~ j On 15/01/2007, at 6:29 PM, cms@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: From: Elle Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:24:54 +1100 Subject: Text Pattern Hello, I've started using CMSs not very long ago. The first one I looked at was WordPress which has some great features. It was also easier to understand themes and I can use PHP. And there are so many plugins around I can use. Now, I have a site that I am building in Textpattern and some of the features in it are better or easier to accomplish with it but I ran into trouble trying to understand a few things like what are the txp tags? or forms? I've looked at Textbook and text Pattern web sites and it is not as thorough as WordPress's resources. So what I am actually is asking is would you know where I could find some more information on text Pattern especially tags and forms? and being able to have a snippet of code (like main navigation) I can have in one place and I can call on? or on having static pages? Also, on a different note, I am developing the site on Mac Os X and I defined my links to be: example.com/name-of-post but for some reason the.htaccess file has not effect and I get a 404 page when I click on a link (which makes it harder to check my work). Would you know how to fix it? TIA, Elle ** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** From: Elle Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:24:54 +1100 Subject: Text Pattern Hello, I've started using CMSs not very long ago. The first one I looked at was WordPress which has some great features. It was also easier to understand themes and I can use PHP. And there are so many plugins around I can use. Now, I have a site that I am building in Textpattern and some of the features in it are better or easier to accomplish with it but I ran into trouble trying to understand a few things like what are the txp tags? or forms? I've looked at Textbook and text Pattern web sites and it is not as thorough as WordPress's resources. So what I am actually is asking is would you know where I could find some more information on text Pattern especially tags and forms? and being able to have a snippet of code (like main navigation) I can have in one place and I can call on? or on having static pages? Also, on a different note, I am developing the site on Mac Os X and I defined my links to be: example.com/name-of-post but for some reason the.htaccess file has not effect and I get a 404 page when I click on a link (which makes it harder to check my work). Would you know how to fix it? TIA, Elle ** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** From: Jonathan Rez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:02:55 +1100 Subject: Re: digest for cms@webstandardsgroup.org Elle, I know you said you've been to text book, but I remember myself really getting lost there at first. Have you read these¿ http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Glossary#Tag http: //textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Form and http://textbook.textpattern.net/w iki/index.php? title=Textpattern Semantic Model#How things Fit Together You'll likely find an answer to your htaccess question at http:// forum.textpattern.com/ ~ j On 15/01/2007, at 6:29 PM, cms@webstandardsgroup.org ; wrote: From: Elle Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:24:54 +1100 Subject: Text Pattern Hello, I've started using CMSs not very long ago. The first one I looked at was WordPress which has some great features
[WSG CMS] Text Pattern
Hello, I've started using CMSs not very long ago. The first one I looked at was WordPress which has some great features. It was also easier to understand themes and I can use PHP. And there are so many plugins around I can use. Now, I have a site that I am building in Textpattern and some of the features in it are better or easier to accomplish with it but I ran into trouble trying to understand a few things like what are the txp tags? or forms? I've looked at Textbook and text Pattern web sites and it is not as thorough as WordPress's resources. So what I am actually is asking is would you know where I could find some more information on text Pattern especially tags and forms? and being able to have a snippet of code (like main navigation) I can have in one place and I can call on? or on having static pages? Also, on a different note, I am developing the site on Mac Os X and I defined my links to be: example.com/name-of-post but for some reason the.htaccess file has not effect and I get a 404 page when I click on a link (which makes it harder to check my work). Would you know how to fix it? TIA, Elle ** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **
[WSG] 3 questions: flash, aimg and Ad Sense
Hey,
Just got 3 questions that are actually on 3 separate subjects:
1. I have a flash slide show in a page header and the page's logo is
positioned absolutely with higher z-index on top of the flash object
but only some of the logo is on top of the flash slideshow. Every
time a new image loads up in the flash movie, it hides part of the
logo. If you hover on the logo, it comes back up till the next image
loads.
Would you know why this happens?
2. Situation is:
I declare a general rule that says that all my links will have border-
bottom of some kind or background color when hovering on them.
Then I have an image that is also a link.
Even though I declare: a img {border-bottom: 0; background-color:
none;}, it doesn't have any effect and I still get a border-bottom or
can see background color on hover where I have padding around the image.
Why wouldn't it accept my second rule?
3. I recently added Google AdSense to my validated pages and it
caused errors on my page.
Is there anything I could do to still have pages that validate as
XHTML strict?
Much appreciated any help,
Elle
http://waznelle.com
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[WSG] Re: 3 questions: flash, aimg and Ad Sense
put the logo in a iframe and that should fix it. I thought iframe was deprecated in xhtml strict. You could put the ads in an iframe... not ideal. Google don't do good markup or valid anything really, you would probably be better off with xhtml friendly text link ads: http://www.text-link-ads.com I will check them next. You could add a class to the anchor that contains the image to differentiate it Declaring a separate class for anchors holding images, wherein the border and background are eliminated, seemed to do the trick I guess a class is the way to go. Thanks guys, Elle http://waznelle.com *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] site check and code review
On 18/07/2006, at 12:04 AM, wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:Germ wrote: I disagre with you. Yes content is the most important but graphics is not that far behind. Alot of people are drawned in by the look among other things like being a known name and content etc. I do not know about you but I always judge the book by its cover first. I wonder if there are any stats or so on this type of thing. btw yes one in three people are visualy impaired but that doesnt mean that we all are blind and cannot see graphicshi again,what i wrote below was the point of my post. i'm not interested in getting into a flame war about who and who doesn't have disabilities or blind divers. i was drawn to this book by it's cover. it suited my sensibilities as a designer. sorry you think it's boring. send me a link of your best so i can try to understand what you are talking about.cheers,dwain i think the balance between graphics, or presentation, and content, information is well done. i think the design is clean and very professional looking. you go elle, keep up the good work. does the design stay together at 800x600? i know that a majority of internet users don't view pages at this resolution these days, but i know a few people that still do; and nothing makes me it the back button quicker than a site that has a horizontal scroll bar. cheers, dwainHi guys,I believe strongly that a page should download fast and have a higher percentage of text than images but on the other hand I also believe that the look of the home page should be be eye catching and images usually have major contribution to this factor.In the end, it just finding the right balance.The image that I used is not final yet. For the design compositions I used a stock photo that was far more impressive but unfortunately the guys I am doing the site for do not have such a great collection of wow photos I could use. So, it's basically the best choice for now. I personally am not that happy with that image. I do not think it's not good enough.Thank you for your comments.For anyone who has just joined the conversation, the discussed site is at: http://waznelle.com/td/Ellewaznelle.com **The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help**
[WSG] site check and code review
Hello,I wanted to ask for a site check and code review please.Any suggestions for maybe writing the code different or maybe better are welcome.page: http:waznelle.com/td/css: http://waznelle.com/td/css/base.cssI also have a couple of problems with the page.The layout is supposed to be 3 columns: 160px, 420px, 160px with 10px margin between them for a total of 760px.My problems are as follows:1. unless I declare * {margin:0; padding: 0;} many objects do not fit in the layout and get pushed down. Now, I tried to limit my paddings and margins so I don't know where they come from.Also, in IE5/win and IE6/win my #sidecol gets pushed below as well even though (I think anyway) it should have enough space.2. My blockquote area, I pushed it out of its nesting div#maincol and IE5 and IE6 do not show what's out of the div area.3. One last thing, I wanted to control my main image in CSS so I could replace it in every page using my CSS document. But as a result, I think it loads very slow. Would you think so too? and if so, any ideas?Any help will be much appreciated.Cheers,Ellewaznelle.com
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[WSG]
Shlomi Asaf wrote:HiI have a question that crossed my mind, and i wish to get help from youguys: HTML Validation- what is it good for?I try to find the disadvantages of a non validated site against onevalidated, and let me try to explain what i mean.If i build a website, according to his declaration - let say StrictXHTML,and its answering all the roles of Strict Xhtml, but its not valid cause,for example, i haven't used "" to surround values, or i haven't closedsingle tags using Slash ( /), but other wise i did everything by thescheme.What can be the damage?If i open the site and see that it works on my target browsers, why ineedthe validation for? what do i benefit from it?It says it helps me improve my SEO, but i see all the first results atGoogle, for lets say "Forex" keyword, and none of them are valid.I assume the main price is time rendering cost, but what can be else?Thank You.Shlomi.AHi Shlomi,I can definitely agree that you shouldn't take everything for granted and decide for yourself whether it is important for you to follow or not. But I think the question here is why would you choose xhtml strict? or even more why choose xhtml doctype at all? why not stay with good old html 4?If you choose xhtml because you believe that xml is the way of the future, than at least follow its rules such as enclose you attributes in "" and close all tags and so forth. Besides most editors will this automatically for you by selecting a preference of choice.And then validating just helps making sure your syntax is correct, which means if you do have problems with how your pages load if your target browsers, you can eliminate possibilities quicker and easier.If you wish to not follow the language rules, at least declare it as html and then you can leave your tags unclosed and all that other things you have to do when using xhtml strict as doctype.All the bestEllewaznelle.com **The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help**
[WSG] Drop Down Menus
Hello everyone.I used A List Apart drop down menus (Sucker Fish) and I love them.But when I checked my page older browsers, it didn't come out as I would have liked it to.The page is at: http://waznelle.com/3756/tumbalong/index.htmlIE6, Safari 2, Netscape 8 and FF1.5 not a problem.Netscape 6.23, opera 7 and IE5 for win don't really like my drop down css menus.Also, some don't like my left column paddings.Would anyone have a quick fix before I start exploring hacks and their kind?...Vinaka (Thank you in Fijian)Ellewaznelle.com
[WSG] XHTML Strict - top margin
I've decided to change from xhtml transitional to strict and now for some reason, even tough I declaredbody {margin:0; padding:0;}p {margin-top:0;}my content still doesn't stick to the top.Would you know Why?TIA,Ellewaznelle.com
