Re: [WSG] Picture Login

2012-01-19 Thread Bill McAvinney - home
Hi Marvin,The attached file may be a photo of you (80 x 80 pix). I found it through a Google search. It appears to have come from Moodle although it's no longer there, and identifies you as living inDevonport.Hope this helps.On Jan 19, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Marvin Hunkin wrote:Hi.when i registered for this group a few years ago, did i upload a picture of my self.is this allowed.looking for a picture of my self, and do not have it on my computer any more.have searched on google a picture of marvin hunkin.need this now, as learning php, and the current exercises i doing, says i need a picture to upload.if any one can help out, or knows where i can find a picture of my self.let me know.i am totally blind, my parents do not have a digital camera, and hard to take the picture on their mobile, and have internet and e-mail disabled, as on a prepaid card.Marvin.-- Join My Blind-Aid group at :http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/Blind-AidTo join this group , send a blank message to:blind-aid-subscr...@yahoogroups.com***List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfmUnsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfmHelp: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org***
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Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Bill McAvinney

A couple of things I notice, that haven't been mentioned:

1. The Wholesale Enquiries page is right shifted compared to the  
other pages


2. On at least some of the buy pages the very first anchor, a  
href=http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/;img src=../images/logo.gif  
class=logo alt=Shetland Coffee Company /, isn't closed. While  
most browsers are being generous to you and closing it for you,  
Safari isn't. So in Safari every piece of text on those pages is an  
underlined link back to the front page, if not otherwise specified.  
Moral: validate at the very end.


3. On the front page in IE-Win, Firefox  Safari, just one text size  
up and the central image rises up onto the dark background of the  
buy div, creating a strong contrast between the background and the  
cutoff white coffee cups, which I think draws your eye to the wrong  
place.


4. This one is more my curiosity. Every time I see someone try to  
match the background of a .jpg to a background color, it doesn't work  
in Safari, yet it does work in Firefox on the Mac. The background  
colors render the same in Firefox  Safari. It's the image that  
renders darker in Safari. Anybody know why?


Bill McAvinney


On Jan 11, 2006, at 3:09 PM, David Nicol wrote:


Hi everyone,

I'd appreciate it very much if you could take a quick look at:  
http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/


All comments welcome. In particular, please let me know if you spot  
anything that I'd need to fix before my client begins to promote  
the site.


Thank you in advance.

Kind regards
David Nicol
www.nbcommunication.com


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[WSG] Relative font sizes without relative dimension units

2004-06-21 Thread Bill McAvinney
Hi Folks,

I was wondering if anyone has ideas for a simpler way of dealing with this issue than 
I have.

The issue:
I like to set my font sizes in ems. I also use ems a lot to position block elements so 
that my designs work better as people expand  contract their text sizes. The problem 
is for example if I have body with font-size 1em and h1 with font-size 1.5em, then a 
10em margin on a div (within body) renders at 2/3 the size of the same 10em margin on 
an h1.

The solution I've come up with is to enclose non-1em sized text in a span tag and 
assign font size values with a contextual selector (e.g. h1 span {font-size:1.5em}). 
The problem with this solution is that it means adding quite a few semantically 
meaningless tags.

Anybody got a better idea?
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Web Services
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617-258-6023

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Re: [WSG] Relative font sizes without relative dimension units

2004-06-21 Thread Bill McAvinney

What I'm looking for is a way to have a consistent em based measuring unit across all 
block elements in a site so that a width of say 10em will be the same  no matter what 
the font size of the text in that block is.

Here's a little demo using your example with each element given a left margin of 10em, 
and similar headers with my typical use of spans:
http://hurricane.mit.edu/erp_manuals/test.html

As you can see the way you're suggesting still gives an effective margin of 12em when 
the font size is 1.2em and 15em when the font size is 1.5em.

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[WSG] Relative font sizes without relative dimension units

2004-06-04 Thread Bill McAvinney
Hi Folks,
I was wondering if anyone has ideas for a simpler way of dealing with 
this issue than I have.

The issue:
I like to set my font sizes in ems. I also use ems a lot to position 
block elements so that my designs work better as people expand  
contract their text sizes. The problem is for example if I have body 
with font-size 1em and h1 with font-size 1.5em, then a 10em margin on 
a div (within body) renders at 2/3 the size of the same 10em margin 
on an h1.

The solution I've come up with is to enclose non-1em sized text in a 
span tag and assign font size values with a contextual selector (e.g. 
h1 span {font-size:1.5em}). The problem with this solution is that it 
means adding quite a few semantically meaningless tags.

Anybody got a better idea?
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Bill McAvinney
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Web Services
Administrative Computing, IST
617-258-6023
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Re: [WSG] *sigh* drop-downs

2004-04-02 Thread Bill McAvinney
Hi Justin,

Studies on this topic seem pretty scarce. The only one I'm aware of 
is http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/51/menu.htm
Unfortunately for you it doesn't show a statistically relevant 
difference in users perceptions of either, Perceived 
Disorientation, Perceived Ease of Navigation, or Perceived 
Frustration. What it does show is a speed difference in task 
completion with a categorical index menu being slightly faster than a 
drop down. BTW I don't think this was a very good user sample with 
only 18 people and over 70 percent using the web more than 25 hours a 
week.

Here's another interesting piece of info although not a controlled 
study that you could use for Proof:
http://urlgreyhot.com/drupal/node/view/1440
It shows a significant user preference for use of inline links as 
opposed to an expanding menu nav.



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Re: [WSG] Show/hide layers without javascript (was: [WSG] How to do some things)

2004-03-30 Thread Bill McAvinney
What you describe can only be achieved with javascript Š
However, you can show/hide text (and in some browsers images) using
hover as shown here:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html
and here:
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo2.html
This isn't what you asked for, but it might be helpful depending on
what you're really trying to achieve.
Bill McAvinney
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Re: [WSG] Color Blindnesss

2004-03-22 Thread Bill McAvinney
Somewhere out there, I lost my link to it in an old HDD crash, there is a
site that allows you to test your site using the various perceptions people
with various types of color blindness suffer from - it was actually quite
handy.


Here's one site that does that.
http://vischeck.com/
on this page:
http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php
Although when I've tried it, it's been very slow.
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