Re: [css-d] Screen resolution?

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Blake
I design and artwork all of my websites at 300dpi, as if print (can come in handy if you need to print your websites in a brochure etc.). I can't stand grainy images and if I work in 72dpi the results are crap. 'Save for web' from a 72dpi artboard will have worse results than a 300dpi

Re: [css-d] How to get window to crop image?

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Blake
On 11/08/2009, at 1:00 PM, Michael Stevens wrote: -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Lalena I have a new challenge. In CSS, is it possible to get an image to be cropped off on both sides? Or in

Re: [css-d] Looking for a way to see Mobile styled output

2009-08-07 Thread Chris Blake
Hi Elizabeth, I have done loads of work for mobiles, application design, development and websites, for Vodafone. You can see some of my work here: http://blakeys.com . It can be a bit daunting at first but can be very rewarding. Mobile marketing is said to be one of the biggest tools for

[css-d] My IE Hack is hacking all the other browsers!!

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, After getting the website I created working in most browsers I saw that it was not working in IE. I have made a hack that has fixed it in IE: !--[if IE] td{ border: 1px solid #fff; } #main .content{ padding: 0px; margin-bottom: -20px; } ![endif]-- But now all the other browsers

Re: [css-d] My IE Hack is hacking all the other browsers!!

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Blake
On 06/08/2009, at 7:04 PM, Rainer Wagener wrote: Chris Blake schrieb: Hi, After getting the website I created working in most browsers I saw that it was not working in IE. I have made a hack that has fixed it in IE: !--[if IE] td{ border: 1px solid #fff; } #main .content

Re: [css-d] My IE Hack is hacking all the other browsers!!

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Blake
) and then tried: #main .content{ *padding: 0px; *margin-bottom: -20px; } and the fix is working in IE only. What a star!!! (excuse the terrible pun). I am really happy now, thanks for all your help. CB On 06/08/2009, at 8:46 PM, Chris Blake wrote: On 06/08/2009, at 7:04 PM, Rainer

Re: [css-d] My IE Hack is hacking all the other browsers!!

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Blake
Thanks everyone, There is a problem in that the website is CMS generated so we don't actually have a head that we can edit. I will double check with my friend but I remember him saying that there was no editable head. I hear what you're saying, and as always I am really respectful and am

[css-d] HotSpots - making a diagonal grid

2009-07-29 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I have been stuck on creating a menu like the one you can see here: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/study/ As you can see, their menu items have diagonal lines separating them. Although they are not using a colour change for rollover states they are there for active states. I have been racking

Re: [css-d] background-color : transparent; showing up as white in ie6 7 and AOL 9.1

2009-07-26 Thread Chris Blake
Hello, What's this about? Hex code for transparency? I like the sound of this but it's the first I have heard I notice you have put 'rgba' is that for alpha? Can I have opaque colours too? On 26/07/2009, at 9:52 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Jul 26, 2009, at 3:09 AM, Sandy

Re: [css-d] What would you do to improve css?

2009-07-22 Thread Chris Blake
On 23/07/2009, at 9:58 AM, David McGlone wrote: On Wednesday 22 July 2009 02:19:50 pm Leszek Stachowski wrote: Hi! That's my first activity in here, so forgive anything wrong I could do :) I've got a simple question for you: what would you change in css ? What annoys you ? What

[css-d] clear floats is clearing my right hand column!!

2009-07-07 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, A long time ago I found an easy way to clear floats. It's basically: div class=clearnbsp;/div and .clear{ clear:both; height:1px; line-height:1px; margin:0; padding:0; } I hope it's a good method because I remember being really pleased because it's a lot easier than other methods that

[css-d] IE problem - floats won't align

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I am having trouble getting something very basic to render in IE. http://www.glyszc.cn/tours.html http://www.glyszc.cn/prices.html (pretty much the same page, with the same ID tags) http://www.glyszc.cn/styles/one.css Two simple columns in the main content. Render how I'd like in

Re: [css-d] IE problem - floats won't align

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Blake
I think I have fixed it now - feedback please. On 28/06/2009, at 11:50 PM, Chris Blake wrote: Hi, I am having trouble getting something very basic to render in IE. http://www.glyszc.cn/tours.html http://www.glyszc.cn/prices.html (pretty much the same page, with the same ID tags) http

Re: [css-d] IE problem - floats won't align

2009-06-28 Thread Chris Blake
On 29/06/2009, at 3:53 AM, Rod Castello wrote: --- On Sun, 6/28/09, David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com wrote: From: David Laakso da...@chelseacreekstudio.com Subject: Re: [css-d] IE problem - floats won't align To: Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com Cc: css discuss discuss

Re: [css-d] What's your preference -- fluid, elastic, or fixed?

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Blake
HI, Just found an article about this: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/02/fixed-vs-fluid-vs-elastic-layout-whats-the-right-one-for-you/ cb On 05/06/2009, at 11:01 PM, Bobby Jack wrote: --- On Fri, 6/5/09, Glow glowvirt...@gmail.com wrote: I hear what you're saying regarding fixed

Re: [css-d] What's your preference -- fluid, elastic, or fixed?

2009-06-05 Thread Chris Blake
On 05/06/2009, at 6:32 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:05:35AM -0700, Glow wrote: I normally work with fixed layouts because I find that I have more control over the ultimate appearance of the design. But lately I'm becoming more interested in fluid or elastic layouts

Re: [css-d] hover nav bg?

2009-06-01 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I live in China so I was just showing my GF (Chinese) the translate option. I was thinking I could use it for some of my Chinese clients. Anyway, It makes a big mess of your menu. The fossil tooth image displays 4x bigger than it should. Also there are bubbles appearing all over the

Re: [css-d] Menu in IE 6

2009-05-30 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, In case it is of interest to you, the website is blocked in China. The Great Firewall in Beijing. cb On 31/05/2009, at 4:04 AM, Todd Richards wrote: Hi everyone - Just launched a new site a few days ago and one person is reporting that the CSS menu on the left doesn't work right

Re: [css-d] site check please?

2009-05-17 Thread Chris Blake
On 18/05/2009, at 12:06 PM, David Laakso wrote: Jody Levinson wrote: Hi, all, I've created this site: http://evamoon.net and it looks all right as far as I can see in FF and current versions of IE, but when I open the pages in DreamWeaver the left sidebar appears in the lower right

[css-d] IE problems - karst

2009-05-04 Thread Chris Blake
Hi, I haven't used CSS Discuss for two years and happy to be back. The problem I am having is with how IE renders a very basic website that I'm making. In Safari 4 Beta and Firefox 3 it looks OK. Here is the website: http://www.pendulum8.com/karst.test/ I built the layout using a dreamweaver

[css-d] IE problems - karst

2009-05-04 Thread Chris Blake
UPDATE: There are two problems: 1. The mainphoto clears the side content in IE. 2. The padding (or margin) I have put on the menu is making the container stretch in IE. I removed the menu include but the container still stretches, just not as much). The CSS for the document is here:

[css-d] IE6/7 and Firefox CSS issue driving me mad

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Blake
Greetings community, Please can someone help me with this, its been bugging me for ages and now I`ve found this list where I can hope to get it fixed with someones help. Please visit this page : http://www.pixcel.co.za/ard/index.php There is a main div called content which is not giving me a

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