Re: [css-d] Responsive Images

2014-11-05 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, No, the idea is to swap out higher resolution images for the higher resolution screens so that no visitor ever has to see distorted, pixellated images. Norman On 2014-11-05, at 9:45 PM, Crest Christopher wrote: If I want to use images on a responsive site, the images should be in the

Re: [css-d] Responsive Images

2014-11-05 Thread Norman Fournier
/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ Norman Fournier mailto:nor...@normanfournier.com Thursday, November 06, 2014 12:24 AM Hello, No, the idea is to swap out higher resolution images for the higher resolution screens so that no visitor ever has to see

Re: [css-d] How many grids in my design ?

2014-11-04 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, Take screen shots of the grid and your design and overlay one on top of the other in Photoshop, and see where they align. That should give you some idea of how many columns you need. Norman On 2014-11-04, at 1:21 PM, Crest Christopher wrote: Hi, some responsive grid systems have a

Re: [css-d] Wild Design or Restrict myself ?

2014-11-01 Thread Norman Fournier
Go wild. On 2014-11-01, at 6:59 PM, Crest Christopher wrote: I have one concern when designing a responsive site, should I, as primarily a designer but unlike many designers not restricted to design and know how to code, be wild with my design, or is there restrictions I should set on

Re: [css-d] rem units and %

2014-09-19 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2014-09-19, at 1:40 PM, MiB wrote: sep 18 2014 22:47 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net: The natural talent of every modern web browser to adapt content to the user's environment is usurped by CSS attempting to make every page look like Photoshopped image, and at an arbitrary size

Re: [css-d] Firefox issue

2014-08-16 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2014-08-15, at 7:09 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: My situation is I have a font cooper-black and when I copy css out of Firefox, I get cooper-#000. That is hilarious, and more annoying than autofill. __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Grids: what's all the fuss ?

2014-08-11 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, A column is a vertical division of space, a row is a horizontal division of space, a grid is a horizontal and vertical division and allocation of available space. You should ask your client which grid system or framework they use and then follow the example. The grid is the basis of the

Re: [css-d] CSS inch?

2014-08-04 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, Inch is a print measurement in North America because printing presses are specified in inches, and paper is sold in inches, monitors are spec'd in pixels, so if you want a pixel-perfect placement then pixels are the measurement to use. 99.9% of the time I try to keep things flexible and

Re: [css-d] JavaScript / HTML groups

2014-08-04 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, For html help I subscribe to this list: h...@lists.whatwg.org Norman On 2014-08-04, at 9:06 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: http://www.webdesign-l.com/ On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Frank Taylor pace...@madebypaceaux.com wrote: Hi All, I apologize in advance for an off-topic

Re: [css-d] Table with fixed headers

2014-07-03 Thread Norman Fournier
That is well done, and best of all, without a table. On 2014-07-03, at 8:49 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: On Jul 2, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Tom Livingston tom...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to have a scrolling

Re: [css-d] Rendering issues

2014-06-23 Thread Norman Fournier
...in that case it is interesting to see which browsers rendered that z-index property correctly... On 2014-06-23, at 1:05 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: Solved. Thanks all. We found an errant z-index which was putting the content behind the blue background wrapper. :-P On Mon, Jun 23, 2014

Re: [css-d] Rendering issues

2014-06-20 Thread Norman Fournier
Camino on my mac shows the blue only w/o any text or graphics once. The source shows all the html in place but none renders. On a second visit, everything looked fine. On 2014-06-20, at 12:42 PM, Tom Livingston wrote: List, We've had a report of a rendering issue on this site:

Re: [css-d] Having trouble adding video to web page.

2014-06-04 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, I have had easy successes with both videojs and jPlayer. Norman On 2014-06-04, at 1:24 PM, Rod Castello wrote: Hi All, Need some quick, real world advice on adding an mp4 video to a web page. It needs to work in modern versions of major browsers. I can skip the iPhone display but

Re: [css-d] @font-face quirk

2014-05-23 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello Chris, I think it might have something to do with www. or no www. in the url. Norman On 2014-05-22, at 6:41 AM, Chris Kavinsky wrote: I added web fonts to a client site and noticed a quirk in Firefox. When I go to the page url the first time, the fonts don't appear properly. If I

Re: [css-d] Off-topic: using colspan with nested html tables

2014-05-07 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, There is an HTML list here: h...@lists.whatwg.org I think you send a message asking to subscribe in the subject and body of the email. Norman On 2014-05-07, at 8:33 AM, Larry Martell wrote: Sorry for the off topic post, but I'm really stuck and there's no html list that I know of.

Re: [css-d] Bridge/Dreamweaver gallery not displaying

2013-11-04 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, When I hit your site via the urls in the source, open the iframe, here: http://suzanneconnor.com/gallery/Ocean/index.html ...and open an image from that page in a new tab I get a 404 file not found, at this location:

Re: [css-d] Implementing Responsive Design

2013-08-23 Thread Norman Fournier
If you're in a sharing mood, Tom, it would be great if you would post your solutions to this mailing list, and we could all benefit from your hard work ;-) On 2013-08-23, at 10:24 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: FWIW, what I do is repeat my styles without MQ's inside a conditional comment. Lo-fi,

[css-d] Nav not working

2013-07-04 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, I have a problem with the navigation buttons not working on my site when I view it in Chrome in OSX. They run on the right hand side of the normanfournier.com page, linked below. Absolutely nothing happens when I click the link instead of navigating to the appropriate spot on the page.

Re: [css-d] Nav not working

2013-07-04 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2013-07-04, at 9:10 AM, Philip Taylor wrote: Norman Fournier wrote: I am grateful for any suggestions or corrections. Attend to these two and report back : Error Line 289, Column 9: Stray end tag div. /div ✉ Error Line 294, Column 8: Stray end tag div

Re: [css-d] Nav not working

2013-07-04 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2013-07-04, at 10:54 AM, Jon Reece wrote: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Norman Fournier nor...@normanfournier.comwrote: I have a problem with the navigation buttons not working on my site when I view it in Chrome in OSX. They run on the right hand side of the normanfournier.com page

Re: [css-d] What's the official/technical name of...

2012-10-17 Thread Norman Fournier
There is a difference of meaning between fluid and liquid. Fluid is a better descriptor for this in my opinion. On 2012-10-16, at 1:45 PM, Micky Hulse wrote: Thanks for the reply David, I really appreciate the help. :) On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:21 PM, David Laakso laakso.davi...@gmail.com

Re: [css-d] ie 6/7/8

2012-04-23 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2012-04-23, at 8:13 AM, David Laakso wrote: Your comments and suggestion on this site http://ccstudi.com/ in Internet Explorer 6/7/8 are appreciated. Thanks. Best, David Laakso -- Chelsea Creek Studio http://ccstudi.com Looks to me like it scales perfectly in Safari

[css-d] mobile css problems

2012-04-09 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, I am working on a website here: http://www.wwater.com/pharmacists/ I have two serious layout problems, first, when the window is resized to less than 850px, the navigation rejigs to a link on each line, in blocks. The first link is nicely formatted but each subsequent link has a large

Re: [css-d] mobile css problems

2012-04-09 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2012-04-09, at 6:29 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Apr 10, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Norman Fournier wrote: I am working on a website here: http://www.wwater.com/pharmacists/ I have two serious layout problems, first, when the window is resized to less than 850px, the navigation rejigs

[css-d] background-image needs to display when there is no content

2011-09-12 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, I have a page that requires a background image to display when there is no content in the div. I have cobbled a transparent gif into the div in order to force the image to display. If the transparent gif is not there, the background image is cropped at the top of the div. I want to lose

Re: [css-d] background-image needs to display when there is no content

2011-09-12 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2011-09-12, at 1:59 PM, Chetan Crasta wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Norman Fournier nor...@normanfournier.com wrote: Hello, I have a page that requires a background image to display when there is no content in the div. I have cobbled a transparent gif into the div in order

Re: [css-d] background-image needs to display when there is no content

2011-09-12 Thread Norman Fournier
Thank you Phillipe! that worked beautifully. Norman On 2011-09-12, at 6:00 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:50 AM, Norman Fournier wrote: Here is the affected page with the background image broken: http://www.thehalcyoncore.com/thc-audios.html Thanks for looking

Re: [css-d] Links not working in Safari after adding css animation

2011-08-04 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2011-08-04, at 2:05 AM, Ghodmode wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Norman Fournier nor...@normanfournier.com wrote: Hello, I am working on a website at http://www.thehalcyoncore.com/ I added a simple animation of dripping paint using Adobe Edge and liked the results. I

[css-d] Links not working in Safari after adding css animation

2011-08-03 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, I am working on a website at http://www.thehalcyoncore.com/ I added a simple animation of dripping paint using Adobe Edge and liked the results. I then added a decorative font using @font-face and that seemed to break the animation. I undid the font code and the animation started

Re: [css-d] How do you identify a capable UI designer?

2010-08-15 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, I agree with Philip Taylor, xhtml and css, raw by hand, is necessary, fundamental knowledge. How can it not be with what you are trying to accomplish, in other words, how can one write code without being able to read it? Norman On 2010-08-13, at 10:35 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster,

Re: [css-d] ccc drop down menu breaks in mac

2010-04-22 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2010-04-22, at 5:37 AM, Thomas Buck wrote: Hi, I'm new to css, but have managed to cobble together a web site with a drop down css only menu. It works in pc based browsers ( ie, ff, safari) but the menus will not drop down on macs. Any help or guidance would be appreciated. The site

Re: [css-d] doctype

2010-03-31 Thread Norman Fournier
On 2010-03-31, at 9:27 PM, Chris Blake wrote: Hi, So I have made it 'strict' HTML, but it is now giving me some rubbish about character encoding. OK I have not added it because when i do it seems that it can't be validated. !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN

Re: [css-d] external link indicators

2009-08-27 Thread Norman Fournier
On 27-Aug-09, at 8:30 AM, Theresa Mesa wrote: On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Michael Stevens wrote: -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Jack Anything's better than opening links in a new window,

Re: [css-d] Nav bar not showing up in Firefox - PART 2

2009-08-01 Thread Norman Fournier
then go on to repair any cross- browser discrepancies but first your code must be semantically correct. The validator tells you exactly what is wrong with your xhtml and css files. Afterwards if anything doesn't work the way you want then the list can help. Norman --- Norman Fournier 604 514

Re: [css-d] Footer doesn't stick to bottom of page

2009-06-26 Thread Norman Fournier
On 19-Jun-09, at 4:14 PM, Paul Novitski wrote: At 6/19/2009 01:35 PM, Norman Fournier wrote: If anyone knows a way to effect both the footer staying anchored to the bottom of the browser window and/or appearing at the end of the text, that would be fantastic, or is it a choice of one

[css-d] Footer doesn't stick to bottom of page

2009-06-19 Thread Norman Fournier
is greatly appreciated. Norman --- Norman Fournier 604 514 1587 nor...@normanfournier.com http://www.normanfournier.com __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ

Re: [css-d] Footer doesn't stick to bottom of page

2009-06-19 Thread Norman Fournier
On 19-Jun-09, at 11:26 AM, Elias Abunassar wrote: On 19-Jun-09, at 11:22 AM, Sandy Gonzales wrote: There should be a clearing div after the main div or before the footerholder to clear the floated divs. footerholder should not be positioned absolutely. Norman Fournier wrote: Hello

[css-d] Stylesheet seems to kill -a- tags

2009-06-17 Thread Norman Fournier
took out any a tag styling but that did not solve the issue. Any pointers are greatly appreciated. Thank you! Norman --- Norman Fournier 604 514 1587 nor...@normanfournier.com http://www.normanfournier.com __ css-discuss

Re: [css-d] Stylesheet seems to kill -a- tags

2009-06-17 Thread Norman Fournier
On 17-Jun-09, at 3:07 PM, Tim Snadden wrote: On 18/06/2009, at 2:50 AM, Norman Fournier wrote: Hello, I am revising my stylesheets and encountered a problem that my a tags no longer work once the stylesheet is linked? The page is located here... http://www.normanfournier.com

[css-d] missing scrollbars

2008-08-02 Thread Norman Fournier
Hello, I have developed a site that has copy that overflows the browser window but the web browser does not draw scrollbars. I have tried overflow: auto; in my body tag but that only draws ghost scrollbars. Any suggestions? Norman --- Norman Fournier 604 514 1587 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [css-d] missing scrollbars

2008-08-02 Thread Norman Fournier
My apologies. Here is the link: http://www.tenplaters.com/audio.html Here is the css: http://www.tenplaters.com/tenplaters08.css Thanks a million! Norman On 2-Aug-08, at 12:15 PM, Jonny Stephens wrote: On 2 Aug 2008, at 19:21, Norman Fournier wrote: ...copy that overflows the browser window