Re: [css-d] That list styling website

2011-07-13 Thread Val Dobson
On 13 July 2011 14:28, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com wrote: Hello CSS Homies, What's that website that has a bunch of list styling examples? www.cssplay.co.uk ? Val -- “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”—Franz Kafka Astrology-friendly web design, DTP

Re: [css-d] Slideshow images: How'd he do that!?

2010-09-01 Thread Val Dobson
On 1 September 2010 14:16, Brian M. Curran br...@draftingservices.com wrote: Duncan Hill wrote: Webdesign-l etc would be better to take this because List-Mom is sure to be preparing the Sword of Damocles for this thread now. Thanks for the other valuable info Duncan. As for webdesign-l,

Re: [css-d] CSS horizontal photo gallery - looking for

2010-08-31 Thread Val Dobson
On 31 August 2010 19:07, Diogo diogo...@gmail.com wrote: Someone knows where can I find a horizontal css photo gallery like this one? (js,jquery,etc...) http://www.royallepage.ca/spotlight_en.swf Try CSSPlay - oodles of CSS-only galleries there.

[css-d] Hide current page link

2010-08-16 Thread Val Dobson
Is there a CSS method to hide the current page link in a navigation list? ie: if you're on the widgets page, you don't get the See our crazy widgets! link in the menu. I'm responsible for looking after a static HTML site that has had more and more pages added to it over the years, and changing

Re: [css-d] Hide current page link

2010-08-16 Thread Val Dobson
On 16 August 2010 20:01, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: If you cannot use any more advanced server-side techniques, then probably the best shot is to add a piece of JavaScript that traverses the links on the page and hides any link pointing to the page itself. Here, too, one might

Re: [css-d] Hide current page link

2010-08-16 Thread Val Dobson
On 16 August 2010 21:00, Sandy sfeld...@sympatico.ca wrote: Not a whole different style sheet, just that little bit in the head of each page. I think it's actually about the same amount of work as adding class=current to the current page on an html page. The advantage of this approach is if

Re: [css-d] Returning to list and IE problem with background image css in WP

2010-08-14 Thread Val Dobson
Viewing it in FF3.6.8/WinXP and all the quote marks are showing for me. Try upgrading to the latest Wordpress. Val On 13 August 2010 21:21, Jody Levinson j...@troutdream.com wrote: I fell off this list somehow, but have re-upped. I am working on a site which is using a purchased WP template

Re: [css-d] need help with IE6 duplicate characters bug

2010-08-14 Thread Val Dobson
Just a guess - would it be something to do with the class names? They're both split into two unconnectioned sections. Try connecting all the words in each name with underscores and see if that makes a difference. Val On 13 August 2010 20:39, Arian armyofda12mnk...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all,

Re: [css-d] Links Defaulting On Page

2010-07-26 Thread Val Dobson
You also have two different background colours, two different font colours and two different margin values. Val On 26 July 2010 15:50, Gabriele Romanato gabriele.roman...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! you should fix these errors first: line-height: 1.7em; /* correct */ you missed a ; token, so

Re: [css-d] Use of empty DIVs?

2010-07-11 Thread Val Dobson
I agree with you. Information within the code that's meant for humans to read should go into comments; div and ID names themselves should be fairly descriptive anyway (#maincontent, #leftcol etc.). HTML elements such as divs are meant to be read only by the browser and making the browser search

Re: [css-d] positioning a horozontal bar

2010-06-08 Thread Val Dobson
Why use a HR? Why not use a styled border property for one of the divs? Val On 8 June 2010 15:21, Andy B. sonfir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I have the following html and css code. My question is this: I need to use css to position the hr / tag blow the ACTIONS, ICON, TITLE AND VISIBILITY divs

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: a warning for Gmail users

2010-04-21 Thread Val Dobson
I've been seeing similar pharma-spam on several of my Yahoo groups in the last week, but at least one has been from an AOL account. So it's not just Gmail. Val -- --- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known - Carl Sagan www.oakleafdesignprint.co.uk

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: a warning for Gmail users

2010-04-21 Thread Val Dobson
Just had a quick look through my various Yahoo group message lists; of the five pharma-spams that I've spotted, two were from AOL addresses and three were from Yahoo addresses. So it appears that talk of any Gmail bug really is an aromatic dried, salted fish. Val ---

Re: [css-d] ADMIN: a warning for Gmail users

2010-04-21 Thread Val Dobson
That's the same story that was posted on Computerworld - the one that Eric linked to. Val On 21 April 2010 17:34, Peter Hammarling pe...@artworkers.net wrote: relevant news story on Macworld http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/index.cfm?newsid=3221204 Peter H.

Re: [css-d] Opa

2010-04-08 Thread Val Dobson
Reported to Google Sites for abuse. Val -- --- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known - Carl Sagan www.oakleafdesignprint.co.uk www.oakleafcircle.org.uk www.valdobson.co.uk www.astrodiary.co.uk

Re: [css-d] Screen shot or list an entire site

2009-12-31 Thread Val Dobson
If you have FTP access to the server, then simply download the whole site to your local machine server. If not, use a website grabber such as HTTPtrack. Val -- --- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known - Carl Sagan www.oakleafcircle.org.uk

Re: [css-d] Please help. Why doesnt my heading show in mozilla?

2009-11-26 Thread Val Dobson
As I said, correct the comment syntax, throughout your document- it should be in the form of: !--comment here-- This 'commenting' syntax stops the browser from processing anything that comes after the '!--' until it comes to ' --' which tells the browser to start processing the code again. Val

Re: [css-d] Please help. Why doesnt my heading show in mozilla?

2009-11-25 Thread Val Dobson
It's your first commented line that's screwing things up - correct it to: !--Begin Logo Heading-- HTML comments should have only two dashes at the start and end. Val 2009/11/25 rob...@angelsoflight.net: Someone please help. my site shows perfect in IE, but in Mozilla, It doesnt show my

Re: [css-d] CSS background image hover problem

2009-11-16 Thread Val Dobson
Forget about fiddling with image placement - just use two different images. Val 2009/11/16 John Franks johnfra...@hotmail.co.uk: I am trying to create the effect where the “back to top” image/link is initially coloured in white, as is currently happening. But when a user hover’s over the

Re: [css-d] i don't know any php or asp i know css and i want to know the limits

2009-11-02 Thread Val Dobson
This isn't a CSS question. Look up PHP includes and server side includes. Val 2009/11/2 andre petyan andrepet...@yahoo.com: i have a page. its pretty complicated. its not near ready. i have about 50 links on a page; a list of links(ul) what i want to do is make a sidebar or something

Re: [css-d] Very simple display of images (should be)

2009-10-20 Thread Val Dobson
The p tag should only be used for styling text. For a block of images, try using an unordered list within a div, using css to style all the tags: ..div class=gallery ul li img src=images/image1.jpg / h6caption/h6 /li li img src=images/image2.jpg / h6caption/h6 /li /ul/div Using H tags

Re: [css-d] styling different a-link states

2009-10-16 Thread Val Dobson
Style all links in the stylsheet, as follows: a:link {color: #xx} /* unvisited link */ a:visited {color:#xx} /* visited link */ a:hover {color: #xx} /* mouse over link */ a:active {color:#xx} /* selected link */ Val 2009/10/16 Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com: helloo, a

Re: [css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Val Dobson
Yes, may if it ain't broke, don't fix it. But to me, this site IS 'broken' - the coding is offensiely ugly. I'd certainly want to redo it if I had the chance, if only to ensure a little more beautiful coding in the world. Besides which, good coding simply works better - it loads faster and ranks

Re: [css-d] Looking for a second opinion on a site's structure

2009-10-12 Thread Val Dobson
A whole site done virtually all in Javascript??? Yes, Brian, I can certainly confirm that it could have been better done. Do you have the power to rewrite the coding? Val 2009/10/12 Brian M. Curran br...@brianmcurran.com: Hi, I was just given access to a site to make updates, and when I logged

Re: [css-d] Drop down menus...

2009-10-07 Thread Val Dobson
Have you looked at www.cssplay.co.uk/menus ? He has a wide range of menus on there. Val 2009/10/7 Michael Beaudoin mich...@ba-doyn.com: I've looked at the Suckerfish menus, plus a few more, but none of them explain how to use drop down menus with a graphic as the main menu. If anyone has

Re: [css-d] Best way to include

2009-10-05 Thread Val Dobson
That's what I do when a stylesheet gets too long and complex. In those cases, I break it down into typography.css for the fonts, structure.css for the layout and style.css for the colors etc; I might also have a separate navigation stylesheet. The I write a main.css that contains nothing but

Re: [css-d] I'd like to do something impossible

2009-09-29 Thread Val Dobson
I've done something very similar recently. It's not too difficult. Create a container div that holds both your text and the image. Then create a div to hold the image and give that a minus margin-right, with float:right and clear:left. In the markup, put the image-div inside the container div.

Re: [css-d] Fwd: Wonky characters

2009-09-29 Thread Val Dobson
2009/9/29 Ben yng...@gmail.com: Sorry, my gmail isn't set up to reply to the list... ++ I have Gmail as well. Select reply to all and it goes to the list as well as the OP. Val -- --- www.oakleafcircle.org.uk www.valdobson.co.uk www.astrodiary.co.uk

Re: [css-d] Repost of impossible question

2009-09-29 Thread Val Dobson
OK - reposting: I've done something very similar recently. It's not too difficult. Create a container div that holds both your text and the image. Then create a div to hold the image and give that a minus margin-right, with float:right and clear:left. In the markup, put the image-div inside the

[css-d] No More IE hacking?

2009-09-23 Thread Val Dobson
This promises to resolve (nearly) all IE styling issues, with no need to add any IE-specific hacks: http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ Val www.oakleafcircle.org.uk www.valdobson.co.uk www.astrodiary.co.uk

[css-d] Sticky footer problem

2009-09-14 Thread Val Dobson
. But it won't. Can any of you guys see what's wrong, 'cos I sure as heck can't. (The coloured lines are just borders around the elements to help me see what's going on.) Will be extremely grateful for any answers. Val Dobson -- www.oakleafcircle.org.uk

Re: [css-d] Sticky footer problem

2009-09-14 Thread Val Dobson
hair out. I suspect that the problem lies further up the page - a property of one of the other elements is disrupting the flow. Just can't seem to see it. Charles - I'm just trying to fix the basic layout at the moment - all the visual design stuff I'm leaving till later. Val Dobson 2009/9/14

Re: [css-d] main content appearing in side column

2009-09-11 Thread Val Dobson
Check your code. You've forgotten to close your container div - and several other tags as well. Val Dobson 2009/9/11 Daniel Hammond dan...@objectivedesigns.com: URL: http://www.numcchildren.org/thezones/index.htm CSS: http://www.numcchildren.org/children.css Does anyone have any idea why

Re: [css-d] HotSpots - making a diagonal grid

2009-07-29 Thread Val Dobson
It's done with a combination of background colours and part-transparent images. You can probably find the script - or something like it - on cssplay.co.uk Val 2009/7/29 Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com: Hi, I have been stuck on creating a menu like the one you can see here: