Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-22 Thread Charles Eaton
On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:28 AM, David Dorward wrote: Invisible text is hard to read against any background colour, and you can't depend on images being loaded. This thread started because of issues with alt text on image maps not showing up when images weren't there. ... that will teach me

Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-21 Thread David Dorward
Charles Eaton wrote: http://www.eatons.net/sandbox/no-map.html I doubt that http://dorward.me.uk/tmp/fake-image-map.png is the effect you are after. background-image: url(callforentries.gif); color:transparent; Invisible text is hard to read against any background colour, and you can't

Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-21 Thread Al Kendall
only a few validation issues... Failed validation, 210 errors in the new site with 191 in the old one On 2/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I am in a desperate state. I am working for a .com.au and they are struggling with some of the more forward-thinking

Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-21 Thread Tim
I work so hard to have all pages validated XHTML 1.0 Strict and AAA accessible. Thanks for that 210 validation errors. Really gross. Any of my real pages validate, I feel so cheated apart for the loss of income, the defacement of W3C standards I try to hold high. My beloved authors would be

RE: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-20 Thread Patrick Bruno
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the standards use of the map and area tags (like I'm doing here on the 2007 image of the left column: http://www.heliosdg.com/mgcaf/)? I did some testing by turning images off in IE7 and Firefox but the alt tag data doesn't appear. Does that mean

Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-20 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:32:15 -, Patrick Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the standards use of the map and area tags (like I'm doing here on the 2007 image of the left column: http://www.heliosdg.com/mgcaf/)? I did some testing by turning

Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-20 Thread Charles Eaton
W3C says: try to avoid server-side image maps [xhtml] a better setup (IMHO), is to use a definition list, drop your image in the background of the dl, giving it the image size, use dt and 3 dd's in a two row setup to overlay the image. add text [no display] and links, ... your in business.

Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-20 Thread David Dorward
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:36:18 -, Charles Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the standards use of the map and area tags (like I'm doing here on the 2007 image of the left column: W3C says: try to avoid server-side image maps [xhtml] If it is

ADMIN: THREAD CLOSED Re: [WSG] Site Issue - opinions please

2007-02-19 Thread Lea de Groot
Hi guys, This thread doesn't seem to be on topic - perhaps a design list would be more appropriate? If you need help getting a drop down (etc) to work, we're here for you, but what sort of design element to use isn't on topic. Sorry! Any further responses should go straight to Christian