Re: [WSG] Where is my navbar?

2005-01-19 Thread berry
I presumed it is the way you position your element because on my mac in Netscape 7. and IE 5. The logo, the image and the menu are not position the same way. Try to take off the position relative for the #mainmenu and if there is still a problem change the position for #menuList to absolute, in

Re: [WSG] Where is my navbar?

2005-01-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Lori Leach wrote: I have a CSS Drop Menu navigation on the following page - I can see it in FF but not in IE. http://www.zenfulcreations.com/client-files/gu/ IE/win need a HasLayout hack. @media all { * html mainMenu {height: 0;} } ... at the end of your stylesheet, will bring the menu up on

RE: [WSG] Where is my navbar?

2005-01-19 Thread Lori Leach
Berry, Thank you - that did get it to appear - now, however the submenus are not showing up in the right areas in IE (pc). Did that removal of relative get the positioning right on the Mac? Lori Leach ZenfulCreations http://www.zenfulcreations.com/

RE: [WSG] Where is my navbar?

2005-01-19 Thread Lori Leach
Georg, I added that to the bottom, and the menu is appearing at the top now, but my submenus are wrong in IE. Thanks so much for looking and your help... Lori Leach ZenfulCreations http://www.zenfulcreations.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[WSG] User Preference Script

2005-01-19 Thread Tony Aslett
Hi All, I would love some feedback on a User Preference Script http://www.csscreator.com/generator/userpref.php Reports of support from Mac browser and early IE would be especially useful to me at the moment. Please provide responses Off List unless you think others would benefit from it in

Re: [WSG] User Preference Script

2005-01-19 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:34:58 +1000, Tony Aslett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would love some feedback on a User Preference Script http://www.csscreator.com/generator/userpref.php Because Opera is not able to modify stylesheet rules, I've been looking for a different solution, and I found one -

Re: [WSG] empty named anchors

2005-01-19 Thread JohnyB
Can anyone clarify? Me not :) However I'd use construction like ... h1 id=tocTable of contents/h1 ... and you're done. -- Jan Brasna :: alphanumeric.cz | webcore.cz | designlab.cz | janbrasna.com Stop IE! - http://www.stopie.com/ | http://browsehappy.com/

Re: [WSG] Two CSS Question

2005-01-19 Thread JohnyB
multiple media attrib values are to be seperated by a comma _only_ Huh, thanks for the info, never noticed it. (Alhough I don't put the space there, just surprised with it) -- Jan Brasna :: alphanumeric.cz | webcore.cz | designlab.cz | janbrasna.com Stop IE! - http://www.stopie.com/ |

Re: [WSG] empty named anchors

2005-01-19 Thread Kornel Lesinski
Empty link elements are not good (as Patrick pointed out)but what about named anchors (destination anchors)? They are obsolete. Refer to any id instead. Is there any reason why they should not be empty? I wouldn't be surprised if it was because of a bug in Netscape4. -- regards, Kornel Lesiski

Re: [WSG] Where is my navbar?

2005-01-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Lori Leach wrote: Georg, I added that to the bottom, and the menu is appearing at the top now, but my submenus are wrong in IE. Just continue, using this... ul li.menubar {position: relative;} ...which will put the submenus in the right place. If IE/Mac don't like this (as I can't test that one

Re: [WSG] background-image:

2005-01-19 Thread JohnyB
perfectly safe, no scrollbars, and indeed you don't even need the span element. just set the text-indent on the a, and the text will be offscreen, with the background image still in place. That's nice, however ... I've never gotten that technique to work properly in Opera. It always either a)

Re: [WSG] empty named anchors

2005-01-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Focas, Grant wrote: Empty link elements are not good (as Patrick pointed out)but what about named anchors (destination anchors)? Is there any reason why they should not be empty? I'm typically using anchors like this one: a id=item_1 name=item_1/a, and can't see the need to fill them. As Kornel

Re: [WSG] User Preference Script

2005-01-19 Thread Tony Aslett
Hi Kornel, That looks very similar to something I saw not long ago at alistapart. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/bodyswitchers/ It's a fine solution, but you still need to pre-define each rule in a stylesheet and there will be browser that don't support the technique. Tony. Kornel Lesinski

[WSG] Placing a link text on top of BG image

2005-01-19 Thread Paul Ross
Hello WSG folks, Further to Carmelyne's post I am also having trouble placing link text over the top of background graphics. I used Patrick's solution of adding span tags on the links but was wondering if there was another way which is even cleaner. Or am I trying too hard and is the add span

Re: [WSG] Placing a link text on top of BG image

2005-01-19 Thread Kornel Lesinski
Further to Carmelyne's post I am also having trouble placing link text over the top of background graphics.Surely there must be a way of using CSS to position the text? Yes, there is a simple way: use padding. See http://browsehappy.pl (note: .pl) - heading gfx is just h1 and text is positioned

Re: [WSG] mysterious little movement

2005-01-19 Thread IChao
Andreas Boehmer wrote: If you look in IE/PC at http://dev.rmittestlab.com/ you will notice that there is a little blue space under the Services heading. You are experiencing The IE Three Pixel Text-Jog described in http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html The floating

RE: [WSG] background-image:

2005-01-19 Thread Patrick Lauke
From: JohnyB [...] Actually... Why the hell do we need to do this? :( Screen readers should only stick with the aural styles and not the screen ones (not ignoring elements, that are not to be displayed) so only display: none in screen style would do the work :'( ... Just like with

[WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Paul
Title: Message I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I

Re: [WSG] background-image:

2005-01-19 Thread JohnyB
Just like with browsers, what screenreaders *should* do is not always the same as what they *actually* do in practice. I know, I know... I just needed to vent it :( -- Jan Brasna :: alphanumeric.cz | webcore.cz | designlab.cz | janbrasna.com Stop IE! - http://www.stopie.com/ |

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread David Laakso
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:05:03 -0330, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards (

Re: [WSG] User Preference Script

2005-01-19 Thread Anthony Timberlake
I think I may make one for my site later. On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:47:45 +1000, Tony Aslett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kornel, That looks very similar to something I saw not long ago at alistapart. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/bodyswitchers/ It's a fine solution, but you still need to

Re: [WSG] Should we be thankful for IE's non-development?

2005-01-19 Thread Anthony Timberlake
I don't like IE, that's why I really don't care if my site's look good in it. But the fact is that people still use IE, and there is a lot of them, so you have to design for that too, even though my sites all look much better is Firefox. On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:03:45 +1000 (EST), Rob Unsworth

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread JohnyB
standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) Eh, I won't suggest it to beginner - skilled coder knows all the gotchas, but beginner may just stuck with the WYSIWYG and do it badly. Everebody in our workshop works with PSPad on almost everything. If you want to try WYSIWYG I'd suggest trying NVU... and

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Alan Trick
Hi, Here's a bit of what I've learned jumping from editor to editor. 1) Don't pay for and editor, unless your filthy rich or can freeload one off a company you work for. There are free alternatives that are at least as good as the one's you pay for. 2) WYSIWYG (point and click) is pure evil.

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Lea de Groot
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:05:03 -0330, Paul wrote: is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for tips on accessibility and standards compliance. Rather than changing editors, or at least, rather than going to DW! :), I'd suggest you

[WSG] resizing w/ floats

2005-01-19 Thread Alan Trick
Hi, I've built a couple of websites and each time I come up with the ominous problem of using div's as columns. The simplest solution and the one I've found all over the web is to use floats like so: ___ | | | | | |

RE: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Paul
Thanks for the help. I realize it is I who has been writing the bad code and want to get away from it, I guess I am having a hard time getting around the idea of replacing tables with div tags or is that really necessary? As an example, if you want one, take a look at this page

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Alan Trick
True, provided your editor isn't WYSIWYG. Brian Cummiskey wrote: Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Stratford
Wow,wow,wow slow down Alan, ... Alan Trick wrote: 1) TSW Webcoder: Not bad for newbies. It requires regristration to get rid of the popup things which is anoying. It is basically for HTML/CSS coding only. It has no support for server-side scripting like PHP or ASP besides serverside

RE: [WSG] resizing w/ floats

2005-01-19 Thread Pringle, Ron
I've built a couple of websites and each time I come up with the ominous problem of using div's as columns. The simplest solution and the one I've found all over the web is to use floats like so: SNIP The problem is that the containing block, usually another div does not

Re: [WSG] resizing w/ floats

2005-01-19 Thread Carmelyne Thompson
div id="container" div id="left"/div div id="right"/div br style="clear:both;" / - Is what I use. It does validate but I'm sure theres other ways you can use too. /div -- Carmelyne Thompson Web Architect/Developer Alan Trick wrote: Hi, I've built a couple of websites and each time I

Re: [WSG] resizing w/ floats

2005-01-19 Thread Michael Wilson
Alan Trick wrote: The problem is that the containing block, usually another div does not resise to fit the length of the right and left blocks because they are floated. So you get things like this: ___ | | | | | |

RE: [WSG] Where is my navbar?

2005-01-19 Thread Lori Leach
Georg, Thank you so much - that did fix it! I am in awe of your knowledge, and cannot thank you enough for your time. Lori Leach ZenfulCreations http://www.zenfulcreations.com/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gunlaug Sørtun Sent:

[WSG] Accessibility Features

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, At the following url would someone suggest additional accessibility features for an audience with varying physical and emotional disabilities. My concern is that the current features will not be as flexible as desired. CK __ Knowing is not enough, you must

[WSG] cssedit review

2005-01-19 Thread Shane Helm
I've been reading the member's reviews of editors in the thread Help - newbie. Upon this subject I am interested to know if any of you have used CSSEdit from http://www.macrabbit.com/cssedit/ I am considering a new editor and am asking for reviews, pros cons of this program. Does it have

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread David R
Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Bryan Davis
Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for

Re: [WSG] User Preference Script

2005-01-19 Thread David R
Tony Aslett wrote: Hi All, I would love some feedback on a User Preference Script http://www.csscreator.com/generator/userpref.php Reports of support from Mac browser and early IE would be especially useful to me at the moment. Please provide responses Off List unless you think others would

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Features

2005-01-19 Thread David R
What URI? ;) -- -David R Chris Kennon wrote: Hi, At the following url would someone suggest additional accessibility features for an audience with varying physical and emotional disabilities. My concern is that the current features will not be as flexible as desired. CK

Re: [WSG] User Preference Script

2005-01-19 Thread Kornel Lesinski
Personally, I don't see the point in JavaScript-powered style switchers when Server-Side works better... Client-side switcher has immediate effect, so it's easier to choose style IMHO. Besides that, there is no real difference. Current browsers' built-in style switcher implementations are

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Features[Revision-URL Included]

2005-01-19 Thread David Laakso
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:19:14 -0800, Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, At the following url would someone suggest additional accessibility features for an audience with varying physical and emotional disabilities. My concern is that the current features will not be as flexible as

RE: [WSG] Where is my navbar?

2005-01-19 Thread berry
Hi, There is no problem in netscape 7.0 on mac but for IE 5 the Featured Item column is still under the image. I will try to look at it and see what is wrong, and I will come back later. For the Pc the submenu are wrong because it have an absolute position (.menu class) If you change the left

Re: [WSG] User Preference Script

2005-01-19 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Kornel Lesinski wrote: I've been looking for a different solution, and I found one - use multiple classes on body: body class=smallfont verdana red Although, if I understand you correctly, that class attribute will be written out server side on request, based on user choices, it may still be

Re: [WSG] User Preference Script

2005-01-19 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
along those lines, I wonder if class names such as this would in fact be correct if all they were doing is adding a visual style (not really tied to conveying the information, rather to control how pretty it is)? i suppose this would be similar to my occasional use of an empty div (usually named

Re: [WSG] H2 Background image in IE Win

2005-01-19 Thread Lothar B. Baier
Hi everybody. @Tom: I looked at it in IE 6, FF 1.0, Moz 1.7.5 and Opera 7 on WinME, it looks the same everywhere, can't see any difference. Lothar -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.0 - Release Date: 17.01.2005

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Features

2005-01-19 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Chris Kennon wrote: emotional disabilities. I may be cold-hearted, but I don't consider myself disabled. ;) I'm sure you meant cognitive disabilities / learning difficulties / etc -- Patrick H. Lauke _ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Features[Revision-URL Included]

2005-01-19 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Chris Kennon wrote: At the following url would someone suggest additional accessibility features for an audience with varying physical and emotional disabilities. My concern is that the current features will not be as flexible as desired. http://working.ckimedia.com/questionWar/index.htm One

RE: [WSG] mysterious little movement

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Aha! I will give it a try. I just couldn't find a solution for it. Thanks, man. The design of this page was so full of little details that it ended up being quite a mix of css and DIVs. I'll follow your recommendation on the float:right as well. Cheers. -Original Message- From: IChao

Re: [WSG] H2 Background image in IE Win

2005-01-19 Thread Tom Livingston
So you see the '4 little squares' image to the left of the One Park Place head?? Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic mlinc.com On Jan 19, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Lothar B. Baier wrote: I looked at it in IE 6, FF 1.0, Moz 1.7.5 and Opera 7 on WinME, it looks

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Bruce
I have always recommended not using an editor, learn it manually, then perhaps use one for shortcuts. Reliance on html editors and such isn't a good idea. That will go a long way toward learning on your own, without being limited by some software. Notetab or notepad is fine. Bruce Prochnau

[WSG] Re: [WD]: How Do I Learn to do Website Design?

2005-01-19 Thread Bruce
I was just at dreamweaver website. Templates. No doctype, tables, imagemaps and javascript. God forbid. Randomly choosing four of them and viewing source showed me quite enough. Lets go backwards??? Font face font size the whole works of what we are trying to get rid of. Someone new would be

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Features

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Kennon
Thanks for both replies. Your jargon is accurate. Sorry if this constitutes list noise. On Wednesday, January 19, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: I'm sure you meant cognitive disabilities / learning difficulties / etc CK __ Knowing is not enough, you must

Re: [WSG] Re: [WD]: How Do I Learn to do Website Design?

2005-01-19 Thread David R
Bruce wrote: I was just at dreamweaver website. Templates. No doctype, tables, imagemaps and javascript. God forbid. Randomly choosing four of them and viewing source showed me quite enough. Lets go backwards??? Font face font size the whole works of what we are trying to get rid of. Someone

Re: [WSG] empty named anchors

2005-01-19 Thread Andy Kirkwood | MOTIVE
Title: Re: [WSG] empty named anchors One reason why you might not want to have content inside of an anchor would be because of the implementation of stylesheets (or more accurately how style rules have been specified). For example if a hover rule is written for to the a element it will be

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Features[Revision-URL Included]

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 20 Jan 2005, at 4:19 AM, Chris Kennon wrote: additional accessibility features for an audience with ... emotional disabilities Accessibility for the emotionally disabled? A new direction for WS? What's next - accessibility for the mildly schizophrenic? Additional features for chronic

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Wayne Godfrey
On 1/19/05 3:55 PM, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have always recommended not using an editor, learn it manually, then perhaps use one for shortcuts. Reliance on html editors and such isn't a good idea. That will go a long way toward learning on your own, without being limited by some

[WSG] Brazilian Portal site Review. Opinions Welcomes

2005-01-19 Thread Genau Junior
Hi. We are releasing next saturday, the new interface based in webstandards to biggest car seller website of brazil south region and the second of country. I would appreciate all comments and suggestions about interface, design and usability standards. The temporary address is:

Re: [WSG] mysterious little movement

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer
Andreas Boehmer wrote: If you look in IE/PC at http://dev.rmittestlab.com/ you will notice that there is a little blue space under the Services heading. You are experiencing The IE Three Pixel Text-Jog described in http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html I have

Re: [WSG] Conditional comments

2005-01-19 Thread Wayne Godfrey
I'm pushing transparency to IE this way: #logo { background: url('img/logo.png') no-repeat; } * html #logo { background: none; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='img/logo.png',sizingMe thod='scale'); } Does this really work on IE? Can I really use

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Features[Revision-URL Included]

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Perhaps the lingo below is more succinct. cognitive disabilities / learning difficulties / etc On Wednesday, January 19, 2005, at 01:52 PM, Nick Gleitzman wrote: On 20 Jan 2005, at 4:19 AM, Chris Kennon wrote: additional accessibility features for an audience with ... emotional disabilities

Re: [WSG] Brazilian Portal site Review. Opinions Welcomes

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 20 Jan 2005, at 8:16 AM, Genau Junior wrote: I would appreciate all comments and suggestions about interface, design and usability standards. The temporary address is: http://meucarronovo.locaweb.com.br Images in Noticias section are not loading - they're missing a leading slash in the

Re: [WSG] Brazilian Portal site Review. Opinions Welcomes

2005-01-19 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Genau Junior wrote: I would appreciate all comments and suggestions about interface, design and usability standards. The temporary address is: http://meucarronovo.locaweb.com.br Hmmm, give it one click of font-resizing in Firefox, and it lines up nicely down the page. One more clearer would help

Re: [WSG] Conditional comments

2005-01-19 Thread JohnyB
Does this really work on IE? Can I really use transparency in my PNG-24 and have IE display it? Or is there some hidden catch? It is used so here: http://dev.alphanumeric.cz/webspace -- there are some gotchas, like making the whole block transparent, so it's not to possible to click on it if

[WSG] Convert uppercase file names to lower case

2005-01-19 Thread Helen . Rysavy
Hi everyone I have a large site full of mixed case file names with lots of broken links as most of the links are referring to lower case. Also we are running a Linux web server which is case sensitive so naturally most of the site is broken. Question - is there any program or a way of

Re: [WSG] Conditional comments

2005-01-19 Thread Kornel Lesinski
Does this really work on IE? Can I really use transparency in my PNG-24 and have IE display it? Or is there some hidden catch? There are several catches. http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/notes/#PNG -- regards, Kornel Lesiski ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] Convert uppercase file names to lower case

2005-01-19 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 20 Jan 2005, at 10:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question - is there any program or a way of converting all the file names to lower case without doing it manually? BBEdit on Mac has case sensitive, sitewide search replace, and a powerful pattern-matching tool within search using grep.

Re: [WSG] mysterious little movement

2005-01-19 Thread Andreas Boehmer
Andreas Boehmer wrote: If you look in IE/PC at http://dev.rmittestlab.com/ you will notice that there is a little blue space under the Services heading. You are experiencing The IE Three Pixel Text-Jog described in http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/threepxtest.html

Re: [WSG] Conditional comments

2005-01-19 Thread Wayne Godfrey
On 1/19/05 6:42 PM, Kornel Lesinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this really work on IE? Can I really use transparency in my PNG-24 and have IE display it? Or is there some hidden catch? There are several catches. http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/notes/#PNG Okay, this is a logo with some

Re: [WSG] background-image:

2005-01-19 Thread Eunice Choi
Hi, I must be missing something here because I just don't get the concept of using background images as links. Could someone please explain? -- Eunice If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. - Sirius Black

Re: [WSG] background-image:

2005-01-19 Thread Helen . Rysavy
What I was talking about and I think some other were too was being able to have a href link attached to an image that is a background image, particularly for banner images, so that they can link back to the home page for instance. Normally you can put a link right onto an image, but the question

Re: [WSG] background-image:

2005-01-19 Thread matt andrews
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:25:55 +1000, Andrew Krespanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never gotten that technique to work properly in Opera. It always either a) makes scrollbars b) displays some of the text despite insane negative text-indent values... curious. in Opera 7.54, Firefox 1.0 and IE

Re: [WSG] Convert uppercase file names to lower case

2005-01-19 Thread George S. Williams
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 18:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question - is there any program or a way of converting all the file names to lower case without doing it manually? I usually use perl to solve such problems. Place the following script in a directory and run it; all of the filenames in

Re: [WSG] background-image:

2005-01-19 Thread Eunice Choi
As far as I understand, a background image means just that, a image in the background. If something needs to be a link, I believe it should be in the foreground. Am I being too strict and literal? Helen wrote: What I was talking about and I think some other were too was being able to have a

Re: [WSG] Convert uppercase file names to lower case

2005-01-19 Thread Helen . Rysavy
Lovely, thanks - I will definitely keep this handy. Now is there any way of making sure all the href urls in the site are in lower case too? I use DW (please don't cringe) and normally when you make a change it updates all the links. Some of the links are mixed case that is why I need to do

RE: [WSG] background-image:

2005-01-19 Thread Mike Pepper
Helen wrote: What I was talking about and I think some other were too was being able to have a href link attached to an image that is a background image, particularly for banner images, so that they can link back to the home page for instance. Normally you can put a link right onto an image, but

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread matt andrews
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:41:40 +1000, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather than changing editors, or at least, rather than going to DW! :), I'd suggest you just start validating your pages. Figuring out those fixes will teach you a lot, and from there you can move on to Accessibility

RE: [WSG] background-image:

2005-01-19 Thread Helen . Rysavy
Thanks Mike... that sounds like the best and most accessible solution I have seen so far. *** Helen Rysavy Web Designer, Teaching Learning Development Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory 0909 Tel: 8946 7779 Mobile: 0403 290 842 mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WSG] H2 Background image in IE Win

2005-01-19 Thread Lothar B. Baier
Sorry, Tom, you are right, the 4squares isn't visible in IE6. (Was to close to lunch, when I had a look first.) I had a close look at markup and css, but don't have any idea, what is the reason for that bug in IE. All other UA are fine. Lothar -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Bruce
Chris Stratford wrote: Wow,wow,wow slow down Alan, ... snip I LOVE TSW WebCoder. Built in FTP is Excellent! Built in Project Manager - with Status reports, To Do Lists, Full Project Upload Built in Server Mapping. Preview in IE and Mozilla - only for HTML coding, or if your server mapping...

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Ben Hamilton
Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for

[WSG] Forms using CSS

2005-01-19 Thread Ryan Sabir
Hi all, Are there any good guides around to styling form elements using CSS? The issue right now is that I want to know how far I can go with formatting groups of checkboxes without using tables, but I'm sure I'll have more questions soon... thanks, bye! --- Ryan Sabir