Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

I *want* to like Drupal. I really do. When it's working, it's a beautiful thing. But I've recently had a lot of trouble installing the recent version. So much trouble that I gave up on it :( Lucien. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Raine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24/05/07 3:30 PM >>> I love WordPr

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

Steve Olive wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:19:46 pm Hassan Schroeder wrote: Parker, Simi (DPS) wrote: I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

Medyk, You clearly dont understand forms, i can tell by the way you said you dont understand what a is for. Before i go any further, ill say again, follow the standards set. In my article i quoted a quote from W3C that says, tables should not be used for layout purposes but for tabular data. Do

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

Douglas Reith wrote: Hi there, Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? (Photoshop?) Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!! Cheers, Doug Notepad. Best, ~dL *** List Gu

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

I love WordPress. I recently tried to install Drupal but didn't have LOCK table permissions on my server that is required for installation. ByteDreams wrote: http://www.drupal.org Can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. ***

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

Douglas Reith wrote: > Hi there, > Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site > designs in? (Photoshop?) > Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!! > Cheers, > Doug I make graphics with GIMP & Inkscape (both open source) as well as Photoshop and Illustra

RE: [WSG] stand alone blog software

http://www.drupal.org Can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa B McLaughlin Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:41 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] stand alone blog software Call

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

I use Photoshop with Illustrator using the Smart objects between the two to get the best of both worlds. Use Illustrator mainly to present the different scaling issues of the site. Tried Fireworks very early on. Wasn't that impressed. -- Gary Barber Blog - http:/manwithnoblog.com Douglas Rei

[WSG] ie 6 problems

Hi Group This seems to be all I ask is about ie 6 questions - lol The problems are a few. I have this design that looks ok and workable in both ie 7 and ff2 and 1.5 but in ie 6 it looks a bit funny... I do not have the time to re-code, so I am after fixes (if that makes sense). it is not finishe

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

Photoshop ... :) I do use Fireworks sometimes, but know Photoshop better. - susie On 24/5/07 9:22 AM, "Douglas Reith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? > (Photoshop?) > Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or simil

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

You could try Expression Engine, the core is free to Non-profits. http://expressionengine.com/ Other than that - wordpress. Gary Barber http://manwithnoblog.com Lucien Stals wrote: Sounds like you need Wordpress. http://wordpress.org/ >From what you describe, it can do all that. It's also h

RE: [WSG] Tiling image problem

Sherwin, and all others who had responded to this thread - This design is to be used in a blogging system and their HTML is already hard-wired and cannot be changed - so that suggestion is out the window by default. However, I have convinced the client to dump the patterned background in fa

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

Yeah, I like Fireworks too, although for some reason, a lot of designers don't. Fireworks is particularly good for laying out Web Application interfaces IMHO. The CS3 version has some really useful features in that regard, such as the 9-slice scaling guides, which let you better define ho

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

If your on linux you can GIMP do mock ups of the site. Normally for the 'design' I use photoshop and play around will colours and ideas However the best place to start is actually either a pen and paper or a word processor of some sort to layout the user interface. (I don't mean the design or o

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

I agree with Lucien unless there are other requirements (ie no php must bet .NET) go wordpress, *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Hel

Re: [WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

I use Fireworks. On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:22:42 +1000, Douglas Reith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? (Photoshop?) Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!! Cheers, Doug -- Tyssen Design ww

Re: [WSG] Form drop-downs for countries

How are you producing the select and option html? If you are producing these on a webserver via a scripting language, its probably best to do the grouping there. Use the Optgroup tag (which I believe is fairly well supported) to group the list of common countries together with a nice label. Not e

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

Jamie Collins wrote: http://www.viberate.co.uk/ws/styling-a-form/styling-a-form.html I must say that I disagree with some points stated in these article, shared also with stronger tone in previous posts (that is "Tables for forms

Re: [WSG] Form drop-downs for countries

There was a discussion on this on Roger Johansson's site last year: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/selecting_country_names_in_forms/ On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:58:16 +1000, Sarah Peeke (XERT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi folks, Just wondering what you think about form usability

[WSG] Mocking up web interfaces

Hi there, Just a quick one - what do people most commonly mock up web site designs in? (Photoshop?) Also, if possible, Linux and GPL or similar would be great!! Cheers, Doug -- Douglas Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (0)4 1042 1081 mobile

RE: [WSG] stand alone blog software

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Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

When you say you've been looking to no avail, what have you looked at and why were they no good? On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:41:04 +1000, Lisa B McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Calling all blog wizards! I need a stand alone blogging software that I can insert into a client's website so t

[WSG] Form drop-downs for countries

Hi folks, Just wondering what you think about form usability scenarios for drop-downs for countries. I currently maintain a database of countries which is displayed alphabetically in a form drop-down. To save the user having to scroll, I'm considering repeating "common" countries at the top of t

Re: [WSG] stand alone blog software

Sounds like you need Wordpress. http://wordpress.org/ >From what you describe, it can do all that. It's also highly themeable if you need a specific custom look and feel. L. Lucien Stals [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Lisa B McLaughlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 24/05/07 8:41 AM >>> Calling all blog wizards

[WSG] sorry for the post regarding blogging software

Sorry guys! I just realized I posted to you instead of The List!!! Many apologies!! Lisa Lisa B. McLaughlin, NCW [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: +44 (0) 1943 468624 M: +44 (0) 7835 947606 AllSpunUp Websites that work for you. -Original Message- Fro

[WSG] stand alone blog software

Calling all blog wizards! I need a stand alone blogging software that I can insert into a client's website so they keep their branding and can update their own blogs. I've looked around to no avail. Any suggestions for where to look, how to look, or anything you use that fits the bill? Requirem

Re: [WSG] RE: Error help

I cant say that I've been experiencing any crashes while testing the site in FF2, IE7/6/5.5 or Opera 9. I would hassle a guess that the majority of clients would be using IE6, so I would potentially focus my testing in that browser on as low spec system as you can get your hands on. Its entirel

Re: [WSG] RE: Error help

Paul Bennett wrote: > In Firefox and Opera - the flash video shows the message 'a > required component is missing from your system! Click here to > add component' > (no js errors in either browser) Unless you consider it a logic error to prompt the user to download an ActiveX DLL to a Linux syst

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

You are right about the links, they shouldn't be side by side, the div solution is clearly not best. Rob mentioned that if the page is viewed with CSS off, the images would stack up and create a rather long page. That's definitely something to consider, but most likely something worth compromisi

Re: [WSG] RE: Error help

Hi Mike, When you say it crashes, what exactly happens? any error messages for example? Nick michael (SydneyWeb) wrote: Hi can anyone help with this customer question Im not sure if its because this client is always complaining or whether we have missed

RE: [WSG] RE: Error help

In my experience, browser crashes == bad JavaScript or bad video In Firefox and Opera - the flash video shows the message 'a required component is missing from your system! Click here to add component' (no js errors in either browser) there are a lot of requests to dev.theweddingshow.com.au wh

[WSG] RE: Error help

Hi can anyone help with this customer question Im not sure if its because this client is always complaining or whether we have missed something in development This is the site www.theweddingshow.com.au The client went with

Re: [WSG] Tiling image problem

Hey Cole, This might be another way, but have you tried it with extra markup? That is, possibly using z-index to layer your containers? Regards, Sherwin On 5/20/07, Cole Kuryakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All - I'm setting a 1px by 770px image to repeat vertically within a wrapper d

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All: My name is Puneet, web designer based in Dubai. Recently I have revamped my website with tableless design and xhtml, keeping the web standards in mind. I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at : www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your comments/

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

On 5/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All: My name is Puneet, web designer based in Dubai. Recently I have revamped my website with tableless design and xhtml, keeping the web standards in mind. I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at : www.puneetsakhuja.c

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the primary issue you have here is the assertion that Images, however artistic they may be, qualify as 'data'. I cannot see that connection, and therefore cannot agree with the use of a table. Further, the 'relationship' between two images may change if they are

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at : www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your comments/suggestions. Really nice work! The form does not validate, it's easy to fix that, check the validator output:

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

I like the site, the only issue i could see that the site does not degrade gracefully when you disable javascript, this can some times be hard to a achieve, however in your case you are using javascript for simple navigation movements. What I would suggest is have your links go to say index.html#

RE: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

I think the primary issue you have here is the assertion that Images, however artistic they may be, qualify as 'data'. I cannot see that connection, and therefore cannot agree with the use of a table. Further, the 'relationship' between two images may change if they are moved, but the 'meaning' of

Re: [WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All: My name is Puneet, web designer based in Dubai. Recently I have revamped my website with tableless design and xhtml, keeping the web standards in mind. I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at : www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your comments/

[WSG] Suggestions rquired on my web portfolio

Hi All: My name is Puneet, web designer based in Dubai. Recently I have revamped my website with tableless design and xhtml, keeping the web standards in mind. I would really appreciate, if you guys can take a look at : www.puneetsakhuja.com, and send me your comments/suggestions. Also if someo

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Quoting Designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: A significant number of photographers regard a 'collection of photographs' as being 'the work', and the way that work is shown (the relationship between one image and it's adjacent images, and indeed, to the whole) is of paramount i

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

Quoting Designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: A significant number of photographers regard a 'collection of photographs' as being 'the work', and the way that work is shown (the relationship between one image and it's adjacent images, and indeed, to the whole) is of paramount importance. What I'm sayi

[WSG] Australian University webpage reviews and WANAU membership

For some reason my membership of WANAU has been lost, ignored or denied by the WANAU moderator. My emails to Dey Alexander to comment on this research have received no reply. I have spent a few hundred hours of my time unfunded to produce a webpage that is highly relevant to WANAU's objectives

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

John Faulds wrote: > As I said, I couldn't say for certain what the relationship might be, but my guess with the example given, as it's a photo gallery site, would be that the photographer/artist feels like the photos should be in a certain sequence, perhaps to facilitate the telling of a stor

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

Quoting John Faulds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I was talking about an ordered list over an unordered list. I never said anything about using tables. Ah, yes, I missed how the argument moved on to ordered vs unordered lists. I was under the impression that this branch of the discussion (the order

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:19:46 pm Hassan Schroeder wrote: > Parker, Simi (DPS) wrote: > > I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting > > service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration > > other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media player, I w

RE: [WSG] div hiding and expanding

Hi Kevin, The most obvious way to do this is using JavaScript. There are loads of different JavaScript methods, however I've come up with a small library of functions based on the Prototype framework that lets you do this kind of this, completely unobtrusively and without non-standard markup. Tak

Re: [WSG] dl v table for form layout

Ive put together a quick article regarding forms. Ive had to place it on some random server at work for now. http://www.viberate.co.uk/ws/styling-a-form/styling-a-form.html Theres 3 pages in total, the last page goes through 3 methods of creating a form with and without a DL. Its been created fo

RE: [WSG] div hiding and expanding

Hi Kevin, The most obvious way to do this is using JavaScript. There are loads of different JavaScript methods, however I've come up with a small library of functions based on the Prototype framework that lets you do this kind of this, completely unobtrusively and without non-standard markup. Tak

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

I was talking about an ordered list over an unordered list. I never said anything about using tables. On Wed, 23 May 2007 17:00:31 +1000, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John Faulds wrote: As I said, I couldn't say for certain what the relationship might be, but my guess wit

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

Nick Fitzsimons wrote: I'm assuming here that a screen reader imparts the additional information implied by the distinction between ol and ul, such as specifying "Three" rather than "Bullet". I haven't checked, but I believe that is the case from previous tests. Ah, gotcha...from your origin

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery markup & semantics

John Faulds wrote: As I said, I couldn't say for certain what the relationship might be, but my guess with the example given, as it's a photo gallery site, would be that the photographer/artist feels like the photos should be in a certain sequence, perhaps to facilitate the telling of a story