Re: [WSG] Electronic forms building software

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Mount
Sorry, I didn't know that :-) -- Peter Mount Web Development for Business Mobile: 0411 276602 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.petermount.com Andrew Boyd wrote: Peter, Jessica has been designing forms for years and seems (based on my observations) to have a fair handle on web

RE: [WSG] Electronic forms building software

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Boyd
Hi Peter, no problem :) Just on form usability - Jessica presented at the last IA Cocktail Hour here in Canberra on form design - Ruth Ellison blogged on it at http://www.ruthellison.com/2008/01/25/form-design/ - and there is some good advice in that on creating usable useful forms. Best

Re: [WSG] margin auto in css

2008-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: Thanks for all the help so far. I'm obviously going to have to study up on setting margins to 0 auto in css. I'm going to look it up myself but if anyone can explain how that resolved my earlier issues I'd appreciate it. See:

Re: [WSG] Styling forms

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Snodgrass
Yes, the only difference between between the input in the label and having it outside of the label with the for attribute set is primarily just some formatting via CSS differences. Beyond that, there is little difference. All modern browsers (and even most older ones) allow you to click on the

[WSG] repeat x and repeat y

2008-02-06 Thread Michael Horowitz
I again thank everyone for all the help. Any good resources for repeat x and repeat y Also would love suggestions for new books to buy. -- Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079

Re: [WSG] repeat x and repeat y

2008-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: I again thank everyone for all the help. Any good resources for repeat x and repeat y Also would love suggestions for new books to buy. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#background-properties http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=GoodBooks ~dL --

RE: [WSG] repeat x and repeat y

2008-02-06 Thread Darren Lovelock
Two books I would recommend - Designing with Web Standards - Jeffrey Zeldman The Art Science of CSS - Sitepoint Hope this helps :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Laakso Sent: 06 February 2008 16:37 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] repeat x and repeat y

2008-02-06 Thread Christian Snodgrass
I second the recommendation on The Art Science of CSS, it is excellent. The CSS Anthology is also an excellent CSS book (also from Sitepoint). Darren Lovelock wrote: Two books I would recommend - Designing with Web Standards - Jeffrey Zeldman The Art Science of CSS - Sitepoint Hope this

Re: [WSG] Shouldn't margin be working

2008-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: I've added some margin and padding to the #content div #content { margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 5px; clear: none; float: none; } But it doesn't appear to have an affect. I've verified it validates as CSS

Re: [WSG] Shouldn't margin be working

2008-02-06 Thread Michael Horowitz
I guess my boxes are wrong. What you have is what I am looking for. What I thought I was doing was setting up a #menu box adjacent to a #content box adjacent to a #right_box. All parallel. It appears the content box is actually going out to the entire size of the site while #menu box and

Re: [WSG] Shouldn't margin be working

2008-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: I guess my boxes are wrong. What you have is what I am looking for. What I thought I was doing was setting up a #menu box adjacent to a #content box adjacent to a #right_box. All parallel. It appears the content box is actually going out to the entire size of the

Re: [WSG] repeat x and repeat y

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Tetlaw
http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/background-repeat On 2/7/08, Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I again thank everyone for all the help. Any good resources for repeat x and repeat y -- Andrew http://tetlaw.id.au ***

Re: [WSG] display differences firefox ie 7.0

2008-02-06 Thread Joe Ortenzi
MH: Someone earlier this week sent a very good presentation that explained a lot of the problems you are facing. It is quite a long presentation (more of a lesson really!) but it answers a lot of the problems you are having. There are also a collection of great links sprinkled through

Re: [WSG] Styling forms

2008-02-06 Thread Joe Ortenzi
Has anyone looked up the HTML 5 pages on form elements? http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/ http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#forms It's all fieldsets and labels... which makes more semantic sense than paragraphs, lists, and dd/dl JOe On Feb 6 2008, at 04:06, Steve Green wrote: There may be

Re: [WSG] display differences firefox ie 7.0

2008-02-06 Thread Thomas Thomassen
On having Layout is a good article that gives good insight to most of IE's quirks: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html - Original Message - From: Joe Ortenzi To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] display