Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.ItsAllaboutYou-studio.com

2009-01-13 Thread James O'Neill
Henrik, Thank you for your feed back. I am working on those now. =) The little globe is used to indicate links to external sites. Perhaps another icon would indicate this better? What would you suggest for the link colors. I prefer colors that make the links stand our and not blend into the rest

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2009-01-13 Thread Matt Morgan-May
On 1/10/09 8:26 AM, Alan C Whiteman acwhite...@visualis.us wrote: In the end, Flash is not only an obnoxious medium in 90% of its usage ...which is not a problem owing to the platform but rather its authors... (Besides, that's consistent with Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.) it's

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread Matt Morgan-May
On 1/12/09 2:20 AM, michael.brocking...@bt.com michael.brocking...@bt.com wrote: Quote: The fact is that many educators have found that they can use Flash to teach their students effectively. I think you (and those teachers that you refer to) are mistaking an effective lesson, for effective

[WSG] Browser / OS Test on website.

2009-01-13 Thread Danny Croft
Hi All, I was wondering if any of you get a spare minute, could you cast your professional eyes over a site I just put online. Its only a small online resume type site. But I'd be interested to see if anyone could find any issues with it or had any suggestions for items that I may have missed. I

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread David Lane
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 11:42 -0800, Matt Morgan-May wrote: If evil is all you have to say about Flash, then there's not much that can be said. It's clearly not worth taking a reasoned approach to convince you that it has merit as a classroom tool, despite the thousands of teachers and millions

RE: [WSG] Browser / OS Test on website.

2009-01-13 Thread Shaun
Nice Site Danny Seems OK Windows XP/Firefox 3.0.5 but guess you knew that (Does seem quite a space between sections though) In IE6 I don't get the icons on your contact details but all works well beside that Google Chrome OK Safari 3.1 /XP OK Vista Business IE7 OK Firefox 2.0 OK Will

Re: [WSG] Browser / OS Test on website.

2009-01-13 Thread Joseph Taylor
Looks real good! The list item icons aren't showing up in IE6 - no biggie. Joseph R. B. Taylor /Designer / Developer/ -- Sites by Joe, LLC /Clean, Simple and Elegant Web Design/ Phone: (609) 335-3076 Fax: (866) 301-8045 Web: http://sitesbyjoe.com Email:

RE: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread Webb, KerryA
-Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Matt Morgan-May Sent: Wednesday, 14 January 2009 6:43 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT Adobe could do a better job, the

Re: [WSG] Browser / OS Test on website.

2009-01-13 Thread Henrik Madsen
Hi Danny, Nice site. Small usability suggestion: Have your 'back to the top' links on the right hand side of the page, so that when the page scrolls down you don't need to move yor mouse too much to reach the link. Henrik Henrik Madsen Generator hen...@igenerator.com.au

Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.ItsAllaboutYou-studio.com

2009-01-13 Thread Henrik Madsen
External link icon: I'd lose the globe, also because it's jaggy. You may find this useful: http://programmabilities.com/xml/?id=30 Link colour: The site is very blue. Maybe choose one or two complementary or contrasting colours, for decoration, and use a derivative for your link

[WSG] XSLT/XPATH doc-available problem

2009-01-13 Thread Focas, Grant
Hi, I'm using XSLT2 and having a problem with the doc-available function. I have an href attribute (@href) whose value is 'wiki.xml' resolve-uri(@href,'file:/c:/clipsworkingdir/rss/temp/') returns file:/c:/clipsworkingdir/rss/temp/wiki.xml (this file exists and is valid XML).

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-13 Thread Hayden's Harness Attachment
Let me see if I am understanding correctly. The Title attribute is not needed any more. As long as links are in simple language and their is a description of a photo and/or graphic on the side or top and bottom. Angus MacKinnon Infoforce Services http://www.infoforce-services.com Faith is the

RE: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread Andrew R
A question was asked early in this thread about what are the benefits of using Flash? There's been no answer to that question. I was hoping to learn some answers because I've been confused about why it's become so widely used in eLearning. I think I see several factors but I also think

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread nedlud
Having worked as both a teacher in higher ed, and in a support role for teachers in higher ed, I have to agree 100% with Andrew. Flash is the devil you know. Teachers use it so they don't have to learn something new. It amazes me how many people still get away with making flash sites, and burning

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Andrew R wrote: ,... and I’m going to make some gross simplification to illustrate my point. Apparently. Flash is prominently a tool for supporting interaction with certain types of content. It does not enable a whole bunch of other activities that could (should) be included in supporting

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Dimmock
Hi Jens Actually, using the 'title' attribute in a link does NOT add a little bit of SEO. Title element ('Page Title') - yes for SEO - but title attribute - no. Try it yourself. Put a few words in a title attribute - words which don't otherwise appear on your page. The once Google has re-indexed

Re: [WSG] Title attribute

2009-01-13 Thread Anthony Ziebell
Hello, The title attribute is especially useful if you need to explain the content of a page to your visitor and your link text is not so meaningful. I would advise that you attempt to use meaningful text in your links. It might be a good idea to change the structure of your sentence so that

[WSG] Checking My Page

2009-01-13 Thread Marvin Hunkin
Hi. Thanks to Mark Harris, he put my files up on his server. so, will post the url for feedback. the main problem, i have is the styles.css and the navlinks.css. so can people take a look, and show me how to fix some of the errors in the css sheets i have. and also general feedback, not so much

RE: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread Christie Mason
From: Hassan Schroeder Have you ever developed -- or even used -- an application built in Flex, or OpenLaszlo? Perfectly simple to do any of the above, with the advantage of easy integration with video and other rich content. [CM] Yes, I've tried Flex and abandoned the effort. It didn't give

Re: [WSG] Checking My Page

2009-01-13 Thread Luke Hoggett
Hi Marvin, Wow a flash back to web design circa 1997. Well it does pass XHTML transitional, so plus there. In terms of css errors well you really shouldn't be placing styling information in id attributes i.e. id=Borg; width: 400px; margin: 1% auto; Your positioning breaks (text and images

Re: [WSG] Frames/iFrames [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-13 Thread Mary-Anne . Nayler
Thanks Benjamin. They are using them to facilitate the menu/header/footer ite,s across a host of applications which sit on a range of differing servers using a rang of differing technologies. I suggested SSI's but that is not possible due to server configuration issues. I think I am going to

Re: [WSG] Frames/iFrames [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Harris
mary-anne.nay...@medicareaustralia.gov.au wrote: They are using them to facilitate the menu/header/footer ite,s across a host of applications which sit on a range of differing servers using a rang of differing technologies. I suggested SSI's but that is not possible due to server configuration

Re: # Re: [WSG] Beta Testers Needed for BCAT

2009-01-13 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Christie Mason wrote: Yes, I've tried Flex and abandoned the effort. ... Plus, there's the maintenance issue. Simple example I always use is what if you had to change a corporate logo in every Flash file? To do that with a dynamic database approach you change the file once and that's it.

[WSG] RE: # Flash accessibility

2009-01-13 Thread Elizabeth Spiegel
Hi Matt You said: I have to challenge that assertion, as the engineer who's principally responsible for improving the accessibility of Flash. Having followed Flash accessibility since it was first introduced (in 2002), I can tell you that it has improved dramatically since that time, to the