RE: [WSG] Site review plz

2004-12-16 Thread Bert Doorn
, unless you don't care about modem users. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

RE: [WSG] Float problem (perhaps) in IE 5 on www.mccn.org.au

2004-12-14 Thread Bert Doorn
, why not make it a heading? If it's purely for presentation, why not just apply an italic style to the paragraph? Similarly, why are your headings h4 when there's no h2 or h3 on the page? Curious Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading

RE: [WSG] Changing Standard part2 !!!

2004-12-11 Thread Bert Doorn
) content (the back button on my browser is very handy there) because most of the information I seek is fine as words and pictures (and I am impatient). Of course, this is just my opinion and I'm sure there are flaws in my argument :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http

RE: Off with your JS (was Re: [WSG] Best approach (new question))

2004-12-10 Thread Bert Doorn
(as an exhibit, rather than a tool). Nothing wrong with plain text if the document is well structured (OK, graphics designers might disagree) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] alt or title...

2004-12-08 Thread Bert Doorn
#coreattrs Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

RE: [WSG] Advert Banner, no validation.

2004-12-04 Thread Bert Doorn
if they don't understand, or give them a properly coded example). They may not be interested, but you can try. Hope this helps -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] Using small in a p

2004-12-03 Thread Bert Doorn
to me that big, small, b, I and u are to be deprecated, since they have a distinct presentation flavour. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] My site is broken in Opera

2004-12-03 Thread Bert Doorn
), on that same page, I see a lot of code/Markup and get a message that XML Parsing Failed. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] inline list issues on MAC IE

2004-12-01 Thread Bert Doorn
be scaleable for the rest of the world's population. Incidentally, with images disabled, the nav bar disappears (I'm using Firefox 1.0 on Win2K). I can't read white text on a white background. Suggest you put a background-color on the links, if not on the whole header. Regards -- Bert Doorn

RE: [WSG] Images in Nav, Splash Screens.

2004-12-01 Thread Bert Doorn
can't remember the last site I did this on - must be years ago. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Defining A Definition List

2004-11-29 Thread Bert Doorn
of news items). If there's only ever going to be one news item (e.g. you just want to show the latest news), I'd stick with the traditional heading and paragraph(s). Is a list with one item really a list? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user

RE: [WSG] Defining A Definition List

2004-11-29 Thread Bert Doorn
. Are definition lists in danger of replacing tables for layout? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

RE: [WSG] [Question] W3C Recommendations Level X,Y,Z?

2004-11-29 Thread Bert Doorn
this helps -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

RE: [WSG] using br - was [ image captions?]

2004-11-23 Thread Bert Doorn
): xHTML: div class=imgleftimg /caption text/div CSS: div.imgleft { width: 200px; /* or whatever is appropriate */ float:left; text-align:center; } div.imgleft img { display:block; } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au

RE: [WSG] Re: image captions again

2004-11-23 Thread Bert Doorn
as suggested by Gary) may work, but you may get some strange effects in non graphical browsers (search engines, assistive technology): ...convallis ornare, tortor A picture . . . nibh ultricies ante... Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au

RE: [WSG] Header cut short

2004-11-18 Thread Bert Doorn
on the footer div. The box model adds the padding to the width, so you end up with 0.25em + 100% + 0.25em. Change it to padding: 0.25em 0; and the scrollbar should disappear. Should not matter for the content as it's centered anyway. HTH -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http

RE: [WSG] Site review - www.caexpo.com.au

2004-11-18 Thread Bert Doorn
(unless I start playing with browser settings, which I then have to undo again when I go to another site). Also, don't you want people who have JavaScript enabled to provide feedback? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au

RE: [WSG] Validate Inside Your Firewall

2004-11-15 Thread Bert Doorn
accessibility. (No, haven't used that either - just reading it on their website) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au/ ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

RE: [WSG] Question to the others ...

2004-11-14 Thread Bert Doorn
ironic given what I said above) Otherwise you might try specifying its size in em's so it will scale up/down as appropriate. 780px is too wide for many people who still run at a resolution of 800x600. Why annoy them with horizontal scrollbars? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design

RE: [WSG] Another body tag question ...

2004-11-14 Thread Bert Doorn
Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

RE: [WSG] Faux columns not staying horizontal

2004-11-14 Thread Bert Doorn
div within the #container div so MSIE drops it below the #content div. See http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/doubled-margin.html for a description AND a solution. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design http://www.betterwebdesign.com.au

RE: [WSG] Access key in IE6

2004-11-03 Thread Bert
. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] A little CSS question

2004-10-29 Thread Bert
G'day Another question, is there a float:middle or center? Short answer: no. Long answer: see http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/propidx.html And in particular: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-float Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Designer Better Web Design http://www.bwdzine.com

RE: [WSG] Select form element doesnt validate

2004-10-26 Thread Bert
be a bit hard to read) there are other sites, like www.zvon.org which has (downloadable and lookup) references and tutorials for xhtml, CSS, DOM, Dublin Core and much much more. It says (in their xhtml reference): Attribute: selected Parent: option Values: selected Regards -- Bert

RE: [WSG] CSS Validation query

2004-10-13 Thread Bert
). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.bwdzine.com/ Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Bert
, not the anchor). I think your intention is as follows: div.topl a { color: #660; text-decoration: none; } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.bwdzine.com Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] top of page link class not taking effect

2004-10-08 Thread Bert
-color: #000;} Try making your rule more specific: div#content div#footnav div.ltop a { /* rules here */ } Regards Bert ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

RE: [WSG] Site review

2004-10-06 Thread Bert
of it is actually used on the page? How many of the images are actually displayed? Just food for thought :-) Regards -- Bert Doorn Better Web Design www.bwdzine.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org

RE: [WSG] Site review

2004-10-05 Thread Bert
a look at http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.p roperties.curtin.edu.au/, unless you know your intended audience will all have high-speed access. 3. Some of the navigation is lost if there's no images. Accessibility issue? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer

RE: [WSG] Semantically creating 'pipes' for footer links

2004-10-04 Thread Bert
resort Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.bwdzine.com Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] Unwanted extra space

2004-09-29 Thread Bert
but maybe it's a similar issue. One thing that can help in finding these problems is to put a (light) background on each div and see whether the space is inside or outside the div. Hope this helps -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design www.bwdzine.com Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] The Line-Up, The Hits

2004-09-25 Thread Bert
is a Definition List, where the DT is the time and the DD is the show's title. But will it make sense to people using assistive technology? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.bwdzine.com Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list

RE: [WSG] The Line-Up, The Hits

2004-09-25 Thread Bert
... but I'm not Nobody ... -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.bwdzine.com / www.bwdzine.net Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com

RE: [WSG] No background image in Firefox

2004-09-24 Thread Bert
G'day Loads fine for me in Firefox 1.0PR. You haven't disabled images in Firefox (through the web developer toolbar) by chance? Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design - www.bwdzine.com Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] No background image in Firefox

2004-09-24 Thread Bert
/fog_lead2.jpg) Like I said, it displays fine in Firefox on my PC Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.bwdzine.com Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web

RE: [WSG] Form fields in navbar causing IE to expand size of bar

2004-08-17 Thread Bert Doorn
Hi form tag causes some issues with IE. Any ideas as to what would be the best way to approach this? Remove margin and padding from the form and all should be well. #searchform form { margin:0; padding:0; } Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design http://www.bwdzine.com/ Fast-loading

RE: [WSG] Image size--where should it be?

2004-08-12 Thread Bert Doorn
HTML is if (A) all or most images on the page(s) are the same size or (B) for an image (like a logo) that appears on every page (and not as a background image). Other than that, I would still use the HMTL attributes. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Web Developer Better Web Design, www.bwdzine.com Fast

RE: [WSG] HTML CSS references

2004-08-06 Thread Bert Doorn
, XHTML and more. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web

RE: [WSG] Hacks

2004-07-30 Thread Bert Doorn
and MSIE6, but might have some problems in MSIE5.x and certainly will look different in MSIE/NN4. No idea about Safari but I'm guessing it's OK. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.bwdzine.com Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] Titles Acronyms Abbr etc

2004-07-21 Thread Bert Doorn
is the appropriate heading level and you do want to link to it internally, I would write it like this: h5 id=ventdoorVent Door Systems/h5 Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti

RE: [WSG] IES and Firefox issues - Link included

2004-07-07 Thread Bert Doorn
) and it was loading something like 180 files (presumably images). Ouch. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.bwdzine.net Fast-loading, user-friendly websites * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http

RE: [WSG] iFrames vs Scrolling Divs

2004-07-05 Thread Bert Doorn
somewhere that it's possible to link a div to an external source (it used an attribute like data or src) but I think it was a Netscape-ism. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.bwdzine.com Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] Styling Text...

2004-07-02 Thread Bert Doorn
the em element to have bold italic text in (graphical/text) browsers. The problem with b and i is that it's presentational. strong and em on the other hand have semantic meaning (especially when using assistive technology like text-to-speech converters). Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design

RE: [WSG] Must Read

2004-06-15 Thread Bert Doorn
that was there in the first place. Perhaps I am a lone voice in the desert, but why go back to 1990's style websites when we have CSS? Is it necessary to make people wait, just so you can show them the font YOU like (and they might not be able to see anyway)? /opinion Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web

RE: [WSG] re: using wildcard * in css

2004-06-14 Thread Bert Doorn
as you nest deeper (try putting an unordered list with links into the container and see what happens) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites * The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Ordered list mark-up

2004-06-07 Thread Bert Doorn
a way for it to work in other browsers. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

RE: [WSG] Centering a liquid grid of image thumbs and captions

2004-06-05 Thread Bert Doorn
(seems the server is down however). That one probably doesn't work in Mac IE either. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick

RE: [WSG] Help validating a Counter script

2004-06-02 Thread Bert Doorn
tp:\/\/1ro.cqcounter.com\/cgi-bin\/c?_id=razvan_z=0_r=">http:\/\/1ro.cqcounter.com\/cgi-bin\/c?_id=razvan_z=0_r="+See how you go after that.Regards--Bert Doorn, Better Web Design[ www.bwdzine.net | www.betterwebdesign.com.au]Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] Help validating a Counter script

2004-06-02 Thread Bert Doorn
Title: Message G'day again Check this: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://alegeri-locale.stockapplets.com/2/alegeri-locale-2004.html Any other ideas?Yep. As the validator says: a href=""http://cqcounter.com/?_id=razvan_lo=ro">http://cqcounter.com/?_id=razvan_lo=ro"The mentioned

[WSG] XHTML Strict compliant shopping carts

2004-06-02 Thread Bert Doorn
developing to standards is easier :-) I've searched Google but couldn't find any. I'd develop one myself, but haven't got the time and I'm not a programmer (though I'd love togive it ago). Thanks in advance --Bert Doorn, Better Web Designwww.betterwebdesign.com.au and www.bwdzine.net Fast

RE: [WSG] Proper usage of Blockquote and Cite

2004-05-28 Thread Bert Doorn
citeHarry Potter/cite /blockquote Looks like I was at least on the right track with my choice of elements. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites * The discussion

[WSG] Proper usage of Blockquote and Cite

2004-05-27 Thread Bert Doorn
in advance -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list

RE: [WSG] Tables are dead?

2004-05-18 Thread Bert Doorn
=36) is clever, but has the same problem (and will only work for a small portion of visitors). (But thanks for the tip - when viewed this way, it's quite obvious that I am in fact dealing with tabular data) I'll stick with a table but will try to cut out the empty spacer cells. Hmmm -- Bert

[WSG] Tables are dead?

2004-05-17 Thread Bert Doorn
descriptions with overflow:hidden). See www.bwdzine.com/divs2.html - increase font size to see the mess. Any ideas / clean, working examples? FWIW, I have no control over how much text would go in each box. -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user

RE: [WSG] Forms, labels headers

2004-05-09 Thread Bert Doorn
a site that has a home page with 40k of HTML that includes 40 tables, some of which only hold ONE word (4 characters of content hidden in a total of 262 bytes of tag soup) Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] Forms, labels headers

2004-05-08 Thread Bert Doorn
and WinXP respectively). Is this ALL select elements, or just one or two of them? I might revert to tables for layout - no headaches with those. -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] Forms, labels headers

2004-05-08 Thread Bert Doorn
puzzled why the selects in www.betterwebdesign.com.au/request-quote.asp don't work in Netscape 7. -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites * The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] Forms, labels headers

2004-05-08 Thread Bert Doorn
? -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

RE: [WSG] Some links for light reading...

2004-05-03 Thread Bert Doorn
saw in Opera, without breaking the site for others or adding tons of javascript. The site used to make extensive use of tables (and at one stage even frames), which I am trying to steer clear of. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly

RE: [WSG] Some links for light reading...

2004-05-01 Thread Bert Doorn
Very interesting I do find it ironic that a page talking about Microsoft's lack of standards support does not validate. Close, but no cigar. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly websites

RE: [WSG] iframe - object - xhtml - IE6

2004-04-29 Thread Bert Doorn
recently. I found that the border is actually IN the object, not around it. Put a style=border:none on the body tag of the document you load into the object. Worked for me in IE6 and Mozilla 1.6+ Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-loading, user-friendly

RE: [WSG] iframe - object - xhtml - IE6

2004-04-29 Thread Bert Doorn
). Both documents are valid XHTML1.1 with a DTD Sorry, I haven't got an older version of MSIE handy. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design www.betterwebdesign.com.au Fast-lding, user-friendly websites * The discussion list for http

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