Re: [WSG] New logo scheme was talking points for standards

2005-12-06 Thread adam reitsma
I think there is still a mentality of any of those awards/certified/compliant buttons just being a click stealer.Remember those web award badges you could stick on your site with pride in the early 90's - until you realised that it was only there to get users to click off your site? I believe the

Re: [WSG] talking points for standards

2005-12-05 Thread adam reitsma
Donna,This is where you really need to be thinking in terms of what the customer wants.So it's the hippest, coolest, latest code - so what? They really don't care - and shouldn't care.Come up with points that assist them - as Kim was saying, show where your 'methods' (and you don't really need

[WSG] Training Courses....

2005-12-01 Thread adam reitsma
), I was thinking that maybe someone may have some knowledge in this area. Again, please respond off-list. Thanks for your time!Regards,Adam Reitsma

Re: [WSG] firefox 1.5 is official

2005-11-29 Thread adam reitsma
i don't think it actually ignores the second center... it just reads your body's height as 0px. Notice that if you have 'center top' it shows all of your background image, but with 'center center', it only shows half, as the background image has been vertically centered at 0px. as a quick test -

Re: [WSG] Good practice of CSS styled forms

2005-11-16 Thread adam reitsma
here's one of many good starting points:http://webstandardsgroup.org/resources/On 11/17/05, GuruGorg.Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started to build a directory of webmaster goodies on my website.Could you recommend me sites with examples, presentations, tutorialsof CSS styled forms.I hope it

Re: [WSG] Good practice of CSS styled forms

2005-11-16 Thread adam reitsma
...and one more focused on validation:http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/formval.html *note that by providing all these links, i do not necessarily vouch for their techniques!On 11/17/05, adam reitsma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:here's one of many good starting points: http://webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] snug a border around diff sized pix

2005-11-15 Thread adam reitsma
Have you tried using CSS to put a border directly around the image itself?for example, if your html is like this:div class=photoimg src="" alt=me at the beach/div then your css could be as follows:.photo img { border: 2px solid pink; }Good luck!On 11/16/05, csslist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I have

Re: [WSG] Validate a PNG?

2005-11-09 Thread adam reitsma
Could it perhaps be joomla related?:o)(absalom media is responsible for several contributions to the joomla community; especially a tutorial from which myself and numerous others have greatly benefited) just workflow your design how you want to, then screencap it, and send it in (as a jpg or png,

Re: [WSG] Font resizing

2005-11-09 Thread adam reitsma
My sentiments exactly.But then what is the most accessible, most practical solution for allowing the user to change the font size of your site?Options include:- writing accessible, standards friendly code that can easily be either magnified or increased in size by the browser - providing a button

Re: [WSG] Scalable background-image?

2005-11-08 Thread adam reitsma
As far as i know, there is no way to change the scaling of the background image - but, by changing the viewable area of the background, you can effectively change the size.the general way this is done is by intentionally making the background larger than it has to be, so that if the font size is

Re: [WSG] Complex form - markup help?!

2005-10-20 Thread adam reitsma
Wow.I'm glad i re-checked my email before sending.I would like to echo the sentiments already mentioned - the layout needs work.Whether your form is in a table, or just maintains this tabular appearance, it is clear that context is a very important part of this form - you have 16 pairs of

Re: [WSG] Web page check

2005-10-13 Thread adam reitsma
try putting a float:left into your div.classdescriptions. worked for me in FF.On 10/13/05, GALLAGHER Kevin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off the site was designed before Firefox and was my first site. Now I have been seeing things were Firefox is displaying something's

Re: [WSG] Placement of company logo

2005-10-09 Thread adam reitsma
My thoughts entirely. I would definitely want the company logo as an IMG element. If your company's site was to be viewed without the use of CSS, would you still want the logo the appear? I would. --adam--On 10/10/05, Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do others think?1 vote here for

Re: [WSG] Placement of company logo

2005-10-09 Thread adam reitsma
oh dear is it just me, or does this TIP method seem like the modern-day version of the spacer gif? On 10/10/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Czeiger wrote: Doing it this way IS good branding. It's also about controlling HOW you want your logo to appear in certain context.

Re: [WSG] Stop the Presses! Announcing the supercool search plugi n!

2005-10-06 Thread adam reitsma
Don't take it personally, Ted, I think Brian is putting forward a valid point - buyer / freeloader beware. Google toolbars can actually do a lot of damage, so even when installing one from a valid source, it pays to be aware of the risks. That said, i think that there's a vast difference

Re: [WSG] Mixed navigation and search form

2005-10-06 Thread adam reitsma
Hi Ian, Any thoughts on how I can achieve this? If you could provide some pages of your previous attempts, that would make life easier for some of us, so we can see what you've tried so far, and what is not a desired outcome. here's a basic one i did in invalid html, built over Listamatic's

Re: [WSG] Mixed navigation and search form

2005-10-06 Thread adam reitsma
The undesirable outcomes are: 1) When the user enlarges the font, the 1 pixel separator in the nav does not extend to fill the vertical height of the nav bar. 2) The text input field and submit button (an image) are not vertically aligned as per the graphic I provided. Perhaps this (very draft,

[WSG] new site designed - code walkthrough please?

2005-09-29 Thread adam reitsma
! Regards, Adam Reitsma.

[WSG] image alignment?

2004-11-17 Thread adam reitsma
? one image left aligned, one right aligned, both vertically centred? Any help is appreciated. Regards, adam reitsma. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints

Re: [WSG] Help with this layout

2004-10-06 Thread adam reitsma
the simple answer to this, Olajide , is to use the overflow property. in the divs, set overflow: visible perhaps. google search css overflow for more information. the less simple answer is - why is there a height set in the first place? I have a sneaking suspicion that you may be taking a less

Re: [WSG] Footer stuff

2004-09-19 Thread adam reitsma
Hi Amit, Ben Bishop's presentation at the sydney WSG meeting outlined that he used a list for his footer: http://www.nzsteel.co.nz/nz/ He also used css for the divider, instead of pipes: #footermenu li a { height:1em; padding:0 0.75em; border-left:1px solid #999;