Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-03 Thread Drew Trusz
On 3/2/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, A new site I recently developed the front-end for over the past few months, called Edentiti [1], has just officially launched and I wanted to get some feedback about the usability, accessibility and over functionality in

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Rob Mientjes
On 02/03/06, Rob Mientjes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good, everything works. Just not sure about the logo and left chunk of site. Why is that below the header bar? Is that just Safari or was it a conscious decision? Please do explain. Of course it was conscious, but I still don't get it.

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Livingston
On 3/2/06 10:31 AM, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] http://edentiti.com/ Took _minutes_ for the home page to display, and once it did, it still wasn't finished loading things. Mac OS 10.4.5 Safari 2.0.3 -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Hopkins Programming wrote: Why must I have javascript enabled for the site to be styled? Um... You don't need to, although IE users without script enabled with have a slightly degraded style (not totally unstyled) due to Dead Edwards' IE7 script not working. Which browser are you testing

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Rob Mientjes wrote: On 02/03/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everyone, A new site I recently developed the front-end for over the past few months, called Edentiti [1], has just officially launched and I wanted to get some feedback... Looks good, everything works. Just not sure

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Kim Kruse
Hi Lachlan, Just a design opinion... The main area (#main) looks a little squeezed between the rather heavy right and left sides. Maybe make the h2 bigger and make the intro below strong. (It is, but double strong!!... I don't know if that's why it doesn't come up as strong on my screen

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Lachlan Hunt wrote: [1] http://edentiti.com/ The layout can't cope with any degree of font-resizing in any browser, which I think is a weak point. In my testing, I can resize a substantial amount before seeing any problems occur, and even then it's just slightly

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Tom Livingston wrote: On 3/2/06 10:31 AM, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] http://edentiti.com/ Took _minutes_ for the home page to display, and once it did, it still wasn't finished loading things. Mac OS 10.4.5 Safari 2.0.3 Really? Maybe the server can't cope with the load

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Jay Gilmore
Lachlan Hunt wrote: It was decided by the designer and management that they wanted the logo on the homepage to be slightly larger and more prominent as a branding exercise, but to then move it up to the header, out of the way for all the sub pages. offtopic class=slightly You may want to

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Kim Kruse wrote: Hi Lachlan, Just a design opinion... Ok, I'll pass it on to the designers. The main area (#main) looks a little squeezed between the rather heavy right and left sides. Maybe make the h2 bigger and I know. It worked better when there was less introductory text on the

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Kim Kruse
Lachlan, It was the most semantically correct way I could find to markup the different levels of importance. There's are other combinations of nested em aswell (see the stylesheet). OK. I just never seen it in use before. I don't know if that's why it doesn't come up as strong on my

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Rob Mientjes
On 02/03/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was decided by the designer and management that they wanted the logo on the homepage to be slightly larger and more prominent as a branding exercise, but to then move it up to the header, out of the way for all the sub pages. Okay, fair

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Designer
Hi Lachlan, Lachlan Hunt wrote: /Um... You don't need to, although IE users without script enabled with have a slightly degraded style (not totally unstyled) due to Dead Edwards' IE7 script not working. / Oh dear. Will there be an obituary somewhere? :-) Site looks great overall. Nice and

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Hopkins Programming
Firefox 1.07. The siute stayed unstyled despite 10 or so Ctrl+F5's. --ZacharyOn 3/2/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopkins Programming wrote: Why must I have _javascript_ enabled for the site to be styled?Um... You don't need to, although IE users without script enabled withhave a

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Livingston
On 3/2/06 11:46 AM, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/2/06 10:31 AM, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] http://edentiti.com/ Took _minutes_ for the home page to display, and once it did, it still wasn't finished loading things. Mac OS 10.4.5 Safari 2.0.3 Really?

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Ruth Stillman
Also, when fixing this typo, you should come up with different page titles as you currently have several pages, including For Organisations, Partners, and Staff board details that all have the same misspelled title. When it comes to search engine optimization, a unique and clearly

RE: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Paul Bennett
On 3/2/06, Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... due to Dead Edwards' IE7 script not working Man, when did Dean Edwards die? I know his last post was in December, but I didn't know he was *dead* Maybe MS will make IE7 standards compliant in his honour... ;) Paul

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Lachlan Hunt
Felix Miata wrote: On 06/02/20 06:32 Lachlan Hunt apparently typed: [someone else] wrote: Or better: Is there a way to please both groups? Yes. Don't use small fonts. Don't blame me, I wasn't the designer, just the implementer so I had to. But I also wrote somewhere else in that

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Rob Mientjes
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Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Futter
On 3/3/06 10:24 AM, Rob Mientjes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/03/06, Kevin Futter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it should be *who* will grin gleefully for a start. My apologies for that typo, but it shouldn't detract from the matter at hand. -Rob. Partly my fault there Rob - I didn't

RE: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread ByteDreams
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lachlan Hunt Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:32 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com Hi Everyone, A new site I recently developed the front-end for over the past few months, called

Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

2006-03-02 Thread sharron
I have dialup that connects at 26.400 and it loaded very quickly for me! I was surprised. Nice design too - Original Message - From: Lachlan Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Check/Launch: Edentiti.com

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Citinet Lending)

2006-02-19 Thread Soeren Mordhorst
I am still in learning-process but in my opinion your site is excellent! Just test your site for example at ' http://www.sidar.org '. This validator found some problems. What I miss is a 'skip to main content' and accesskeys. With ff the text from the main-content overlapps the footer by using

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-18 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/18/06, Paul Sturgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/16/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BIGGEST thing I can see wrong with this site is the image map. Obviously the link areas aren't regular shapes, so even if you were to use a UL (navigation list) with positioned LI

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Designer
Bert Doorn wrote: I sense an utterly erroneous presumpton that the designer knows best what suits people they have never met. Bert - Isn't that what all good 'designers' do? The 'consumers' then decide if they like the design and whether they want it or not. There is little point in anyone

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Vincent Hasselgård
About 4-5 months ago they built a new national library here in Norway, the architects worked alot with making the place accesible for users with different disabilites. Essentially they did everything wrong. The biggest mistake was of course not to talk with anyone blind or in a wheelchair. There

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Designer
Vincent Hasselgård wrote: When it comes to font-sizes I'd really like to blame the browsers. I don't think it's up to us to provide tools for enlarging or shrinking fonts, just like it's not up to newspapers to provide a spyglass with every paper. Both Windows and MacOS are shipped with

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Designer wrote: Maybe 'provider' is a better term than designer. Or Georg's term : 'Web carpenter' is more to the point here. Depends on what you put into that term... :-) A good carpenter should know how to do his/her job in order to make a building functional for inhabitants and visitors,

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Felix Miata
Designer wrote Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:06:36 +: Bert Doorn wrote Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:22:22 +0800: I sense an utterly erroneous presumpton that the designer knows best what suits people they have never met. Bert - Isn't that what all good 'designers' do? The 'consumers' then decide if

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Bert Doorn wrote: To use similarly strong wording, I sense an utterly erroneous presumpton that the designer knows best what suits people they have never met. A Designer gets paid to understand their audience. The vast majority of users, even those working in high-tech firms here in Silicon

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Felix Miata
Hassan Schroeder wrote Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:21:36 -0800: The vast majority of users, even those working in high-tech firms here in Silicon Valley, *never* change *any* settings -- of the OS or any applications -- from the supplied defaults. Where is the data that backs up this assertion? Why

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Felix Miata wrote: The vast majority of users, even those working in high-tech firms here in Silicon Valley, *never* change *any* settings -- of the OS or any applications -- from the supplied defaults. Where is the data that backs up this assertion? That assertion is based on my experience

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Bert Doorn
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Felix Miata wrote: The vast majority of users, even those working in high-tech firms here in Silicon Valley, *never* change *any* settings -- of the OS or any applications -- from the supplied defaults. Where is the data that backs up this assertion? That

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Christian Montoya
On 2/18/06, Vincent Hasselgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My argument: Newspapers comes out with fixed font-size, but people who's got low vision may very easily use a spyglass to read easier. People in need of a spyglass gets themselves one. The same thing applies to web and computers, it's

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Christian Montoya wrote: How many websites do we come across with some Java or server-side option to increase text size? It's almost as common as the XHTML and CSS validator links. Is it really useful? No, not really... Completely agree. how about if these sites had a link to a page that

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Felix Miata
Patrick H. Lauke wrote Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:00:21 +: But is it our job as web *content* developers to teach our users how to use their browsers? The onus is on the browser developers to make their tools more intuitive and user friendly, and to expose that functionality to users in a much

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Designer
Christian Montoya wrote: [snip] How many websites do we come across with some Java or server-side option to increase text size? It's almost as common as the XHTML and CSS validator links. Is it really useful? No, not really... how about if these sites had a link to a page that explained how

[WSG] Site Check Please (Citinet Lending)

2006-02-18 Thread standards
Good afternoon, I'm currently in the process of designing a site that resides in a dev environment: http://dev5.headclerk.net/ It's CSS-driven and XHTML compliant. I make every effort to ensure that I use valid, well-formed semantically correct markup, but often I'm too close to the project to

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Felix Miata wrote: Nobody seems to want to take the first step on this. I doubt M$ will, so it's probably up to open source contributors to make the first move, but from what incentive? If you know any you can convince, here are two places to start:

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-18 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:21:36 -0800, Hassan Schroeder wrote: To ignore the fact that the most common browser has crap defaults and minimal resizing capability is to abdicate your responsibilities as a Designer. Hassan, With all due respect, I find that IE's default settings are just fine for

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Citinet Lending)

2006-02-18 Thread Justin Owens
Mario, Some of your CSS does not validate. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2warning=2uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev5.headclerk.net%2F My only major issue with the design is the Upcoming Training background. There is not enough contrast between the type and the background for

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Citinet Lending)

2006-02-18 Thread kvnmcwebn
did you test it in firefox yet? In ff your footer seems to break way out of the wrapper. -best kvnmcwebn ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Citinet Lending)

2006-02-18 Thread kvnmcwebn
sorry please disregard that last observation i made about your footer breaking. i had another style sheet loaded into the page by accident looks good ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Citinet Lending)

2006-02-18 Thread standards
Thank you Justin! I've begun the process of fixing those errors. Respectfully, Mario Mario, Some of your CSS does not validate. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2warning=2uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev5.headclerk.net%2F My only major issue with the design is the Upcoming

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread Charlie Bartlett
On 2/17/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://63.134.237.108/ This enables a blind user to see the document and navigate it easily. Can your consultant find a cure for world hunger, as well as enabling the blind to see? ;-) ** The

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread Stephen Stagg
-Original Message- From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please tell us which combination(s) of display size and resolution and at which DPI values your description applies to: 13 on 800x600 ... 13 on 1152x864 -- !!! Sadist :) ... 21 on 2048x1536 22 on 2048x1536 Less than

RE: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread kvnmcwebn
i might leave this site the way it is but on my next site i will try and implement a font size adjuster. lisa, If you provide the user with a Javascript pop-up window that they right-click to display a pretty flash-based font-increasing app, the user could increase the font as much as they

RE: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Patrick Lauke
kvnmcwebn lisa, If you provide the user with a Javascript pop-up window that they right-click to display a pretty flash-based font-increasing app, the user could increase the font as much as they like. It's known as the 'Clydesdale Hack'. can you give me an example of the

RE: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread kvnmcwebn
Lisa forgot to put the sarcasm tags around her content. She wasn't being serious there... ...lisa please stop horsing around... i guess i will have to research the issue more... try and find the balance.. -best kvn ** The discussion list

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Felix Miata
kvnmcwebn wrote: i guess i will have to research the issue more... try and find the balance.. When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page.

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread Paul Sturgess
On 2/16/06, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BIGGEST thing I can see wrong with this site is the image map. Obviously the link areas aren't regular shapes, so even if you were to use a UL (navigation list) with positioned LI elements you couldn't achieve the same effect... May I

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably already done that in his browser. ..which is the utterly

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Felix Miata
Hassan Schroeder wrote Fri, 17 Feb 2006 07:36:35 -0800: Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Bert Doorn
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably already done that in his browser.

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread Felix Miata
Stephen Stagg wrote Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:42:53 +: From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please tell us which combination(s) of display size and resolution and at which DPI values your description applies to: 13 on 800x600 ... 13 on 1152x864 -- !!! Sadist :) ... 21

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably already done that in his browser.

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-17 Thread kvnmcwebn
felix, dont mean to throw another log on the fire...but i think the font size can vary somewhat depending on the nature of the content. -best kvn ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Mark Harris
Hassan Schroeder wrote: Felix Miata wrote: When your page respects the user's decision what size fonts are most appropriate for him, your page needs no resizer, because the user won't need to again resize just for having visited your page. He's presumably already done that in his browser.

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Mark Harris wrote: Then you should try educating them, rather than 'managing' them So then educated users set their preferred font size, and then (apart from a few sites that do the right thing and don't go below 100%) the rest of the web appears even smaller (or in any case differently

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Felix Miata
Patrick H. Lauke wrote Fri, 17 Feb 2006 22:26:54 +: Mark Harris wrote Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:39:00 +1300: Then you should try educating them, rather than 'managing' them So then educated users set their preferred font size, and then (apart from a few sites that do the right thing and

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-17 Thread Mark Harris
Patrick H. Lauke wrote: Mark Harris wrote: Then you should try educating them, rather than 'managing' them So then educated users set their preferred font size, and then (apart from a few sites that do the right thing and don't go below 100%) the rest of the web appears even smaller (or in

[WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread kvnmcwebn
hello i have a site that i need a bit of advice on, i got some great help here allready for it. ..1st it dosnt validate right now but i will get it to pass after i address some other issues. the site was critiqued rather harshly by a third party consultant- here is the original email. -not

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/17/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://63.134.237.108/ any feedback at all greatly appreciated Table-based layout? Was that guy looking at the same site? Looks pretty layout-table free to me... You're missing a H1, which isn't great... wrap the header image in an H1 element

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Ted Drake
, that shouldn't take long at all. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kvnmcwebn Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 2:35 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] site check hello i have a site that i need a bit of advice on, i got

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Scott Swabey
kvnmcwebn wrote: hello i have a site that i need a bit of advice on, ... the site was critiqued rather harshly by a third party consultant- here is the original email. Well I had a very quick look at it and though visually the site is nice there are a couple of serious problems, I'm

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Ted Drake
] site check hello i have a site that i need a bit of advice on, i got some great help here allready for it. ..1st it dosnt validate right now but i will get it to pass after i address some other issues. the site was critiqued rather harshly by a third party consultant- here is the original email

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Terrence Wood
Joshua Street: The BIGGEST thing I can see wrong with this site is the image map. Nice site. Check the typos: Skip to nazvigation (top of page). Outside of that I mostly agree with Josh except I'd like to see the county names as plain text and positioned instead on the map instead of as

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread kvnmcwebn
thanks guys, Yes we did double check and make sure he checked the right site. at first i thought he surely must have been checking the old site... http://www.families.ie/ but no he was checking the right url. The consultant is an employee of the irish government.nevermind i wont go there.

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread kvnmcwebn
I will do as josh suggested. Actually using flash is a good idea for the maps especially as they are going national and will have all counties in the republic on there. The you are here is a breadcrumb that has yet to be programmed. good idea on using positioned text instead of the image map

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
One other thing... typo, your are here » above the imagemap. ** 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] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Street
On 2/17/06, kvnmcwebn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can i get a second opinion on felix's advice? It must've been offlist, but I'd guess it was about fonts ;-) My second opinion is I agree... he's generally right about such things! ** The discussion

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Terrence Wood
kvnmcwebn: Can i get a second opinion on felix's advice? What did Felix advise? kind regards Terrence Wood. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread kvnmcwebn
What did Felix advise? He's right as far as he went. There's another serious accessibility problem he didn't touch on, plus a corollary, which you can see in the screenshot. In your CSS is an accessibility issue, as well as one of manners: 'body {font:75%...'. Browser makers provide users with

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Terrence Wood wrote: kvnmcwebn: Can i get a second opinion on felix's advice? What did Felix advise? Stab in the dark: don't define font size below 100%... -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
kvnmcwebn wrote: What did Felix advise? He's right as far as he went. There's another serious accessibility problem he didn't touch on, plus a corollary, which you can see in the screenshot. In your CSS is an accessibility issue, as well as one of manners: 'body {font:75%...'. Browser makers

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Terrence Wood
On 17 Feb 2006, at 1:31 PM, kvnmcwebn wrote: What did Felix advise? Let your visitors be able to use your site without fighting through this rude and unnecessary basic usability/accessibility obstacle. See: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html; I didn't really need to ask...

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Stephen Stagg
On 17 Feb 2006, at 00:43, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: kvnmcwebn wrote: What did Felix advise? He's right as far as he went. There's another serious accessibility problem he didn't touch on, plus a corollary, which you can see in the screenshot. In your CSS is an accessibility issue, as well as

RE: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-16 Thread Herrod, Lisa
Yes but Patrick, If you provide the user with a Javascript pop-up window that they right-click to display a pretty flash-based font-increasing app, the user could increase the font as much as they like. It's known as the 'Clydesdale Hack'. L -Original Message- From: Patrick H.

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-16 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Herrod, Lisa wrote: Yes but Patrick, If you provide the user with a Javascript pop-up window that they right-click to display a pretty flash-based font-increasing app, the user could increase the font as much as they like. It's known as the 'Clydesdale Hack'. But only if the button for

Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-16 Thread Mark Harris
Herrod, Lisa wrote: Yes but Patrick, If you provide the user with a Javascript pop-up window that they right-click to display a pretty flash-based font-increasing app, the user could increase the font as much as they like. It's known as the 'Clydesdale Hack'. L song id=yankee-doodle Oh,

RE: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes

2006-02-16 Thread Herrod, Lisa
I've always wanted my own theme song. I believe I have finally arrived. -Original Message- From: Mark Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 17 February 2006 12:27 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] site check: FONT sizes Herrod, Lisa wrote: Yes

Re: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Felix Miata
Stephen Stagg wrote Fri, 17 Feb 2006 01:02:11 +: On 17 Feb 2006, at 00:43, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: It's just a shame that people who pay for web design usually insist on the smaller text sizes, because historically 99% of web sites in the wild have tended to serve a slightly reduced

RE: [WSG] site check

2006-02-16 Thread Herrod, Lisa
I think that requires a purchase order felix. -Original Message- From: Felix Miata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please tell us which combination(s) of display size and resolution and at which DPI values your description applies to: 13 on 800x600 14 on 800x600 15 on 800x600 16 on

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-13 Thread Christian Peper
David Nicol wrote: I'd appreciate it very much if you could take a quick look at: http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/ If you're on the home page, hovering above the top left logo won't do anything. If you go to About Us, both the top *and* bottom section of the logo link you back to the home

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-13 Thread ���
Christian Peper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Nicol wrote: I'd appreciate it very much if you could take a quick look at: http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/If you're on the home page, hovering above the top left logo won't do anything.If you go to About Us, both the top *and* bottom section of the

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-12 Thread David Nicol
Hello everyone, What can I say? Your advice and assistance has been tremendous. I completely appreciate it. It looks like I've got a bit of work to do sorting out a series of problems with the site. I'll get stuck into this work and will, I hope, geteverything working properly before the

RE: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-12 Thread Roberto Santana
ntana De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de David NicolEnviado el: jueves, 12 de enero de 2006 10:16Para: wsg@webstandardsgroup.orgAsunto: Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com Hello everyone, What can I say? Your advice and assistance has been tremendous. I

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-12 Thread David Nicol
@webstandardsgroup.orgAsunto: Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com Hello everyone, What can I say? Your advice and assistance has been tremendous. I completely appreciate it. It looks like I've got a bit of work to do sorting out a series of problems with the site. I'll get stuck into this work and will, I

[WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread David Nicol
Hi everyone, I'd appreciate it very much if you could take a quick look at: http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/ All comments welcome. In particular, please let me know if you spot anything that I'd need to fix before my client begins to promote the site. Thank you in advance. Kind regards David

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Peter J. Farrell
David Nicol said the following on 1/11/2006 2:09 PM: Hi everyone, I'd appreciate it very much if you could take a quick look at: http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/ All comments welcome. In particular, please let me know if you spot anything that I'd need to fix before my client begins to

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread wendy
David, Same shifting top nav thing in FF 1.0.7/Mac. Also, the color of the top links on hover is on the light side, so that they fade into the background a bit. And how come we can't have two guys snogging a girl?? ;-) Cheers, Wendy David Nicol wrote: Hi everyone, I'd appreciate it very

RE: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Collin Davis
From: David Nicol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com : http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/ David, Looks great! There are a few positioning problems under Opera/Win that you might want to have a look at - didn't have

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread David Nicol
Hi Peter, Many thanks for spotting this. I'll get on to it right away. Cheers David http://www.nbcommunication.com There appears to be some problems in FF1.5 in WinXP in your headersection.Location of screen shot: http://www.maestropublishing.com/examples/shetlandcoffe_ss.png

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread David Nicol
Thanks Wendy, I agree with you about the colour of the top links on hover. With regard to the main image, it was the client who supplied this. Nothing to do with me - honest! Cheers david http://www.nbcommunication.com On 1/11/06, wendy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David,Same shifting top nav

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread David Nicol
Thomas, Collin, Thanks for your feedback. I'll re-visit the header part again and will hopefully get it to look right in all browsers. cheers David http://www.nbcommunication.com

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Street
Love the design, but just one thing about the background. The dotted line fluctuates at the edge of each repetition, because there are dots right on the edges. I don't know if you can add/subtract a pixel in on one side of the graphic easily, or whether this'll interfere with the other repeating

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread James O'Neill
Three validation issues that are easy to fix http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1uri=http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/site/index.cfm The CSS validates! There are some alignment issues as other have mentioned. The colored stripe in background seems to be too low or the content too hight??Jim On

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Novitski
At 12:09 PM 1/11/2006, David Nicol wrote: I'd appreciate it very much if you could take a quick look at: http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/ David, You've got an XHTML-Strict doctype, and yet you've got a great whack of whitespace above the doctype tag. If I'm not mistaken, this will cause browsers

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Bill McAvinney
A couple of things I notice, that haven't been mentioned: 1. The Wholesale Enquiries page is right shifted compared to the other pages 2. On at least some of the buy pages the very first anchor, a href=http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/;img src=../images/logo.gif class=logo alt=Shetland

Re: [WSG] Site Check - ShetlandCoffee.com

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Ferguson
On Jan 11, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Bill McAvinney wrote: 2. On at least some of the buy pages the very first anchor, a href=http://www.shetlandcoffee.com/;img src=../images/logo.gif class=logo alt=Shetland Coffee Company /, isn't closed. While most browsers are being generous to you and

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