[WSG] Site Check Please (Clattco)

2005-12-22 Thread Jay Gilmore
Hello All, I would like to know if I have made any huge gaffes with this site (http://www.smashingred.com/clientspace/clattco/). Nearly complete and just requires copywriting completion. Specifically the following are of interest: Rendering on mac in Safari and IE, Usability, Mistakes I may

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Clattco)

2005-12-22 Thread Kenny Graham
With larger text sizes, your sidebar headings become white on white. I'd suggest vertically expanding that background image, or setting a similar background color along with the image. That and a few things like empty paragraph elements and stray /div on some of the pages. Last (and probably

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Clattco)

2005-12-22 Thread Kenny Graham
Last (and probably least), a future-proofing warning: If you ever decide to serve that site as xhtml instead of text/html, it'll break because of the content of your style elements. Nevermind, it might not. I've become so paranoid that I tend to enclose any non-xml/html in cdata's because I

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Clattco)

2005-12-22 Thread Jay Gilmore
Kenny Graham (thoughtfully) wrote: With larger text sizes, your sidebar headings become white on white. I'd suggest vertically expanding that background image, or setting a similar background color along with the image. That and a few things like empty paragraph elements and stray /div on

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Clattco)

2005-12-22 Thread Felix Miata
Jay Gilmore wrote: I would like to know if I have made any huge gaffes with this site (http://www.smashingred.com/clientspace/clattco/). Nearly complete and just requires copywriting completion. All opinions are welcome. If there are mistakes out of ignorance please point me to a

Re: [WSG] Site Check Please (Clattco)

2005-12-22 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/22/05, Jay Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I would like to know if I have made any huge gaffes with this site (http://www.smashingred.com/clientspace/clattco/). On this page: http://www.smashingred.com/clientspace/clattco/renovations/ the last photo is overlapped by the

[WSG] Site check: Noteworthy.com

2005-12-19 Thread Thierry Koblentz
I'm almost done: http://www.tjkdesign.com/clients/noteworthy I'm wondering if this is the correct markup for this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/clients/noteworthy/templates.asp Should I use a table instead? It seems that I need some headings and that I'm cheating with the first DL in there. Also,

Re: [WSG] Site check: Noteworthy.com

2005-12-19 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/19/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm almost done: http://www.tjkdesign.com/clients/noteworthy I'm wondering if this is the correct markup for this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/clients/noteworthy/templates.asp Should I use a table instead? It seems that I need some headings

Re: [WSG] Site check: Noteworthy.com

2005-12-19 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Christian Montoya wrote: On 12/19/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm almost done: http://www.tjkdesign.com/clients/noteworthy I'm wondering if this is the correct markup for this: http://www.tjkdesign.com/clients/noteworthy/templates.asp Should I use a table instead? It seems

Re: [WSG] Site Check Footer Question

2005-12-16 Thread Lloyd
I seem to have fixed most of the issues and I have gone live with it: http://guild.murdoch.edu.au/ I would still really appreciate a site check though! Lloyd On 12/15/05, Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I am working on a web site for my Student Guild and I would love some feedback.

[WSG] Site Check Footer Question

2005-12-15 Thread Lloyd
Hi Guys, I am working on a web site for my Student Guild and I would love some feedback. It has been done very quickly and a lot of the content is still being prepared but I have tried to keep standards and accessibility in mind. http://www.lloydy.id.au/guilddev/ It validates but I would love

[WSG] Site Check please

2005-12-12 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Guys and Gals, I have just switched my site to a fluid layout vs. the old 750 pixels wide approach. I have also changed all my font sizes to em's to adjust as needed. Can people in mac and linux take a glance to make sure all is well for me? Thanks, Joe Taylor http://sitesbyjoe.com

Re: [WSG] Site Check please

2005-12-12 Thread Jay Gilmore
Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: Guys and Gals, I have just switched my site to a fluid layout vs. the old 750 pixels wide approach. I have also changed all my font sizes to em's to adjust as needed. Can people in mac and linux take a glance to make sure all is well for me? Thanks, Joe

Re: [WSG] Site Check please

2005-12-12 Thread Christian Montoya
On 12/12/05, Jay Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, The site looks ok but I have a few of comments: Why are you using a transitional doctype? What elements or deprecated attributes are you using that require this? Why are you using pnbsp/p for spacing? ... Why are you using spans to

Re: [WSG] Site Check please

2005-12-12 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
The poor practices mostly come from this code being slowly updated since version 1, (which was really bad), hopefully in time all the no-no's will be removed. I appreciate the time you spent looking in there and noticing that stuff, I forgot all about those stupid span tags all over the

RE: [WSG] Site Check please

2005-12-12 Thread kvnmcwebn
pretty cool jay, what about the top links bottom border disapearing on the hover though? -kvnmcwebn ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to

Re: [WSG] Site Check please

2005-12-12 Thread Jay Gilmore
kvnmcwebn wrote: pretty cool jay, what about the top links bottom border disapearing on the hover though? -kvnmcwebn kvnmcwebn, Are you talking about my site: http://www.smashingred.com or Joe's site: http://www.sitesbyjoe.com ? All the best, Jay Jay Gilmore Developer/Consultant

RE: [WSG] Site Check please

2005-12-12 Thread kvnmcwebn
kvnmcwebn,Are you talking about my site: http://www.smashingred.com or Joe's site: http://www.sitesbyjoe.com ? sorryimeant joe not jay,

Re: [WSG] Site check and review please

2005-12-03 Thread Jad Madi
Thank you rob, I'm not sure is it the weekend of my message wasn't clear, its the first time this list return with only one response Regards Jad madi Blog http://jadmadi.net/ Web standards Planet http://W3planet.net/ ** The discussion list

[WSG] Site check and review please

2005-12-02 Thread Jad Madi
Hi, We have alpha launched itoot.net yesterday, please give me your opinion, feedback, criticism Thank you in advace. -- Regards Jad madi Blog http://jadmadi.net/ Web standards Planet http://W3planet.net/ ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] Site check and review please

2005-12-02 Thread Rob Mientjes
On 12/2/05, Jad Madi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have alpha launched itoot.net yesterday, please give me your opinion, feedback, criticism Looks good, no issues. That is to say, no issues with design and performance. The about page could use some revisions. The quotation marks aren't pretty (in

[WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
Hiya all, I've been working in my free time for over a month to create the best possible standards compliant theme for the Typo weblog system. It's an entry for the Typo theme contest. My template is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and should work in a very large amount of browsers. I still have

Re: [WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread Christian Montoya
My question: What do you guys think of the template, Great! do you spot any problems in certain browsers In FF 1.5, when I hover over the links on the right, the pop out to the left 1 pixel. When I scroll down and back up, they are fine again. I'm not sure if this is an FF problem or

Re: [WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread Bernard Sandberg
Hiya all, My question: What do you guys think of the template, do you spot any problems in certain browsers and is there a way to get it to behave in MSIE 5.2 for mac? My experience is that with Fx 1.0.7, the text seems quite unreadable and blurry. I don't know if this is intentional, but it

Re: [WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread Kim Kruse
Hi Marco, The template looks really great... but why does the text look jagged. I get a javascript error using W2K/FF 1.07 ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for

Re: [WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
Hmm this is funny... There's one person reporting it's blurry while another one calls it jagged. Could this have something to do with font smoothing settings? I do know the jagged look is because of ClearType not being enabled. Win2k doesn't even have it at all which will render any

Re: [WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread Marco van Hylckama Vlieg
I just tried FF 1.5RC3 on my mac and I am not experiencing this behaviour so I guess it's indeed some sort of rounding error. It does fix the problem 1.0.7 has with the tags cloud in the sidebar having more right margin than left margin. That looks like it does in Safari and MSIE now,

Re: [WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread Christian Montoya
.sidebar-node li a { display: block; margin: 0; width: 206px; background: url(../../images/theme/sidebar_linkbullet.gif) no-repeat top left; font-size: 11px; font-family: Trebuchet MS; color: #aaa; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0 0 0 23px; } bah, pixel

Re: [WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/26/05, Marco van Hylckama Vlieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's gotta be pixel sized or it will screw up big time when the letters get bigger than the area they're in. What's so wrong with pixel size anyway? Just out of curiosity... Actually, the list items are fine when I resize them.

Re: [WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread marco
What exactly do you mean by 'making them work the same way the list items do' ? And yes, a screenshot would be nice because I can't see any problem neither on my PC nor on my mac Thanks in advance, Marco On 11/26/05, Marco van Hylckama Vlieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's gotta be pixel

Re: [WSG] site check: theme for Typo

2005-11-26 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly do you mean by 'making them work the same way the list items do' ? And yes, a screenshot would be nice because I can't see any problem neither on my PC nor on my mac Thanks in advance, Marco Here you go:

[WSG] Site Check : http://www.qm-consulting.co.uk/test3/index.html

2005-11-08 Thread QM Consulting Ltd
Thanks for the reviews and suggestions from before. I have made some changes and added some more pages. I would appreciate your feedback once more. I still have some issues to address e.g.: the forms need to be made fully accessible the table needs to be madefully accessible

Re: [WSG] site check: liquid.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-10 Thread Steve Ferguson
Nice! I wish I had thought of scaling screenshots to percent width, it looks better and would have saved me a lot of trouble.When I view the site using Safari it briefly renders the unstyled page. I haven't noticed this behavior before. Perhaps it's the @import?Steve Ferguson -

Re: [WSG] site check: liquid.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-10 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/10/05, Steve Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice! I wish I had thought of scaling screenshots to percent width, it looks better and would have saved me a lot of trouble. When I view the site using Safari it briefly renders the unstyled page. I haven't noticed this behavior before. Perhaps

RE: [WSG] site check: liquid.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Bennett
FOUC? an empty script tag will do it, ie: script type=text/javascript/script (after the styles are imported / included iirc...) Paul ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Site check: color.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-09 Thread Steve Ferguson
I expected the manual inputs to accept hex values since that's typically how we work with colors on the web. Perhaps you could offer the option of using hex or decimal?Steve Ferguson - Illumit L.L.C. http://illumit.comOn Oct 8, 2005, at 6:25 PM, Christian Montoya wrote:Hey all, Thanks for the

Re: [WSG] Site check: color.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-09 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/9/05, Steve Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I expected the manual inputs to accept hex values since that's typically how we work with colors on the web. Perhaps you could offer the option of using hex or decimal?Steve Ferguson - Illumit L.L.C. http://illumit.com I will, later. -- - C

[WSG] site check: liquid.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-09 Thread Christian Montoya
I just (hopefully) finished a somewhat complex layout. It's liquid, and has max-width for all the good browsers. As for IE, it has some _javascript_ that forces IE to implement max-width. After that, it's just an untamed liquid layout for the IE users without _javascript_... who probably don't

[WSG] Site check: color.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-08 Thread Christian Montoya
Hello all. I just finished a site and it looks ok in IE 6 / FF / Opera. I'm not too concerned about compatibility with older browsers, just wondering if it works ok in Mac and Linux. The site is here: http://color.rdpdesign.com Any advice is also welcome. Thanks!-- - C Montoyardpdesign.com ...

RE: [WSG] Site check: color.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-08 Thread Nick Lazar
, October 09, 2005 9:14 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Site check: color.rdpdesign.com Hello all. I just finished a site and it looks ok in IE 6 / FF / Opera. I'm not too concerned about compatibility with older browsers, just wondering if it works ok in Mac and Linux. The site

Re: [WSG] Site check: color.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-08 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Christian Montoya wrote: I just finished a site and it looks ok in IE 6 / FF / Opera. I'm not too concerned about compatibility with older browsers, just wondering if it works ok in Mac and Linux. The site is here: http://color.rdpdesign.com The ads are overlaying the content on FF 1.0.5 and

Re: [WSG] Site check: color.rdpdesign.com

2005-10-08 Thread Christian Montoya
Hey all, Thanks for the checks. The problems come from the page being sized in em's, and the ads being absolutely positioned with ems... I've decided that's too difficult. I'll probably put the ads back in, but in a more robust way, so they don't risk covering content. -- - C Montoyardpdesign.com

[WSG] Site Check (eStore)

2005-09-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
http://www.tjkdesign.com/eStore/ I've put it through a few browsers on PC, but I'm pretty limited on the Mac side... Thanks, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Site Check (eStore)

2005-09-15 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Butterfly.com looks good in Safari 2.0.1, Firefox 1.5.1 Beta, Opera 8.0.2 nav_bar shifts to the left in IE 5.2 in the mac. On Sep 15, 2005, at 7:51 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: http://www.tjkdesign.com/eStore/ I've put it through a few browsers on PC, but I'm pretty limited on

Re: [WSG] Site Check (eStore)

2005-09-15 Thread Paul Dwyer
Looks good on FF, OS10.3.9 The menu tab slides away when the window is resized too small, but it is not likely people will go as far as I did. Love the content! pd On 9/15/05, Thierry Koblentz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.tjkdesign.com/eStore/ I've put it through a few browsers on

Re: [WSG] Site Check (eStore)

2005-09-15 Thread David Laakso
Thierry Koblentz wrote: http://www.tjkdesign.com/eStore/ I've put it through a few browsers on PC, but I'm pretty limited on the Mac side... Thanks, Thierry | www.TJKDesign.com XP_SP2 IE/Moz/FF/Opera It is an attractive and aesthetically pleasing site, Thierry. The two butterflies

RE: [WSG] Site Check (eStore)

2005-09-15 Thread Drake, Ted C.
but there is so little out there that is as well thought-out as this. Nice work. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Laakso Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:44 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Check (eStore

Re: [WSG] Site Check (eStore)

2005-09-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Hi Ted, If were gonna git nitpicky. I'd clean up this code on the shopping cart: Ouch! I guess I still have more work to do then :) I've started with a commercial (shopping cart) package. Out of the box, the markup doesn't validate, tables are all over the place, deprecated markup, bunch of

Re: [WSG] Site Check (eStore)

2005-09-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Drake, Ted C. wrote: If were gonna git nitpicky. I'd clean up this code on the shopping cart: I was going to change the markup as you suggested, but then I thought that a list may not be the correct markup for this. Because it would suggest that there are 3 different items when in fact it is

Re: [WSG] Site Check (eStore)

2005-09-15 Thread Chris Kennon
A standards Compliant e-solution for future reference: (http://www.zen-cart.com/modules/frontpage/) C On Sep 15, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Thierry Koblentz wrote: Hi Ted, If were gonna git nitpicky. I'd clean up this code on the shopping cart: Ouch! I guess I still have more work to do then :)

Re: [WSG] Site Check (eStore)

2005-09-15 Thread Thierry Koblentz
Drake, Ted C. wrote: I like using definition lists over paragraphs for their inherit structure and the hooks they provide for CSS. Do you see any reasons to not use a dl? I like DLs too ;) I have 2 or 3 in this site already. But here I don't think it would be the correct markup. Beside that,

Re: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep-Validation Complete]

2005-09-11 Thread Chris Kennon
. You are also showing warnings when run through Tidy. Regards Scott Swabey Lafinboy Productions www.lafinboy.com -Original Message- On Behalf Of Chris Kennon Subject: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep] I've put it through as many hoops (UA's) as I own, let me know how it holds in yours

Re: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

2005-09-11 Thread David Laakso
Chris Kennon wrote: Hi, I've put it through as many hoops (UA's) as I own, let me know how it holds in yours. Overall you're looking good, Chris. Some nit-picking notes-- - a little slow to load - unable to read content if images disabled. - font-size on body okay at 80% better (for me)

Re: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

2005-09-11 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Very thoughtful and helpful, will implement as many changes as necessary. C On Sep 11, 2005, at 6:42 PM, David Laakso wrote: Chris Kennon wrote: Hi, I've put it through as many hoops (UA's) as I own, let me know how it holds in yours. Overall you're looking good, Chris.

Re: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

2005-09-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Kennon wrote: Hi, I've put it through as many hoops (UA's) as I own, let me know how it holds in yours. Looking good in Opera, Firefox, IE6, Safari iCab. IE/Mac is lost on width-- spreading everything out. --- HTML Tidy lists a number of minor errors. --- div#content-primary

Re: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

2005-09-11 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Is this suggestion a usability or aesthetic decision? On Sep 11, 2005, at 6:42 PM, David Laakso wrote: - would delete all the buttons and the validator thing in footer On Sep 11, 2005, at 6:42 PM, David Laakso wrote: - would delete all the buttons and the validator thing in footer

Re: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

2005-09-11 Thread David Laakso
Chris Kennon wrote: Hi, Is this suggestion a usability or aesthetic decision? On Sep 11, 2005, at 6:42 PM, David Laakso wrote: - would delete all the buttons and the validator thing in footer Neither. -- David Laakso http://www.dlaakso.com

Re: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

2005-09-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Chris Kennon wrote: What tidy settings are you using. I get one nested span error from the default settings. However, I would like to see your settings and results. I got some 'href lacks value', 'tabindex lacks value' and an 'action lacks value' -- in addition to the 'nested emphasis span'.

[WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

2005-09-10 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, I've put it through as many hoops (UA's) as I own, let me know how it holds in yours. C ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the

RE: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep]

2005-09-10 Thread Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions
Of Chris Kennon Subject: [WSG] Site Check [BushidoDeep] I've put it through as many hoops (UA's) as I own, let me know how it holds in yours. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

[WSG] Site check (eCommerce)

2005-08-17 Thread Thierry Koblentz
http://63.135.116.208 Hi all, I have a few questions: - Is a DL the right markup for the FAQ and Directions pages? - On many pages (Home, CheckOut, FAQ, Directions), I'm using the same link text to refer to different resources (13.1 Clearly identify the target of each link). Should I be really

RE: [WSG] Site check (eCommerce)

2005-08-17 Thread Jona Decker
Thierry Koblentz wrote: - Is a DL the right markup for the FAQ and Directions pages? I think a definition list is the most semantically correct markup for an FAQ. If you look at the w3 documention on lists it says that DLs ...consist of two parts: a term and a description which is pretty close

RE: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-07 Thread Tatham Oddie \(Fuel Advance\)
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tatham Oddie (Fuel Advance) Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:58 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Cc: Tom Harvey Subject: [WSG] Site Check: VVE Guys n gals, In light of the Broadleaf discussion/brawl the other week, I have a new proposal

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread David Laakso
Tatham Oddie (Fuel Advance) wrote: In light of the Broadleaf discussion/brawl the other week, I have a new proposal for you. In this case, bandwidth was critical due to the existing site’s traffic base and formed a major design goal. http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/vve/

RE: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread Tatham Oddie \(Fuel Advance\)
David, Tidy Online will eliminate all the white space on your file. The page is dynamically generated, hence all the weird tabbing that steps in an out. I'll get a server side filter working shortly that does that kind of stuff. Why are you using XHTML 1.1? Why not? Am I missing something

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread David Laakso
Tatham Oddie (Fuel Advance) wrote: David, Tidy Online will eliminate all the white space on your file. The page is dynamically generated, hence all the weird tabbing that steps in an out. I'll get a server side filter working shortly that does that kind of stuff. Why are you

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:35:34 -0400, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: readable, usable, accessible content Is the page breaking in one of your browsers? -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist Media Logic www.mlinc.com Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client:

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread David Laakso
Tom Livingston wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:35:34 -0400, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: readable, usable, accessible content Is the page breaking in one of your browsers? No, this page http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/vve/Dashboard/Default.ashx is not breaking in any of my

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:36:39 -0400, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, this page http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/vve/Dashboard/Default.ashx is not breaking in any of my browsers. Regards, David Laakso So, XHTML 1.1 is bad because? -- Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread David Laakso
Tom Livingston wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:36:39 -0400, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, this page http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/vve/Dashboard/Default.ashx is not breaking in any of my browsers. Regards, David Laakso So, XHTML 1.1 is bad because? Hi Tom, Tatham has

RE: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread Peter Williams
From: Tom Livingston So, XHTML 1.1 is bad because? Is there an issue that XHTML 1.1 should be served as media type application/xhtml+xml and should not be served as text/html? http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ As I understand it current browsers aren't well equipped to deal with

RE: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-02 Thread Tatham Oddie \(Fuel Advance\)
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Laakso Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 4:31 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE Tom Livingston wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 12:36:39 -0400, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, this page http

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-01 Thread Darren Wood
Great work Tathan! The markup is very tight indeed! there is very small thing - that is you've left out the type attribute on the link tag at the top of the document. link rel=stylesheet href=../Skins/Vision.css type=text/css media=screen / Otherwise its great. It looks good and behaves well!

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-01 Thread Terrence Wood
v. nice. Nothing really needs changing but you might consider: 1. Maybe use search instead of query as a label for the search form. 2. Your CSS issues may come form the use of multiple classes, which some browsers don't handle very well (I'll leave the css-d folks to look into this) 3. You

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-01 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/vve/ http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/vve/Dashboard/Default.ashx Pretty good (looks clean, code and layout wise). I don't like using as many classes as you do, but that's personal preference. The only real problem I see is accessibility

Re: [WSG] Site Check: VVE

2005-08-01 Thread Andrew Krespanis
1. Maybe use search instead of query as a label for the search form. Maybe use Find instead of search or query (then again, your target audience is developers, so query is part of their vocab). 'Search' suggests that a 'hunt and peck/ hit and miss activity will follow. More important than that

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-27 Thread leenath1
- From: Donna Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf Not exactly a clean user experience then. Particularly troublesome when designers rely on the background image and define colour for their text

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-27 Thread dszady
Donna Jones wrote: Not exactly a clean user experience then. Particularly troublesome when designers rely on the background image and define colour for their text to be readable against it, but fail to provide fallback background colour. Zengarden is an experimental site, showcasing in many

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-27 Thread Donna Jones
Mugur Padurean wrote: Hello, reality check here. Quoting the US and Australian available IT infrastructure, as a good reason for building huge web pages, is wrong for at least three reasons: I surely didn't mean to be doing that, please see below. 1. Over 90% percent of the world population

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-26 Thread Mugur Padurean
Hello, reality check here. Quoting the US and Australian available IT infrastructure, as a good reason for building huge web pages, is wrong for at least three reasons: 1. Over 90% percent of the world population do not live there and do not have dial-up access or other types of network access

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-26 Thread Donna Jones
Mugur Padurean wrote: Hello, reality check here. Quoting the US and Australian available IT infrastructure, as a good reason for building huge web pages, is wrong for at least three reasons: I surely didn't mean to be doing that, please see below. 1. Over 90% percent of the world population

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-26 Thread Hope Stewart
On 26/7/05 4:18 PM, Mugur Padurean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And accessibility means access for everyone regardless of technology availability or other kinds of disabilities. I think web standards were meant to raise awareness first and give an impulse to all of us to build a better web. A web

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-26 Thread Mugur Padurean
True, but how do you keep your site local on the web? And what if my bussiness in Romania on dial-up finds your services in Australia (aimed at local broadbanders) so attractive that wants to do business with you? Hey, maybe this way i can get my business on the broadband level but here in Romania

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-26 Thread Mugur Padurean
quote what feels seems different in this instance is that the image is in the background so the image is not even necessary to see the page and load the page. / qoute Why put it there then ? If it's not needed then make it go away ! And voila ... you just turned a broadband only into a everyone

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-26 Thread Hope Stewart
On 26/7/05 7:07 PM, Mugur Padurean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, but how do you keep your site local on the web? And what if my bussiness in Romania on dial-up finds your services in Australia (aimed at local broadbanders) so attractive that wants to do business with you? Hey, maybe this way

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-26 Thread Mugur Padurean
It does not matter who is it you aimed for. I CAN ACCESS IT. And i don't mean me Mugur, but me, another multi-national, with headquarters in another part of the world with local to ISP broadband connection but no broadband outside the country, witch happen to be common practice in some countries

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf - please close this thread

2005-07-26 Thread Ingo Chao
Mugur Padurean schrieb: Would you sent your client to war (for big bucks) with slow, clumsy outdated weapons from the 20th century? We shouldn't use war metaphors in a thread that has all qualities of an holy war. After reading all possible relevant and irrelevant objections, I would

RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Tatham Oddie \(Fuel Advance\)
a significant concern. Thanks, Tatham Oddie Fuel Advance - Ignite Your Idea www.fueladvance.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mugur Padurean Sent: Monday, 25 July 2005 3:48 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Edward Clarke
Creative Media Centre 17-19 Robertson Street Hastings East Sussex TN34 1HL United Kingdom From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tatham Oddie (Fuel Advance) Sent: 25 July 2005 07:51 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf Mugur

RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Tatham Oddie \(Fuel Advance\)
www.fueladvance.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Clarke Sent: Monday, 25 July 2005 5:08 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf The problem is youre designing for a technology [DSL], not accessibility. May I

RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Tatham Oddie \(Fuel Advance\)
www.fueladvance.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mugur Padurean Sent: Monday, 25 July 2005 5:25 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf Your absoutely right when you say our creativy shoud not be restricted by any means. Still

RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen Alan Scott
@webstandardsgroup.orgSubject: RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf Mugur, I hope you are not upset with me. Not at all. J I just fail to understand people who are concerned about pages under 150k. Until about 2 years ago, 50k was my limit. However since then, I've been happy to add

RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread TN38 [Admin]
of the template. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tatham Oddie (Fuel Advance) Sent: 25 July 2005 10:16 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf Mugur, I hope you are not upset with me. Not at all. J I just fail

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day I just fail to understand people who are concerned about pages under 150k. Well, you probably fail to take a few things into account. Like people leaving a slow loading site rather than complaining. Like the cost of bandwidth. Like availability of broadband. I could go on, but I

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 7/25/05 2:50 AM Bert Doorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: But how about cutting down the size of your emails and making them plain text? No need to repeatedly quote 40k of text with all that Micro$oft formatting in it. Regards -- Bert Doorn, Better Web Design 100% agreement here.

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Chris Cowling
You would have thought that a web standards group would be using a more web standards compliant email client like Thunderbird ? Rick Faaberg wrote: On 7/25/05 2:50 AM "Bert Doorn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: But how about cutting down the size of your emails and making them

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
On 7/25/05, Chris Cowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would have thought that a web standards group would be using a more web standards compliant email client like Thunderbird ? Targetting email clients is like targetting browsers, which is soo 90. And don't forget the few of us who are on

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Terrence Wood
On 25 Jul 2005, at 4:02 PM, Tatham Oddie (Fuel Advance) wrote: Regarding the CSS errors - they are all IE hacks * html is your friend. It validates and only IE loads it, and you can group 'em together as a block rather than polluting individual rules. Hide your PC only hacks from Macs using

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Donna Jones
] [mailto: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Clarke Sent: Monday, 25 July 2005 3:08 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf I suspect the 120Kb footprint of the background image is of more concern to most visitors. Edward Clarke

Re: [WSG] Site Check: Broadleaf

2005-07-25 Thread Terrence Wood
Sites where designers can show off their chops cater to a specific audience - other designers who want to be thrilled by a primarily visual experience. There is nothing wrong with eye candy sites for people interested in eye candy, but using such examples as an argument in support of creating

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