Re: [WSG] Feedback on site :: color red

2004-04-02 Thread Andy Budd
Considering the site is about surgery, I'd steer clear of red altogether! Really bad choice there, unless you are deliberately trying to unnerve people and put them off. How about a soothing blue or a clinical green? Andy Budd http://www.message.uk.com/

Re: [WSG] Feedback on site :: color red

2004-04-02 Thread russ weakley
Or gang-green? people and put them off. How about a soothing blue or a clinical green? * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting

[WSG] [OT] A few question about PHP/MySQL/Coldfusion

2004-04-02 Thread Gary Menzel
This is very much off topic. For the CF stuff with IIS you should probably join the Daemon list called CFAUSSIE (http://lists.daemon.com.au). However, we install CF under IIS all the time and have no trouble - just follow the prompts. For the IIS and Apache sharing PHP - a PHP list would be

Re: [WSG] hiring a standards-savvy designer

2004-04-02 Thread russ weakley
This thread has already been moved offlist to the discussion room: http://discuss.webstandardsgroup.org/archives/09.htm Please do not continue this thread onlist Russ I agree Leo, programming takes a logical mind. Art takes a creative mind. However there is a grey area, and I believe that

Re: [WSG] hiding clear:both ?

2004-04-02 Thread afdesign
Try Andy Budd's method explained here: http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2003/12/css_crib_sheet_2_clearing_floats/ .clear { clear: both; height: 0; } div class=clear!-- --/div Vaska.WSG wrote: I hate to ask a dumb question, but I can't find any information about this altough I'm pretty sure

Re: [WSG] hiding clear:both ?

2004-04-02 Thread Manuel González Noriega
El vie, 02-04-2004 a las 15:31, Vaska.WSG escribió: I hate to ask a dumb question, but I can't find any information about this altough I'm pretty sure I've read about this someplace. What I'm trying to do is use div class=clnbsp;/div .cl { clear:both; } We use to do hr /

Re: [WSG] *sigh* drop-downs

2004-04-02 Thread Bill McAvinney
Hi Justin, Studies on this topic seem pretty scarce. The only one I'm aware of is http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/51/menu.htm Unfortunately for you it doesn't show a statistically relevant difference in users perceptions of either, Perceived Disorientation, Perceived Ease of

Re: [WSG] hiding clear:both ?

2004-04-02 Thread Luc
Good evening Vaska, It was foretold that on 2-4-2004 @ 15:31:23 GMT+0200 (which was 15:31:23 where I live) Vaska . WSG would write: snipped a bit VW But the sticky part is that I don't want it to add the extra line VW space. I'm not sure of the best way to do this. Have you tried this:

Re: [WSG] My first CSS project---correction

2004-04-02 Thread Sarah Sammis
I also looked at the page at (1280x1024) and the text is overlapping the photo. Is that intentional? Hi! I tested your website and it's looking nice ;) One problem though, I viewed the about us in 1024 X 768 resolution and it looked fine, however, in anything less (e.g. 800 X 600) the padding

[WSG] CSS Netscape 6 positioning problem

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin McMonagle
Hi Wsg, I'm new to css and xml but am starting to get into it. A page im working on exhibits a placement problem when the viewed in navigator 6-mac. The page works well in ie 5-mac. Does netscape have problems with some positioning values? The only work around I can think of is doing to sets

RE: [WSG] CSS Netscape 6 positioning problem

2004-04-02 Thread Chatham, Will
Hi Kevin, It looks like you have problems in more than just NS6 Mac. I'm seeing overlapping content in Firefox 0.8PC as well. Looking at your CSS, I see some incorrect syntax and missing punctuation. You might try validating the CSS and XHTML as a place to start eliminating problems such as

Re: [WSG] hiring a standards-savvy designer

2004-04-02 Thread Darian Cabot
Sorry. Everytime I reply it takes a long time to appear in the thread. I dunno if it's my mail service or what, but that message I wrote didn't appear for ages. (_) ...you might see this one by tomorrow?? :P and by that time maybe it's also on the discussion board (-_-; ) Darian Cabot

RE: [WSG] hiring a standards-savvy designer

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Kear
I think there must be something wrong with your email service Darian because I haven't seen it yet. And it's the day AFTER tomorrow already. Cheers Mike Kear -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darian Cabot Sent: Saturday, 3 April 2004 9:39

RE: [WSG]Tables or DIVs / Spans?

2004-04-02 Thread James Gollan
Just looking through my archives for some info on forms and found this. I am wondering about the use of the legend tag in the first example (http://www.amonline.net.au/sand/using/survey.htm) to set out the question. Would this be better suited/more semantically correct in the label tag? I guess I

[WSG] Links for light reading...

2004-04-02 Thread russ weakley
Accessibility checklist: http://www.yourusabilityresource.com/2004/03/accessibility_c.html Evaluating web site accessibility: seven steps http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2004/proceedings/203.htm March for web standards http://hownow.brownpau.com/misc/m4west.html Four new Zen Garden entries:

Re: [WSG] WSG Design competition is now open

2004-04-02 Thread wsg
As mentioned a week or so ago, We are introducing a design competition for members. Russ, Excellent news about the competition, however I have a question about the voting system. You say All members will only be allowed one vote (though you can change your vote). My question is will the

Re: [WSG]Tables or DIVs / Spans?

2004-04-02 Thread James Ellis
Hi James The legend tag is most useful for grouping fieldset sections of forms, the label tag describes only one input element. I've put this to use on sydney.ug.php.net form fieldset legend/legend labelinput //label /fieldset fieldset legend/legend labelinput //label labelinput //label