[WSG] s2m Digital- Mid Weight Designer required!

2007-11-01 Thread Jeremy Champion
Company: s2m Digital Job Title: Mid weight Web Designer (3-5 years experience)- leading Publisher! Description: My client is a large magazine publisher with a diverse group of leading titles. The designer will be responsible for creating dynamic, visually compelling and functional website

Re: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-11-01 Thread James Jeffery
Ok i will confess slightly, i think yahoo have pulled on the old heart strings and im sort of falling in love with framwork. I spend alot of time on an CSS channel on IRC, most of us on there are typical We can do anything we don't need help from anyone, and when someone mentions YUI stylesheets

[WSG] CSS/Accessibility question

2007-11-01 Thread Likely, James A.
Hello, I am pretty new to this group but have been seeing all of the useful emails that have been sent over the past month and thought I would try my luck. I am working on a feature story box. I am trying to develop this using web standards but since this is fairly new to me, I thought that I

Re: [WSG] CSS/Accessibility question

2007-11-01 Thread Dave Woods
Hi James, I'd always create a site and content so that it initially works and all the content can be reached using just HTML. It certainly won't look all that pretty but by making sure that everything works fine before you add CSS or JavaScript then you're ensuring that the site will be usable

Re: [WSG] s2m Digital- Mid Weight Designer required!

2007-11-01 Thread Christian Snodgrass
I agree. Pixel perfection is almost always only achievable through the use of absolute positioning, absolute font-sizes, and the like. Those type of things go against many standards and common-best-practices of web design, which needs to inherently be flexible to match the broad number of

[WSG] CSS help

2007-11-01 Thread Rob Enslin
Dear Group, I'm a relative newby to web design so please excuse me if this question is simple. The problem: I don't have (or know how to have) a structured system of building my style sheets. I find I keep just adding to the file until problems in my output display start to develop. They very

Re: [WSG] s2m Digital- Mid Weight Designer required!

2007-11-01 Thread Ian Chamberlain
Jeremy, is your client really looking for pixel perfection I note you are also looking for a person who is passionate and has a thorough understanding of web design; such a person may have difficulty with pixel perfection. - Original Message - From: Jeremy Champion To:

RE: [WSG] CSS help

2007-11-01 Thread Likely, James A.
Rob, What I do is start off with a default style sheet. (see attached). In this starting CSS I break it down into different sections. This helps me out as like you, if I don't plan ahead, it gets pretty messy and disorganized very quick. If the project is big then I would use a couple of style

Re: [WSG] CSS help

2007-11-01 Thread Bruce
For some time now I have used the below as a foundation. Adding inner classes to the main areas is best. #Nav_inner, #content_inner etc I have tested these in 98 operating system/browser combos and they are rock solid: http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/ Bruce P BKDesign - Original Message

Re: [WSG] CSS help

2007-11-01 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rob Enslin wrote: Is there a way, a logical procedure or rule which I should adopt to prevent me from going forwards and backwards and constantly patching it up? A few: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=MaintainableCss regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no

Re: [WSG] CSS help correction

2007-11-01 Thread Bruce
oops, Adding inner classes to the main areas is best. #Nav_inner, #content_inner etc should be: .nav_inner, .content_inner etc Using the rule to not pad/style a primary layout div. Bruce - Original Message - From: Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent:

Re: [WSG] CSS help

2007-11-01 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hello Rob, I don't have (or know how to have) a structured system of building my style sheets. Maybe this will help? A CSS Starter File http://green-beast.com/blog/?p=109 Cheers. Mike Cherim *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] CSS help

2007-11-01 Thread Rob Enslin
@...James, Bruce, Georg and Mike thanks. Plenty reading tonight - this info should get me going. Cheers, Rob *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-01 Thread Christian Montoya
I don't think it was to imply that b and i are necessarily OK, though they are. The point was this... say you are referring to the title of a book. You can underline it, or you can italicize it... the correct thing to do when italics are available is to italicize it. So you would have done: iThe

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-01 Thread Devi Web Development
On 11/1/07, Tom Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Use the em and strong elements for emphasis, not to make text bold or italic (i.e. do not mindlessly replace i and b with em and strong). Specifically, for example, if I want a few bold words in the middle of a sentence, what then should

[WSG] First Ajax problem

2007-11-01 Thread Michael Horowitz
I am working on my learning Ajax and just copied an example from http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_database.asp but I am finding it isn't working. I am trying to think how to debug what I may be doing wrong. I am working in a unix environment. I've never worked with Javascript much

Re: [WSG] POSH article question

2007-11-01 Thread Sébastien Sauvé
Hello Tom, To make it short (I haven't read the article, sorry), strong and em elements should be used to give semantic meaning to your text. This is fundamentally different than making text bold or italic, as these are only two visual ways of showing emphasis. Bold or italic text does not

[WSG] 508 compliant dashboard

2007-11-01 Thread Nancy Johnson
Hi Can you point me to a dashboard that is 508 compliant? We like the user to be able to: --move each individual dashboard within the webpage --minimize and maximize each individual dashboard. --choose which dashboards with the page the user would like. Thanks, Nancy Johnson - Original

Re: [WSG] First Ajax problem

2007-11-01 Thread Michael Horowitz
Strange to be answering my own post but I have done some more testing. I have verified the PHP page that Ajax calls works correctly by running it separate. I have also verified AJAX works on my browser by running another ajax script. For some reason this script is not being called by the

Re: [WSG] multilingual website advice

2007-11-01 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/1/07, Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been asked to work on a multilingual website - including rtl scripts. I've done bits and pieces before, but always other languages in predominantly english websites. Although I see the problems as mainly technical, I'm getting

RE: [WSG] multilingual website advice

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Minty
Andrew, I don't know about cultural sensitivities; best that you start talking to Islamic people and your specific audience as early as possible! I've got a couple of Islamic friends and they've never mentioned any deep-seated resentment of the internet, except a general awareness of how american

RE: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Minty
Maarten, We've done a few, often with a couple of mods. www.vssmarthomes.com.au www.nyp.com.au (I think) www.wwwatertrucks.com The smaller the job, the more likely we are to use the YUI Grids as they are. Cheers Paul Paul Minty Director mintleaf studio We design create stylish websites

RE: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Minty
WSG, 'Universal Principles of Design' states that the Golden Ration is also known as: golden mean; golden number; golden section, golden proportion, divine proportion and sectio aurea. It is an anceint (dating back to the classical greeks) principle of geometry. It may be an early attempt to

Re: [WSG] First Ajax problem

2007-11-01 Thread Michael Horowitz
Thanks I actually found firebug and did resolve my problem. Michael Horowitz Your Computer Consultant http://yourcomputerconsultant.com 561-394-9079 Christian Montoya wrote: On 11/1/07, Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange to be answering my own post but I have done some

Re: [WSG] First Ajax problem

2007-11-01 Thread Breton Slivka
You may also be running into the same domain policy, On 11/2/07, Christian Montoya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/07, Michael Horowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange to be answering my own post but I have done some more testing. I have verified the PHP page that Ajax calls works

[WSG] Re: multilingual website advice

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Harris
Wow, what can I say? Just three hours ago, I asked a question and have already received three careful, helpful replies, with exactly the sort of information I was seeking! Thank you so much, this list is brilliant! On 11/2/07, Andrew Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been asked to work on a

Re: [WSG] multilingual website advice

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Added to all the other advice already given, I'd also suggest that web typography be tailored for each language. How some of the tags render may need to be changed from language to language (not just font families, styles, weight, size and leading). Consider how the following tags should