Re: [WSG] IE6 background image positioning problem

> And I've spent more time that I should have on this site already! At least > I've fixed up the lefthand nav so it holds together, and displays correctly >in IE6 (which is as low as we have to go here). We all feel your pain ;) Anyway, good luck with the site and I'm sure you'll get it to work t

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Michael Horowitz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However when it comes to literacy most people using websites are computer > competent or they wouldn't be surfing the web in the first place. > Sorry, but that's complete speculation. In my experience, a large proport

Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

On Thu, 15 May 2008 10:35:16 -0400, Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote: > What is the most accessible method to have email links on web pages? > After putting a plain email address on my web site I got a lot of spam. So I changed my contact address and put it on the page as "mail(at)example(dot)com". Th

Re: Re[2]: [WSG] accessible client side form validation

Sorry for the delayed response; been extra busy of late. I've found the JQuery validation plug-in to be wonderful and easy to use: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation. Be sure to read through the documentation first and this article is a good source for it as well: http://bassistance.de/2007/

Re: [WSG] An efficient CSS architecture

For our "custom" projects at my work we have recently adopted the Tripoliand combine.php for compression (+gzip done by the server). On top of Tripoli; I have created our on in-house CSS framework/template that gets me

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

Paul, Try making your width on ul#footer 934px (960-15-11); reason being you need to subtract the left and right padding amount from the overall width since padding affects the width of the box. I noticed in "firebug" that the UL width was way wider than the wrapper whose width was 960px. Best Reg

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

A good idea Matijs, but doesn't seem to work. Thanks for taking a look anyway. 2008/5/15 Matijs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does "overflow: hidden" on the containing div and making the green bar wider > help? > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Hi all,

Re: [WSG] IE6 background image positioning problem

Thanks very much Gunlaug - that did work! And Matljs - re the banner table, I work at a university where you are supposed to use their template for university web pages. And the template is all in tables!! Over time I have taken most of the template out of tables, but to date have left the banner.

[WSG] RE: 2008 NZ Government Web Standards Review

Hi Anthony, I sent a request for a registration on the webstandards wiki 2 days ago - how long does it normally take SSC to grant access? Am I supposed to do something else? Regards, Paul Bennett Web Coder Web Centre Wellington City Council http://www.wellington.govt.nz

[WSG] 2008 NZ Government Web Standards Review

Hi all The annual review of the New Zealand Government Web Standards is now underway. We are very keen to get your comments and advice, which we'll feed directly into the review process. Let us know what's worked for you and what's caused problems. Are there standards you've struggl

Re: [WSG] Background on body not aligning with tiled background on wrapper DIV

Does "overflow: hidden" on the containing div and making the green bar wider help? On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've managed to put a page together. If you look at the green area in > Firefox and IE you will notice a small gap at the right

Re: [WSG] Conact Form!

James, Also, might want to consider getting rid of those ugly 's... You could try: Name Display the label and the span as a block and float the span and the input to the left, put a width on the span and you should be sorted. Greetings, Matijs On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:44 PM, james <[EMAIL P

Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote: Although spam is a big red flag for many. Which should ideally be solved at the email server + email client end, in my view. P -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postposit

Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

Erickson, Kevin (DOE) wrote: I like the idea of a title tag being used i.e.- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" title="e-mail address - [EMAIL PROTECTED]">first name last name so what if i want to copy/paste the email from the page to another document or something? P -- Patrick H. Lauke _

Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

It sounds like your user has a virus. However when it comes to literacy most people using websites are computer competent or they wouldn't be surfing the web in the first place. Over time more and more people will be computer savvy and the current generation grew up with the web as a normal p

[WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?

I have doing a site for someone for a few years now. He recently requested a few minor changes whilst he was at my office, so I did them whilst he was present, and he approved. Today he wrote to me from his home: "The changes you made to my website are not showing at this end. Do I need to ac

RE: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email

How about JavaScript? I found this code at http://rickconner.net/spamweb/avoiding.html: