[WSG]Just came across a beautiful CSS site..

2003-10-01 Thread russ weakley
Just came across this beautiful full-CSS site. Proves that building to webstandards shouldn't interfere with good design: http://www.jilliansherry.com/index.html The site is designed and built by Mike Pick: http://www.mikepick.com/news/index.shtml Mike Pick also did the "What lies beneath" CSSZen

Re: [WSG]a little xhtml1.1 template

2003-10-01 Thread russ weakley
James, I build a range of full CSS layouts when I first started playing with full CSS. Most of them are still online, and there are a number that are centred and reasonably browser-stable. There is code on the page to make it easier: Single column Centre aligned, scalable width http://www.maxdesi

Re: [WSG]a little xhtml1.1 template

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Bishop
Hi James, how well does this work across browsers. Been looking for a way to do this for a while, like the macromedia site. See for yourself! http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=23521 I picked up the centering method from Rob Chandanais's Bluerobot ( http://bluerobot.com/web/css/cen

RE: [WSG] Vote for Prez + amazing suggestion

2003-10-01 Thread Lindsay Evans
> As a suggestion, why don't we all participate in building an example > site with all these features? Sounds good. I can just imagine all the 'what should be in the ?' type of arguments, though :p -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.r

Re: [WSG]a little xhtml1.1 template

2003-10-01 Thread James Ellis
Hi Ben Notice in the CSS that you centre the content in the body with body text-align : center; #content margin : 0 auto; how well does this work across browsers. Been looking for a way to do this for a while, like the macromedia site. Cheers James Ellis www.webqs.com --- WSG - http://webst

Re: [WSG] Vote for Prez + amazing suggestion

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Bishop
my vote: A1. Basic step-by-step site accessibility demo. This will include As a suggestion, why don't we all participate in building an example site with all these features? The initial thought was to add to the WSG site, but a mock corporate site with it's own look, feel and content would be

Re: [WSG]Topics for Sydney meeting 23/10/03

2003-10-01 Thread James Ellis
Hi Russ My vote is for the float option incl support by various browsers.. The recent list-a-whatsit discussion has highlighted how different browsers support floats.. (still haven't worked out the Opera 7 thing). Cheers James Ellis www.webqs.com --- WSG - http://webstandardsgroup.org | Web Sta

[WSG]Bare Bones CSS

2003-10-01 Thread russ weakley
An article called: "Bare Bones, No Crap, CSS Text Control Primer" - Very clear basic css concepts: http://wendypeck.com/css101.html Thanks Russ * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

[WSG]a little xhtml1.1 template

2003-10-01 Thread Ben Bishop
Hi all, I've been playing around with an xhtml+css template system that can be easily rolled into cms templates as well as static sites by people with even just a little html knowledge. The result is http://www.leorex.com/products/aura/ My intention is just to put it out there and let people com

Re: [WSG]Topics for Sydney meeting 23/10/03

2003-10-01 Thread Simon Jessey
- Original Message - From: "russ weakley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [WSG]Topics for Sydney meeting 23/10/03 > --- > A. Vote on preferred choice for first presentation of the evening > --- > > A1. B

RE: [WSG]Topics for Sydney meeting 23/10/03

2003-10-01 Thread James Gollan
I like the idea of A1, as it has some concepts that I am dealing with at the moment (in a site that I will be asking for a browser check on soon!). But A2 sounds good too! I would also be interested in advanced layout for areas such as site banners (not advertising banners) that are created to be

[WSG]Topics for Sydney meeting 23/10/03

2003-10-01 Thread russ weakley
We have another meeting coming up in three weeks. I will be asking people in a week or so to RSVP, but for now I'd like a quick poll on preferred topics. This poll is open to all members, even if you cannot attend (or are in a different city/country), as the presentations will be made available to

RE: [WSG]Font support chart?

2003-10-01 Thread Mark Stanton
> Mark, is that a promotion in your footer? No my business card has had that on it for a few years - its just that I've been told the my old sig was no longer cutting it Cheers Mark __ Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 84

RE: [WSG]Font support chart?

2003-10-01 Thread James Ellis
Impact is a big surprise and I thought Tahoma would be above Treb on the list. Mark, is that a promotion in your footer? Cheers James Ellis www.webqs.com --- WSG - http://webstandardsgroup.org | Web Standards Group syd::php - http://sydney.ug.php.net | Sydney PHP Developers --- #300 - http://

RE: [WSG]Font support chart?

2003-10-01 Thread Mark Stanton
Russ I agree completely. The only reason I was curious was that we are looking at using text headings that have some level of branding relevance & wondering what sort of fonts we could experiment with. I had my doubts about Tahoma but it could just scrape in. Font lists ending in a generic font f