RE: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help
-Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Wittenbergh Sent: 01 November 2009 23:05 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] [OT] Google search/index/webmaster help Because that file is being served as 'text/html' instead of 'text/xml' as it should. That is server misconfiguration. I agree that this is technically incorrect, but hardly unusual. I'm not surprised Googlebot doesn't pick it up. I would be absolutely flabbergasted if Google ignored it purely because of that. Google has a strong history of being pragmatic; they _want_ to use this file; why would you expect them to ignore a file with the right name, the right kind of content, in the right place? As an aside, how many robots.txt do you think get served up as text/html ? Regards, Mike Mike Brockington Web Development Specialist www.calcResult.com www.stephanieBlakey.me.uk www.edinburgh.gov.uk This message does not reflect the opinions of any entity other than the author alone. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[WSG] Looking for Images
hi. doing a world war veterans club website. actually updating it. so was wondering, looking for images, of icons, logos, ships, planes, sub marines, flags, pictures of men , woman. and could spend years trolling via google images. so i would ask. where i could find royalty free images. that is accessible with a screen reader. cheers Marvin. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[ADMIN] THREAD COSED Re: [WSG] Looking for Images
This thread is closed as off topic for this list. Should you wish to help the OP, please reply off list. warmly, Lea *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
[WSG] updated website feedback
hi. sorry to have bothered people with the last message. must have had a brain fade and did not mean to go to their. totally forgot i had sent that. so sorry about that. now have revamped my joe's fruit shop and a friend helped me out editing the images. and giving me some pointers. so have redesigned the site. feedback please? before i move on to fixing my next project. which is the Corvette Veterans Club Site. cheers Marvin. www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] Accessibility and HTML Emails
Yes, I love the accessible nature of a long string of non-descript asterisks instead of a simple horizontal rule element. Thanks, Tatham Oddie blog: http://tath.am/ tath.am au mob: +61 414 275 989, us cell: +1 213 422 7068, skype: tathamoddie, landline: +61 2 8011 3982, fax: +61 2 9475 5172 current project: http://tixi.com.au/ tixi.com.au - Ticketing without the dramas -Original Message- From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Felix Miata Sent: Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:28 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility and HTML Emails On 2009/10/28 17:37 (GMT-0400) kris wright composed: email clients vary wildly in their HTML rendering capabilities, and on occasion actually modify your HTML code makes things even more confusing. Email is supposed to be text communication. Web pages are web pages. If you want your email recipients to reliably see web pages nearly as you intend for them to look, have them open them in their web browsers instead of their email clients. Make the email 100% plain text only, and provide in the email a URL to the HTML (and CSS) formatted version on your web host. Most HTML email that arrives here is redirected to the bit bucket, since HTML in email is a highly favored spammer malware delivery method. Whatever HTML email doesn't reach the bit bucket is seen as (big enough to read) plain text anyway, courtesy of my email app, which has been directed to show all messages only as plain text. -- A patriot without religion . . . is as great a paradox, as an honest man without the fear of God. . . . 2nd U.S. President, John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ http://fm.no-ip.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: mailto:memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
RE: [WSG] Accessibility and HTML Emails
Campaign Monitor, the company behind the ESP have more great resources on their own site as well: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/ I highly recommend all of their content because I know there's a huge amount of effort that goes into all the associated research and cross-client testing. Thanks, Tatham Oddie blog: http://tath.am/ tath.am au mob: +61 414 275 989, us cell: +1 213 422 7068, skype: tathamoddie, landline: +61 2 8011 3982, fax: +61 2 9475 5172 current project: http://tixi.com.au/ tixi.com.au - Ticketing without the dramas From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of S.R. Emerson Sent: Thursday, 29 October 2009 9:06 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility and HTML Emails You can have a look at The Email Standards Project http://www.email-standards.org/ for information. Also, if you want to build a set of guidelines that will work in the future, you might want to read these two: Microsoft to ignore web standards in Outlook 2010 - enough is enough http://www.email-standards.org/blog/entry/microsoft-to-ignore-web-standards / http://www.email-standards.org/blog/entry/microsoft-to-ignore-web-standards/ Microsoft responds to our call for standards support http://www.email-standards.org/blog/entry/microsoft-respond-to-our-call-for -standards-support/ http://www.email-standards.org/blog/entry/microsoft-respond-to-our-call-for- standards-support/ S. Emerson Accrete Web Solutions http://www.accretewebsolutions.ca http://www.accretewebsolutions.ca On Twitter: http://twitter.com/accrete http://twitter.com/accrete *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] updated website feedback
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Marvin Hunkin wrote: hi. sorry to have bothered people with the last message. must have had a brain fade and did not mean to go to their. totally forgot i had sent that. so sorry about that. now have revamped my joe's fruit shop and a friend helped me out editing the images. and giving me some pointers. so have redesigned the site. feedback please? before i move on to fixing my next project. which is the Corvette Veterans Club Site. cheers Marvin. www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional! Result: 23 Errors Address:http://www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ There is a horizontal scroll bar if my browser window is less than ~1000px. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster http://woodbine-gerrard.com === Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] updated website feedback
I think you can lose the margin at the top of the page and make the page go hard up to the top of the browser window - the idea could work better if the background were white (not that pale green). And yes, validate - marked up like a dog - woof! Cheers Ben www.jumpingdogdesign.com.au On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson ch...@cfajohnson.comwrote: On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Marvin Hunkin wrote: hi. sorry to have bothered people with the last message. must have had a brain fade and did not mean to go to their. totally forgot i had sent that. so sorry about that. now have revamped my joe's fruit shop and a friend helped me out editing the images. and giving me some pointers. so have redesigned the site. feedback please? before i move on to fixing my next project. which is the Corvette Veterans Club Site. cheers Marvin. www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional! Result: 23 Errors Address:http://www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ There is a horizontal scroll bar if my browser window is less than ~1000px. -- Chris F.A. Johnson, webmaster http://woodbine-gerrard.com === Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
