Re: [WSG] site check please

2007-06-19 Thread David Laakso
Jermayn Parker wrote: just wondering if people can have a quick look at the following website for any major errors, suggestions etc http://www.phillipwrayracing.com It is a little slow to load. I regret that font-scaling drops the floats and/or breaks the layout. Best, ~dL -- http://che

Re: [WSG] Opera and Decimal Percentage Widths

2007-06-26 Thread David Laakso
Christian Montoya wrote: Hello list, I have a test page set up at http://lab.christianmontoya.com/point-nine-nine-percent/ and on this page the 3rd and 4th rows have divs with 49.6% and 49.99% widths, respectively. These behave as expected in Firefox, Safari, and IE, but in Opera 9+ their width

Re: [WSG] Creative Yeti Has Left The Building (Temporarily)

2007-07-06 Thread David Laakso
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am attending an animation course until July 23rd (not a holiday!). I will be checking my mails in the evening and can be contacted on my mobile, 07740 342188 if you urgently need some colouring in. Jilly __ Walt Tovey Creative Yeti 10 Yetis L

Re: [WSG] Fieldset background

2007-07-07 Thread David Laakso
Dean Matthews wrote: IE6 doesn't appear to render the background correctly in a fieldset with a legend (extends beyond top border). Is there a fix or alternatively how would you hide the background-color from IE6 only. Thanks, Dean Georg Sortun, who is on vacation and unable to reply to th

Re: [WSG] Center Align an Unorder List

2007-07-25 Thread David Laakso
Ryan Moore wrote: Looking to Center Text on an unordered list. css: ul {text-align: center;} li { display: inline; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 20px; } markup: Item one Item two Item three Item four Item five Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ ***

Re: [WSG] Font sizing: top down or bottom up

2007-09-05 Thread David Laakso
There is typography and there is the science of typography: they are not necessarily the same. Sooner rather than later one of you is going to actually have to break down and commit to something on the screen. Preferably something of your own making that proves a point (or at least attempts t

Re: [WSG] width calculation linux / windows

2007-09-14 Thread David Laakso
Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote: The only thing is ie6 crashes on resizing. That is a weird phenomenon. Not much you can do about that i guess. Probably a whole lot if I could isolate the IE6/OS/service-pack combination - wit

Re: [WSG] IE bug?

2007-09-19 Thread David Laakso
Stijn Audooren wrote: I have a little trouble with IE :-(. Don't know if someone can help me or if you know anybody who could help me fix the problem... Don't know if this is a bug or something wrong from my side. _ __www.tessadockers.be/agenda/september.htm_

Re: [WSG] Element suggestion requested

2007-09-20 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: Hi all. I've got a site which you can see a static screenshot of here (actually it's a screenshot of the photoshop file -- the site is still being coded) The item(s) I'm currently marking up is/are the 'Values' boxes in the right hand column, and I'm not really sure what ele

Re: [WSG] Web Design Test - IE Users

2007-09-21 Thread David Laakso
Joseph Taylor wrote: Hey everyone! I wanted some of you windows users to test out this site if you'd be so kind on your IE browsers. http://steveframe.sitesbyjoe.com Joseph R. B. Taylor IE6 and IE7 on Parallels/Mac It looked fine to me and I saw no serious issues, Joseph. 800 resolutio

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-17 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: Hi; I'm recreating a table-based site that I did a few years back, rebuilding it (hopefully) to web standards and making it as accessible as I can. Currently it's one static page and the links largely don't go anywhere, but I would appreciate feedback from the list before I pr

Re: [WSG] How z-index works

2007-10-29 Thread David Laakso
John Faulds wrote: OK, this is obviously not an isolated occurrence anymore. I've tried to look at your site 3 times now in the last couple of weeks Thierry and can never get it to load. On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:52:32 +1000, Thierry Koblentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd appreciate any comm

Re: [WSG] Re: worst site I've seen lately

2007-10-29 Thread David Laakso
Travis D. Falls wrote: I missed the URL for this… can someone send it out again? I want to see what has everyone in a tizzy. J travis Sure. le triumph de mediocre -- baudelaire Best, ~dL *** List

Re: [WSG] html & css review wanted

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Nick Cowie wrote: Got to build new template for work, so if you could look at: http://nickcowie.com/other/template/index.html ps does it work in IE7 and Opera for Mac (weird stuff happened but I need to upgrade)? footer in centred will everything else is grid based. All the disclaimer

Re: [WSG] PHI and YUI Grids

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
James Jeffery wrote: Hmmm interesting i might take a look at it. I would love to know more about YUI Grids and the 'Golden Mean'. James FWIW, the "Golden Mean" is a matter of philosophy. I believe the search string you seek is "Golden Ratio." Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudi

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: I'm recreating a table-based site that I did a few years back, rebuilding it (hopefully) to web standards and making it as accessible as I can. Rick, It is working far better than when you wrote for a check

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: On 31/10/07 (14:19) David said: Rick, It is working far better than when you wrote for a check a week or so ago. If I assign a media type to import.css, will that propogate down to the stylesheets that are imported within it? Rick, I see Georg Sortun has a

Re: [WSG] html & css review wanted

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Nick Cowie wrote: David wrote: All the disclaimers make it difficult to review. All I wanted to avoid with those disclaimers was: 1. You should of used shorthand properties to save space in layout.css (I know, it was the quick and dirty fix) 2. Felix to remind me that not everybody

Re: [WSG] layout help requested

2007-11-12 Thread David Laakso
Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to wrap up the page located at: http://www.cprtools.net/international/inquiry.php CSS: http://www.cprtools.net/international/international.css Issues I seem to be having: 1) Ideally, I'd like #head #general and the table to all appear as one unit, with a

Re: [WSG] opera doesn't play nice with Opacity

2007-11-13 Thread David Laakso
Tee G. Peng wrote: On this site, body {background:#FFB701} where footer wrap has opacity of 0.92 with a bg color #ftr_wrap {background:#0d0d0d; opacity:0.92;} and 3 columns has #col1, #col2, #col3 {background:#1a1a1a;} I think Safari and Firefox got it right, that the 3 columns' element

Re: [WSG] Site check

2007-11-16 Thread David Laakso
Kenny Graham wrote: Can the more obsessive compulsive members of the group check our new site for problems please? :) http://www.trademarkads.com I fear for their welfare. Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ ***

Re: [WSG] AccessResearch // Page Check

2007-11-17 Thread David Laakso
Rahul Gonsalves wrote: Hi, http://rahulgonsalves.com/research/site/ I'm throwing together a quick site to try and fund my travel to an accessibility conference. I haven't had too much time to check it, or think it through, but I would appreciate a page check, and general suggestions/comments

Re: [WSG] Firefox is a pushover

2007-11-21 Thread David Laakso
Chris Price wrote: I build websites on a Mac and have to check my websites on another machine in order to view them in IE. I experience the usual issues with IE applying css differently than Firefox but my biggest frustrations, lately, have come from errors in my html that Firefox has happily

Re: [WSG] question about max-width's behaviour

2007-11-21 Thread David Laakso
I have something like this right now: #wrapper {max-width: 60em; min-width: 600px;margin:0 auto; } #container, #btm_wrap { margin:0 auto;position:relative;text-align:left;} It was this: #wrapper {width: 100%} #container, #btm_wrap { margin:0 auto;position:relative;text-align:left;max-width

Re: [WSG] Template Review URL

2007-11-23 Thread David Laakso
CK wrote: http://working.bushidodeep.com/impress/ybf/ybf.html The "address" of the code would probably aid my query :) CK I regret the page is not performing as you intend in IE6 and IE7 and has a little difficulty in all browsers with font-scaling. FWIW, a structurally different version

Re: [WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Taco Fleur wrote: Sorry, I meant: Can the more obsessive compulsive members of the group, check our new site for problems please? :) www.clickfind.com.au It is a little difficult to read. The fonts scale well. The overall look is nice. But color on color is sometimes a difficult trick to

Re: [WSG] Template Review URL

2007-11-24 Thread David Laakso
CK wrote: Your solution is greatly appreciated. When time permits, would you elaborate on your solution, explaining in detail why your changes are so admirably stable? Also, do you have a compliment of browsers, or using Browsercam.com? CK http://working.bushidodeep.com/impress/ybf/ybf.h

Re: [WSG] Site Check-YBF

2007-12-02 Thread David Laakso
CK wrote: Could use a site check(http://working.bushidodeep.com/impress/ybf/index.html). Mostly cross-browser display. Doing my best to migrate previous code and client to Standards. Any suggestions for changes "under-the-hood" are welcome. I would like to focus on text-resizing without brea

Re: [WSG] Colors for web design

2007-12-14 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: Anyone know a good online resource or book that discusses how to decide the best color combinations for use on the web. Most online resources about how to decide "the best color combinations" are put together by programmers and coders who know even less about colo

Re: [WSG] positioning question

2007-12-16 Thread David Laakso
kevin mcmonagle wrote: Hi, On the below 3 column page http://www.jfl.ie/index.php Does that look allright? -best kvnmcwebn Yes, I suppose so. But there seldom is a correlation between how well a page /looks/ on the Web and how well that page /works/ on the Web (with user discretion i

Re: [WSG] BBC in Beta

2007-12-18 Thread David Laakso
Heads up, the BBC has a new site in Beta. http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/beta At my preferred setting for IE ("accessibility mode" at text-size "largest") IE 7 cannot display the page and IE 6 is not a pretty picture. Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/

Re: [WSG] strange css behavior

2007-12-18 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: People may remember I'm working on an issue where when I click on one link on my site http://theatomicconservative.typepad.com/ other links such as Subscribe to this blogs feed turn red as if they were visited. Doing more testing I started changing the page without clic

Re: [WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread David Laakso
CK wrote: http://working.bushidodeep.com/kevon/index.html Could use a once over for this site. any suggestions are welcome. CK Not bad. Just in need of a little more cross-browser testing. See IE 6. Those among us who ignore those among you who consistently freeze the fonts in IE 6 an IE

Re: [WSG] making a menu bar hug the right

2008-02-05 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: http://terrorfreeamerica.us/ Just setting up the menu on the left and I'm wondering how to get my menu buttons to hug the left hand side of menu div. ul { margin: 0; <-- :: add :: padding: 0; <- :: add :: list-style: none; } Best, ~dL -- http:

Re: [WSG] margin auto in css

2008-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: Thanks for all the help so far. I'm obviously going to have to study up on setting margins to 0 auto in css. I'm going to look it up myself but if anyone can explain how that resolved my earlier issues I'd appreciate it. See:

Re: [WSG] repeat x and repeat y

2008-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: I again thank everyone for all the help. Any good resources for repeat x and repeat y Also would love suggestions for new books to buy. See: ~dL -- ht

Re: [WSG] Shouldn't margin be working

2008-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: I've added some margin and padding to the #content div #content { margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 5px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 5px; clear: none; float: none; } But it doesn't appear to have an affect. I've verified it validates as CSS Assu

Re: [WSG] Shouldn't margin be working

2008-02-06 Thread David Laakso
Michael Horowitz wrote: I guess my boxes are wrong. What you have is what I am looking for. What I thought I was doing was setting up a #menu box adjacent to a #content box adjacent to a #right_box. All parallel. It appears the content box is actually going out to the entire size of the s

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread David Laakso
Laert Jansen wrote: I'm fighting with IE/Firefox for solving a css-problem(I believe). I´ve just finished my online folio >> http://www.laertjansen.com/site2/ but it looks like the way I want only with FF . I don´t know where´s the mistake. You can see the difference: With IE the line heigh

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread David Laakso
Laert Jansen wrote: The margin on the top is working much better now. About the line height I tried a raw number but it´s not working. Firefox is ok but IE has a lot of white space between the lines...strange... The description is something like "Client: Jacob Ferreira Role. W

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-19 Thread David Laakso
dwain wrote: PS /Landing/ on a page with mousetype an 116dpi laptop ain't no picnic for those of us without your Superman vision. Then having it frozen in IE, only adds insult to injury. the main text on the pages are frozen in firefox as well. can't m

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-20 Thread David Laakso
Laert Jansen wrote: I don´t understand why is the text frozen in IE and not in FF I believe your question is in reference to your uri: /All/ browsers have the ability to scale fonts. Even Internet Explorer. The difficulty in IE is when a Web author sets

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-20 Thread David Laakso
Laert Jansen wrote: I don´t know what´s going on but using % the text looks much bigger in IE.. This is in reference to your uri : Change this declaration: body{ background-color:#000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0;

Re: [WSG] Problem with folio online | IE

2008-02-20 Thread David Laakso
Darren Lovelock wrote: Try using em's. 1em is the equivalent of 16px. You can also use ems to 1 decimal place if you want to be more precise. e.g. h1 { font-size: 1em; } p { font-size: .8em; } Kind regards, Darren Lovelock But be very careful if you use em's. You must declare perce

Re: [WSG] Business Directory review and comparison, usability, accessibility

2008-02-21 Thread David Laakso
Taco Fleur wrote: I've compiled a comparison and short review for 4 Australian Business Directories, the document can be downloaded from the link below http://australiansearchengine.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/business-directory-review-and-comparison/ If you are into trivia, the first id to op

Re: [WSG] Chrome now higher traffic than IE

2009-03-02 Thread David Laakso
Mike Kear wrote: For the first time since I started building web sites, IE is not the most prominent server on my two highest traffic sites. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) ***

Re: [WSG] Re: WSG Digest

2009-03-06 Thread David Laakso
r...@vanillastorm.co.uk wrote: Thank you for your email. I'm now out of the office until Tuesday 10th March 2009. Who cares? *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstanda

[WSG] :: makeready ::

2009-12-22 Thread David Laakso
I'd appreciate your comments and suggestions on this site. Best, ~d *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.c

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2009-12-22 Thread David Laakso
Chris Price wrote: Looking at the site in Firefox my first reaction is to want to drag it to the left. Somehow being right aligned it feels uncomfortable - I wonder why the white space on the left. -- Chris Price So drag it to a 640 window? Best

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2009-12-22 Thread David Laakso
designer wrote: However - there is always a 'BUT' - for my taste it's lopsided! O.K., now tell me you spent hours making the spacing work that way because it's what you wanted! Bob Hours? Hours nothing: it took a lifetime that spacing, Bob :-) . B

Re: [WSG] HTML5 book(s)

2009-12-22 Thread David Laakso
designer wrote: O.K., so David Laakso's recent mail made me realise that I need (want) to catch up. I looked online for any html 5 books, and there are a LOT! So, could I please have your recommendations on (recent) books which tell the reader 'how to write html 5' Many thanks, Bob

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2009-12-23 Thread David Laakso
Tom Livingston wrote: On this page, in Safari 4.0.4: http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/site/portfolio/07.php The left vertical nav links can be hovered and used while mousing in the blank space to the left of the nav text. Is this intentional? Thought you might want to know. I'd appreciate

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2009-12-23 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: I'd appreciate your comments and suggestions on this site. <http://chelseacreekstudio.com/> Best, ~d Attack the code (and make damn well sure good at it when you do so), not the person who wrote it. Best, ~d -- http://chelseacree

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2009-12-24 Thread David Laakso
Duncan Hill wrote: The 'flare' image on the home page is much better, on the original I thought the burned out highlights were too intrusive and distracting. That is good news. I think it looks better, too -- although perhaps a little too dark for the rest of the page... I liked the ver

Re: [WSG] First stab at html5

2009-12-31 Thread David Laakso
designer wrote: If any of you guys are around at this time, I'd be really grateful if you could have a look at: http://www.betasite.fsnet.co.uk/gam/altgam/gwelanmor.html All comments gratefully received. Bob Nice. Clean. Simple. Opera, Safari, FF, IE 6/7/8. Very helpful site for htm

Re: [WSG] First stab at html5

2009-12-31 Thread David Laakso
designer wrote: Thanks to those who responded. @David: "rivers"? Duh. Please explain. It is New Years Eve, after all! RE: It is a term used in typography. Think of a block of text as you would a piece of fine tapestry. On your

Re: [WSG] First stab at html5

2010-01-01 Thread David Laakso
designer wrote: Gotcha! Thanks, and a HAY! Bob O.K. You did not ask about anything else. And, that is O.K., too. Best, ~d -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/

Re: [WSG] Looking for Accessible and Standards based Drupal Main Navigation Module

2010-01-07 Thread David Laakso
(shameless plug) http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp Fwiw, I've used it without issue (other than my own, of course). Nice stuff, me /thimk/... ~d *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgr

Re: [WSG] visual web developer and jaws

2010-01-11 Thread David Laakso
Marvin Hunkin wrote: maybe in the markup code or maybe in the code behind file. just found this annoying when i went to jaws 11. did intend it so that the buttons were on each line one button on its own. any one got any ideas. Marvin. Marvin, I think you'll need to put the site on a publ

Re: [WSG] Issue related to the IE 6

2010-01-15 Thread David Laakso
Brajesh Patel wrote: Hello all, I am working on the IE 6 but getting issue in this browser please suggest some tip for work with IE 6. -- Thanks Brajesh Patel Put the site on a public server and provide a clickable link to it in your poat. Best, ~d -- desktop http://chelseacreek

Re: [WSG] css error

2010-01-15 Thread David Laakso
Marvin Hunkin wrote: hi. well how to fix this. Marvin. Go to your CSS file. Find the declaration that reads: body { font: 100%/1.4 "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; <-- :: add background: #fff; } Amend that declaration to read: body { font: 100%/1.4 "Helvetica Neue", Arial

Re: [WSG] font names problem in internet explorer

2010-01-16 Thread David Laakso
Marvin Hunkin wrote: hi. well tried fixing the error in the css. but still not reading the font names. just says centered. What is the uri of site in question. Thanks. ~d *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/m

Re: [WSG] site url

2010-01-17 Thread David Laakso
Felix Miata wrote: On 2010/01/18 11:44 (GMT+1100) Marvin Hunkin composed: http://www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ Looks like you forgot to validate again: http://tinyurl.com/ya7p6sy http://tinyurl.com/ydoat7q Indeed. So validate the CSS, and markup. You stand tall, and look good.

Re: [WSG] internet explorer font names

2010-01-18 Thread David Laakso
Marvin Hunkin wrote: hi. what do you mean vallidate the css and the pages. did do that a while back and it vallidated all. Please include url to your page in question each time you write. RE: I suspect you have made some markup and CSS changes since

Re: [WSG] playing with css

2010-01-19 Thread David Laakso
PurencoolGmail wrote: hi webstandards group. I have one question I can't seem to find and answer to below is all my css in a document I have created. It is xhtml transitional. My document works fine except when I add float:left; to my content div. It will not stay in the wrapper. I know that it

Re: [WSG] playing with css

2010-01-19 Thread David Laakso
PurencoolGmail wrote: http://www.purencool.com/_webdata/downloads/templates/twoColumn/ body { background-color : #ccc; color : #00; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size : 0.93em; line-height : 130%; } #wrapper { width : 800px; background-color : #ff; margin-le

Re: [WSG] playing with css

2010-01-19 Thread David Laakso
PurencoolGmail wrote: clear : both; that worked as well thanks On 20/01/10 14:05, David Laakso wrote: clear : both; Treat the software with respect. Things will go your way. <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/> <http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/> --

[WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-26 Thread David Laakso
Comments and suggestions on this site appreciated. markup css Thanks. ~d -- desktop http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ mobile http://chelseacreekstudio.mobi/ ***

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-26 Thread David Laakso
designer wrote: Hi David, Comments and suggestions on this site appreciated. markup css Thanks. ~d Not a very useful comment perhaps, but I hate the colour of the banner, and the bright blue of the menu

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-26 Thread David Laakso
Lesley Lutomski wrote: Hi David, I also have a problem with the double border on the menu items, combined with the underlining of the links - too many lines too close together. I have neurological problems, which may partly account for my reaction here, but I asked my husband and he also fi

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-26 Thread David Laakso
Joseph Taylor wrote: David, The only item I wonder about is the thick border below the navigation that touches the double border directly below it. I'd use one or the other rather than both. That's me though. It looks like a CSS "oops" to me. No normal people will mind it though. Joseph

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-26 Thread David Laakso
Thierry Koblentz wrote: Comments and suggestions on this site appreciated. markup css Hi David, Minor things: I think the h1 Bumped. On server. looks small and that there is not enough padding arou

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-26 Thread David Laakso
Lesley Lutomski wrote: Hi David, Great improvement, thank you. You wouldn't believe just how much that improves the usability for me. Lesley markup Cool. I will have to remember that in the future. Thank you for bringing it to my atte

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-26 Thread David Laakso
Paul Novitski wrote: At 1/26/2010 01:07 AM, David Laakso wrote: Comments and suggestions on this site appreciated. markup <http://chelseacreekstudio.com/mhr/> The blank alt attributes for the foreground images are brow-wrinklers for me. When an image is in the foreground I figure that

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-26 Thread David Laakso
Duncan Hill wrote: OK. Know from nothing about tables. Will look into. David, I found this article a help in getting started with marking up tables correctly. article by Zoe Gillenwater http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=0BEA6 Duncan Thanks! ~d -- desktop http://chels

Re: [WSG] :: makeready ::

2010-01-28 Thread David Laakso
Elizabeth Spiegel wrote: Hi David Not a comment about your code, but your information design. Why are the images/examples of effective use scattered across the site and in some cases repeated? Why not place them on a 'using our product' (or similar) page? Elizabeth Spiegel Elizabeth,

Re: [WSG] I need a professional eye.

2010-01-29 Thread David Laakso
PurencoolGmail wrote: Hi everyone, I need a professional eye. I have been developing this site for two weeks (with help from this email group) and now that I think I have finished. All I want to know is there too much css? The site is www.purencool.com Any feed back would be great and you do

Re: [WSG] Div misbehaving in Safari

2010-01-31 Thread David Laakso
Jermayn Parker wrote: Hi, I have inherited a website (http://www.koomaldreaming.com.au) with my new job and in Safari and Chrome 3.x I have the content div floating away from where it should be outside of the container div to the right. Any suggestions or help? Corrections on the CSS fil

Re: [WSG] Assistance with flash example sites

2010-01-31 Thread David Laakso
Russ Weakley wrote: Hi people, A colleague has just asked me for some examples of Flash sites: 1. 2. 3. Russ 4. Mousetype. ~d -- desktop http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ mobile http://chelseacreekstudio.mobi/

Re: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

2010-02-03 Thread David Laakso
Marvin Hunkin wrote: HI. CAN SOME ONE TAKE A FINAL LOOK AT THIS SITE. AND GOT 2 FONTS. ONE VERDANA AND ONE Arial black. do i need any other fonts. and does it look really good? and also any other improvements. let me know. and if i need to make any changes. tell me how to do this. marvin. http:/

Re: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

2010-02-03 Thread David Laakso
Thierry Koblentz wrote: http://www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ Marvin, As I mentioned in a previous post, font-family names that contain a space need to be between quotes, so you should use: h1 { font-family: "Arial Black"; text-align: center; } instead of: h1 { font-family: Arial Blac

Re: [WSG] FINAL VERSION OF MY SITE

2010-02-03 Thread David Laakso
Marvin Hunkin wrote: http://www.raulferrer.com/joe/html/ Marvin, Your site is fine. Take what you will. Ignore the rest. Remember, not to forget, you are an "An Officer and a Gentleman." Best, Helen -- desktop http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ mobile http://chelseacreekstudio.m

Re: [WSG] IE7 overflow

2010-02-10 Thread David Laakso
Lucien Stals wrote: Hi everyone. I have a paragraph with a width set on it (500px). The text inside the p includes one very long URL. IE7 and Safari (both mac a win) are wrapping the URL in the wrong place and part of it extends out beyond the edge of the p. Curiously IE6 displays correctly,

Re: [WSG] Up-to-date resources for mobile front-end dev

2010-04-01 Thread David Laakso
Tom Livingston wrote: List, Does anyone have any good Up-to-date resources for mobile front-end dev? Press "mobile devices"on this page: ~d -- desktop http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ mobile http://chelseacreekstudio.mobi/ *

Re: [WSG] help

2010-04-02 Thread David Laakso
Marvin Hunkin wrote: hi. well lost all my project a couple of months ago. marvin. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." -- Helen Keller -- desktop http://chelseacreekst

Re: [WSG] two Safari issues

2010-04-28 Thread David Laakso
tee wrote: In this site, if you click on Accordion menu, in the second (last) menu, Safari shows a rectangular outlined block; hover to the Links' menu, you can see the extra outlined block. Seems to be related to hover but I can't anything in my code that is causing it. http://simpli

Re: [WSG] possible to exclude handheld stylesheet for specific devices?

2010-05-14 Thread David Laakso
tee wrote: I want to serve a style sheet for mobile devices and the idea is to support as many devices as possible, however iphone and Andriod are pickup up the style sheet. Hopefully iPad isn't. Is possible to exclude these two devices as I wanted to offer better user experience for the two

Re: [WSG] UI development for blackberry.

2010-07-19 Thread David Laakso
Naveen Bhaskar - live wrote: I want to develop a site for blackberry and iphone is a good to have support. can anyone tell me what are the things I need to keep in mind while developing pages for a blackberry. does it support png-24 images? Naveen Bhaskar Speed optimization is very im

Re: [WSG] ems versus pixels

2010-07-20 Thread David Laakso
Phil Archer wrote: Ems are proportional to the size of text you're using - and that's generally the thing you want to be proportional to. Phil. Edward Lynn wrote: get much better x-browser control with px's and so that is the direction im moving in Ed On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:53 PM, wro

Re: [WSG] ems versus pixels

2010-07-20 Thread David Laakso
Foskett, Mike wrote: Has anyone on the list considered using keywords? Mike Foskett Has anyone conceived of a layout for the page using percent, em, /and/ pixel width, with the fonts specified in percent [ or em ] :-) ? Best, ~d -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ *

Re: [WSG] ems versus pixels

2010-07-20 Thread David Laakso
David Hucklesby wrote: On 7/20/10 8:25 AM, David Laakso wrote: Foskett, Mike wrote: Has anyone on the list considered using keywords? Mike Foskett Has anyone conceived of a layout for the page using percent, em, /and/ pixel width, with the fonts specified in percent [ or em ] :-) ? Best

Re: [WSG] EM bug in Safari 5?

2010-07-29 Thread David Laakso
tee wrote: In these two examples, the width is 62em which is around 992px according to pxtoem dot com, but in Safari 5 it's around 871px in actual size. First I thought maybe it's because I mixed the EM and % (for left/content columns), so I did another test page using EM only, still getting t

[WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread David Laakso
markup css around line 669 The image does not fill the width of the window in Sanyo Mirro scp3810 for BoostMobile running Opera Mini 5.1 nor in the Opera Mini Simulator.

Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread David Laakso
tee wrote: Hi David, I think the problem might be this: body#p #main img {border: 3px solid red;display: block; max-width : 96% !important; height : auto !important; margin : 20px 0 0 0; } Should it not be "body#p, #main img"? tee #p is the id for the styles specific to the portfolio

Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread David Laakso
Duncan Hill wrote: On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:27:24 +0100, David Laakso wrote: markup <http://chelseacreekstudio.com/site/portfolio/01.php> Best, ~d Only an old Nokia N80 to test on. Messed with Opera Mini settings and the only way to get the image to display at larger than mini size

Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread David Laakso
tee wrote: I sent you a screenshot taken from Opera Mini directly from iPod using landscape view It might go into your junk box. I am quite certain the image is the result of the max-width declaration in your img and the horizontal scrolling is the product of EM width with the combination of

Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread David Laakso
David Laakso wrote: tee wrote: I sent you a screenshot taken from Opera Mini directly from iPod using landscape view It might go into your junk box. I am quite certain the image is the result of the max-width declaration in your img and the horizontal scrolling is the product of EM width

Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread David Laakso
Duncan Hill wrote: On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:41:33 +0100, David Laakso wrote: Having checked in Opera desktop, which does respond to the @media queries, and the N80, I have a suspicion that there may be something in your header that is maintaining a side scroll on the handheld. Could that

Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread David Laakso
tee wrote: This site may give you a general idea how much it may cost your mobile user per page. http://mobiready.com tee Granted all 7 images in the portfolio section are heavy, Nevertheless, the mobile device is SanyoMirro [ a "low-end" handset-- it is not a "smart-phone" ]

Re: [WSG] :: opera mini 5.1 ::

2010-08-05 Thread David Laakso
tee wrote: Checked one of a mobile sites I did that has inline image larger than 480px ...trimmed, thanks [I think :-) ]. Oh, easy for Leonardo. -- Dylan Thomas -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ *** List Guidelines: h

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