Re: [WSG] markup for headline and tagline

2007-05-06 Thread ~davidLaakso





My goal is still to learn what markup solutions others have settled on 
for headline/tagline and title/byline pairs.


Regards,

Paul



If you are interested in what others have settled on try the NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/education/06montana.html?_r=1oref=slogin
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Re: [WSG] Template Review

2007-04-29 Thread ~davidLaakso

CK wrote:


http://working.bushidodeep.com/dom_site/template.php

Hi,

Typography is the emphasis of this creation, so a review for 
readability is desired. Please send along screen captures of any 
strange behavior.  Concerned with the absolute placement of the 
navigation and the generated content.


Passed. But needs a kicker (is the text a little bland like sort of, 
maybe? :-) ).


Foreground:#66  Background:  #FF
Passed at Level 2 (The contrast ratio is: 5.73)

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Re: [WSG] Template Review

2007-04-29 Thread ~davidLaakso

CK wrote:

Hi,

As monochromatic minimalism is a tight-rope walk, please suggest a 
kicker.




On Apr 29, 2007, at 8:31 PM, ~davidLaakso wrote:

Passed. But needs a kicker (is the text a little bland like sort of, 
maybe? :-) ).



Monochromatic minimalism? You've got to be kidding :-) .
dt {background-color: inherit; color: #000;}
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Re: [WSG] Layout Check Please (Linux / Mac)

2007-04-16 Thread ~davidLaakso

Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote:

Greetings all,

I was hoping some of you fine Linux / Mac users could test this layout 
to make sure no blowups happen.  Everything SHOULD be fine, but you 
never know.


http://homestead.foodzoomer.com/

Thanks a bunch!



Everything SHOULD be fine, but you never know.
I know *exactly* what you mean :-) .
http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ca/cssd/food.gif
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Re: [WSG] Trouble with H3 float

2007-03-28 Thread ~davidLaakso

Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote:

One more question please...

When I resize http://geofeat.com/ to 800x600 the H3 heading *Featured
Advertisers* (third heading on page content) floats right.

I have tried all sorts of css to fix this but end up with more problems
(specifically to do with excess top/bottom margins in the heading etc).

Any help greatly received :(
  


Well, I ain't so sure I get what you are trying to do, but anyway try:
h3.c1 { font-size: 150%; background-color: red; clear: left; }
h3 class=c1Featured Advertisers/h3

Best,
~dL
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Re: [WSG] New Yorker Redesign

2007-03-27 Thread ~davidLaakso

John Horner wrote:

Speaking of redesigns, http://www.newyorker.com/ is looking very nice
these days. Not a table in sight.

but other than that it looks like a good standards-based website.

  





Yes, well, sort of...still the need (for me) to go through the drill of 
ignoring their font-sizes in IE.

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Re: [WSG] Using headers symantically

2007-03-20 Thread ~davidLaakso

Lee Powell wrote:


Last evening I was playing around with some conceptual work which 
included a vast number of headers, and it got me thinking into how 
best to use them, and indeed how the spec says to use them.  The W3C 
spec states, that the range of headers goes from h1 through to h6, and 
that headers should be tagged relevant to their importance.


If this is the case, should headers be nested? In that an h3 should 
always come after an h2, and an h4 should always proceed an h3.  Or 
should we markup content relevant simply to how important we feel a 
certain heading is? .]



Regards

Lee Powell

Headings show the logical structure of the page-- an outline. They are 
not used to add emphasis, or to change font size.
You can machine check a page outline through the w3c validation service: 
validate the markupcheck Show Outineclick Revalidate.
Use the link to the  semantic data extractor below the outline for 
semantic info beyond an outline.


Best,

~dL
http://www.w3.org/2003/12/semantic-extractor.html

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Re: [WSG] Site Check: lagunadesigns.com.au

2007-03-07 Thread ~davidLaakso

Dylan Lindgren wrote:
If I could get you guys to have a look at the website 
www.lagunadesigns.com.au it would be greatly appreciated.


Dylan Lindgren

Dylan,

I think you are off to a good start. The w3c markup validation service 
will point to the same few errors on all pages. It is important to 
resolve them. And with a little care, your page will handle font-scaling 
better.

The site needs correction for IE6, if that browser is important to you.

Best,

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Re: [WSG] New Project - Feedback Appreciated

2007-03-05 Thread ~davidLaakso

Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote:

We have recently unveiled a new project on all things green,
eco-friendly and organic:

http://geofeat.com/

I would really appreciate feedback on issues related to standards,
usability and accessibility. 


Sarah :)
  

Quick look in XP, Sarah.

Doing well in Opera/9.1, Firefox/2.0.0.2, and IE7.0. And for a welcome 
and quaint touch, I did not have to ignore your font-sizes to scale them 
in IE :-) .
IE6.0 and 5.5 looked fine. A little broken and dropping the floats, but 
fixable in 5.01 (if you care). Feeding IE6 and down your favorite 
min/max work around might be advantageous.


My first impression was that the home page, and the site proper,  was 
not finished. The blue (or whatever color it is)  link color is a bit 
raw and looks unstyled compared with the rest of the page. The batch of 
many links under Find a Product might be better set flush left-- same 
for the similar type links in the inside pages. Going to the inside 
pages themselves  was no problem. Finding the tiny home link in order 
to go back was a little hard (for me) the first time.


I have a little difficulty with pages whose main content (in Lynx) is 
preceded by many links. But maybe all those links are your main content?


Either way, I think the site is quite nice.

Best,

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Re: [WSG] MSIE causing trouble

2007-03-04 Thread ~davidLaakso

Michael Cordover wrote:

There is a file: default.ie.css, linked from an IE conditional comment
and contains exactly that rule already.

Further suggestions?



The requested URL /default.ie.css was not found on this server






Michael





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Re: [WSG] css generating i.e security pop up

2007-02-28 Thread ~davidLaakso

kevin mcmonagle wrote:


Im using the pure css - alphaimageloader hack for png transparency.
The problem is that its setting of a security warning in ie 6.
The pngs will only show up if you click ok and allow the script.

www.mcmonagle.biz/arena7

-best
kevin mcmonagle




No clue.

But this may fix the nick in the footer:
#footer{width: /*826px*/825px; }  re-set

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Re: [WSG] some simple box problems

2007-02-27 Thread ~davidLaakso

kevin mcmonagle wrote:


David and lindsay,

Thanks for the advice on clearing the floats. Can you check that this 
layout holds up in ie 6 now?


In reference to your uri: http://mcmonagle.biz/arena7/

As far as I can tell, you only cleared the float. The page is still 
broken in ie6, ie/7, ff, and opera.



As before, the footer needs to be enclosed within the wrapper. Revise 
the markup to:

html
img src=http://mcmonagle.biz/arena7/images/pool.jpg; width=444 
height=159 /

/div
div id=footer
pbr /
a rel=#/abr /
contact info and links/a.
/p
/div
/div
/body
/html

And as before, h2 is still braking.
Change the markup from:
h2img src=http://mcmonagle.biz/arena7/images/bowling.jpg; 
width=444 height=161 /Arena 7 Letterkenny/h2

To
img src=http://mcmonagle.biz/arena7/images/bowling.jpg; width=444 
height=161 /

h2Arena 7 Letterkenny/h2

To correct the nav for ie/6 and ie/7 without affecting compliant 
browsers, amend #header:

#header{
/*height:123px;*/   delete
margin-bottom: /*-13px*/ 0; , amend
}

Leave this selector as you have it:
#navcontainer
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight:bold; color:#fff;
border:0px solid pink;
margin: 0;
padding: 86px 0 0 9px;
}

All of the above may not correct all issues. But they /may/ bring you 
in  a little closer in xp (ie6, ie/7, ff, opera-- local file). And may 
help the font-scaling problem.

~Best,
~dL


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Re: [WSG] some simple box problems

2007-02-26 Thread ~davidLaakso

kevin mcmonagle wrote:



The problem is the wrapper div is not being expanded by the two nested 
columns within it.
Theres no hieghts set. Also margins are showing up abovr the wrapper 
and footer divs even though they're set to 0. Only looked at it in 
firefox mac so far would like to  fix these issues before moving on.


http://mcmonagle.biz/arena7/

-best
kevin mcmonagle 
The footer needs to clear the floats. And #footer needs  and be inside 
the #wrapper.

#footer { clear: both; } add to footer selector
html
img src=http://mcmonagle.biz/arena7/images/pool.jpg; width=444 
height=159 /

/div
div id=footer
pbr /
a rel=#/abr /
contact info and links/a.
/p
/div
/div
/body
/html

h2 is breaking. 
Change the markup from:
h2img src=http://mcmonagle.biz/arena7/images/bowling.jpg; 
width=444 height=161 /Arena 7 Letterkenny/h2

To
img src=http://mcmonagle.biz/arena7/images/bowling.jpg; width=444 
height=161 /

h2Arena 7 Letterkenny/h2

The nav may do better in IE6 (and may not hurt other browsers) if the 
padding is changed:

#navcontainer
{/*padding: 86px 0 0 9px; */padding: 76px 0 0 9px;}

The problem that may need to be addressed is that the page is brittle. 
Font-scaling will expand the nav and drop the float.


Best,
~dL
PS There are a couple of minor validation errors to fix :-) .

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