Re: [WSG] Website Directory Structure - Best Practice

2006-03-19 Thread Daniel Nitsche
Although there are some good tips in this thread, I'd be more worried about how the user is going to see the addresses, rather than how we structure our filesystems :)Some things that bug me about URIs: page-name.some-technologyWhy does the user care if it's a php, html, asp or whatever file?  Eith

Re: [WSG] Usability issue with form help

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel Nitsche
As an idea, why not make the label for each field a link, which will provide contextual help on that item/field?I'd do some user testing to make sure it works, but it makes sense to me that following such a link would lead to information about that field.  The advantage of this would be it reduces

[WSG] File sizes in links: kb KB mb MB etc.

2005-10-26 Thread Daniel Nitsche
Hi all, I was wondering recently what is the best format to indicate file sizes when linking to a file. For example: My inclination is to use MB (Megabytes) where appropriate (ie. if the file is greater than 0.01MB), and KB (Kilobytes) for files less than 0.01MB.  My reasoning is that more use

Re: [WSG] Width defaulting to 100%?

2005-10-03 Thread Daniel Nitsche
Hi Kara, Check out tip 1 in the sitepoint Top Ten CSS Tricks article: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/top-ten-css-tricks As mentioned, block level elements default to 100% width unless specified, so one (of many) ways to change this, would be to specify "display: inline;". Cheers, Daniel Nitsc

Re: [WSG] displaying 3.1 3.2 etc. instead of 1 2 3

2005-09-21 Thread Daniel Nitsche
There is something on this very topic in the WCAG: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#lists Cheers, Daniel NitscheOn 9/21/05, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any way to make list look like   3.1 text text 3.2 text text 3.3 text text 3.4 text text   Inst