Re: [WSG] Box model in IE7
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Jason Grant wrote:
>
>> We were told in the past by a massive client that for accessibility purposes
>> font sizes needed to be set to 74% as a minimum as the basic reading size
>> below which it's a straign on the eyes.
>
> 74% is 26% smaller than the viewer's preferred size, IOW, it's too
> small.
>
> Setting "body { font-size: 100% }" leaves the font at the viewer's
> preferred size and prevents some IE weirdness.
>
That's a very good practice indeed, I believe it's included in most
"reset" stylesheets.
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Re: [WSG] add to favorites?
In my opinion that's the wrong list to ask such a question, should go to something more "web developing" like. My opinion about the button idea and web standards? Why not give a nice ajax button that when people click it gives them instruction in few screenshots/lines of text on how to favourite a certain website. Buttons and only IE? Well, I think that adding pages as bookmarks/favourites is one of those things that people know, but people who use internet more "savvy" way, if they use Firefox/any other good browser they most likely know how to favourite a website anyway, if they use IE then they might not be able to find it afterwards anyway, and don't even get me started on "add this page as your homepage" IE should fix that ages ago, it's being abused everywhere. Offtopic: I work for an IT company and there's lots of people who click links and get their IE blown by adding a page with popus on their homepage and then each time they start IE it f&^%$ them up... I really hope that the recent european commission case of fighting against browser monopoly will one day really do something and people will realise that Internet Explorer is not the only choice...many of them think of it as the only browser... -- Krystian Szastok Affordable, Freelance Web Designer in Eastbourne, East Sussex: http://eastbournewebdesign.net Mobile UK (Orange): 07528 036 337 Call for more information or email me. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Tiny Buggy IE thing
Hmmm, I'm looking at the code but I can't see how you actually put an image there and where's the system that makes it change the pic under the hover. Can you please point me to the relevant file/s and explain, that would make it easier to see where it went wrong. There's also a bugless way of doing an image rollover just like this one, that uses only CSS described in details here: http://www.subcide.com/tutorials/csslayout/index.aspx Regards, -- Krystian Szastok Affordable, Freelance Web Designer in Eastbourne: http://eastbournewebdesign.net Mobile UK (Orange): 07528 036 337 Call for more information or email me. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Starting with HTML and CSS
Hehe, I'm using Opera for over a year now and I didn't know they have such a good knowledge section on their website. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Affordable Web Services in Eastbourne: http://eastbournewebdesign.net Mobile UK (Orange): 07528 036 337 Call for more information or email me. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :(
I remember when through GAF I got a on-page SEO job for a website, I was stupid enough to accept it without first looking at the code, it came out that it's a table based design with images in the markup used for layouts etc. I've done as much as I could, but it was a nightmare. Like Simon posted, it's a good lesson. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Affordable Web Services in Eastbourne: http://eastbournewebdesign.net Mobile UK (Orange): 07528 036 337 Call for more information or email me. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ***
Re: [WSG] Is it a good practice to have 'Back to Top' link?
I think it's a good practice, as long as the button actually says "to the top" or "back to the top", I think these work (at least for me) but there are a lot of buttons that have just an arrow pointing up on them and I think that most internet users don't just understand the purpose of this button. Whoah, that's some twisted english here, hope you get what I mean. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Freelance Web Designer in Eastbourne: http://sunlust.net Mobile UK (Orange): 07528 036 337 *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what
> Will try to keep it simple. > > I have much experience of working on various e-commerce systems and know the > following: > > Serious e-commerce systems are very complex (i.e. Magento) > 90% of e-commerce systems are not accessible, let alone standards compliant > Even templated UI solutions tend to require much work to 'clean up' - > largely to do with complexity of the problem at hand > It takes a long time to develop a fully-featured, standards compliant > e-commerce solution (usability aside) > Agree to the above. > Standards wise the best one so far seems to be: http://www.tradingeye.com/ , > but I haven't really thoroughly tried it yet. > It costs £300 man, I would prefer to get an open source solution, community > paid support. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust - I-M-A: Freelancer on the side: http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer: http://smesolutions.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: Can I widen the question? Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what
Hehe, that's a great idea, I posted something almost same in the original topic, but your idea exceeds mine, let's do it, I wouldn't mind learning to use a new software for CMS if I knew that it's better than Joomla, same with everything else, ah btw, add some best tutorials to get started, maybe even start a website for these, look we got a community project! Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust - I-M-A: Freelancer on the side: http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer: http://smesolutions.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what
If anyone was bored, it would be cool to post a shopping cart name and then a link to an example shop actually made by someone from this group/a friend, so that we know that real people make those shops (not huge companies with big $$$). I'll post my shop made in Joomla 1.5 with Virtuemart (I'm still quite a newbie so don't be harsh) http://www.audiotrak.co.uk -- Krystian - Sunlust - I-M-A: Freelancer on the side: http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer: http://smesolutions.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what
Okay, I'll try to bring it back OnTopic. Which of shopping cards actually uses css based templates without tones of tables? And if noone will mind, which CMS does so? I mean,I'm using Joomla and everyone says that the templates are standard compliant etc, but when I see the bloody header named "contentheader" instead of "h2" it really pisses me off - not semantic and not SEO friendly. What's your best practice for Shopping Carts templates/systems, would you rather restyle a template to make it more standard compliant or start from a scratch, and same with coding, do you sometimes try to fix shopping cart software to customize it or do you not as it makes it hard to update later on? Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust - I-M-A: Freelancer on the side: http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer: http://smesolutions.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what
Could some of you guys trim the messages? It's really hard to read when you top post above useless tones of wording. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust - I-M-A: Freelancer on the side: http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer: http://smesolutions.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Shopping cart - who does what
I used osCommerce and Virtuemart with Joomla. osCommerce is pretty straightforward, Virtuemart is a plugin/component for Joomla CMS and I prefer it even thought it's not as good (it's simpler tho). You don't need any photoshop knowledge above resizing/cutting photos and that's really basics. Now about inputting products, I have made a shop for a friend who has over 1000 products so obviously he and his team had to input all of them (I've prepared and printed a tutorial for them with screenshots of the back-end), but on few other projects when there were only 3-10 products I've done the job myself. The real biggy when setting those shops is to test them thoroughly, in every possible way before launching it live/starting proper out-of-the-site SEO. Then, in the end, tell your client that a shop itself won't make ANY money if not SEO'd properly and advertised in a proper nieche depending on your product/places you ship to, and get some extra $$$ for the job, depending on the competition. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust - I-M-A: Freelancer on the side: http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer: http://smesolutions.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Advice on design
hmm, well if u - used images as background for the effect and text on it in html then you could add a nice highlight effect when people hoover them... - you can always use plain text but I'm not sure about the positioning - you can also use just images and use a nice swap technique - and provide a text-only navigation at the bottom of the page like in this tutorial: http://www.subcide.com/tutorials/csslayout/ -- Krystian - Sunlust - I-M-A: Freelancer on the side: http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer: http://smesolutions.co.uk/ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email
Yes. Alt attribute. Damn, I thought that I came up with the best solutions ever for emails, you just shot me down ;-( Thanks for letting me know mate. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Freelance on the side: Sunlust Designs - http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer at SME System Solutions Ltd *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email
Couldn't an alt tag be read by a braille browser thingie? Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Freelance on the side: Sunlust Designs - http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer at SME System Solutions Ltd *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Accessibility for HTML Email
How about the ultimate combo of a voice file with the email spelled out + an image of the email + alt tag on this image ? A lot oh hustle but it can't be botted ( AFAIK ) and is ultra accessible. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Freelance on the side: Sunlust Designs - http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer at SME System Solutions Ltd *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Older Browsers
In a way it's like designing websites for disabled people, it's probably 0.01% of the visitors, but we should provide ways for them to move around the website and make it more accessible, so it 0.5% uses IE5 then we should provide a website that is at least working properly (I wouldn't be concerned about it looks for IE5), difference is that IE5 and 6 users often can switch, disabled people can't just upgrade their bodies or sences, they're stuck with them for life. -- Krystian - Sunlust Freelance on the side: Sunlust Designs - http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer at SME System Solutions Ltd *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] alt text and titles for linked images
Hi Rick, I would give title to the link as the name of the organisation, since the link leads there, and then the alt of the image as this company is a member of the organization, because that's the reason that you show this image and that's it's meaning. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Freelance on the side: Sunlust Designs - http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer at SME System Solutions Ltd *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Older Browsers
IE5 ? Each time I hear about IE5 I want to laugh, honestly, IE6 is old, and most companies that actually create revenue in our modern times use Vista and IE7, who would worry/use IE5? My friend who I just finished designing website for is using IE6 but his computer is like 2-3 years old, what kind of a company uses that old hardware ?? Anyway, end with the rant, in my opinion there should be some strong compaign to cut the usage of IE5 and IE6 because it's just silly to try to develop modern websites in our "web 2.0" world for those useless browsers. It's like trying to design new aeroplanes and test them with steam engines instead of jet ones. Get a grip, for old browsers theres only one kind of a website I would create: "Click this button to download Firefox". Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Freelance on the side: Sunlust Designs - http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer at SME System Solutions Ltd *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] div/span inside table cell problem
Hi,
Not 100% sure about it, but try
.price, .discount {
display: inline;
float:left;
}
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Re: [WSG] Dreamweaver8
Yeah, you can get Dreamweaver 8 on Ebay, but I couldn't find any legal links for download. To be honest, I wouldn't use Dreamweaver, I use Aptana Studio and from the coding side it works great and it's free. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Freelance on the side: Sunlust Designs - http://sunlust.net Full time Website Designer at SME System Solutions Ltd *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Flash list
I wanted to join up to the question, but regarding Java Script lists, can't google any cos instead of actual lists, google lists scripts for mail lists, lol. Hope it's not OF. Regards, -- Krystian - Sunlust Sunlust Designs http://sunlust.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
