Re: [WSG] Budget Design

2004-05-31 Thread Universal Head
That's about right for me too. Peter On 01/06/2004, at 9:13 AM, Justin French wrote: On 01/06/2004, at 8:55 AM, Luke Moulton wrote: At this present time, for our team a small budget website consists of a 5 to 10 page (for want of a better word) XHTML/CSS site with CMS and can cost the client

[WSG] Bye folks

2004-05-31 Thread Universal Head
It seems every thread I contribute to gets closed!! ;) Seriously, I suppose I find myself more interested in design threads rather than coding ones, and that's not quite in accord with the purposes of this list, so I think I'll unsubscribe for a while. I'd like to take up this bit of bandwidth

[WSG] whatdoiknow.org mention

2004-05-20 Thread Universal Head
Headlesshollow.com got mentioned on Todd Dominey's site!! (www.whatdoiknow.org). Fame at last! (Sorry to blow the old trumpet but I visit this guy's site all the time and love his work). Peter x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048

[WSG] should I track down this problem?

2004-05-19 Thread Universal Head
Curious how others would approach this? I've just finished a simple site that is perfect in WIN - NN 7, IE 5.01, IE 5.5, IE 6 MAC - Safari 1.2.1, Mozilla 1.4, IE 5.2 And a friend looks it in on Mac IE 5 and finds a big problem. My question is, do you draw the line or not? Do I spend more time

Re: [WSG] should I track down this problem?

2004-05-19 Thread Universal Head
It's probably something to do with that as one of the two problems is a standard horizontal list nav stuffing up. It does make the navigation virtually unusable I must admit. But what can you do? My point to posting was, how many specific version numbers can one check in anyway? Having it work

[WSG] [OT] UniversalHead blog

2004-05-18 Thread Universal Head
OT I know, but then it is web standards savvy, thanks to Todd Dominey's original template (though I've modified the graphics quite a bit): http://www.headlesshollow.com No doubt you all know about the web standards friendly relaunch of Blogger: http://www.blogger.com - which has now made the

Re: [WSG] [OT] UniversalHead blog

2004-05-18 Thread Universal Head
Sorry everybody I jumped the gun - it will take several days for this new URL to be recognised worldwide, so you'll probably get a coming soon page for a while - my apologies. Peter x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia T (+612)

Re: [WSG] [OT] UniversalHead blog

2004-05-18 Thread Universal Head
Yes, which is very handy. I know the basic layout is stable and tested and done professionally so it's an excellent start to making your own design. Hopefully after tinkering with it for a while virtually nothing of the original template will remain, but it got me up and running very quickly and

Re: [WSG] WSG design competition voting time

2004-05-17 Thread Universal Head
Now I see how few entries came in I'm thinking I should have somehow found the time to enter ... I suppose it would be unbelievably bad form to ask for a time extension would it? (he says in tiny mouse-like voice) ... Congrats to those who did take make effort to enter. Peter On 17/05/2004, at

Re: [WSG] digital web magazine redesign

2004-05-14 Thread Universal Head
The best place is to go to a good quality bookstore that stocks a range of design-related titles. I could name some in Sydney but that's not very useful for many people on the list ... I'm also on the visiting list of a distributor who specialises in design books who comes around to the studio

Re: [WSG] Thanks Peter and Russ

2004-05-14 Thread Universal Head
An experienced designer should ask the right questions. Cheers! Peter On 14/05/2004, at 4:39 PM, Michael Kear wrote: Frankly I don't think I have the skills to brief a designer adequately yet. I suspect that's a skill all on its own. x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works.

Re: [WSG] digital web magazine redesign

2004-05-13 Thread Universal Head
its all in the talent and creative side of your brain, son! It's easy Mike! See that button on the top right of your keyboard? The one marked design? Just press it! ;) Oh OK I'll say something useful. Here's what I do. When coming up with a concept I sit down with a big piece of paper and I

[WSG] reply from ACA

2004-05-06 Thread Universal Head
You all might be interested in the reply I received from the ACA in response to my email. I leave it to speak for itself. Peter On 07/05/2004, at 2:21 PM, WebMaster wrote: Dear Mr Gifford,  Pleqase accept my apologies for the delay in respond to your email. We are aware of some issues with the

Re: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-05 Thread Universal Head
demand) and make the site compatible to ALL users, not just a percentage. My company, Universal Head, has ten years experience in design and specialises in online communications. I would be happy to discuss the possibilities with you further. Best regards Peter Gifford --- On 02/05/2004, at 6

Re: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-05 Thread Universal Head
and would look elsewhere. p.s. Your main nav is pretty user-unfriendly. It's not obvious that these are actually nav items. You're forcing people to guess what they do and to roll over them to reveal where they go. Universal Head wrote: You're right, but in my defense I didn't actually put

[WSG] New Site launch: Jands

2004-04-29 Thread Universal Head
Universal Head is proud to announce the launch of Jands (Australia's Audio, Lighting and Staging Specialists) new website: http://www.jands.com.au I've been working on this one since November (Russ, you may remember being incredibly helpful to me on the homepage code - thanks mate). Eventually

[WSG] programming skill required - thanks for the response

2004-04-27 Thread Universal Head
Thanks for the response folks I've got a few good people to choose from now! No more submissions required! Cheers Peter x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia T (+612) 9517 1466 F (+612) 9565 4747 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W

Re: [WSG] hiring a standards-savvy designer

2004-03-31 Thread Universal Head
Warning: rant. The very fact that this is even in question with any designer is an indication of how degraded the title has become since computers hit the industry. Design was and has always been about communication and functionality - my degree in 84-88 was 'Visual Communications', not 'web

[WSG] Re: CSS not rendering in Mozilla

2004-03-30 Thread Universal Head
Thanks for the help on this. It's working ow, though I'm very confused as to why to tell you the truth. I asked my host about the MIME type and he said it was set to text/css (his server software is Webstar btw). Yet it still wouldn't work. It was only after he flushed the server cache that it

[WSG] What tha!?

2004-03-29 Thread Universal Head
I just checked my site www.cinema4duser.com in Mozilla and it wasn't applying CSS. what the A#%^$* have I done?? Thanks Peter x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia T (+612) 9517 1466 F (+612) 9565 4747 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W

[WSG] IE5 Mac Doosey

2004-03-23 Thread Universal Head
I didn't make this site, but I'm picking up the pieces. The navigation uses CSS rollovers which seem to work fine in most browsers, but completely stuff up in IE5 Mac. As in no navigation appears at all. I'm not well versed in css-rollovers (or the quirks of IE5 Mac), so before I plunge into this

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac Doosey

2004-03-23 Thread Universal Head
Thanks Hugh but the client doesn't want to pay for that at this stage. He just wants to get it 'fixed' to work in IE5 Mac. Bummer I know. P On 24/03/2004, at 12:49 PM, Hugh Todd wrote: Pete, You might be better to start again. The author is fooling around with background images for the menu,

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac Doosey

2004-03-23 Thread Universal Head
Curses, still no luck! No absolute positioning in this case. Help me obiwan! I've run out of ideas! Peter On 24/03/2004, at 2:07 PM, Nick Cowie wrote: What the problem appears to be is IE5.2 on Mac can not float items that are inside a absolutely positioned div. x-tad-bigger

Re: [WSG] IE5 Mac Doosey

2004-03-23 Thread Universal Head
Once again the remarkable Hugh comes through with the goods. Hugh, you deserve a knighthood. Why does this work? I don't know! And frankly ... I don't care! ;) Thanks mate Peter On 24/03/2004, at 3:18 PM, Hugh Todd wrote: Pete, Try taking out all the overflow: hidden and see what happens.

Re: [WSG] Font size, and how large is large enough?

2004-03-23 Thread Universal Head
At this point, in regards to CSS - and the world in general - I feel like interjecting the old chestnut you can't please all of the people all of the time ... On 24/03/2004, at 4:31 PM, Mark Stanton wrote: When the page specifies 'verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif', such people almost

[WSG] drop down menus

2004-03-21 Thread Universal Head
I recently had a client who insisted I implement drop-down menus for the navigation on their site, even though I gave them all the reasons why I thought they were unnecessary in their case - and I was wondering what the list's thoughts were on this method of navigation. Personally think that in

Re: [WSG] mysterious space

2004-03-21 Thread Universal Head
The space is *within* the border (ie padding), not outside it (ie margin). These margins allow the floated thumbnails to stay 5px from each other. Thanks anyway! Peter On 22/03/2004, at 1:50 PM, Maureen Beattie wrote: I am not sure Peter if this is what you mean but you have specified margin:

Re: [WSG] mysterious space

2004-03-21 Thread Universal Head
Damn - doesn't seem to work for me despite trying out several permutations! Any other ideas? Peter Can anyone enlighten me on this ... my thumbnail pics have about 5 pixels space at the bottom in IE6 that I can't work out how to remove. In the CSS I have specified height and width, and padding

Re: [WSG] mysterious space

2004-03-21 Thread Universal Head
e's the solution that worked for me - set the image display to block http://www.alistapart.com/articles/betterliving/ see XHTML BROWSERS near the bottom of the page Josh Parrish http://keylime.nu *Universal Head* Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia T (

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-15 Thread Universal Head
Jim I think you're referring to my Flash business site, www.universalhead.com, rather than the css one www.cinema4duser.com. This is OT since it's not a css site, but the music doesn't come back on if you nav to another part of the site. Only if you refresh - which is unavoidable since the flash

[WSG] Testing multiple versions of IE

2004-03-14 Thread Universal Head
I've installed IE 5.01, 5.5 and 6 on my Windows2000 box using this method: http://www.quirksmode.org/browsers/multipleie.html However, does anyone know a way of testing that these are acting as they should for each version number? Peter *

[WSG] Netscape versions

2004-03-14 Thread Universal Head
What's a good version of Netscape Navigator to check in? v 7.1 or v7? is there a big difference? Is it worth checking in older versions? What's the Netscape skinny basically? Thanks! Peter (obviously setting up a PC testing machine ...) * The

[WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Universal Head
Hi all Just about to be officially announced, my new fully CSS/XHTML 1.0 Trans site, and the smoothest experience I've had with css so far: http://www.cinema4duser.com Comments and crits most welcome. Peter x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Universal Head
Thanks Tim You can have as many h1's as you want - it's just a general class for a level 1 heading. Cheers Peter On 12/03/2004, at 12:14 PM, Hill, Tim wrote: looks awesome, fonts used in titles are really cool, love the effect. the only thing I could see was and I don't know if I'm right

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Universal Head
In response to your extremely helpful feedback, thankyou for it all: standardsy message ... not a major grumble, but changing the wording might be appreciated Regarding the accessability message, any suggestions for changing the wording? Is there a 'satandard' blurb? How come so many people saw

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Universal Head
This doesn't validate either - does anyone have the correct validating code for inserting a favicon? Peter On 12/03/2004, at 12:50 PM, James Ellis wrote: The validator is having some issues with link rel=shortcut icon trylink rel=icon ... /> instead and you'll have a valid site! x-tad-bigger

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Universal Head
What a shock! ;) link rel=shortcut icon href=http://www.cinema4duser.com/favicon.ico /> works fine and also vaidates it seems. And you only have to put it in the index.html page. Thanks P On 12/03/2004, at 2:01 PM, Chris Blown wrote: However this doesn't work for IE. Works fine other

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Universal Head
Thankyou David and Russ, a great suggestion which I will put into practice now. I was copying the habit of other sites by doing this, and you're right, it doesn't seem necessary. P On 12/03/2004, at 2:03 PM, David McDonald wrote: Personally, I'd probably loose the standards message altogether

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Universal Head
Now THIS is why I love CS - I've just increased the contrast a little. Easss Peter On 12/03/2004, at 3:13 PM, Sarah Sammis wrote: If it were a bit darker it would be easier to read. x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia

Re: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Universal Head
Mike - hilarious! I freaked out there for a sec!! Never fear, there a plenty of sites online that I hate and loathe too. Todd Dominey and whatdoiknow.org - the guy is a sensitive designer AND can program (it makes me sick!) ... www.jasonsantamaria.com ... damn, I've had that idea for ages and he

[WSG] Cascading background colors

2004-03-09 Thread Universal Head
Hi I seem to have problems with background colours replacing earlier background colours. For example styling a td white and then later on a td.classname blue. The subsequent colour is ignored. Is this a problem anyone else has come across? Thanks Peter x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head 

[WSG] Cascading background colors

2004-03-09 Thread Universal Head
Damn, just answered my own question. I had this: table td { background-color: #fff; } table.title { background-color: #81a1d6; } But it needed to be this: table td { background-color: #fff; } table.title td { background-color: #81a1d6; } Doh! Peter x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal

Re: [WSG] turning back to the dark side...

2004-03-08 Thread Universal Head
to the light and the way and the website was launched as XHTML/CSS. Universal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia T (+612) 9517 1466 F (+612) 9565 4747 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W www.universalhead.com

Re: [WSG] A few questions needing answers

2004-03-07 Thread Universal Head
Thanks James and the others who replied, much appreciated. I've since disposed of the middleman and talked directly to the host and found out that the problems I was told existed do not at all - there's a lesson learnt! As for the other - yep, a step too far into programming land for me. I think

[WSG] A few questions needing answers

2004-03-05 Thread Universal Head
Hello fellow pit miners! I have a couple of questions that have plagued me lately - feel free to ignore these if they are too OT, but if not, perhaps someone can shine a lamp into the dark corners of my ignorance ... so to speak ... Forms on Websites Is there a good place that explains/makes

Re: [WSG] He said she said :-) FIR and other such techniques

2004-03-03 Thread Universal Head
don't get an exact font match. I know some people disagree (Peter=Universal Head are you out there) but that is simply not the way of the web. x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia T (+612) 9517 1466 F (+612) 9565 4747 E [EMAIL

[WSG] silly question about meta tags

2004-02-25 Thread Universal Head
Dumb question but ... Do you repeat your META tags on every page of your site, or only the index page? Thanks Peter * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] silly question about meta tags

2004-02-25 Thread Universal Head
Thanks for the replies. I didn't realise they should be specific to each page - I would set them up once and then repeat on every page. BTW, is there a site somewhere that describes them all? I have a few I use that I only half understand - 'Robots', for example, and 'MSSmartTagsPreventParsing'

Re: [WSG] silly question about meta tags

2004-02-25 Thread Universal Head
Interesting - so why do we all religiously add meta descriptions and keywords, not to mention all the other stuff? Curious. Peter On 26/02/2004, at 4:14 PM, Peter Firminger wrote: In fact, we believe that only one (not too significant) SE looks at them at all and they would be far down the

Re: [WSG] Mozilla problem

2004-02-19 Thread Universal Head
More incredibly clear, helpful, well-communicated knowledge from Russ. Thanks mate. Peter On 20/02/2004, at 7:59 AM, russ weakley wrote: If this is your problem, an explanation of why and how is here: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/floatsample.htm x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal

Re: [WSG] Opera

2004-02-18 Thread Universal Head
I'm curious - does anyone really think that getting things spot on for Opera is important? Hasn't this browser got a miniscule user base? And Opera seems to give me almost as many problems as IE anyway. Interested ... Peter On 19/02/2004, at 3:53 AM, LC 55 wrote: A screenshot of

Re: [WSG] Opera

2004-02-18 Thread Universal Head
That's strange because I find that everytime I get a site working in everything else, I check Opera and something's wrong. I suppose this could be that it adheres the closest to the specs, though no one's told me why the old 'margin: 0 auto trick' doesn't seem to work in Opera (ie content that

[WSG] IE5 Mac and vertical margins

2004-02-18 Thread Universal Head
IE 5.2 for the Mac has an annoying habit of collapsing vertical margins. Anyone got the skinny on this? Thanks Peter * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Opera

2004-02-18 Thread Universal Head
Thanks for all the info on Opera folks. My practice up to now has been to code to look good in Safari and Mozilla, and then fix up the IE problems. Good points and info all, cheers. Peter x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia T

[WSG] bit of help needed !

2004-02-16 Thread Universal Head
Hi Could someone have a look at this: http://www.universalhead.com/clients/test http://www.universalhead.com/clients/test/css/main.css Two problems: - I can't get that formbox div (I've put a border around it to make its boundaries to clear) to sit vertically aligned and to the right of that

Re: [WSG] bit of help needed !

2004-02-16 Thread Universal Head
I think I've worked it out now, but perhaps someone could look at the code and let me know if I did it the right way ... Thanks Peter http://www.universalhead.com/clients/test http://www.universalhead.com/clients/test/css/main.css * The

Re: [WSG] bit of help needed !

2004-02-16 Thread Universal Head
Still stumped on this one though! ;) http://www.universalhead.com/clients/test http://www.universalhead.com/clients/test/css/main.css - in Mac Mozilla and PC NN7 the 1px bottom borders on the sidenav list sometimes close up. x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerUniversal Head  Design That Works. 7/43

Re: [WSG] bit of help needed !

2004-02-16 Thread Universal Head
This is what I was trying to find out about before - why does Opera shift everything? It's a simple content container div with horizontal margins set to auto. I'll try the other suggestion, thanks. P On 17/02/2004, at 11:20 AM, Michael Donnermeyer wrote: Opera of course has the 4px or so gap at

Re: [WSG] WHYYY??? WHYYYY???

2004-02-16 Thread Universal Head
There's no margin or padding. These days this is the first thing I check. Thanks to the inestimable, exalted, talented, selfless, charitable Hugh Todd it's starting to work. If in doubt, make both of the b*astards float left. How do you all handle this folks? My brain is going to pop. As I said

[WSG] Opera and centering

2004-02-15 Thread Universal Head
Opera seems to have problems centering divs (with margin: 0 auto;) - is there a workaround to fix this? Thanks Peter * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] Problem Validating CSS

2004-02-10 Thread Universal Head
I beg of you, don't discard the 'curly varieties' - they are the typographical correct apostrophes. The non-curly versions are an ugly pox on mankind and should only be used to delineate feet and inches. Peter On 11/02/2004, at 2:30 PM, Peter Firminger wrote: Also be aware of em-dashes,

Re: [WSG] Problem Validating CSS

2004-02-10 Thread Universal Head
Naw, I can live with the three dot thing ;) P But I'd rather stick with 3 dots (...) as I have seen this one break badly in a search result or text browser or something, can't remember where now. May just be a stubborn bad habit. Sorry if that worries Peter (UH) as well. x-tad-bigger

Re: [WSG] Traitor unmasked! (Pete's layout fixed)

2004-02-08 Thread Universal Head
Well kids, once again I am completely gobsmacked by this truly excellent list. If I had any hair this list would have definitely saved it. Hugh, can't thank you enough for going to all that trouble. Especially since I was such a pain at the last writing club meeting. ;) Only thing is, now

Re: [WSG] Yep, going slowly insane

2004-02-06 Thread Universal Head
Tell me, if a divs within a div are floated, they should float only WITHIN that div shouldn't they? Or does a float affect the whole page even if it's nested in a separate div? Peter * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/

Re: [WSG] Traitor unmasked!

2004-02-06 Thread Universal Head
I mean 'comments.' P :) On 07/02/2004, at 4:57 PM, Universal Head wrote: Thankyou for the helpful and interesting comment (love the Frodo allusion Ryan) * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-04 Thread Universal Head
What tha - how does this work? On 04/02/2004, at 6:17 PM, Sean A Corfield wrote: The debug menu is extremely useful: it can pretend to be a bunch of different browsers, it has a basic load test engine built in, it can show the DOM tree... x-tad-bigger /x-tad-biggerPeter Gifford Universal Head

Re: [WSG] Could someone please do a little testing for me?

2004-02-04 Thread Universal Head
What about Netscape? On 05/02/2004, at 3:09 PM, Mark Stanton wrote: Here's a screeny of IE5 on windows. My cursor is over the work removal. There's a pretty easy way to get different versions of IE running side by side - check some of these links:

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-03 Thread Universal Head
Now THAT's a smart idea - old browsers that expire. If only IE and NN did that! Peter Safari V 1.2 Actually takes over the old safari which expires. they are still having a few javascripting issues where some scripts still wont work. * The

[WSG] Programmer's Challenge

2004-02-02 Thread Universal Head
could then do all your previewing and checking within one browser app. Imagine how much time and effort that would save!! Is it even theoretically possible? Peter Gifford Universal Head  Design That Works visit   7/43 bridge road    stanmore nsw 2048    australia call    (+612) 9517 1466

[WSG] Opera - hrumph - more like school play ...

2004-02-02 Thread Universal Head
to the left ... Sheesh, who the hell uses Opera anyway ...? Damn profusion of browsers making life difficult grumble grumble ... Can anyone spot what's causing this? Much obliged! Peter Gifford Universal Head  Design That Works visit   7/43 bridge road    stanmore nsw 2048    australia call

Re: [WSG] Opera - hrumph - more like school play ...

2004-02-02 Thread Universal Head
It's the margin: 0 auto 0 auto; in #container. but I'm sure you already knew that. Err, no I didn't. Opera has a problem with auto margins? How do I get the container to centre in Opera then? Funny thing is, Opera on my Mac seems to load the page forever and pushes the container even

Re: [WSG] Programmer's Challenge [Virus checkedAU]

2004-02-02 Thread Universal Head
You hit my mental nail on the head Ryan. Peter On 03/02/2004, at 3:14 PM, Ryan Christie wrote: I think that what was more in our minds was a browser that could switch rendering engines on the fly in one window. For example, in the famous FB.7 release, if you navigate to a website that has

[WSG] newbie discovers absolute positioning

2004-01-30 Thread Universal Head
with floats? I was shocked to see my layout work in all the test browsers, first time. Peter -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia call (+612) 9517 1466 fax (+612) 9565 4747 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] site www.universalhead.com

[WSG] printer speific pages

2004-01-28 Thread Universal Head
Can I ask to be pointed to the best tutorial for making printer specific pages on CSS sites? Thanks Peter -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia call(+612) 9517 1466 fax (+612) 9565 4747 email [EMAIL

Re: [WSG] more usable forms

2004-01-23 Thread Universal Head
write the article, but sitepoint does have a facility to provide feedback (http://www.sitepoint.com/feedback/1273) and I know the author responsible is listening. Done. Thanks. -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia

Re: [WSG] last quirk on this site - help!

2004-01-21 Thread Universal Head
explodes the width of the maincontent div to make a ridiculously wide layout. I'd really appreciate someone cracking this last nut so I can declare the CSS for this site DONE! -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia

Re: [WSG] close to pixel perfect ...

2004-01-20 Thread Universal Head
column of info (div id=workmaincolumn) persists in being 3px from the right column instead of 5px in Safari and Firebird. So what doesn't it work in? -Hugh -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia call(+612) 9517 1466

Re: [WSG] close to pixel perfect ...

2004-01-20 Thread Universal Head
a 5px margin as 3px? Thanks Peter Nice page. Question: will the users of Mac Mozilla and Mac Safari be turned off by the 2 pixel difference (unless it breaks the readability of the content)? They may think it's normal... -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge

[WSG] last quirk on this site - help!

2004-01-20 Thread Universal Head
to make a ridiculously wide layout. I'd really appreciate someone cracking this last nut so I can declare the CSS for this site DONE! Cheers Peter -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia call(+612) 9517 1466 fax

Re: [WSG] OT: damn I feel old

2004-01-19 Thread Universal Head
started wondering how old you gurus are? Would be good to get an idea of where we sit demographically... p.s. if you don't want to post your age on the list, feel free to email me direct if you really want to be part of my little survey... -- peter gifford universal head design that works

[WSG] the IE whitespace bug and insanity

2004-01-14 Thread Universal Head
when you view in Win IE, probably means lose those formatting spaces in your code - you know, the ones that make it easy to read and stay organised. Thankyou for listening. exhausted sigh Peter -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048

[WSG] stumped by these ones

2004-01-14 Thread Universal Head
universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia call(+612) 9517 1466 fax (+612) 9565 4747 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] sitewww.universalhead.com * The discussion list for http

Re: [WSG] stumped by these ones

2004-01-14 Thread Universal Head
above. Thanks for the solution but I'd love to understand why it has to be done this way. Cheers Peter -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia call(+612) 9517 1466 fax (+612) 9565 4747 email [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [WSG] stumped by these ones

2004-01-14 Thread Universal Head
for the index page, it's now working for Mac IE5.2 and broken in Win IE6. ARGH! http://www.universalhead.com/clients/jands/ http://universalhead.com/clients/jands/css/jands.css Much appreciated - save from writing off this whole bloody css business as unprofitable! Peter -- peter gifford universal

Re: [WSG] stumped by these ones

2004-01-14 Thread Universal Head
CSS, so that it the CSS works cross platform. Thanks David, if no one comes up with an elegant (!) solution I'll do this. Appreciate the help. Anyone else gonna take on this sucker?? Peter -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048

RE: [WSG] good coding app

2004-01-13 Thread Universal Head
Great responses on the coding app question. I discovered skEdit as a result, which I find excellent. I'm now looking at huge dinosaurs like GoLive and thinking what the hell did I need all that for? Thanks folks, Peter -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road

Re: [WSG] entities

2004-01-12 Thread Universal Head
of having to remember a set of digits that had nothing to do with the character being assigned. As such, browser support for the lettered versions can faulter. The numbered version is official Unicode, and should be recognized just about anywhere. -- peter gifford universal head design that works

Re: [WSG] free web accessibility checking toolbar

2004-01-11 Thread Universal Head
: To examine discrete aspects (structure/code/content) of a html document To facilitate the use of 3rd party applications To simulate the user experience of different users Along with a range of references and additional resources. -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge

Re: [WSG] entities

2004-01-11 Thread Universal Head
the typographical entities. Peter A quick HTML Entities question. For a closed single quote, for example, is it better to use rsquo; or #8217; - and what is the distinction? -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia call

[WSG] variable column heights

2004-01-08 Thread Universal Head
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RE: [WSG] how would I do this?

2004-01-06 Thread Universal Head
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Re: [WSG] how would I do this?

2004-01-06 Thread Universal Head
Thankyou for the excellent advice Russ and Mark, much appreciated! I went for setting the height in this case, but the other options were very educational. I'll be sure to post the completed site for your comments (when it's valid that is!). cheers Peter -- peter gifford universal head design

RE: [WSG] back again but with no tables

2004-01-06 Thread Universal Head
; } And one last thing, you forgot the starting { on the html#maincolumn /* be nice to opera */ so put that on, and it should be sweet -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia call (+612) 9517 1466 fax (+612) 9565 4747 email [EMAIL

[WSG] AudioSite template - almost there ...

2004-01-06 Thread Universal Head
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[WSG] breadcrumbs

2004-01-05 Thread Universal Head
Happy new year you crazy coders ... I believe there was some code or an article for creating 'breadcrumb' trails on a website. Anyone remember an article on this subject? Thanks -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048

RE: [WSG] breadcrumbs

2004-01-05 Thread Universal Head
Many thanks Lindsay. It'll be interesting to see if I can sort it out (being a designer first and definitely a coder second) but it's good info to have. Cheers! Peter Universal Head wrote: Happy new year you crazy coders ... I believe there was some code or an article for creating

[WSG] Small bug

2004-01-05 Thread Universal Head
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RE: [WSG] Small bug

2004-01-05 Thread Universal Head
in place before we're going to make any real progress. Cheers Mark -- peter gifford universal head design that works visit 7/43 bridge road stanmore nsw 2048 australia call(+612) 9517 1466 fax (+612) 9565 4747 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] sitewww.universalhead.com

[WSG] Strange Netscape list button behaviour

2003-12-14 Thread Universal Head
differences in the width of the list element buttons. I've tried fiddling with the list css in every possible combinations and I can't see the logic behind why this is happening. I'd really appreciate it if anyone could come up with an explanation for this. Cheers Peter -- peter gifford universal

Re: [WSG] Strange Netscape list button behaviour

2003-12-14 Thread Universal Head
Title: Re: [WSG] Strange Netscape list button behaviour on the PC, the latest - 7.1. also Mozilla 1.5 on the mac P what version of netscape? Universal Head wrote: Strange Netscape list button behaviour HELP! http://universalhead.com/clients/oceanwavedigital/support_server.html I've tried

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