Re: [WSG] Help with IE giving me a big white space - FIXED

2005-09-16 Thread Jason Clewell
with an idea would be very helpful. Thanks all. Jason C ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Help with IE giving me a big white space - FIXED Sent: 16 Sep '05 06:24 never mind, my brain finally kicked in - fixed now Cheers

[WSG] Help with IE giving me a big white space

2005-09-15 Thread Helen . Rysavy
Hello Any help would be appreciated http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/wip/hit111/ renders fine in Firefox Has a big white block under my utilities at the top in IE6 Please help as I just can't figure this out. Thank you :) Helen *** Helen Rysavy Web

[WSG] Help with a simple problem - another issue

2005-08-23 Thread Christian Robertson
Hi everyone After the excellent help I received a few days ago, I have continued my development which can be viewed here: http://www.metamorphosis.info/test/index2.htm The CSS file is located at: http://www.metamorphosis.info/test/s/css2.css Al was just fine, until I noticed that the

Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-20 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Extremely helpful; I owe you a pint :) C On Aug 20, 2005, at 1:39 AM, Edward Clarke wrote: There are some interesting articles on default stylesheets. http://www.robertnyman.com/2005/07/15/the-most-important-css-rule/

Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-20 Thread Terrence Wood
On 20 Aug 2005, at 8:39 PM, Edward Clarke wrote: Global selectors may offer performance disadvantages There is no evidence to support this... it is a factoid. kind regards Terrence Wood. ** The discussion list for

[WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-19 Thread Christian Robertson
Hi all, I am new to the list, and this is my first posting so please be gentle ;-) I have a task I am trying to accomplish which is not going to plan. The base code for what I want to achieve can be found at: http://www.metamorphosis.info/test/index-test.htm My aim is to place a single blue

Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-19 Thread alejandro poch
Hi man Just try to write height: 100%; on the BODY on the css file and you're done. At least it work for me. Christian Robertson wrote: Hi all, I am new to the list, and this is my first posting so please be gentle ;-) I have a task I am trying to accomplish which is not going to plan.

Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-19 Thread Patrick Ryan
One step further, just add this: html, body{ height:100%; } Remember that HTMLand BODY are valid elements that wrap all of your content. To varying extents they can be styled like any other element on your page. In firefox, HTML and BODY inherit their height and width from the browser window

Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Should this rule: html, body{ height:100%; } be a default on each page, like * { margin:0; padding: 0; } Has become on my core style sheet? On Aug 19, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Patrick Ryan wrote: One step further, just add this: html, body{ height:100%; } Remember that

Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-19 Thread Christian Robertson
Hi Partic / Alejandro, Works perfectly. Many thanks! Chris Patrick Ryan wrote: One step further, just add this: html, body{ height:100%; } Remember that HTMLand BODY are valid elements that wrap all of your content. To varying extents they can be styled like any other element on your

Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-19 Thread Lea de Groot
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:14:46 -0700, Chris Kennon wrote: Should this rule: html, body{ height:100%; } be a default on each page, like * { margin:0; padding: 0; } What a great Friday afternoon question! I haven't yet had to use that on my pages and I, too, am interested in

Re: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-19 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, I meant on a core style-sheet, and what does bump mean? C On Aug 19, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Lea de Groot wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:14:46 -0700, Chris Kennon wrote: Should this rule: html, body{ height:100%; } be a default on each page, like * { margin:0; padding: 0; }

RE: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-19 Thread Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions
Chris Kennon wrote: Should this rule: html, body{ height:100%; } be a default on each page, like * { margin:0; padding: 0; } Lea de Groot wrote: What a great Friday afternoon question! I haven't yet had to use that on my pages and I, too, am interested in people's opinion. (In other

RE: [WSG] Help with a simple (?) problem

2005-08-19 Thread Peter Williams
From: Chris Kennon I meant on a core style-sheet, and what does bump mean? Lea de Groot wrote: (In other words 'bump' ;)) Bumping the topic back to the top, used more in web forums that email lists. -- Peter Williams winmail.dat

RE: [WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-17 Thread Craig Rippon
Don't forget to change the spelling of Cross cutltural awareness Craig Rippon Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 August 2005 10:50 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Help with navigation Hi

[WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Helen . Rysavy
Hi The subnav in my site: http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/wip/tog/background/introduction.html should look like this: http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/wip/tog/navtest.html. but I cannot get it to work.. :( - and I can't figure out why.. :( Any help is much appreciated. Thanks Helen

RE: [WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Williams
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The subnav in my site: http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/wip/tog/background/introduction.html should look like this: http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/wip/tog/navtest.html. but I cannot get it to work. Helen, It is working nicely for me in IE6/Win and FF1.06/Win. What

RE: Spam: [WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Nick Cowie
From a quick look, it appears the class name differs between the two pages From navigation page a href=introduction.html class=currenttopicIntroduction/a From page a href=introduction.html class=topicIntroduction/a Nick This email is from the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection

RE: [WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Helen . Rysavy
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RE: [WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Peter Williams
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't see the currenttopic i.e. introduction being highlighted.. Ahhh, Now I see what you mean. You're missing the class=currenttopic from the item you want highlighted as the current position. Your example page has: lia href=introduction.html

Re: [WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Terrence Wood
On 17 Aug 2005, at 1:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't see the currenttopic i.e. introduction being highlighted.. remove :link or adding :link:visited from the following declaration: #navCircle a.currenttopic:link becuause when it is the current page it becomes a visited page. kind

Re: [WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Helen . Rysavy
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Re: [WSG] Help with navigation

2005-08-16 Thread Terrence Wood
On 17 Aug 2005, at 1:36 PM, Terrence Wood wrote: remove :link or adding :link:visited from the following declaration: oops, I mean replace it with :visited T. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

[WSG] help with colour switcher

2005-07-27 Thread Angus at InfoForce Services
I think this might be off topic, so please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to get a simple colour switcher happening and having no luck. Can someone please help me get mine fixed or help with another simple one? Thank you. My main style sheet (ifsmain.css) is in a positive image. My

[WSG] help with colour switcher

2005-07-26 Thread Angus at InfoForce Services
** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list getting help **

[WSG] help with colour switcher

2005-07-26 Thread Angus at InfoForce Services
Sorry for the blank message. Used the wrong keys. I think this might be off topic, so please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to get a simple colour switcher happening and having no luck. Can someone please help me get mine fixed or help with another simple one? Thank you. My main style

Re: [WSG] help with colour switcher

2005-07-26 Thread Terrence Wood
It's on-topic as a js question. No guarantees but I think you need to link to both stylesheets in the document head and give them the titles you use in your javascript. And finally turn off the alternate stylesheet. so the code should look something like: link rel=stylesheet type=text/css

[WSG] help with colour switcher

2005-07-25 Thread Angus at InfoForce Services
I think this might be off topic, so please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to get a simple colour switcher happening and having no luck. Can someone please help me get mine fixed or help with another simple one? Thank you. My main style sheet (ifsmain.css) is in a positive image. My

[WSG] help on Vocab improvement

2005-07-16 Thread ^ .^
: russ - maxdesign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:06:18 +1000 To: Web Standards Group <WSG@WEBSTANDARDSGROUP.ORG> Subject: Re: [WSG] help or web - THREAD CLOSED Maybe enough said on this THREAD CLOSED There has been a lot of good in

Re: [WSG] help or web - THREAD CLOSED

2005-07-12 Thread tee
@webstandardsgroup.org Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:06:18 +1000 To: Web Standards Group wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] help or web - THREAD CLOSED Maybe enough said on this THREAD CLOSED There has been a lot of good input here, so thanks for bringing it up and for the following

Re: [WSG] help or web - THREAD CLOSED

2005-07-12 Thread David Hucklesby
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:14:13 -0700, tee wrote:  Forgive me Russ, while I was writing this email, your THREAD CLOSED  came in but I have an urge to finish my message. Hello Tee, Thank you for your heart-felt message to the group. I'm so glad you squeezed it in. It reflects my sentiments, too.

[WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Mike Whitehurst
is this mailing list for anything other than helping novice designers with their hacks? Mike Whitehurstwww.mike-whitehurst.co.uk

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Mike Whitehurst wrote: is this mailing list for anything other than helping novice designers with their hacks? [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a pretty much catch-all for web/html/php/sql/asp/apache.javascript/flash help. sign up. http://www.evolt.org

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Lea de Groot
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:30:24 +0100, Mike Whitehurst wrote: is this mailing list for anything other than helping novice designers with their hacks? This is definitely a mailing list for discussing all aspects of web standards. Any technical list is going to have a large proportion of 'newbie'

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Czeiger
to the fine efforts of the moderators and members themselves). Perhaps it's time to evolve the list? Just a thought :o) Richard - Original Message - From: Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 7:07 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] help or web

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Lea de Groot
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:26:22 +1000, Richard Czeiger wrote: Perhaps there should be two lists - one for discussing standards/accessibility/best practice and one for how do I fix my float/site check please. I like the concept, but my experience of multiple lists for the one group is that

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Geoff Deering
Lea de Groot wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:26:22 +1000, Richard Czeiger wrote: Perhaps there should be two lists - one for discussing standards/accessibility/best practice and one for how do I fix my float/site check please. Having multiple lists also starts lots of flame threads on

RE: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Firminger
I totally concur with Lea (which happens with amazing regularity). We have discussed this matter in the past (along with creating online fora to move some of the newbie stuff off the list) but the general consensus was that this was and still is the best way to do it to cover all levels. If

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Jason Foss
It's a huge Help when the Subject line clearly defines the topic, that way you can quickly identify threads where you may want to participate. It also helps when browsing archives. Russ has covered this in the intro, and most lists do, but people still persist with Help Needed and equivalent

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Geoff Deering
Jason Foss wrote: If I can chip in too - I don't have a problem with newbie posts, nor more advanced posts. But I don't even open Help Needed type subject lines. A descriptive subject line is all that's needed; you can quickly decide if you want to read or get involved in the thread. My 2c,

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Rick Faaberg
On 7/11/05 4:51 PM Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this out: I think the flip side is that a) newbies need to see the 'advanced' stuff to learn by osmosis and b) its really good for gurus to see the newbie questions (and maybe occasionally answer them? Hint, hint people ;)) to keep them

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Rick Faaberg
But I don't even open Help Needed type subject lines. And I never read HTML/RTF email either. Text is too small. Rick ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Joshua Street
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:02 +1000, Jason Foss wrote: But I don't even open Help Needed type subject lines. A descriptive subject line is all that's needed; you can quickly decide if you want to read or get involved in the thread. There's a minor problem with this, though I agree with your core

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Geoff Deering
Joshua Street wrote: There's a minor problem with this, though I agree with your core argument. Newbie posts requesting site reviews can't very easily bear a descriptive subject line when all they want is advice on semantics/markup and best practises. There isn't a core problem they want

Re: [WSG] help or web - THREAD CLOSED

2005-07-11 Thread russ - maxdesign
Maybe enough said on this THREAD CLOSED There has been a lot of good input here, so thanks for bringing it up and for the following discussion... I think we can wrap it up now. A few points to recap: 1. At this stage we will not be going to two or more lists. 2. Please use a subject line

Re: [WSG] help or web standards group?

2005-07-11 Thread Ingo Chao
Please don't forget, while forking, to build a third mediocres/average list, for those who squint at being a guru and tend to forget the years they were soo newbie. or, alternatively: Raise the level of the input in this list by more quality postings and answers. The quality of the

[WSG] Help Me Switch From Tables to CSS Divs

2005-05-31 Thread Olajide Olaolorun
I know so many people have asked for this and at one point i left the emails on the topic in my inbox but then i deleted them. I need to know how to switch from tables to divs. I have a 2 column table and want to switch it into css using divs. I know it has to do with the float tag in css but i

Re: [WSG] Help Me Switch From Tables to CSS Divs

2005-05-31 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, deconstruct and redo: http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/ csslayout/2-col/ G/L C On May 31, 2005, at 12:11 PM, Olajide Olaolorun wrote: I know so many people have asked for this and at one point i left the emails on the topic in my inbox but then i

[WSG] help with Linux version of the colour contrast analyser 1.0

2005-05-17 Thread Steven . Faulkner
We have had a number of requests for a linux version of the colour contrast analyser [CCA], a freeware tool,(http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/contrast_analyser/index.html), but do not have the skills to do this ourselves, is anybody who does have the skills ,or knows someone,

[WSG] help, please!!

2005-04-25 Thread Rachel Campbell
Hello all, I've been developing a site based on the Ruthsarian layouts and it's working ok except in IE 6.0, where there's a problem which is leaving me baffled, so I'm hoping that someone will be able to help. The site is http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/camgsm/new_site/index.html The css

RE: [WSG] help, please!!

2005-04-25 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: Rachel Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 April 2005 7:50 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] help, please!! Hello all, I've been developing a site based on the Ruthsarian layouts and it's working ok except in IE 6.0

Re: [WSG] help, please!!

2005-04-25 Thread Stuart Homfray
Rachel Campbell wrote: I've been developing a site based on the Ruthsarian layouts and it's working ok except in IE 6.0, where there's a problem which is leaving me baffled, so I'm hoping that someone will be able to help. ... There isn't a problem if you set IE's options to refresh on every

Re: [WSG] help, please!!

2005-04-25 Thread Ingo Chao
Rachel Campbell schrieb: The problem is that the header doesn't always display at all on some pages, such as http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/camgsm/new_site/activities/music/index.html. There isn't a problem if you set IE's options to refresh on every visit to the page, but that's not

[WSG] help for a good cause?

2005-04-12 Thread edebeasi
Can anyone out there help with some style sheet woes? Im relatively new to css and Im trying to refit our site to accessibility standards. The project is well under wayand well behind schedule. Im trying to launch by the end of the month. My current problem is getting the footer div to

Re: [WSG] help with css round corners.

2005-04-06 Thread tee
Hi everyone, I got this cool roundbox code from http://www.redmelon.net/tstme/4corners and am trying to adapt it for use in a more complex wrapper with a masthead, body and footer...But im havin a proble with one of the side drop shadows. check out the page at

Re: [WSG] help with css round corners.

2005-04-06 Thread Kvnmcwebn
Hi Tee, I saw the imageless example to, but it dosn't work in ie5 mac. Even though some people don't develop for this browser anymore i still use it somethimes. Also the roundbox im working on has a drop shadow on either side. thank you -Kevin Hi Kevin, I found this nifty corners the other

Re: [WSG] help with css round corners.

2005-04-06 Thread Jan Brasna
and am trying to adapt it for use in a more complex wrapper with a masthead I know I'm not answering directly to your problem, but take a look at ALA: Mountaintop Corners http://alistapart.com/articles/mountaintop/ ALA: CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners Borders

Re: [WSG] help with IE 3-pixel bug

2005-04-04 Thread Chris Stratford
I can't see what you mean. But what I do is, give the container a height of 1%. eg: div { height: 1% } and that DIV will no longer be effected. I cant tell if thats the problem though. Gallagher, Robin wrote: Hi As you can see on the test page I've put up here:

[WSG] help with IE 3-pixel bug

2005-04-04 Thread Gallagher, Robin
This fixed it: #rightColumn { float: right; width: 200px; background-image: url(background.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 500px; } * html #rightColumn { width: 202px; margin-left: -2px; } * html hid the IE fix from other

[WSG] help with IE 3-pixel bug

2005-04-03 Thread Gallagher, Robin
Hi As you can see on the test page I've put up here: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~persia/final/test.html The background image in the floated right column is being affected by the IE 3-pixel bug. I've found an explanation and solution for this at:

Re: [WSG] help with IE 3-pixel bug

2005-04-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Gallagher, Robin wrote: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~persia/final/test.html The background image in the floated right column is being affected by the IE 3-pixel bug. I would go for the simplest solution: #rightColumn {_width:202px;_margin-left: -2px;} ...that'll fix IE6. Then I would try a proper

[WSG] Help with modified ThrashBox implementation

2005-03-23 Thread Paul Burchfield
Hello, I'm trying to create a modified version of the ThrashBox (original ThrashBox is at: http://www.vertexwerks.com/tests/sidebox/). My modification is at: http://www.love2tap.com/test/ Basically, I'm trying to add an image to the header area that can easily be replaced allowing the box to be

Re: [WSG] Help centering footer IE6

2005-02-24 Thread Bert Doorn
Ah, OK, it's not perfectly centered. I didn't notice at first. You have put MSIE into quirks mode by adding the xml prolog at the top of the source. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8? MSIE thus uses the old box model, making the paragraphs narrower. Since you're floating them to the left,

Re: [WSG] Help centering footer IE6

2005-02-24 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Hi Bert Thanks for your suggestion. I tested that by removing all the floats, positioning and display:inline (with the web developer toolbar in Firefox) and it made no visible difference to the layout. I have included these elements for a couple of other pages, namely:

Re: [WSG] Help centering footer IE6

2005-02-24 Thread Sarah Peeke (XERT)
Thanks Bert In quirks mode, that means the footer is only a total of 698px wide (with the padding subtracted to get inside width). In standards mode (as with Firefox and Opera), left and right padding is added to that figure, for a total width of 728px. I have removed the left and right

Re: [WSG] Help on bug

2005-02-12 Thread Andy
On Sat February 12 2005 12:53, ::dotcompals:: wrote: img src='http://127.0.0.1:1030/bug.cgi' Well my dear boy. In order to fix this bug you will need to upload the image to the Geocities server. In your account directory and change the src part of the image so that it points to the uploaded

[WSG] help with mystery IE padding

2005-02-11 Thread Ted Drake
Hi All I've been pounding my head against the desk for a while trying to figure out why I'm getting a space between my h1 tag and the topnav. It looks fine in firefox, naturally, but in IE, there is about a 10px margin between the h1 and ul#topnav. This is visible by the jog in the blue bar as

[WSG] Help on file extensions used

2005-01-27 Thread ::::dotcompals::::
Dear friends, Can any one help me with the extension used these days in some we pages. For example .gne (flickr.com) .pyra .do (blogger.com). How can these extensions be created what are its advantages? regards = Prashanth Nair dotcompals Tattamangalam.P.O Palakkad Dt. Kerala (State)

[WSG] Help on file extensions used

2005-01-27 Thread Rob Mientjes
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:06:15 -0800 (PST), dotcompals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, Can any one help me with the extension used these days in some we pages. For example .gne (flickr.com) .pyra .do (blogger.com). How can these extensions be created what are its advantages?

Re: [WSG] Help on file extensions used

2005-01-27 Thread David R
dotcompals wrote: Dear friends, Can any one help me with the extension used these days in some we pages. For example .gne (flickr.com) .pyra .do (blogger.com). How can these extensions be created what are its advantages? regards Its a server side thing. There are no advantages for the

Re: [WSG] Help on file extensions used

2005-01-27 Thread Rene Saarsoo
Hi, I think the only advantages of these extensions are dis-advantages. The must-read on this topic is from Tim Berners-Lee Cool URIs don't change: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html If you must use any extension at all - please consider something that anyone finds meaningful. The

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie text editors

2005-01-21 Thread Bryan
BB does XHTML, PHP, CSS etc.. built in FTP, HTML Tidy, FTP etc... You name it, it's got it. I use one called Editpad Pro. It has downloadable syntax for a number of different languages, a dictionary, tabs which allow you to work on multiple items at once, a project feature that allows to save

RE: [WSG] Help - newbie text editors

2005-01-21 Thread Karl Brightman
@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Help - newbie text editors BB does XHTML, PHP, CSS etc.. built in FTP, HTML Tidy, FTP etc... You name it, it's got it. I use one called Editpad Pro. It has downloadable syntax for a number of different languages, a dictionary, tabs which allow you to work

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Stratford
Glad to help! It honestly is the best ever coder I have used. It is true that for Server Side Scripting - it isn't as helpful as it is for HTML. But is is really advanced in that, when you have a document - for example a PHP document, like below: ? php php php php php php php php php php

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-20 Thread Jason Foss
I haven't even heard of TSW coder before - but it looks pretty good. The built-in code validators look really handy - especially for bug-hunting. Thanks for the link! On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:35:31 +1100, Chris Stratford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glad to help! It honestly is the best ever

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Stratford
No Problemo Jason! The code validator is odd, when you click on a HTML element in the source, it will show up in the status bar if its valid etc as well. I havn't really used the validators much, but i know they are there because before I wrote up teh little snippet, i was looking through the

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-20 Thread Alan Trick
Actually that's nothing new. Many of the better editors will do that. The reasons I switched were 1) I was using PHP and so many of the nice things like the built in HTML/CSS Validator. 2) Besides syntax highlighting, it doesn't really support PHP (as in being able to parse it on the fly)

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-20 Thread Chris Stratford
Sorry going to have to stop you there again... Alan Trick wrote: 1) I was using PHP and so many of the nice things like the built in HTML/CSS Validator. I dont get what that means...??? Maybe you mean its redundant? Maybe so, but its a feature never the less... 2) Besides syntax highlighting,

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin Futter
Even Dreamweaver's code editing mode does this (context-sensitive syntax highlighting). There's been a good deal of derogatory commentary about Dreamweaver recently, but as a web IDE I think it's fantastic. Where people get into trouble is by relying solely on WYSIWYG mode. I rarely use WYSIWYG

[WSG] Help - newbie text editors

2005-01-20 Thread Erwin Heiser
Hi all, First of all, It¹s always you writing the code, not the program ;-) Anyway on the Macintosh these editors rock: BBEdit: see http://www.barebones.com/index.shtml Not cheap, but worth every penny IMHO, Textwrangler is now a free download as an alternative. BB does XHTML, PHP, CSS etc..

[WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Paul
Title: Message I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread David Laakso
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:05:03 -0330, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards (

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread JohnyB
standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) Eh, I won't suggest it to beginner - skilled coder knows all the gotchas, but beginner may just stuck with the WYSIWYG and do it badly. Everebody in our workshop works with PSPad on almost everything. If you want to try WYSIWYG I'd suggest trying NVU... and

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Alan Trick
Hi, Here's a bit of what I've learned jumping from editor to editor. 1) Don't pay for and editor, unless your filthy rich or can freeload one off a company you work for. There are free alternatives that are at least as good as the one's you pay for. 2) WYSIWYG (point and click) is pure evil.

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Brian Cummiskey
Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Lea de Groot
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:05:03 -0330, Paul wrote: is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for tips on accessibility and standards compliance. Rather than changing editors, or at least, rather than going to DW! :), I'd suggest you

RE: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Paul
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Cummiskey Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 11:12 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Help - newbie Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Alan Trick
True, provided your editor isn't WYSIWYG. Brian Cummiskey wrote: Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Stratford
Wow,wow,wow slow down Alan, ... Alan Trick wrote: 1) TSW Webcoder: Not bad for newbies. It requires regristration to get rid of the popup things which is anoying. It is basically for HTML/CSS coding only. It has no support for server-side scripting like PHP or ASP besides serverside

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread David R
Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Bryan Davis
Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Bruce
I have always recommended not using an editor, learn it manually, then perhaps use one for shortcuts. Reliance on html editors and such isn't a good idea. That will go a long way toward learning on your own, without being limited by some software. Notetab or notepad is fine. Bruce Prochnau

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Wayne Godfrey
On 1/19/05 3:55 PM, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have always recommended not using an editor, learn it manually, then perhaps use one for shortcuts. Reliance on html editors and such isn't a good idea. That will go a long way toward learning on your own, without being limited by some

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread matt andrews
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:41:40 +1000, Lea de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather than changing editors, or at least, rather than going to DW! :), I'd suggest you just start validating your pages. Figuring out those fixes will teach you a lot, and from there you can move on to Accessibility

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Bruce
Chris Stratford wrote: Wow,wow,wow slow down Alan, ... snip I LOVE TSW WebCoder. Built in FTP is Excellent! Built in Project Manager - with Status reports, To Do Lists, Full Project Upload Built in Server Mapping. Preview in IE and Mozilla - only for HTML coding, or if your server mapping...

Re: [WSG] Help - newbie

2005-01-19 Thread Ben Hamilton
Paul wrote: I have been writing html code for awhile now and and starting to realize how inaccessible and non-web compliant my pages are. I have always hand written code in Edit Plus 2, is there a better editor I can use for web standards ( like Dreamweaver MX ? ) and where should I start for

[WSG] Help with border

2005-01-13 Thread Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan
Hello, I have a little problem with a border with a site I'm doing. The prototype's URL is http://www.raquedan.com/quickinfo. My 3-column lay-out has a bit of a snag. The left-most sub-column has a border that doesn't stretch all the way down to the length of the longest column (the center

Re: [WSG] Help with border

2005-01-13 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan wrote: Hello, I have a little problem with a border with a site I'm doing. The prototype's URL is http://www.raquedan.com/quickinfo. My 3-column lay-out has a bit of a snag. The left-most sub-column has a border that doesn't stretch all the way down to the length of

Re: [WSG] Help with border

2005-01-13 Thread Jixor - Stephen I
Jixor - Stephen I wrote: Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan wrote: Hello, I have a little problem with a border with a site I'm doing. The prototype's URL is http://www.raquedan.com/quickinfo. My 3-column lay-out has a bit of a snag. The left-most sub-column has a border that doesn't stretch all the way

Re: [WSG] Help with border

2005-01-13 Thread Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan
Thanks for the suggestion! :) On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 18:29:35 +1100, Jixor - Stephen I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jixor - Stephen I wrote: Regnard Kreisler C. Raquedan wrote: Hello, I have a little problem with a border with a site I'm doing. The prototype's URL is

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