Re: [WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Dec 21, 2007, at 7:30 AM, CK wrote: http://working.bushidodeep.com/kevon/index.html The footer (#header) that covers the scrollbar is quite disturbing. Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh *** List G

Re: [WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread kevin mcmonagle
hi From a web typography stanpoint its nice and clean but somehow its not as comfortable to read as it could be. Maybe crank up the leading and possibly the font size as well. maybe make the horizontal word count less. Maybe spend a bit of time styling some heads and subhead to break up the b

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread kevin mcmonagle
I read somewhere that the latest gen adobe external js script method for flash embedding fixes a stacking bug when it comes to z-index. are you using that method to embed? CK wrote: Hi, How does CSS z-index and flash commingle, or does the solution rest with scripting? CK On Dec 20, 2007

Re: [WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread CK
Hi, How does CSS z-index and flash commingle, or does the solution rest with scripting? CK On Dec 20, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Adam Martin wrote: Sorry, I just checked again and see you have done that - the problem is the video. On Dec 21, 2007 8:30 AM, CK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://wo

Re: [WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread David Laakso
CK wrote: http://working.bushidodeep.com/kevon/index.html Could use a once over for this site. any suggestions are welcome. CK Not bad. Just in need of a little more cross-browser testing. See IE 6. Those among us who ignore those among you who consistently freeze the fonts in IE 6 an IE

Re: [WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread Adam Martin
Sorry, I just checked again and see you have done that - the problem is the video. On Dec 21, 2007 8:30 AM, CK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://working.bushidodeep.com/kevon/index.html > > Could use a once over for this site. any suggestions are welcome. > > CK > > > **

Re: [WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread Adam Martin
Hi there, the first thing I noticed is the fact that the footer is always at the bottom. This is fine however I would like to suggest something to improve this a little. Set a z-index of say 100 on the footer, so that the content flows underneath rather than over the footer. Cheers Adam On Dec 2

Re: [WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread Tim Offenstein
At 2:30 PM -0800 12/20/07, CK wrote: http://working.bushidodeep.com/kevon/index.html Could use a once over for this site. any suggestions are welcome. CK Hi CK, A couple quick things: - No alt text on the holder.gif image. (line 28) - needs a type attribute - i.e., type="text/css" (line 5

[WSG] Site Check

2007-12-20 Thread CK
http://working.bushidodeep.com/kevon/index.html Could use a once over for this site. any suggestions are welcome. CK *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/j

Re: [WSG] Site Check-YBF

2007-12-02 Thread David Laakso
CK wrote: Could use a site check(http://working.bushidodeep.com/impress/ybf/index.html). Mostly cross-browser display. Doing my best to migrate previous code and client to Standards. Any suggestions for changes "under-the-hood" are welcome. I would like to focus on text-resizing without brea

[WSG] Site Check-YBF

2007-12-02 Thread CK
Hi All, Could use a site check(http://working.bushidodeep.com/impress/ybf/ index.html). Mostly cross-browser display. Doing my best to migrate previous code and client to Standards. Any suggestions for changes "under-the-hood" are welcome. I would like to focus on text-resizing without bre

RE: [WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:31:30 +1000, Taco Fleur wrote: >> Without even trying to be "obsessive compulsive" I can report that there >> is not enough room for the form labels on my end, so several of them wrap. > > Would you be able to post a link to the form in question? > The link is the one you ga

RE: [WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread Taco Fleur
> Without even trying to be "obsessive compulsive" I can report that there is not enough room for the form labels on my end, so several of them wrap. Would you be able to post a link to the form in question? Thanks *** List Guidel

RE: [WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread Taco Fleur
Thanks. > It is a little difficult to read. Can you elaborate on the above? > The fonts scale well. The overall look is nice. But color on color is sometimes a difficult trick to pull off. > Hozriontal overlap when fonts are scaled on this page:

Re: [WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread David Laakso
Taco Fleur wrote: Sorry, I meant: Can the more obsessive compulsive members of the group, check our new site for problems please? :) www.clickfind.com.au It is a little difficult to read. The fonts scale well. The overall look is nice. But color on color is sometimes a difficult trick to

RE: [WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:53:13 +1000, Taco Fleur wrote: > > Sorry, I meant: Can the more obsessive compulsive members of the group, check > our new > site for problems please? :) www.clickfind.com.au > Without even trying to be "obsessive compulsive" I can report that there is not enough room for th

RE: [WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread David Hucklesby
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:53:13 +1000, Taco Fleur wrote: > > Sorry, I meant: Can the more obsessive compulsive members of the group, check > our new > site for problems please? :) www.clickfind.com.au > Without even trying to be "obsessive compulsive" I can report that there is not enough room for th

RE: [WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread Taco Fleur
: [WSG] Site check please Sorry, I meant: Can the more obsessive compulsive members of the group, check our new site for problems please? :) www.clickfind.com.au *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm

RE: [WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread Taco Fleur
Sorry, I meant: Can the more obsessive compulsive members of the group, check our new site for problems please? :) www.clickfind.com.au *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webst

[WSG] Site check please

2007-11-23 Thread Taco Fleur
site check please www.clickfind.com.au *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Site check

2007-11-17 Thread James Jeffery
Usability - Poor One off the reasons is viewing your web gallery annoyed me. I had to click through 3 pages to view the gallery and each time the flash too a while to load. - There is to much flash on the site that does not need to be there. - Colors are poor I could point out alo of things but

Re: [WSG] Site check

2007-11-16 Thread John Hancock
I fear for their welfare. Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ Me too. Personally I like seeing tags have only text content in them, and to at least have text content in them. Hey, are we in a timewarp? I have an issue that a lot of the content is inaccurate (eg. Ajax isn't a

Re: [WSG] Site check

2007-11-16 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Nov 16, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Kenny Graham wrote: I don't think the grey used nicely; give me an impression that it's an advertising firm with very conservative, uncreative image. Content area without bg color may looks cleaner. Home page is the most important real estate for a site, I thin

Re: [WSG] Site check

2007-11-16 Thread David Laakso
Kenny Graham wrote: Can the more obsessive compulsive members of the group check our new site for problems please? :) http://www.trademarkads.com I fear for their welfare. Best, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ ***

[WSG] Site check

2007-11-16 Thread Kenny Graham
Can the more obsessive compulsive members of the group check our new site for problems please? :) http://www.trademarkads.com At least Felix et. al. will be happy that I didn't specify a font size on body. - Problems I've already found - 1) Contrast problem on the logo text 2) Huge download si

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: On 31/10/07 (14:19) David said: Rick, It is working far better than when you wrote for a check a week or so ago. If I assign a media type to import.css, will that propogate down to the stylesheets that are imported within it? Rick, I see Georg Sortun has a

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Rick Lecoat wrote: [...] I'm not sure how to specify media types when most of my stylesheets are referenced by @import rules from inside a single stylesheet called import.css. You can leave the @import without a media type, and use @media wrappers around the entire set of relevant styles in ea

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 31/10/07 (14:19) David said: >Rick, > >It is working far better than when you wrote for a check a week or so ago. > >It is, imo, a little daunting to arrive on it at 116.5 dpi-- the font >start point (at which one might begin to scale the fonts) for the >content text is very tiny; and, the va

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-31 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: I'm recreating a table-based site that I did a few years back, rebuilding it (hopefully) to web standards and making it as accessible as I can. Rick, It is working far better than when you wrote for a check

Re: [WSG] Site check requested

2007-10-30 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 30/10/07 (14:09) JonMarc said: >Rick, >the site looks good. visually i would maybe slow down your animated gif a >bit, or include the company name or slogan or something and have it stop >after going through once or maybe looping just a couple of times and fall to >rest on the name/slogan/what

Re: [WSG] Site check requested

2007-10-30 Thread Rick Lecoat
On 30/10/07 (13:38) willdonovan said: >I loaded up your page, facinated by your achievement for a semantic >structure 'Fascinated' is one of those worryingly ambiguous terms... ;-) > it looks good, however I'm getting validation errors for the >DOC type, the img tag and trimming empty on 2 spa

Re: [WSG] Site check requested

2007-10-30 Thread JonMarc Wright
Rick, the site looks good. visually i would maybe slow down your animated gif a bit, or include the company name or slogan or something and have it stop after going through once or maybe looping just a couple of times and fall to rest on the name/slogan/whatever. it's a bit fast and i found the c

Re: [WSG] Site check requested

2007-10-30 Thread Tom Roper
Looks good on my iPod! Tom On 30 Oct 2007, at 12:38, willdonovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Rick, I loaded up your page, facinated by your achievement for a semantic structure, it looks good, however I'm getting validation errors for the DOC type, the img tag and trimming empty on

Re: [WSG] Site check requested

2007-10-30 Thread willdonovan
Hi Rick, I loaded up your page, facinated by your achievement for a semantic structure, it looks good, however I'm getting validation errors for the DOC type, the img tag and trimming empty on 2 span tags, Did you get the same? William Rick Lecoat wrote: Hi; I'm recreating a table-based

Re: [WSG] Site check requested :: Lecoat

2007-10-17 Thread David Laakso
Rick Lecoat wrote: Hi; I'm recreating a table-based site that I did a few years back, rebuilding it (hopefully) to web standards and making it as accessible as I can. Currently it's one static page and the links largely don't go anywhere, but I would appreciate feedback from the list before I pr

[WSG] Site check requested

2007-10-17 Thread Rick Lecoat
Hi; I'm recreating a table-based site that I did a few years back, rebuilding it (hopefully) to web standards and making it as accessible as I can. Currently it's one static page and the links largely don't go anywhere, but I would appreciate feedback from the list before I proceed with more pages

Re: [WSG] site check please

2007-06-19 Thread Tee G. Peng
Hi Jermayn, I notice the left and right columns white background colors (or image) are overlapping the 'g-background.jpg'. You either need to may transparent color for left/right column or if background images are used, use nee to make them narrower or maybe add z-index properties. Small

Re: [WSG] site check please

2007-06-19 Thread David Laakso
Jermayn Parker wrote: just wondering if people can have a quick look at the following website for any major errors, suggestions etc http://www.phillipwrayracing.com It is a little slow to load. I regret that font-scaling drops the floats and/or breaks the layout. Best, ~dL -- http://che

RE: [WSG] site check please

2007-06-19 Thread Alex James
> http://www.phillipwrayracing.com XHTML error - img tag has been opened but not closed & add alt attributes to those images. Other than that nice! Thanks, Al *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm U

[WSG] site check please

2007-06-18 Thread Jermayn Parker
Hi folks, just wondering if people can have a quick look at the following website for any major errors, suggestions etc The one thing that has given me major trouble is aligning the columns the same over browsers (I am sure I have a few gray hairs from that), so unless its horriable wrong, I am n

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

2007-05-23 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Steve Olive wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:19:46 pm Hassan Schroeder wrote: Parker, Simi (DPS) wrote: I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

2007-05-23 Thread Steve Olive
On Tue, 22 May 2007 11:19:46 pm Hassan Schroeder wrote: > Parker, Simi (DPS) wrote: > > I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting > > service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration > > other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media player, I w

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

2007-05-22 Thread Hassan Schroeder
Parker, Simi (DPS) wrote: > I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting > service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration > other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media player, I would > really appreciate your feedback and/or assistance. I wou

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

2007-05-22 Thread Lindsay Evans
On 5/22/07, Parker, Simi (DPS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media player, I would really appreciate your feedback

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

2007-05-22 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Parker, Simi (DPS) wrote: Hi everyone I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media player, I would really appreciate your feedback and/or assista

Re: [WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

2007-05-21 Thread Nick Fitzsimons
On 22 May 2007, at 02:31:29, Parker, Simi ((DPS)) wrote: Hi everyone I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media player, I would really appre

[WSG] Site Check - Streaming Media

2007-05-21 Thread Parker, Simi (DPS)
Hi everyone I am investigating some potential issues with our live broadcasting service and if you use an O/S / browser / media player configuration other than Windows / Internet Explorer / Windows Media player, I would really appreciate your feedback and/or assistance. I would particularly welco

RE: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-16 Thread Taco Fleur
p.org Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread http://web-strategists.com:888 Yes I agree a min width would be good, if not maybe look into png transparency for the floating logo. http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/png_overlay_with_no_extra_markup.asp -bes

RE: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-16 Thread Taco Fleur
: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread > http://web-strategists.com:888 You've got a transparent background-color set somewhere as all of the white space on the sides of the content and under the footer is currently browser default (mine is set to pink so I can see sites that aren&#x

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-16 Thread kevin mcmonagle
http://web-strategists.com:888 Yes I agree a min width would be good, if not maybe look into png transparency for the floating logo. http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/png_overlay_with_no_extra_markup.asp -best kvn *** List G

Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-16 Thread Ben Dodson
http://web-strategists.com:888 You've got a transparent background-color set somewhere as all of the white space on the sides of the content and under the footer is currently browser default (mine is set to pink so I can see sites that aren't defining background-colors!). This prob isn't much o

Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-16 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Taco Fleur wrote: http://web-strategists.com:888 Could do with suitable 'min-width' and 'max-width'. Not well prepared for regular 'minimum font size', or even for 'font resizing' in IE/win. Also, I get the "off-screen" text for the "click here to start selling" in at the left side on really

Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-16 Thread Open Vision
Personally I think the header is too large. Other than that a really nice site. - Original Message - From: "Taco Fleur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:51 PM Subject: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread For some reason my other emails end

RE: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Kepler Gelotte
Regards, Kepler -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taco Fleur Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:35 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread Hi Felix thanks for the effort. A solution to the proble

RE: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Taco Fleur
No, its perfectly fine, its exactly what I was asking for. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph R. B. Taylor Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 3:32 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread Taco

RE: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Taco Fleur
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Felix Miata Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 2:22 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread [I have a minimum font size set to prevent eyestrain.] On 2007/05/16 12:51 (GMT+1000) Taco Fleur appar

Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
cipated 1 size up, as its already a large font. You can't win in every situation ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph R. B. Taylor Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 2:32 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site chec

Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
[I have a minimum font size set to prevent eyestrain.] On 2007/05/16 12:51 (GMT+1000) Taco Fleur apparently typed: > Anyways; anyone interested in a site check? > http://web-strategists.com:888 I like it a lot above the yellow, but I don't like 3.5 word line lengths at all. An unset background

RE: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Taco Fleur
eph R. B. Taylor Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2007 2:32 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread Taco, Everything looks real good with one exception which should be an easy fix: The yellow bar. As you increase the text size, the yellow bar does not expand wi

RE: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Taco Fleur
2:32 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread Taco, Everything looks real good with one exception which should be an easy fix: The yellow bar. As you increase the text size, the yellow bar does not expand with it. The content instead eventually hides as

Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Taco, Everything looks real good with one exception which should be an easy fix: The yellow bar. As you increase the text size, the yellow bar does not expand with it. The content instead eventually hides as it passes the bottom of the bar. If the yellow bar and the drop shadow below it are

Re: [WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Susie Gardner-Brown
I'm looking on a Mac in Firefox. It all seems to hold together fine. My comments are more on the design/layout side. The 'banner' area - to my mind it takes up way too much real estate. It's pretty much half the screen. And there's too much white space on the right side too I think. Another thing

[WSG] Site check Please - new thread

2007-05-15 Thread Taco Fleur
For some reason my other emails ended up in someone else's thread, even though I created a new message from scratch. Anyways; anyone interested in a site check? http://web-strategists.com:888 Thanks in advance... Taco Fleur www.pacificfox.com.au website design *

[WSG] Site Check Please

2007-05-10 Thread Taco Fleur
Anyone interested in a site check, please visit http://web-strategists.com:888/ (Sellmystuff) Thanks in advance. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe

[WSG] site check please

2007-05-09 Thread Taco Fleur
Anyone interested in a site check, please visit http://web-strategists.com:888/ (Sellmystuff) Thanks in advance. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join

Re: [WSG] Site check please

2007-05-02 Thread ~davidLaakso
Elle Meredith wrote: Could you please have a look at http://digitaluwphotography.com/ and let me know what you think? Elle I regret that it is showing right column float drop in ie/6.0. Captures: Regards, ~dL -- http://chelseacreekst

Re: [WSG] Site check please

2007-05-01 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/05/02 09:15 (GMT+1100) Elle Meredith apparently typed: > Could you please have a look at http://digitaluwphotography.com/ and > let me know what you think? Once I zoom FF enough to read the #primary p content, the line length is down to about 5-6 words, too narrow, while on the right si

Re: [WSG] Site check please

2007-05-01 Thread Jermayn Parker
Hi, I really like the layout but there are a few things I will arise that got my attention. Text too small and the "about us" goes to a second line (would be better as one line) apart from that well done... On 5/2/07, Elle Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Could you please have a loo

Re: [WSG] Site check please

2007-05-01 Thread Nick Gleitzman
Elle Meredith wrote: Could you please have a look at http://digitaluwphotography.com/ and let me know what you think? I also have a problem with the top div#access links that I don't know why just don't work (skip and site info). Elle, your css declares div#access as position:absolute, and

Re: [WSG] Site check please

2007-05-01 Thread Cameron Singe
I like the colours, not a bad design. What I would suggest is reducing the text on the main page, there is to much information in the main section. Users will rarely all the words on a page, so trying to get to much information across is pointless. Also it forces scrolling which is not the best of

Re: [WSG] Site check please

2007-05-01 Thread kevin mcmonagle
Its nice, maybe the leadings a bit extreme. If you crank the line-height down you might get all the navigation elements on the right hand showing up without the need to scrool down to them. hth Elle Meredith wrote: Hi, Could you please have a look at http://digitaluwphotography.com/ and let

[WSG] Site check please

2007-05-01 Thread Elle Meredith
Hi, Could you please have a look at http://digitaluwphotography.com/ and let me know what you think? I also have a problem with the top div#access links that I don't know why just don't work (skip and site info). TIA, Elle http://designbyelle.com.au/

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-25 Thread Bob Schwartz
Stuart, I did as you suggested. I now have another bi-lingual site to do and was wondering if there is a way to mark up for languages (Italian/English) something like: nome/name span class perhaps? Seems like it would add a lot of bytes to the page. The declared language on the document wi

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-21 Thread Dennis Lapcewich
Return Receipt Your Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE document: weirdness

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-21 Thread BKDesign Solutions
From: "Bob Schwartz" OK. I've fixed them all but one and I'm at a loss to how to fix it. Dreamweaver is complaining that I am using this more than once to point to different URL's Any thoughts? Bob Get rid of dreamweaver? ;) Bruce P bkdesign ***

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-21 Thread BKDesign Solutions
The below sounds like a good way to discourage using this list. Bruce P bkdesign - Original Message - From: "Mike Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 3:54 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness Bo

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-21 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, I think Dreamweaver is complaining about using the same link text to point to different URLs not the other way round (It is OK to use different link text to point to the same URL). In your menu you have: rss feed Below you have another link to a different URL (http://www.fifeweb.org/feed/fi

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-21 Thread Bob Schwartz
Stuart, Your menu has links with the same anchor text but different destinations - "introduction", "current" and "members". When you can see the menu structure the context is obvious but when using a screen reader this can be confusing. OK. I've fixed them all but one and I'm at a loss t

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-21 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, Since Bob was effectively asking for a peer review of his web design prior to publication, I would have thought this was an entirely legitimate use of this forum. We can all learn new techniques from each other as part of this process, with the result that we all increase the quality of our W

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-20 Thread Mike Brown
Bob Schwartz wrote: Lots and lots and lots of emails about his site! There were 6 I just received within a 30 min period, another 5 within 30 mins this morning ... :( Bearing in mind that there's over 2000 people on the list, and that there's already a lot of list traffic, and that all of these

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Philip, It looks like the site may have problems displaying at widths of less than 1000px in Opera 9 and Firefox. The backgrounds don't stay within the three columns properly, leaving some text unreadable. Probably an issue with div positioning, and the box model since the problem doesn't

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Kenny, Your cites should probably not be in their own paragraphs if the cite can be styled directly. I took the cites out of the paragraphs and the page did not pass w3 validation, I put them back in and it did. Bob *** Lis

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
In my primary style sheet I got 29 warnings like this: Same colors for color and background-color in two contexts .month and h5 As there are no h5's with a .month class anywhere in the site, I would assume I can just ignore these types of warnings, but it bugs me that the style sheet does no

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
I ran my style sheets through the w3 validator and in the style sheet that comes with ThickBox I got the following errors. They seem to me to be CSS hacks that the author has used to solve problems with different browsers. Should I leave them, or fix them? #TB_overlay Parse Error - opacity

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
OK, you convinced me. Your reason for doing so is far more valid than my lame reasoning with the Danone and Armani examples. Thanks. On Tue, March 20, 2007 11:56 am, Bob Schwartz wrote: You should also perhaps markup your "logo" H1 content as a change from the declared natural language of

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Stuart Foulstone
On Tue, March 20, 2007 11:56 am, Bob Schwartz wrote: >> You should also perhaps markup your "logo" H1 content as a change >> from the >> declared natural language of the page (English). > > Thanks for you tips Stuart: > > 1. How do I do that? > 2.I'm curious as to why you think it is necessary -

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-20 Thread Jorge Laranjo
An try to use http://www.sidar.org/hera/ (you can choose you're language) to check your site And you're site has 1 error for the Priority 3: Keyboard shortcuts: No keyboard shortcuts provided. Em 2007/03/20, às 18:46, Bob Schwartz escreveu: In the test site I put up the other day for "scrut

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-20 Thread Jorge Laranjo
The '&' should be escaped as & You can see that you've only got one 'warning' and that's it! http:// tinyurl.com/2m4pey Em 2007/03/20, às 18:46, Bob Schwartz escreveu: In the test site I put up the other day for "scrutiny" http:/// www.fotografics.it/fife/ I have discovered a funny one

[WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time - IE weirdness

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
In the test site I put up the other day for "scrutiny" http:/// www.fotografics.it/fife/ I have discovered a funny one with IE 6 If you go to organization --->commissions---> any commission except show you should see an image beside the list of names. The image is attached as a background to

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Rob, The navigation is dependent on javascript for the flyouts which not only do the flyouts cease to work when js is turned off they also become dead links leaving only a partial working menu. What browser - OS are you using? In everything I've checked it in, the links are not dead with

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Stuart, Your menu has links with the same anchor text but different destinations - "introduction", "current" and "members". When you can see the menu structure the context is obvious but when using a screen reader this can This is a real head-scratcher. I'm having trouble finding other w

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Nick, As no screenreaders read title attributes by default (and no screenreader user ever changes the default setting, apparently) you aren't really deriving any benefit (at least in accessibility terms) from the title attributes, so they might as well go. They were originally put there

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks Kenny, I would appreciate it if you guys could check it out for any errors or "wrong practices" Most/every page has two h1's, and there should only be one per page. Ideally, you should keep the h1 for the page title, but not for the site title. I've fixed these (not yet uploaded to te

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Lyn Patterson
During the planning for the site re-do we relied pretty heavily on a year's worth of visitor stats in making decisions. One of the things our stats showed us was the very low percentage of 800 x 600 and below visitors we had, plus people were complaining that the site was looking too small,

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
Thanks Lyn, During the planning for the site re-do we relied pretty heavily on a year's worth of visitor stats in making decisions. One of the things our stats showed us was the very low percentage of 800 x 600 and below visitors we had, plus people were complaining that the site was look

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-20 Thread Bob Schwartz
You should also perhaps markup your "logo" H1 content as a change from the declared natural language of the page (English). Thanks for you tips Stuart: 1. How do I do that? 2.I'm curious as to why you think it is necessary - it is the name of the association - I doubt if Danone or Armani m

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-19 Thread Lyn Patterson
Bob - I was wondering about the width of the #wrappers- 980px/960px which causes horizontal scrolling if viewed on a smaller screen resolution such as 800 x 600. I have always tried to avoid horizontal scolling sometimes with great difficulty - does it not matter so much now that many people a

RE: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-19 Thread Philip Kiff
Bob Schwartz wrote: > The test site at > http://www.fotografics.it/fife/ > has been refurbished [...] I would appreciate it > if you guys could check it out for any errors or "wrong practices" It looks like the site may have problems displaying at widths of less than 1000px in Opera 9 and Firefox.

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-19 Thread Rob Unsworth
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Bob Schwartz wrote: > The test site at > > http://www.fotografics.it/fife/ > > has been refurbished to make it more standards compliant, > > before moving on to the accessibility "layer" I would appreciate it if you > guys could check it out for any errors or "wrong practic

Re: [WSG] site check - almost ready for prime time

2007-03-19 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi, >From an WAI accessibility point of view: Your menu has links with the same anchor text but different destinations - "introduction", "current" and "members". When you can see the menu structure the context is obvious but when using a screen reader this can be confusing. You should also perh

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