Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.47words.com

2005-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Nolan Winthrop wrote: Thanks for the comments, Georg, Wybe. I've made some corrections to it: notably shifting to percentages and ems for font-sizes; changing to onfocus for the search form. The use of small root-value for font-size (76% on body in your case) has the negative side-effect of

Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.47words.com

2005-10-03 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On 3 Oct 2005, at 5:47 pm, Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: I do have one question that just came up while I was chatting with a friend: Does the hreflang attribute on links do anything, really, or is it just a cosmetic thing that no browser does anything with? (I'm using it on links to materials in

[WSG] Site Review: www.47words.com

2005-10-02 Thread Nolan Winthrop
I've finally bit the bullet and built a fairly (I hope) standards compliant website, 47 Words (http://www.47words.com). I've just run it through the W3 Validators (CSS and XHTML) and it validates. I'd really appreciate comments on the code, design, any ways I could make the markup more semantic,

Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.47words.com

2005-10-02 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Nolan Winthrop wrote: http://www.47words.com Not exactly following best practices, with font-sizes _and_ line-heights defined in pixels. You're getting the usual result: blocking font-resizing in IE/win and causing text-overlapping in IE/win and Opera if user overrides font-sizes. In short:

Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.47words.com

2005-10-02 Thread Wybe Weysters
Hi Nolan I like it. I was a bit surprised by the blue on hover. Surprise is good, but i don't know about the blue. In your search option you use some _javascript_ which isn't very stable. If the focus is on the input field and i reload the page (in FF) the hole thing is gone. No input field,

Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.47words.com

2005-10-02 Thread Nolan Winthrop
Thanks for the comments, Georg, Wybe. I've made some corrections to it: notably shifting to percentages and ems for font-sizes; changing to onfocus for the search form. I do have one question that just came up while I was chatting with a friend: Does the hreflang attribute on links do anything,

Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.47words.com

2005-10-02 Thread Felix Miata
Nolan Winthrop wrote: http://www.47words.com You're not providing enough width for all content to fit in the allotted space . . . http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/47words1.png . . . nor the content enough size to be comfortably read: http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/area76.html (the content