Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.ItsAllaboutYou-studio.com

2009-01-13 Thread James O'Neill
Henrik,

Thank you for your feed back. I am working on those now. =)
The little globe is used to indicate links to external sites. Perhaps
another icon would indicate this better?

What would you suggest for the link colors. I prefer colors that make the
links stand our and not blend into the rest of the site...
The colors that you see current are a part of the default style sheet that I
use and year should probably be changed.


Thank you,

Jim

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:22, Henrik Madsen hen...@igenerator.com.auwrote:


 Hi Jim,

 A couple of cents from downunder (in FF3, Camino, Safari / Mac).

 1)  The main horizontal menu bar breaks thru the blue border on the right



 2)  Maybe the drop menu would look better with a matching background image
 on the main category, rather than a solid blue block

 3)  I'd have contact us link / details prominent

 4)  Suggest font size is decreased and leading increased

 5)  Increase padding around footer content

 6)  Link text colour is a bit 'electric' blue (and the green, on hover,
 doesn't seem to associate with any other colour on the site)

 7)  What's that little globe about?

 8)  Purely personal view: everything looks a bit 'tabloid' busy and
 cluttered, which to me is kind of juxtaposed with the yoga vibe. 1) above
 should help to open up the layout but perhaps less use of bold (potentially
 even a font change to something less cold) will deliver a purer, classier,
 more whitespace, overall feel?

 Like I said, my 2c.

 Henrik



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Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.ItsAllaboutYou-studio.com

2009-01-13 Thread Henrik Madsen


External link icon: I'd lose the globe, also because it's jaggy. You  
may find this useful:


http://programmabilities.com/xml/?id=30

Link colour: The site is very blue. Maybe choose one or two  
complementary or contrasting colours, for decoration, and use a  
derivative for your link colours:


http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp

Henrik Madsen
Generator
hen...@igenerator.com.au
www.igenerator.com.au

On 13/01/2009, at 11:40 PM, James O'Neill wrote:


Henrik,

Thank you for your feed back. I am working on those now. =)

The little globe is used to indicate links to external sites.  
Perhaps another icon would indicate this better?


What would you suggest for the link colors. I prefer colors that  
make the links stand our and not blend into the rest of the site...
The colors that you see current are a part of the default style  
sheet that I use and year should probably be changed.



Thank you,

Jim

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 01:22, Henrik Madsen  
hen...@igenerator.com.au wrote:


Hi Jim,

A couple of cents from downunder (in FF3, Camino, Safari / Mac).

1)  The main horizontal menu bar breaks thru the blue border on the  
right


2)  Maybe the drop menu would look better with a matching background  
image on the main category, rather than a solid blue block


3)  I'd have contact us link / details prominent

4)  Suggest font size is decreased and leading increased

5)  Increase padding around footer content

6)  Link text colour is a bit 'electric' blue (and the green, on  
hover, doesn't seem to associate with any other colour on the site)


7)  What's that little globe about?

8)  Purely personal view: everything looks a bit 'tabloid' busy and  
cluttered, which to me is kind of juxtaposed with the yoga vibe. 1)  
above should help to open up the layout but perhaps less use of bold  
(potentially even a font change to something less cold) will deliver  
a purer, classier, more whitespace, overall feel?


Like I said, my 2c.

Henrik

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Re: [WSG] Site Review: www.ItsAllaboutYou-studio.com

2009-01-10 Thread Henrik Madsen


Hi Jim,

A couple of cents from downunder (in FF3, Camino, Safari / Mac).

1)  The main horizontal menu bar breaks thru the blue border on the  
right


2)  Maybe the drop menu would look better with a matching background  
image on the main category, rather than a solid blue block


3)  I'd have contact us link / details prominent

4)  Suggest font size is decreased and leading increased

5)  Increase padding around footer content

6)  Link text colour is a bit 'electric' blue (and the green, on  
hover, doesn't seem to associate with any other colour on the site)


7)  What's that little globe about?

8)  Purely personal view: everything looks a bit 'tabloid' busy and  
cluttered, which to me is kind of juxtaposed with the yoga vibe. 1)  
above should help to open up the layout but perhaps less use of bold  
(potentially even a font change to something less cold) will deliver a  
purer, classier, more whitespace, overall feel?


Like I said, my 2c.

Henrik



Generator
www.igenerator.com.au



On 10/01/2009, at 2:13 AM, James O'Neill wrote:


Greetings everyone,

I just published this site: www.ItsAllAboutYou-Studio.com for my our  
Yoga Studio to-be and I am curious for a critique.
Someone else came up with the design and I hand-coded this in  
Dreamweaver. Tonight I will be applying Dean Edward's IE7/8, so,  
hopefully I can get rid of some of those CSS hacks. =) It is still a  
little bit rough it will work for now...


I am also having someone put this up on Wordpress or Drupal. Let me  
know what you think...


This is the first critique I have asked for... I  would love to hear  
any questions, comments, suggestions, or improvements.


*hides in a corner*

Thanks all,

Jim

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www.FreeXenon.com (Web Site Consulting)
www.ItsAllAboutYou-Studio.com (Our Yoga Studio)

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[WSG] Site Review: www.ItsAllaboutYou-studio.com

2009-01-09 Thread James O'Neill
Greetings everyone,
I just published this site: www.ItsAllAboutYou-Studio.com for my our Yoga
Studio to-be and I am curious for a critique.
Someone else came up with the design and I hand-coded this in Dreamweaver.
Tonight I will be applying Dean Edward's IE7/8, so, hopefully I can get rid
of some of those CSS hacks. =) It is still a little bit rough it will
work for now...

I am also having someone put this up on Wordpress or Drupal. Let me know
what you think...

This is the first critique I have asked for... I  would love to hear any
questions, comments, suggestions, or improvements.

*hides in a corner*

Thanks all,

Jim

__
All for one and one for all.

www.ArionsHome.com (Persona BLog)
www.FreeXenon.com (Web Site Consulting)
www.ItsAllAboutYou-Studio.com (Our Yoga Studio)


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Re: [WSG] Site review - alachua co library

2008-03-04 Thread Andrew Maben
Just a quick thank you to everyone who replied, it's been a *huge*  
help. I'm carefully going over the site with your comments in mind  
and making many changes based upon them.


I'm still very busy, but as soon as things slow down I'll try to  
respond in detail - meanwhile I'll just say that if there were no  
glaring errors, that is in large part due to the invaluable tips and  
hints I've picked up from careful daily reading of this list.


Thanks!

Andrew


On 2008/02/25 10:31 (GMT-0500) Andrew Maben apparently typed:



I'm almost done with a site redesign, and the time is right to ask
for your opinions: http://beta.www.aclib.us
for comparison, the current site is: http://www.aclib.us








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Re: [WSG] Site review - alachua co library

2008-02-27 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/02/27 18:39 (GMT+1100) John Hancock apparently typed:

 Here's a screenshot of a typical moderately high resolution  
 environment:
 http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-alaclib1.jpg
 and the setup source:
 http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/sc-alaclib1.html

 Just a thought, but a moderately high resolution environment to me is  
 a setup of over 3mpx. For instance, dual 20 TFTs, dual 19 CRT or  
 single 30 etc. A high resolution environment for me is about 7.5mpx.  
 While I'm aware that your mileage may vary, a 1680 x 1200 pixel screen  
 size is certainly not a standard one!

I was hoping anyone who noticed that would just ignore it. I don't use flat
panel displays, because they are just not suited to alternative screen
resolutions desirable for thorough testing.

What you see there in 1680x1200 is a virtual resolution, while the screenshot
itself is exactly the fullscreen px size of typical 22 desktop displays now
common in stores, and of typical 16  17 laptops. The actual physical
resolution is UXGA 1600x1200, with an 80px wide virtual addition. On Linux,
nearly any virtual resolution is possible without fancy hardware or
additional software. :-)

 Thus I'm really curious about
 your definition of a standard one!

The standard LCDs now commonly available at retail new are:
XGA 1024x768 (4:3) (slightly low, usually 15)
SXGA 1280x1024 (5:4) (standard or base, almost exclusively 17 or 19)
WXGA 1280x800 (16:10) (standard or base, 11.1 to 15.4)
SXGA+ 1400x1050 (4:3) (standard or base, 20)
WXGA+ 1440x900 (16:10) (slightly high, 16 to 21)
WSXGA+ 1680x1050 (16:10) (moderately high, 16 to 23)
UXGA 1600x1200 (4:3) (high, 20 to 22)
WUXGA 1920x1200 (16:10) (high, 16 to 27)

Naturally the meanings vary according to whether desktop or laptop, as the
average PPI for laptops is much higher than for desktops, which is why the
common 120 DPI replacement for 96 DPI is provided by laptop OEMs.

 The Standard Panels Working Group
 (SPWG) isn't the fastest moving of organisations, admittedly, but  
 you'll find that they're usually ratifying 16:10 aspect ratios as  
 standard - something to consider when designing sites.

 Additionally, those of us with extremely large working areas should  
 usually have a 17 TFT or lower to test on for 'the great unpixeled'.

Or a large CRT and a small CRT, which can provide the utility of at least 3
LCDs - each! Most panels just don't have usable optional resolutions.
-- 
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and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
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Re: [WSG] Site review - alachua co library

2008-02-26 Thread Felix Miata
On 2008/02/25 10:31 (GMT-0500) Andrew Maben apparently typed:

 I'm almost done with a site redesign, and the time is right to ask  
 for your opinions: http://beta.www.aclib.us
 for comparison, the current site is: http://www.aclib.us
...
 Of course accessibility is important, and this is where your insights  
 and criticisms can be especially helpful.

 http://www.andrewmaben.net
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

It's quite a bit better than its close neighbor http://www.ufl.edu/ and
better in some ways than the original, but worse in others. I really don't
like the artificial width constraint that the original lacks. Width should
only be constrained to less than 100% of the window width to the extent wider
would produce too long line lengths for comfortable reading. There's no
chance of that on the new page, while quite a bit of it looks
over-constrained without enlarging the text, and most of it does with text
enlargement.

The other problem is the same as most of the web, too much too small text.
Nearly right smack dab in the middle of above the fold content is what looks
like primary content, yet it's shrunken to the size of UI text, smaller than
the menu text, creating the inference that it's less important than other
content.

Most of the text-in-image content is illegible or nearly so on median or
higher resolution displays. Those using the most expensive laptops will not
be pleased at the mousetype effect of africanamerican_history_onli.gif
hot_topics/webfeat.jpg or the last line of acld_Logo.gif. Foreground images
can and in many cases should be scaled up to match surrounding text, and
these are some of those cases. At least the original is blatantly up front
about enabling large enough to read text.

Here's a screenshot of a typical moderately high resolution environment:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-alaclib1.jpg
and the setup source:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/sc-alaclib1.html

The main branch used to be about a 10 minute walk from where I lived. If I
still lived just a bit closer I might be inclined to ride over to the main
branch, find the manager, and complain about waste of money on a redesign
that doesn't amount to much readily apparent improvement. Maybe its only real
goal is to get people in to read printed material that doesn't suffer from
the web's normally too small text, but if that's it, the address and phone
number should be at least as big as it is in the phone book. :-p
-- 
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and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 NIV

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Re: [WSG] Site review - alachua co library

2008-02-26 Thread John Hancock

Hi Felix,

Here's a screenshot of a typical moderately high resolution  
environment:

http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-alaclib1.jpg
and the setup source:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/sc-alaclib1.html



Just a thought, but a moderately high resolution environment to me is  
a setup of over 3mpx. For instance, dual 20 TFTs, dual 19 CRT or  
single 30 etc. A high resolution environment for me is about 7.5mpx.  
While I'm aware that your mileage may vary, a 1680 x 1200 pixel screen  
size is certainly not a standard one! Thus I'm really curious about  
your definition of a standard one! The Standard Panels Working Group  
(SPWG) isn't the fastest moving of organisations, admittedly, but  
you'll find that they're usually ratifying 16:10 aspect ratios as  
standard - something to consider when designing sites.


Additionally, those of us with extremely large working areas should  
usually have a 17 TFT or lower to test on for 'the great unpixeled'.


kind regards,

John Hancock
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[WSG] Site review

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Maben
I'm almost done with a site redesign, and the time is right to ask  
for your opinions: http://beta.www.aclib.us

for comparison, the current site is: http://www.aclib.us

I'm aiming for HTML 4.01 Strict compliance, and am periodically  
running the W3C Validator, so no need to notify me of validation errors.


Of course accessibility is important, and this is where your insights  
and criticisms can be especially helpful.


There's some use of Javascript, mostly to show/hide content - I'm  
finishing up some changes to remove the JS dependency for these  
enhancements, (but I'm still using onClick which I'll be replacing  
as soon as I get a chance - deadline compromise...)


I'm not thrilled with the IA, and though changes may be hard to sell  
or implement, I'd welcome any reasoned criticism on this front.


I have yet to write the CSS for print and for mobile devices, and  
would welcome suggestions here too, as well as from iPhone/iPod Touch  
users.


Thanks in advance.

Andrew

http://www.andrewmaben.net
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Re: [WSG] Site review

2008-02-25 Thread kate
Hi Andrew,

The site looks nice. I put the address into W3C Validator and its passed the 
4.01 Transitional but has 23 warnings..strange..

Maybe the other members can explain, anyway its  anice site and looks fine in 
FF. I am on the following:

Win XP
1680x1050
SP2
IE
Kate
Bichon Frise: http://jungaling.com/kynismarmissmillie/

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Re: [WSG] Site review

2008-02-25 Thread dwain
On 2/25/08, Andrew Maben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Of course accessibility is important, and this is where your insights and
 criticisms can be especially helpful.


here's a tool to check web site accessibility:
http://www.tawdis.net/taw3/cms/en

it suggests guidelines.

dwain


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Re: [WSG] Site review

2008-02-25 Thread Tim Offenstein
I'm almost done with a site redesign, and the time is right to ask 
for your opinions: http://beta.www.aclib.ushttp://beta.www.aclib.us

for comparison, the current site is: http://www.aclib.ushttp://www.aclib.us

I'm aiming for HTML 4.01 Strict compliance, and am periodically 
running the W3C Validator, so no need to notify me of validation 
errors.


Just curious why you chose HTML instead of XHTML. Personally I like 
XHTML 1.0 Transitional.



Of course accessibility is important, and this is where your insights 
and criticisms can be especially helpful.


Using the Functional Accessibility Evaluator 
(http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu), there are minor issues:

1. The best practice recommendation is that your H1 tag match you page title.
2. Your form control for the Search should have a label element 
associated with them.
3. Pretty good use of header mark up. In conjunction with this, it is 
generally recommended your Primary Navigation should be an unordered 
list rather than a definition list and should be preceded by a header 
tag. That way disabled users can navigate to the list by headers and 
therefore Skip nav links are not necessary.

4. The alt tag for the WebFeat jpg should have some content.
5. Use of the i tag (on African-American History Online), should be 
replaced with em. Use of the i tag is considered deprecated 
because it is more presentation markup than semantic.

6. Your page should declare a language type. This goes in the HTML element.

Everything else looks good with the one caveat that the 36px for 
catSearchLabel is overkill. Besides the point that font-sizes should 
always be in ems or %.) Do you really want it to be that predominant? 
It also quickly overwhelms the page when the user has to bump up the 
other font sizes. Also if you do want it predominant, I suggest 
making Search a header tag rather than a styled paragraph. That way 
it maintains its importance when CSS is removed.


One free tidbit - try the Firefox Accessibility Extension 
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1891) This is a great 
toolbar for testing your page to see how accessible it is.


Best regards,

-Tim
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Re: [WSG] Site review

2008-02-25 Thread Robert O'Rourke
No big layout issues at all but on a quick perusal there are few things 
I've noticed:


The stripey background - close thin stripes get flickery and a bit 
distracting when the page is scrolled


IE:
   - the search area needs some cross-browser attention. font-sizes, 
input widths and the submit button padding are a bit dicey (but at least 
similar in IE).


   - the text 'Search:' has lost the clear-type filter that IE7 
imposes. I only know of this to happen when another IE CSS filter is 
applied to the element or its parent. Typically it's the opacity filter 
that's the culprit but it doesn't look like you've used that and I don't 
know off the top of my head what else causes it.


-Rob


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Re: [WSG] Site review

2008-02-25 Thread tee


On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Robert O'Rourke wrote:

No big layout issues at all but on a quick perusal there are few  
things I've noticed:


The stripey background - close thin stripes get flickery and a bit  
distracting when the page is scrolled


Same here. I find the background distracting. Another thing is  the  
lack of spacing in areas such as menus, headings, paragraphs and  
images. E.g. increasing the padding top/bottom for all menus; add  
padding left for h2 to h6; add padding left for p or margin right/ 
bottom for the image floated left and margin left/bottom for image  
floated right; give padding or margin top for logo and skip to main  
content.


Appropriate spacing around content blocks really can make a site looks  
so much user-friendly and nice looking, and visually, more accessible  
for the eyes. It seems to me a common oversight by the web developers  
who are more programming and technically savvy, but in my humble  
opinion, one doesn't need to have a graphic design degree to  
appreciate the need for spacing. Just think of the feelings you have  
being in the crowd and in the open space, you can easily see the  
difference it can make for a site without spacing.


Cheers,

tee


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RE: [WSG] Site review

2008-02-25 Thread Thierry Koblentz
It looks good, but I'd agree with Tee, it needs some spacing.

Interesting use of DLs, but I would not use display:none to hide the DT
(shoot them off-screen).

Also, I'd get rid of the DIV wrappers you have around these DLs. I think you
could remove a few other DIVs from the markup.

If the large image in the Hot Topics section has an empty alt attribute, why
not using it as a background image? Right now you have it wrapped in a div
that is floated right and that image inside is floated *left* (?) with extra
margin values.

I'm not sure what you're doing with the P before the H1, I think you could
achieve the same thing using a real image in that H1 [1]

I'd style the skip nav on focus, because that link is very small and the
outline barely shows

 

[1] http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/tip.asp

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Andrew Maben
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:32 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Site review

 

I'm almost done with a site redesign, and the time is right to ask for your
opinions: http://beta.www.aclib.us

for comparison, the current site is: http://www.aclib.us

 

I'm aiming for HTML 4.01 Strict compliance, and am periodically running the
W3C Validator, so no need to notify me of validation errors.

 

Of course accessibility is important, and this is where your insights and
criticisms can be especially helpful.

 

There's some use of Javascript, mostly to show/hide content - I'm finishing
up some changes to remove the JS dependency for these enhancements, (but I'm
still using onClick which I'll be replacing as soon as I get a chance -
deadline compromise...)

 

I'm not thrilled with the IA, and though changes may be hard to sell or
implement, I'd welcome any reasoned criticism on this front.

 

I have yet to write the CSS for print and for mobile devices, and would
welcome suggestions here too, as well as from iPhone/iPod Touch users.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Andrew

 

 http://www.andrewmaben.com/ http://www.andrewmaben.net

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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-30 Thread Joseph R. B. Taylor
Nice job on that one.  I only thing I could find wrong was the use of 
javascript: pseudo links.


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RE: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-29 Thread Snadden Tim
 
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[WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread Samuel Richardson

G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!

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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread John Faulds
Looks good. Only comment I'd make is about your skills and their ratings:  
at the moment that information is only really of value to people already  
in the web dev game and not really useful to anyone who doesn't know  
anything about web development but who wants a website done. If you're not  
really targetting the latter sort of people, and are only looking to  
outsource your work to other agencies, then what you've got is probably  
fine.


On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:05:01 +1000, Samuel Richardson  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!





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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread David Laakso

Samuel Richardson wrote:

G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!




I only looked at the home page.

A piece of the browser scrollbar (very strange) is covering the last 
numeral of what I assume is your phone number in Safari and Mac FF and 
Opera.

The page is ok in XP FF, Opera, and IE7 and IE6.

The start point(before scaling the fonts) of the content text in Mac 
Opera is almost unreadable for me (I am at 1680).



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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread Jermayn Parker

risk of going OT but I would like to ask you why did you choose a one page
info page with anchor links going down to the content???

I thought multi pages would be the way to go

apart from this I do not really have any problems with it, the menu is a bit
small though

Thanks and sorry




On 5/28/07, Samuel Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!

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Freelance Web Developer
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748


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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread Mary-Anne Nayler

Hi Sam,

It looks great but there are lots of grammar errors. I also noticed that 
in your CV you seem to be missing employment details on your current 
position?
When I scrolled down to where you have rated your skills there is a 
scrollbar thing happening that looks ugly and obscures some of the text. 
(I'm using Mozilla 1.7.2) Also, I think if I didn't work in Web dev, I 
wouldn't understand what all that meant... if I was a customer I'd want 
to know what is ASP, PHP etc and what can it do for me and my web site?


Cheers,

Mary-Anne

Samuel Richardson wrote, On 28/05/07 11:05 AM:


G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!



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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread Samuel Richardson

Cool, thanks for the comments. It sounds like I still have a few cross
browser issues to work out, lucky I just bought a Mac :D

The portfolio is strictly for design agencies to get an idea of what I
can do rather then the public. I went with a one page design to get
the content across quickly, I didn't feel the site warranted multiple
pages with such little content.

I'll proof the content a bit more, that was one area I'm a little unsure on.

Thanks,

Samuel


On 5/28/07, Mary-Anne Nayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Sam,

It looks great but there are lots of grammar errors. I also noticed that
in your CV you seem to be missing employment details on your current
position?
When I scrolled down to where you have rated your skills there is a
scrollbar thing happening that looks ugly and obscures some of the text.
(I'm using Mozilla 1.7.2) Also, I think if I didn't work in Web dev, I
wouldn't understand what all that meant... if I was a customer I'd want
to know what is ASP, PHP etc and what can it do for me and my web site?

Cheers,

Mary-Anne

Samuel Richardson wrote, On 28/05/07 11:05 AM:

 G'day all,

 I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
 freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
 development etc.

 Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

 www.richardson.co.nz

 I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
 build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
 code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

 It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
 if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
 I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
 companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

 Thanks heaps!


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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread contact

Hi Samuel:
Good work dude ;)
The site looks neat, cool and usable.

Still I have a couple of suggestions:

1) To make the headings bigger
2) Maybe provide with a simple form to get in touch with you
3) N i think copy needs to be reviewed 

otherwise looks awesome, have a look at mine to !

Best -P
www.puneetsakhuja.com 


- Original Message -
From: Samuel Richardson
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent:  Mon, 28 May 2007 11:05:01 +1000
Subject: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

G'day all,

I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
development etc.

Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:

www.richardson.co.nz

I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.

It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.

Thanks heaps!

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Freelance Web Developer
www.richardson.co.nz | 0405 472 748


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Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

2007-05-27 Thread contact

I dont find anything wrong is displaying all the content on one page.
The main concern is to provide the content and information required with 
minimum clicks and in the most efficient manner, n thats the latest trend mate !

thats what i did with my website, have a look www.puneetsakhuja.com

neways good work dude, as somebody said, just the grammer etc needs to be 
reviewed.

Best -P

- Original Message -
From: Samuel Richardson
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent:  Mon, 28 May 2007 14:04:08 +1000
Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review (www.richardson.co.nz)

Cool, thanks for the comments. It sounds like I still have a few cross
browser issues to work out, lucky I just bought a Mac :D

The portfolio is strictly for design agencies to get an idea of what I
can do rather then the public. I went with a one page design to get
the content across quickly, I didn't feel the site warranted multiple
pages with such little content.

I'll proof the content a bit more, that was one area I'm a little unsure on.

Thanks,

Samuel


On 5/28/07, Mary-Anne Nayler lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote:
gt; Hi Sam,
gt;
gt; It looks great but there are lots of grammar errors. I also noticed that
gt; in your CV you seem to be missing employment details on your current
gt; position?
gt; When I scrolled down to where you have rated your skills there is a
gt; scrollbar thing happening that looks ugly and obscures some of the text.
gt; (I'm using Mozilla 1.7.2) Also, I think if I didn't work in Web dev, I
gt; wouldn't understand what all that meant... if I was a customer I'd want
gt; to know what is ASP, PHP etc and what can it do for me and my web site?
gt;
gt; Cheers,
gt;
gt; Mary-Anne
gt;
gt; Samuel Richardson wrote, On 28/05/07 11:05 AM:
gt;
gt; gt; G'day all,
gt; gt;
gt; gt; I've decided to make the jump from full time web development to
gt; gt; freelance work. Mostly front end development, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript
gt; gt; development etc.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; Anyway, to support myself, I've created a portfolio here:
gt; gt;
gt; gt; www.richardson.co.nz
gt; gt;
gt; gt; I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything obvious with the
gt; gt; build phase of things. If you've all got time to have a look at the
gt; gt; code/design and give me some feedback that would be fantastic.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; It's somewhat off topic but I don't think my copy writing is too hot,
gt; gt; if anyone has some suggestions on how to present myself better then
gt; gt; I'd love to hear them. I'm going to be dealing strictly with design
gt; gt; companies rather then the public so I've tried to keep thing short.
gt; gt;
gt; gt; Thanks heaps!
gt; gt;
gt;
gt; --
gt; ~
gt; Mary-Anne Nayler
gt; Department of Defence
gt; Australia
gt; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gt; +61 2 6127 5327
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[WSG] Site Review

2006-01-30 Thread Darren West
Hello all,Please can you review and give comment on the following:http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/properties.html
http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/propertydetails.htmlThanks in advanceDarren


Re: [WSG] Site Review

2006-01-30 Thread Martin Heiden
Darren,

on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 12:26 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:

 http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/properties.html
 http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/propertydetails.html

You've got some problems in your HTML:

1. with/height attributes of img tags don't accept units.
2. the inputs need name attributes (but I guess you will add these
   later)

You should provide some alt-Text for the images of the properties.
A page title would be nice ;-)

Maybe you should wrap the ie7 script in a conditional comment for
only IE using it.

The use of strong in:
pImage strong1/strong of strong10/strong/p

isn't very semantic IMHO, but substituting it by span doesn't add much
value too.

For the address I'd use a definition list:

dl id=agent
  dtAcme Estate Agents/dt
  ddThe White House/dd
  ddLodge Road/dd
  ddNW4 4DD/dd
  ddTel: 0208 457 4777/dd
  ddFax: 0208 457 4765/dd
  dda href=contactagent.htmlEmail Agent/a/dd
/dl
  
instead of:

div id=agent
  h2Acme Estate Agents/h2
  pThe White Housebr /
Lodge Roadbr /
Londonbr /
NW4 4DD/p
  pTel: 0208 457 4777/p
  pFax: 0208 457 4765/p
  pa href=contactagent.htmlEmail Agent/a/p
/div

You could also add some classes for defining the microformat.

regards

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Re: [WSG] Site Review

2006-01-30 Thread Zach Inglis
Title: Re: [WSG] Site Review



No title?
Using Team makes no sense to me but maybe because its early. Join Team screams for a The in middle.
Find property is above the header. I can understand accessibility options being above but Find Property?
Maybe list the items (each sale block)
Check the CSS Validation. You left a few items on your localhost.

Zach // zachinglis.com

At 30/1/06 11:26: Darren West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello all,

Please can you review and give comment on the following:

http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/properties.html
http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/propertydetails.html

Thanks in advance

Darren








Re: [WSG] Site Review

2006-01-30 Thread leenath1



Hi Darren,

The markup look pretty slick! My only comment would 
be around your use of the strong element. For example:

pProperty strong3/strong of 
strong500/strong found/p

Have you ever heard a screen reader when it hits 
strong elements? For this reason I suggest just using a span and 
'class' instead to create the bold visual effect - just a personal preference of 
mine!!

Also, maybe for the price you could doing this to 
improve accessibility. For example, you have:

pstrong£450,000/strong/p

whereas you can create the same effect visually, 
but improve (in my opinion) semantics and accessibility by doing something 
like:

h3 
class="hide"Price/h3
p 
class="price"£450,000/p

Anyway, my suggestions are neither here nore there 
and probably more about my our personal preferences more than anything 
else.

Cheers

Nathan

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Darren 
  West 
  To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 
  Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:26 
  PM
  Subject: [WSG] Site Review
  Hello all,Please can you review and give comment on the 
  following:http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/properties.htmlhttp://ta.rt-ms.net/2/propertydetails.htmlThanks 
  in advanceDarren


Re: [WSG] Site Review

2006-01-30 Thread Darren West
Thanks Nathan,I have removed the strong elements and replaced them with a class for the price, I will have a think regarding the H3 as the context is already set and their is no other monetary data on screen.
Do you have a recommended screen reader for testing?DazOn 30/01/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:






Hi Darren,

The markup look pretty slick! My only comment would 
be around your use of the strong element. For example:

pProperty strong3/strong of 
strong500/strong found/p

Have you ever heard a screen reader when it hits 
strong elements? For this reason I suggest just using a span and 
'class' instead to create the bold visual effect - just a personal preference of 
mine!!

Also, maybe for the price you could doing this to 
improve accessibility. For example, you have:

pstrong£450,000/strong/p

whereas you can create the same effect visually, 
but improve (in my opinion) semantics and accessibility by doing something 
like:

h3 
class=hidePrice/h3
p 
class=price£450,000/p

Anyway, my suggestions are neither here nore there 
and probably more about my our personal preferences more than anything 
else.

Cheers

Nathan

  - Original Message - 
  
From: 
  Darren 
  West 
  To: 
wsg@webstandardsgroup.org 
  Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 10:26 
  PM
  Subject: [WSG] Site Review

  Hello all,Please can you review and give comment on the 
  following:http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/properties.html
http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/propertydetails.htmlThanks 
  in advanceDarren




Re: [WSG] Site Review

2006-01-30 Thread Darren West
Thanks Martin,I have sorted all issues highlighted apart from the DL for the address as only one item will ever appear - would DL still be appropriate? and microformats leave with me.Daz
On 30/01/06, Martin Heiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Darren,on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 12:26 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote: http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/properties.html
 http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/propertydetails.htmlYou've got some problems in your HTML:1. with/height attributes of img tags don't accept units.
2. the inputs need name attributes (but I guess you will add these later)You should provide some alt-Text for the images of the properties.A page title would be nice ;-)Maybe you should wrap the ie7 script in a conditional comment for
only IE using it.The use of strong in:pImage strong1/strong of strong10/strong/pisn't very semantic IMHO, but substituting it by span doesn't add much
value too.For the address I'd use a definition list:dl id=agentdtAcme Estate Agents/dtddThe White House/Lodge Road/dd
ddNW4 4DD/Tel: 0208 457 4777/Fax: 0208 457 4765/a href="" Agent/a/dd/dl
instead of:div id=agenth2Acme Estate Agents/h2pThe White Housebr /Lodge Roadbr /Londonbr /
NW4 4DD/ppTel: 0208 457 4777/ppFax: 0208 457 4765/ppa href="" Agent/a/p
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Re: [WSG] Site Review

2006-01-30 Thread Stephen Stagg

Should an agent's address really be a definition list??
If you want that sort of semantic pedantry, the markup should be:
block tag
hxAcme Estate Agents/hx
dl
dtAddress/dt
dd
The...Housebr/
Lodge Roa...4DD/dd
dtTelephone/dt
dd0208 457 4777/dd...
/dl
/block tag

I DO think that definition lists are over used and often misused.   
They should really only be used for concise definitions.  An list of  
untitled contact details does not constitute a concise definition of  
an agent.  Otherwise, the idea of web data becoming machine-readable  
is defeated.


Stephen


On 30 Jan 2006, at 11:48, Martin Heiden wrote:


Darren,

on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 12:26 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:


http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/properties.html
http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/propertydetails.html


You've got some problems in your HTML:

1. with/height attributes of img tags don't accept units.
2. the inputs need name attributes (but I guess you will add these
   later)

You should provide some alt-Text for the images of the properties.
A page title would be nice ;-)

Maybe you should wrap the ie7 script in a conditional comment for
only IE using it.

The use of strong in:
pImage strong1/strong of strong10/strong/p

isn't very semantic IMHO, but substituting it by span doesn't add much
value too.

For the address I'd use a definition list:

dl id=agent
  dtAcme Estate Agents/dt
  ddThe White House/dd
  ddLodge Road/dd
  ddNW4 4DD/dd
  ddTel: 0208 457 4777/dd
  ddFax: 0208 457 4765/dd
  dda href=contactagent.htmlEmail Agent/a/dd
/dl

instead of:

div id=agent
  h2Acme Estate Agents/h2
  pThe White Housebr /
Lodge Roadbr /
Londonbr /
NW4 4DD/p
  pTel: 0208 457 4777/p
  pFax: 0208 457 4765/p
  pa href=contactagent.htmlEmail Agent/a/p
/div

You could also add some classes for defining the microformat.

regards

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Re: [WSG] Site Review

2006-01-30 Thread Darren West
How about the list of class 'properties', should that be an un-ordered list?DazOn 30/01/06, Stephen Stagg 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Should an agent's address really be a definition list??
If you want that sort of semantic pedantry, the markup should be:block taghxAcme Estate Agents/hxdldtAddress/dtddThe...Housebr/
Lodge Roa...4DD/dddtTelephone/dtdd0208 457 4777/dd.../dl/block tagI DO think that definition lists are over used and often misused.
They should really only be used for concise definitions.An list ofuntitled contact details does not constitute a concise definition ofan agent.Otherwise, the idea of web data becoming machine-readableis defeated.
StephenOn 30 Jan 2006, at 11:48, Martin Heiden wrote: Darren, on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 12:26 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
 http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/properties.html http://ta.rt-ms.net/2/propertydetails.html
 You've got some problems in your HTML: 1. with/height attributes of img tags don't accept units. 2. the inputs need name attributes (but I guess you will add theselater)
 You should provide some alt-Text for the images of the properties. A page title would be nice ;-) Maybe you should wrap the ie7 script in a conditional comment for only IE using it.
 The use of strong in: pImage strong1/strong of strong10/strong/p isn't very semantic IMHO, but substituting it by span doesn't add much
 value too. For the address I'd use a definition list: dl id=agent dtAcme Estate Agents/dt ddThe White House/dd
 ddLodge Road/dd ddNW4 4DD/dd ddTel: 0208 457 4777/dd ddFax: 0208 457 4765/dd dda href=""
Email Agent/a/dd /dl instead of: div id=agent h2Acme Estate Agents/h2 pThe White Housebr /
 Lodge Roadbr / Londonbr / NW4 4DD/p pTel: 0208 457 4777/p pFax: 0208 457 4765/p pa href=""
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Re: [WSG] Site Review

2006-01-30 Thread Martin Heiden
Stephen,

on Monday, January 30, 2006 at 17:01 wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:

 Should an agent's address really be a definition list??

I only wrote that I would do it that way.

 If you want that sort of semantic pedantry, the markup should be:
 block tag
 hxAcme Estate Agents/hx
 dl
 dtAddress/dt
 dd
 The...Housebr/
 Lodge Roa...4DD/dd
 dtTelephone/dt
 dd0208 457 4777/dd...
 /dl
 /block tag

 I DO think that definition lists are over used and often misused.

I do think that your advice is a misusage of the dl. What you define
is a table. You substitute th by dt and td by dd. I don't think that
definition lists are meant like that. For addressing the machine
readability I'd choose hcard microformat.

But I think that discussing this won't bring us any further... There
were lots of threads on this list discussing how to markup an address
and I don't think that there is the ONE way to do it right. Everyone
has to choose his/her way...

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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-04 Thread Hopkins Programming
Thanks all for your assistance!
:-)

--ZacharyOn 10/3/05, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just looked at the page in a text browser (links) and there's a coupleof anoying issues.1. This is not bad, but a bit of an anoyance. There is a notice aboutnot having _javascript_. This appears at the top of the page. I don't
think this is really neccisary. If you really want it, put it at thebottom of the page.2. The links on the front page for VBdoodle and Web Design don't show upbecause of the lack of CSS support. Mabye this was intentional, but it
would be nice if you had it like it was for the third box or something.3. The links for validation appear right at the top. I understand whythey're there (and it looks pretty cool in css browsers). I don't know
if there would be any simple way to have this put at the bottom fortext-browsers, but it would be nice if you could because they're not themost important links on your site.For the most part though, things look fine though. It sure beats most of
the sites on the internet.Gunlaug Sørtun wrote: Hopkins Programming wrote: @All - Still need suggestions on the WAI conundrum. 
http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/ Well, I think you should definitely put some descriptive text in those links, as my text-only browsers can't even see that there are links there at the moment. Don't think that qualifies for 'AAA'...
 Something like - 'learn more about wb doodle' - 'learn more about web design' would solve that. An 'off screen' technique will make it work with CSS off. .off-screen {position: absolute; top: -9000px; left: -9000px;}
 However, since such a link-text should also work as a substitute for an alt-attribute--with images off, maybe better leave the text on screen and use a variant of 
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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 giving variable results across browser-land
when 'minimum font size' is enforced.

See: http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_03_04.html#ex3

I guess it's an accepted hazard in the community since so many
sites/designers are completely ignoring the whole issue :-)
However, it does affect headlines on your page.


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 Mandarin/Malay to indicate 
that the content of those sites/pages is in a language other than 
English.)


Not updated for the latest browser-versions, but...
http://www.w3.org/International/tests/results/link-element

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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 Mandarin/Malay to indicate 
that the content of those sites/pages is in a language other than 
English.)


Not updated for the latest browser-versions, but...
http://www.w3.org/International/tests/results/link-element


That list is -unfortunately maybe- quite up to to date. One could add 
iCab 3.0 which has a similar 'navigation' bar as Opera and Mozilla to 
the list that do something in the UI with some of the link attributes.


The hreflang attribute isn't used by any browser, I think. You can 
style it, though, via css2 attribute selectors. Something like this:

a[hreflang]::after {
content:  [attr(hreflang)];
font-style:italic;
color:#6c767f
}


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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-03 Thread Alan Trick
On http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/products/vbdoodle/ the text in the
'VB DOODLE' box is overfollowing. This is on Firefox 1.0.7 Gentoo Linux.
My guess is that this is an issue with fonts because my default font is
not that ugly monster (:P) known as Times New Romans. Fonts tend to be
quite an issue because the fonts on one system are often different (in
size and style) that the ones on another. It's not a serious issue, but
if you could avoid fixed heights that would be nice.

Hopkins Programming wrote:
 Hey guys,
 
 If you wouldn't mind checking out my website,
 http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/, I would greatly appreciate it. 
 There is one thing in particular I would like help with - On the
 homepage, the 3 large images are divs w/background images, and
 display:block hyperlinks.  It works fine, but it fails WAI WCAG 1.0
 Priority 2 Checkpoint 13.1 - Create link phrases
 http://webxact2.watchfire.com/themes/standard-en-us/help/HIDD_WDContent_G34.html
 that make sense when read out of context.  I know it can be fixed by
 changing my p's to span's and moving them inside the hyperlinks, but
 is that something I should do?  The text in the p's is good, but I
 don't think it's worthy of being in a hyperlink.  Would it be best to
 create a short sentence to go in the hyperlinks that briefly describes
 the page the user will get when the link is clicked, or ?
 
 Any assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.  You're
 welcome to poke around for other problems (I know have a few sementic
 naming issues in my CSS) because I always like feedback.
 
 Thanks a bundle guys!
 
 --Zachary Hopkins
 
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Website: http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/
W3C WCAG: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
 
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-03 Thread Hopkins Programming
@Alan - I'm still working on the subsequent pages. The home page is all ive updated at the moment.
Thx for the heads up.

@All - Still need suggestions on the WAI conundrum.

Thanks all!

---ZacharyOn 10/3/05, Alan Trick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/products/vbdoodle/ the text in the'VB DOODLE' box is overfollowing. This is on Firefox 1.0.7 Gentoo Linux.My guess is that this is an issue with fonts because my default font is
not that ugly monster (:P) known as Times New Romans. Fonts tend to bequite an issue because the fonts on one system are often different (insize and style) that the ones on another. It's not a serious issue, but
if you could avoid fixed heights that would be nice.Hopkins Programming wrote: Hey guys, If you wouldn't mind checking out my website, 
http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/, I would greatly appreciate it. There is one thing in particular I would like help with - On the homepage, the 3 large images are divs w/background images, and display:block hyperlinks.It works fine, but it fails WAI WCAG 
1.0 Priority 2 Checkpoint 13.1 - Create link phrases http://webxact2.watchfire.com/themes/standard-en-us/help/HIDD_WDContent_G34.html
 that make sense when read out of context.I know it can be fixed by changing my p's to span's and moving them inside the hyperlinks, but is that something I should do?The text in the p's is good, but I
 don't think it's worthy of being in a hyperlink.Would it be best to create a short sentence to go in the hyperlinks that briefly describes the page the user will get when the link is clicked, or ?
 Any assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.You're welcome to poke around for other problems (I know have a few sementic naming issues in my CSS) because I always like feedback.
 Thanks a bundle guys! --Zachary Hopkins * Reference Links:Website: http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/W3C WCAG: 
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-03 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun

Hopkins Programming wrote:


@All - Still need suggestions on the WAI conundrum.



http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/


Well, I think you should definitely put some descriptive text in those
links, as my text-only browsers can't even see that there are links
there at the moment. Don't think that qualifies for 'AAA'...

Something like
- 'learn more about wb doodle'
- 'learn more about web design'
would solve that.
An 'off screen' technique will make it work with CSS off.
.off-screen {position: absolute; top: -9000px; left: -9000px;}

However, since such a link-text should also work as a substitute for an
alt-attribute--with images off, maybe better leave the text on screen
and use a variant of http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_chaos_14.html
Should satisfy WAI-checkpoints and will work no matter what -- and may
even be useful for visitors.

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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-03 Thread Alan Trick
I just looked at the page in a text browser (links) and there's a couple
of anoying issues.

1. This is not bad, but a bit of an anoyance. There is a notice about
not having javascript. This appears at the top of the page. I don't
think this is really neccisary. If you really want it, put it at the
bottom of the page.

2. The links on the front page for VBdoodle and Web Design don't show up
because of the lack of CSS support. Mabye this was intentional, but it
would be nice if you had it like it was for the third box or something.

3. The links for validation appear right at the top. I understand why
they're there (and it looks pretty cool in css browsers). I don't know
if there would be any simple way to have this put at the bottom for
text-browsers, but it would be nice if you could because they're not the
most important links on your site.

For the most part though, things look fine though. It sure beats most of
the sites on the internet.

Gunlaug Sørtun wrote:
 Hopkins Programming wrote:
 
 @All - Still need suggestions on the WAI conundrum.
 
 
 http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/
 
 
 Well, I think you should definitely put some descriptive text in those
 links, as my text-only browsers can't even see that there are links
 there at the moment. Don't think that qualifies for 'AAA'...
 
 Something like
 - 'learn more about wb doodle'
 - 'learn more about web design'
 would solve that.
 An 'off screen' technique will make it work with CSS off.
 .off-screen {position: absolute; top: -9000px; left: -9000px;}
 
 However, since such a link-text should also work as a substitute for an
 alt-attribute--with images off, maybe better leave the text on screen
 and use a variant of http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_chaos_14.html
 Should satisfy WAI-checkpoints and will work no matter what -- and may
 even be useful for visitors.
 
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[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, et cetera.  Information on how things
appear in Safari and other Mac browsers greatly appreciated, too, as
I'm running Win XP.

Thanks in advance.

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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: hard to read.

I'd really appreciate comments on the code, design, any ways I could 
make the markup more semantic, et cetera.


Markup and CSS pretty basic. Shouldn't be any problems apart from the above.
Design: fine with me.

Information on how things appear in Safari and other Mac browsers 
greatly appreciated, too, as I'm running Win XP.


Safari is OK.

IE/Mac: page not centered - try writing complete margins on container.
Shows nothing in header, and 'search' in wrong place and not very visible.

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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, no "Search".
You use the eventhandler 'onclick'. Try 'onfocus'. Bobby likes 'onfocus', so do
visitors who don't use a mouse.

I've not been able to verify this because i haven't got Helvetica
installed on my PC, but Helvetica for PC is supposed to be
this cheap, terrible looking font. For Mac it's fine. Maybe someone can
comment on that?
If this is true about Helvetica i would use Arial in my font-family:
"Century Gothic", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Nice work.

Wybe
http://www.sceneone.nl


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  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, et cetera.  Information on how things
appear in Safari and other Mac browsers greatly appreciated, too, as
I'm running Win XP.

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[WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-02 Thread Hopkins Programming
Hey guys,

If you wouldn't mind checking out my website,
http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/, I would greatly appreciate
it. There is one thing in particular I would like help with - On
the homepage, the 3 large images are divs w/background images, and
display:block hyperlinks. It works fine, but it fails WAI WCAG
1.0 Priority 2 Checkpoint 13.1 - 
Create link phrases   
that make sense when read out of context. I know it can be fixed
by changing my p's to span's and moving them inside the
hyperlinks, but is that something I should do? The text in the
p's is good, but I don't think it's worthy of being in a
hyperlink. Would it be best to create a short sentence to go in
the hyperlinks that briefly describes the page the user will get when
the link is clicked, or ?

Any assistance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
You're welcome to poke around for other problems (I know have a few
sementic naming issues in my CSS) because I always like feedback.

Thanks a bundle guys!

--Zachary Hopkins

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 Website: http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-02 Thread Felix Miata
Hopkins Programming wrote:
 
 http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/

Your px sized containers aren't giving their content enough room to fit:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/hopkinsp1.png

If you set height in em's vertical inadequacy shouldn't happen.
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-02 Thread Hopkins Programming
I can change those. But, the backgrounds are set not to repeat
vertically. So would it be better to a) Let the text flow into
empty white space; b) set a bckgound color and let it flow into that;
or c) let the background repeat?

Also, just how far up should I assume a user may set their text?
Although I design for  in Firefox/Opera, I always make sure the
text can size properly, given IE's +2  -2 operation. But
should I go further?

Thanks!

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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-02 Thread Christian Montoya
You can't just measure it by IE's +2 and -2, because for users with widescreen displays, the default is something like +1. This is because widescreen Windows XP runs at 120 dpi rather than the standard 96 dpi, and to compensate for small text, the text is automatically set to be larger. Therefore it's best to not assume that all users start from font-size:medium. 
I can change those. But, the backgrounds are set not to repeat
vertically. So would it be better to a) Let the text flow into
empty white space; b) set a bckgound color and let it flow into that;
or c) let the background repeat?I think choice b is the best one. 


Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-02 Thread Felix Miata
http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm says:

use plain text email

Hopkins Programming wrote:
 
 On 10/2/05, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hopkins Programming wrote:
 
   http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/
 
  Your px sized containers aren't giving their content enough
  room to fit:
  http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/hopkinsp1.png
 
  If you set height in em's vertical inadequacy shouldn't
  happen.

 I can change those. But, the backgrounds are set not to repeat
 vertically. So would it be better to a) Let the text flow into empty
 white space; b) set a bckgound color and let it flow into that; or c)
 let the background repeat?

B should work, but depending on the background images, which I haven't
examined, C might be OK too. I doubt A would be attractive.

 Also, just how far up should I assume a user may set their text?

The 28px setting in that 1792x1344 screenshot is not contrived. It's
directly proportional to the 16px common brower default observed at the
median 1024x768 resolution. 1344 / 768 X 16px = 28px. That makes the
fonts on my 1792x1344 screen exactly the same physical size on any given
size display as those using 16px at 1024x768, except that due to the far
higher pixel density for any given size mine have a far superior quality
even without anti aliasing or hinting.

 Although I design for  in Firefox/Opera, I always make sure the text
 can size properly, given IE's +2  -2 operation. But should I go
 further?
 
To say IE has a +2 -2 range isn't the whole story. Medium is actually
12pt, not 16px, though by default they happen to be the same thing. Doze
users have the option to change font size system wide, and it is on this
base that we find IE font sizes. Once they choose large (120 DPI, the
OEM default on many laptops) or larger (there really is no fixed limit,
though 200% is the largest that is easy to select), the base range is
increased quite a bit, as you can see in this chart in the left table:
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/absolute-sizes-IE6.html
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-02 Thread Hopkins Programming
Ok guys, I've reworked some of the heights and background images to allow for extended text resizing. 

I think I got all of the big stuff, does it look  work ok for you now Felix?

--ZacharyOn 10/2/05, Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm says:use plain text emailHopkins Programming wrote: On 10/2/05, Felix Miata 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hopkins Programming wrote: http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/Your px sized containers aren't giving their content enough
room to fit:http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/hopkinsp1.pngIf you set height in em's vertical inadequacy shouldn'thappen.
 I can change those. But, the backgrounds are set not to repeat vertically. So would it be better to a) Let the text flow into empty white space; b) set a bckgound color and let it flow into that; or c)
 let the background repeat?B should work, but depending on the background images, which I haven'texamined, C might be OK too. I doubt A would be attractive. Also, just how far up should I assume a user may set their text?
The 28px setting in that 1792x1344 screenshot is not contrived. It'sdirectly proportional to the 16px common brower default observed at themedian 1024x768 resolution. 1344 / 768 X 16px = 28px. That makes the
fonts on my 1792x1344 screen exactly the same physical size on any givensize display as those using 16px at 1024x768, except that due to the farhigher pixel density for any given size mine have a far superior quality
even without anti aliasing or hinting. Although I design for  in Firefox/Opera, I always make sure the text can size properly, given IE's +2  -2 operation. But should I go further?
To say IE has a +2 -2 range isn't the whole story. Medium is actually12pt, not 16px, though by default they happen to be the same thing. Dozeusers have the option to change font size system wide, and it is on this
base that we find IE font sizes. Once they choose large (120 DPI, theOEM default on many laptops) or larger (there really is no fixed limit,though 200% is the largest that is easy to select), the base range is
increased quite a bit, as you can see in this chart in the left table:http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/absolute-sizes-IE6.html--Be
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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, really, or
is it just a cosmetic thing that no browser does anything with?  (I'm
using it on links to materials in Mandarin/Malay to indicate that the
content of those sites/pages is in a language other than English.)

I think I'll ignore IE Mac for the time being, it seems to be a
negligible proportion of my readers anyway.  I was mostly worried
about how it would render in Safari.

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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-02 Thread Felix Miata
Hopkins Programming wrote:
 
  http://www.hopkinsprogramming.net/

 Ok guys, I've reworked some of the heights and background images to
 allow for extended text resizing.
 
 I think I got all of the big stuff, does it look  work ok for you now
 Felix?

You're still not giving several things enough space:
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/hopkinsp2.png
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: hopkinsprogramming.net/

2005-10-02 Thread Hopkins Programming
Ok, For the moment being, I am going to ignore the links in the top right corner and the fieldset in the bottom left.

What do you think about the WAI issue? Keep the p's and
add in a small span of text inside the link, or put all of the
p text into a span and use that?

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 I think I got all of the big stuff, does it look  work ok for you now Felix?You're still not giving several things enough space:http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/hopkinsp2.png
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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 should generally be larger than the browser UI):

http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/defaultsize.html#note1

You don't know what you're subjecting to a 24% reduction on
http://www.47words.com/lib/css/layout.css with 'body {font: 76%/1.33em
...}', so please change it to 'body {font: 100%/1.33 ...}' to respect
your visitors' text size preferences. 
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-03 Thread Amit Pimpalnerkar

Hello David,

Over site impression –cool… its well structured and well designed. Especially I liked color scheme of the site.

Some Suggestions:


Somehow I am missing link to HOME Page. – My observation is majority of people expect to see a Home link. It's not enough that logo is a link to homepage, as many people will not know this.
‘Back to Top’ link – well, I really don’t know why, but I personally prefer to have a ‘Back to Top’ link on a long page.
I don’t see ‘Accessibility Statement’ on website or I missed one! Since the site can be operated by keyboard shortcuts (or screen reader compatible? Not sure) its nice idea to have accessibility statement. What do you think?
One suggestion – I found that lots of links are redirected to different websites. For e.g. Buy Salmon  Ardtaraig Fine Foods link. I would suggest to mentioned that link is opening new website or you can indicate the same by simply changing the arrow image in front of the image … lota depends on designer.

Hmmm… I think these suggestions make sense.
Please let me know what do you think.

Thanks.

Best Regards,
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-03 Thread David Nicol
Amit,

Many thanks for your suggestions - I agree with them all!

We will definitely take action to improve the site according to your ideas.

Kind regards
David

On 8/3/05, Amit Pimpalnerkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 Hello David,
 
  
 
 Over site impression –cool… its well structured and well designed.
 Especially I liked color scheme of the site.
 
  
 
 Some Suggestions:
 
  
 Somehow I am missing link to HOME Page. – My observation is majority of
 people expect to see a Home link. It's not enough that logo is a link to
 homepage, as many people will not know this. 
 'Back to Top' link – well, I really don't know why, but I personally prefer
 to have a 'Back to Top' link on a long page. 
 I don't see 'Accessibility Statement' on website or I missed one! Since the
 site can be operated by keyboard shortcuts  (or  screen reader compatible?
 Not sure) its nice idea to have accessibility statement. What do you think? 
 One suggestion – I found that lots of links are redirected to different
 websites. For e.g. Buy Salmon  Ardtaraig Fine Foods link. I would suggest
 to mentioned that link is opening new website or you can indicate the same
 by simply changing the arrow image in front of the image … lota depends on
 designer.
 
  
 
 Hmmm… I think these suggestions make sense.
 
 Please let me know what do you think.
 
  
 
 Thanks.
 
  
 
 Best Regards,
 
 Amit Pimpalnerkar
 
 David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 
 I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
 http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site.
 
 Please do not be scared to be critical. I'm keen to improve the site
 in any way possible, so please let me know what you think we could do
 better.
 
 FYI, I'm not convinced that the search functionality is as usable as
 it could be - I'd appreciate your ideas and opinions about this
 matter. (However, I'll also understand if this usability issue is
 maybe outwith the scope of this list).
 
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[WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
Hello everyone,

I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site.

Please do not be scared to be critical. I'm keen to improve the site
in any way possible, so please let me know what you think we could do
better.

FYI, I'm not convinced that the search functionality is as usable as
it could be - I'd appreciate your ideas and opinions about this
matter. (However, I'll also understand if this usability issue is
maybe outwith the scope of this list).

OK - thanks in advance.

Kind regards
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
Hi David,

 I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
 http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site.
 
 Please do not be scared to be critical. I'm keen to improve the site
 in any way possible, so please let me know what you think we could do
 better.

Beautiful site. Um, not so beautiful banner ad. Is it possible to do
something about that?

 FYI, I'm not convinced that the search functionality is as usable as
 it could be - I'd appreciate your ideas and opinions about this
 matter. (However, I'll also understand if this usability issue is
 maybe outwith the scope of this list).

On the home page, the link to advanced search has a click here
thing, which is not very elegant. How about making the Advanced
Search text itself a link, and removing the following description?
Advanced Search is a fairly common feature so your users most probably
will not have a problem with it.

cheers,
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Joshua Street
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:46 +0100, David Nicol wrote:
 I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
 http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site.

Just quickly... wow.  I didn't know a site about fish could look so
good :P  Except for the flickery monstrosity at the top (banner ad
thing) that wrecks the effect somewhat, of course... can anything be
done about that?

For your Buy Recipe Books thing, you should perhaps consider doing
your images differently - either by using more meaningful ALT text (the
cover of ...title... rather than book) or an empty ALT value or (best
option in my mind) change your markup a little bit so that under the
Buy Recipe Books H1 there is an unordered list, with the book image
set as a background (and indent the content with padding).

It's semantically defensible (it's a list of books you can buy), and
means you lose the probably purely aesthetic images of book covers from
your markup.

I'd also maybe reconsider your use of H1, but that's a purely personal
thing and I can't really argue the point too much!

The only other gripe I had was with your Site Map // About Us // Terms
and Conditions // Disclaimer // Privacy Policy // Credits line at the
bottom of the page... it really should be in a list.  You can recreate
the slashes with a background image and special first class or ID for
the first element in the list... there's also other ways to do it, but I
imagine that must be something screen reader users would get sick of
quickly: site map slash slash about us slash slash... (presuming
that's how it works?)

Aside from those fairly minor things, the markup is great quality and
the design is similarly alluring (and a nifty logo, if you did that!).

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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
Prabhath,

Thanks for your thoughts about the Advanced Search - I totally agree
that we need to improve this element. We'll experiment with some
ideas.

Regarding the banner, we will be selling this space again soon. I'm
not sure if it would be sensible to retain a 'veto' on the banner
designs submitted by advertisers, but we should certainly think about
this.


Joshua,

I really appreciate your detailed comments. We will certainly re-think
the coding for the recipe books element, and I'll also do work on the
links in the footer.


Thanks again
David
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Leslie Riggs
Beautiful!  It's just that the banner ad is rather jarring in its 
present location.  Anything you can do about that?  When I see 
salmonrecipes.com with the ad right next to it, it's a bit confusing.


Others have given you just the input I would have given.  Obviously you 
put a lot of thought into this design.  Great job!


Leslie


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I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Laakso

David Nicol wrote:


Hello everyone,

I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site.

David

 

Nice stuff(I mean Salmon), David. I had to go rather extraordinary means 
to find any problem-- if, in fact, some of these browsers are even in 
your clients market: 
http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=180563. When you have 
time to get around to it, you may feel like correcting the couple of 
minor css errors.

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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Matt Harris
Nicely done! I have a quick question for you (or anyone)... what is the purpose of this code?
#content-ctr:after{	display:block;	visibility:hidden;	content:.;	clear:both;	height:0;	}/* \*/* html #content-ctr{height:1%}/* */

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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
Leslie,

Thanks for your input - we are working on the banner ad issue now. The
short term solution is to find a better advert to place on the site -
in the longer term, I think we may find an altogether better way to
use this space.


David (Laakso)

Many thanks for the BrowserCam link - I must admit that I hadn't
checked this out before, so it is hugely informative.


Thanks again
David

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 David Nicol wrote:
 
 Hello everyone,
 
 I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
 http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site.
 
 David
 
 
 
 Nice stuff(I mean Salmon), David. I had to go rather extraordinary means
 to find any problem-- if, in fact, some of these browsers are even in
 your clients market:
 http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=180563. When you have
 time to get around to it, you may feel like correcting the couple of
 minor css errors.
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RE: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Ed Henderson
Initial comment, since the site is all about Salmon, probably not worth
repeating it in the navigation buttons:

Cooking Salmon - Cooking
Buy Salmon - Buy
Salmon Resources - Resources

Apart from that, initial look, looks nice.  And it being lunch time and all!

Regards

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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
Matt,

I'm reliably informed by our in-house CSS 'guru' that you'll find your
answer here@

http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html

Hope this makes some sense.

Cheers
David

On 8/2/05, Matt Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Nicely done!  I have a quick question for you (or anyone)... what is the
 purpose of this code?
 #content-ctr:after{
  display:block;
  visibility:hidden;
  content:.;
  clear:both;
  height:0;
  }
 /* \*/
 * html #content-ctr{height:1%}
 /* */
 
 --
 Thanks!
 
 Matt Harris
 www.focusontheclouds.com 
 
 
 On 8/2/05, David Laakso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  David Nicol wrote:
  
  Hello everyone,
  
  I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
  http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site.
  
  David
  
  
  
  Nice stuff(I mean Salmon), David. I had to go rather extraordinary means
  to find any problem-- if, in fact, some of these browsers are even in
  your clients market:
   http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=180563.
 When you have
  time to get around to it, you may feel like correcting the couple of
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
Ed

I'm inclined to agree with you about there being no need to duplicate
'salmon' so much.

We did debate this quite a lot in the office, and I suspect we'll
change this next time we do any work on the menu system.

cheers
David



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 Initial comment, since the site is all about Salmon, probably not worth
 repeating it in the navigation buttons:
 
 Cooking Salmon - Cooking
 Buy Salmon - Buy
 Salmon Resources - Resources
 
 Apart from that, initial look, looks nice.  And it being lunch time and all!
 
 Regards
 
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Matt Harris
Thanks, David!On 8/2/05, David Nicol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt,I'm reliably informed by our in-house CSS 'guru' that you'll find youranswer here@http://www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html
Hope this makes some sense.CheersDavid



Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread Chris Kennon

Hi,

Don't have time to nit-pick, going for Salmon. You've certainly  
achieved your marketing goals!



C
On Aug 2, 2005, at 3:46 AM, David Nicol wrote:


Hello everyone,

I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site.

Please do not be scared to be critical. I'm keen to improve the site
in any way possible, so please let me know what you think we could do
better.

FYI, I'm not convinced that the search functionality is as usable as
it could be - I'd appreciate your ideas and opinions about this
matter. (However, I'll also understand if this usability issue is
maybe outwith the scope of this list).

OK - thanks in advance.

Kind regards
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please - www.SalmonRecipes.Net

2005-08-02 Thread David Nicol
Hi again everyone,

Thanks for your continued positive comments. FYI, we have changed the
banner ad to something more in-keeping with the rest of the site. Hope
you like it.

Felix ... thanks for the many links. I'll look at them all, and willl
discuss the matters in question with the team here.

Chris - lol. I'm glad you decided to go and get some salmon! Hope it
was/is delicious.

Cheers again
David

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 Don't have time to nit-pick, going for Salmon. You've certainly
 achieved your marketing goals!
 
 
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 On Aug 2, 2005, at 3:46 AM, David Nicol wrote:
 
  Hello everyone,
 
  I would really appreciate your comments about our recently redeveloped
  http://www.salmonrecipes.net/ site.
 
  Please do not be scared to be critical. I'm keen to improve the site
  in any way possible, so please let me know what you think we could do
  better.
 
  FYI, I'm not convinced that the search functionality is as usable as
  it could be - I'd appreciate your ideas and opinions about this
  matter. (However, I'll also understand if this usability issue is
  maybe outwith the scope of this list).
 
  OK - thanks in advance.
 
  Kind regards
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please

2005-04-19 Thread David McKinnon
Hi Levi,
Just looking through the list and saw that you didn't get many replies, 
so I thought I'd have a shot.

You might not have got much of an answer because there's not much to 
say.
My first impression is that there's not much on the site to draw me in 
or make me want to come back, that may or may not be a problem since 
the site is catering to your 'invitation only' audience. Nevertheless, 
if you were trying to interest me it didn't work (I'm still not sure 
who the site is for or what it's about).

I did what i usually do which is run the site through the good ol' 
validator http://validator.w3.org/ which turned up a few (OK, 9) easily 
fixed errors which you might want to sort out.

A quick squiz at the source code revealed that you're using inline CSS. 
You may want to move these styles to an external stylesheet, which you 
will save on download time.

That's about it.
David

On 02/03/2005, at 8:52 PM, Levi wrote:
No replied after 13 days... yeesh. Was it that bad or that good? no
comments at all? worked perfect on everyone's computer/browsers?
here is the url again: http://ffxi.anime-madness.com
-levi
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Howdy, I've been coming signed up only a few weeks here and have read
only two dozen or so topics, mainly because I've been working on a 
new site
and have had midterms to study for (UCF student in Orlando). The site 
was
completed on the 11th though I am still working on backend PHP 
functionality.

If some of you professionals could run it through the gauntlet, that
would probably
helpful to me (I find it hard to get rid of the if they don't use
IE6.x or Firefox, screw
them anyway, my sites aren't selling anything mentality).
Two pages wont show up as XHTML Transitional complaint because they 
are using
Flash (I've only seen one solution to making compliant html flash
implementation
and I disliked the drawbacks of not being able to inform the user to
upgrade their Flash
if they are using an old version).

Thanks for any replies.
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Re: [WSG] Site Review Please

2005-04-19 Thread Kvnmcwebn
The modular interface on top is kind of cool. To me it feels like the whole
thing should be certered with a black background.

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Re: [WSG] Site review

2005-04-07 Thread Alan Trick
Neerav wrote:
Looks nice, wish I could afford it :-)
The only 2 small problems I see are caused by the standard text size 
being too small, so I choose medium size text (in Firefox 1.0 Win 
2000 1024x768) and:

1. Making your African Dreams a Reality! is overlapped by Lodges  
Hotels

2. Terms  Conditions and Office Information overlap each other
Interesting.  I'm viewing it in firefox 1.0.2 XP with the same 
resolution, but there's no overlapping?  Mabye it's been fixed already
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[WSG] Site review

2005-04-06 Thread Jacobus van Niekerk
Hi all,

We have recently launched http://www.getawayafrica.com/, your comments are
welcome. But would like to know more about if you have any problems with the
site.

Just a note,  the client is still inputting content.

Kind Regards
Jacobus van Niekerk

Creative Consultant


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Re: [WSG] Site review

2005-04-06 Thread Neerav
Looks nice, wish I could afford it :-)
The only 2 small problems I see are caused by the standard text size 
being too small, so I choose medium size text (in Firefox 1.0 Win 2000 
1024x768) and:

1. Making your African Dreams a Reality! is overlapped by Lodges  
Hotels

2. Terms  Conditions and Office Information overlap each other
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Jacobus van Niekerk wrote:
Hi all,
We have recently launched http://www.getawayafrica.com/, your comments are
welcome. But would like to know more about if you have any problems with the
site.
Just a note,  the client is still inputting content.
Kind Regards
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Creative Consultant

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Re: [WSG] Site review

2005-04-06 Thread Vision.To Design
Great Site
Everything works OK.



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Subject: [WSG] Site review


 Hi all,

 We have recently launched http://www.getawayafrica.com/, your comments are
 welcome. But would like to know more about if you have any problems with
the
 site.

 Just a note,  the client is still inputting content.

 Kind Regards
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[WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread Tatham Oddie








All,



Without out taking up too much of your time, itd
be great if you could take a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/
and let me know anything that leaps in your face as bad.



Please be brutal.



Im hoping there wont be too much of a
beating, but if there is Id prefer to do it now before we dump in all
the content and move to production.



(PS. Notice the XHTML1.1 validating ASP.NET? J)



Thanks in advance!





Tatham Oddie

Fuel Advance

www.fueladvance.com








Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread Paul Connolley
On 22 Mar 2005, at 23:34, Tatham Oddie wrote:
All,

Without out taking up too much of your time, itd be great if you 
could take a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/ and let me know 
anything that leaps in your face as bad.

Please be brutal.

(PS. Notice the XHTML1.1 validating ASP.NET? J)
Non validating. You have a HTML in your supposedly validating XML 
document. You should check the w3c media type recommendations as you 
are sending your document as text/html and it shouldn't be. Perhaps you 
should try HTML 4.01 Strict.

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Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread Glenn
Other than the 404 errors on some of the menu items (which I assume you 
already knew about :) the only thing I can see is a couple of validation 
issues: 
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1uri=http%3A//testdrive.fueladvance.com/Default.aspx 
just to do with the html tag

Otherwise looking good.
Glenn
Tatham Oddie wrote:
All,
Without out taking up too much of your time, itd be great if you 
could take a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/ and let me know 
anything that leaps in your face as bad.

Please be brutal.
Im hoping there wont be too much of a beating, but if there is Id 
prefer to do it now before we dump in all the content and move to 
production.

(PS. Notice the XHTML1.1 validating ASP.NET? J)
Thanks in advance!
Tatham Oddie
Fuel Advance
www.fueladvance.com
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread David Laakso
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:34:38 +1100, Tatham Oddie [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
wrote:
Without out taking up too much of your time, it'd be great if you could  
take
a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/
[...]
Nice, clean, and simple. Setting font-size 0.9em on the body is doing a  
number in IE on zoom. To avoid that bug use %, preferably
100% or 100.01%.  Those of us who can't remember our 40th birthday party  
will be grateful. There seems to be no alt text for the title, and the  
navigation breaks a bit too early on zoom. There's a need to correct some  
HTML errors.
Tatham Oddie
Best,
David

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RE: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread Tatham Oddie
Ok... tad embarrassed right now.

Not that this is my staging location - so I upload to it every few minutes.
It *was* working... I emailed you... I broke it... you looked.

Now works again - I think.

Do you mind checking the XHTML compliance again for me?


Thanks!


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Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com


On 22 Mar 2005, at 23:34, Tatham Oddie wrote:

 All,

 Without out taking up too much of your time, it'd be great if you 
 could take a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/ and let me know 
 anything that leaps in your face as bad.

 Please be brutal.

 (PS. Notice the XHTML1.1 validating ASP.NET? J)

Non validating. You have a HTML in your supposedly validating XML 
document. You should check the w3c media type recommendations as you 
are sending your document as text/html and it shouldn't be. Perhaps you 
should try HTML 4.01 Strict.

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Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread diona kidd
Seems to validate as XHTML 1.0 strict...maybe that was the doc type you
had in mind when coding?


http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftestdrive.fueladvance.com
%2FDefault.aspxcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=XHTML+1.0
+Strictverbose=1

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 19:28 -0500, David Laakso wrote:
 On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:34:38 +1100, Tatham Oddie [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
 wrote:
  Without out taking up too much of your time, it'd be great if you could  
  take
  a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/
 [...]
 Nice, clean, and simple. Setting font-size 0.9em on the body is doing a  
 number in IE on zoom. To avoid that bug use %, preferably
 100% or 100.01%.  Those of us who can't remember our 40th birthday party  
 will be grateful. There seems to be no alt text for the title, and the  
 navigation breaks a bit too early on zoom. There's a need to correct some  
 HTML errors.
  Tatham Oddie
 Best,
 David
 
 
 

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RE: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread Tatham Oddie
David,

Thanks for taking the time to look.

I had totally forgotten to test font-zooming (too excited to launch it) so
I'll look into this.

As for the alt text - there's no image! If you take a look at the HTML it is
just a series of H1 and H2 elements. The image replacement is done totally
using CSS.

What were the HTML errors you found?


Thanks again!


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Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2005 11:29 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:34:38 +1100, Tatham Oddie [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
wrote:
 Without out taking up too much of your time, it'd be great if you could  
 take
 a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/
[...]
Nice, clean, and simple. Setting font-size 0.9em on the body is doing a  
number in IE on zoom. To avoid that bug use %, preferably
100% or 100.01%.  Those of us who can't remember our 40th birthday party  
will be grateful. There seems to be no alt text for the title, and the  
navigation breaks a bit too early on zoom. There's a need to correct some  
HTML errors.
 Tatham Oddie
Best,
David



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RE: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread diona
It seems to validate fine as XHTML 1.1 for me:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1uri=http%3A//testdrive.fueladvance.c
om/Default.aspx


And that's the doctype on all the pages.

I'm getting kinda confused as to how we're getting different results here...


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Seems to validate as XHTML 1.0 strict...maybe that was the doc type you
had in mind when coding?


http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftestdrive.fueladvance.com
%2FDefault.aspxcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=XHTML+1.0
+Strictverbose=1

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 19:28 -0500, David Laakso wrote:
 On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:34:38 +1100, Tatham Oddie [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
 wrote:
  Without out taking up too much of your time, it'd be great if you could

  take
  a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/
 [...]
 Nice, clean, and simple. Setting font-size 0.9em on the body is doing a  
 number in IE on zoom. To avoid that bug use %, preferably
 100% or 100.01%.  Those of us who can't remember our 40th birthday party  
 will be grateful. There seems to be no alt text for the title, and the  
 navigation breaks a bit too early on zoom. There's a need to correct some

 HTML errors.
  Tatham Oddie
 Best,
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread David Laakso
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:58:24 +1100, Tatham Oddie [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
wrote:
David,
[...]
As for the alt text - there's no image! If you take a look at the HTML  
it is
just a series of H1 and H2 elements. The image replacement is done  
totally
using CSS.
In FF there are two words Fuel Advance-- they are in the top-left corner  
of the viewport, yellow, and and approx. 2px high.
In IE accessibility mode the words fueladvance.com completely sit on top  
of the words testdrive making all of it unreadable.
You're good to go in Opera.
What were the HTML errors you found?
Your file validates, now.
Regards,
David
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Re: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread Peter J. Farrell




Tatham Oddie wrote:
I've learned that artificial intelligence is no match for natural
stupidity.

--

  
  
  
  
  All,
  
  Without out
taking up too much of your time, itd
be great if you could take a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/
and let me know anything that leaps in your face as bad.
  
  Please be
brutal.
  
  Im hoping
there wont be too much of a
beating, but if there is Id prefer to do it now before we dump in all
the content and move to production.
  
  (PS. Notice
the XHTML1.1 validating ASP.NET? J)
  
  Thanks in
advance!
  
  
  Tatham Oddie
  Fuel Advance
  www.fueladvance.com
  

My local version of Tidy is complaining about the empty p tag
on line 77 on the main page - it's just a warning however.
	div class="contentBlock"
		h2Extranet Login/h2
		fieldset
			labelExtranet Login/label

			p

			/p
			div

REFERENCE: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#edef-P
W3C:
"We discourage authors from using empty P elements. User agents
should ignore
empty 
P elements."
However when I strip it - your content boxes no long line up in FF.
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RE: [WSG] Site Review: testdrive.fueladvance.com

2005-03-22 Thread Tatham Oddie








Thanks Peter



Just to make it
clear  that P tag isnt always empty, its where messages
like Invalid Credentials appear. I should make the whole element
dynamic rather than just the content.



It certainly isnt
there for any presentation reason  Ill look into what happens when
I make the whole thing dynamic.





Tat











From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Of Peter J. Farrell
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1:45 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review:
testdrive.fueladvance.com





Tatham Oddie
wrote:
I've learned that artificial intelligence is no match for natural
stupidity.

-- 

All,



Without out taking up too much of
your time, itd be great if you could take a look at http://testdrive.fueladvance.com/
and let me know anything that leaps in your face as bad.



Please be brutal.



Im hoping there wont
be too much of a beating, but if there is Id prefer to do it now before
we dump in all the content and move to production.



(PS. Notice the XHTML1.1 validating
ASP.NET? J)



Thanks in advance!





Tatham
 Oddie

Fuel Advance

www.fueladvance.com

My local version of Tidy is complaining about the
empty p tag on line 77 on the main page - it's just a warning however.



 div class=contentBlock h2Extranet Login/h2 fieldset labelExtranet Login/label p  /p div


REFERENCE: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#edef-P
W3C:
We discourage authors from using empty P elements. User agents should ignore empty
P elements.
However when I strip it - your content boxes no long line up in FF.



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Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-17 Thread standards
Thank you Peter for the quick response and heads-up!

I'm puzzled because I'm using Windows XP Home edition and checked the site
in IE 6 and FF 1.0, and the logo isn't skewed. I'm using absolute
positioning for the logo, therefore if any of the many WSG experts can
provide some advice, or solution it would be greatly appreicated.

Thanks again Peter.

Kind regards,
Mario


 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Good morning mates,

I've just completed a re-design of a customer's site using web
 standards. My XHTML (strict) and CSS validate with no errors. I'm
 primarily
interested in feedback pertaining to my code and how closely it adheres
 to proper semantic markup.

In addition, any input regarding my CSS syntax and structure is also
 greatly appreciated. Of course, suggestions or comments on the site's
 design are always welcomed.

Customer site: http://www.coylemedical.com/

I've been designing for 7 years, but studying web standards for about
 15 months, and still consider myself a beginner. I did check the site
 in FF 1.0, Opera 7.4 and IE 6 with a few minor display differences.
 Please know that 78% of my visitors use IE based on my traffic report.

Respectfully requested,
Mario S. Cisneros


 This is my first post to the list.  I'm a complete newbie.  There
 appears to be a problem with the alignment of the logo in FF 1.0.1 - Win
  XP Pro.  It also appears the same way on in IE 6.

 Screen shot here:
 http://maestropublishing.com/examples/coylemedical_logo_scrnprint.png

 I'm a system programmer and I'm pretty new to css (learning it on the
 side), so I'm not sure of the fix for this.

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Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-17 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day
I'm puzzled because I'm using Windows XP Home edition and checked the site
in IE 6 and FF 1.0, and the logo isn't skewed. I'm using absolute
positioning for the logo, therefore if any of the many WSG experts can
provide some advice, or solution it would be greatly appreicated.
I'd say you are assuming everybody has the same screen resolution 
as you (looks like it's built for 1024x768, not accounting for 
wider or narrower scrollbars, side panels, non maximised windows 
etc).

At 800x600, the logo shifts to the right (over the top of other 
pictures) and at resolutions above 1024x768 it sticks out on the 
left.  Stats vary, but this site will have the formatting problem 
for a sizeable portion of visitors (perhaps half),

The absolute positioning you mentioned is the cause of your problem.
Regards
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Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-17 Thread Ingo Chao
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Thank you Peter for the quick response and heads-up!
I'm puzzled because I'm using Windows XP Home edition and checked the site
in IE 6 and FF 1.0, and the logo isn't skewed. I'm using absolute
positioning for the logo, therefore if any of the many WSG experts can
provide some advice, or solution it would be greatly appreicated.
The logo is skewed in FF and IE6 as you are positioning this #logo a.p. 
with respect to the viewport, not with respect to the centered 
#container. As already mentioned, check your page in different 
resolutions to see.

If you want to position this #logo absolute, you might set
#container { position: relative; }
and adjust the top/left-offsets in #logo
Another attempt: float this #logo.
IE6:
Depending on the viewport-size (try in 1280x1024 and resize the window), 
you'll notice that the margin on the left and right of the

#centercolumn { .. float: left; ... margin-left: 1.5%; margin-right: 
1.5%; ...}

will grow or shrink, in complete disregard of the container's px-fixed-width
#container { ... width: 760px; }
So IE6 shows the quirky percentages bug [1]: IE6 doesn't compute the 
percentage-margin of #centercolumn with respect to the #container, but 
with respect to the viewport in this situation. And this may cause the 
drop of the right column-float under the content when the viewport is 
sized wide enough.

You don't have to struggle with the percentages here, just don't let IE 
calculate 1.5%*760px.

Another attempt: set #rightcolumn {float: right}, you wouldn't have to 
worry about margins between them. Or give a more flexible design concept
a try.

regards, Ingo
[1]: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/percentages.html



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Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-17 Thread Ingo Chao
Ingo Chao schrieb:
And this may cause the drop of the right column-float under the content when the viewport is 
sized wide enough.
Sorry, maybe this effect is not reproduceable on your font/screen/cache 
settings, so here is a screenshot of the drop in IE6
http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/tmp/floatdrop.jpg

Ingo
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Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-17 Thread standards
Thanks Bert, but please know that I didn't make any assumptions about
screen resolution, but simply failed to checked the site in 800X600. I
always check my sites in different screen resolutions, but dropped the
ball this time.

Thanks for the reminder, and I'll fix the problem accordingly.

Kind regards,
Mario

 G'day

 I'm puzzled because I'm using Windows XP Home edition and checked the
 site in IE 6 and FF 1.0, and the logo isn't skewed. I'm using absolute
 positioning for the logo, therefore if any of the many WSG experts can
 provide some advice, or solution it would be greatly appreicated.

 I'd say you are assuming everybody has the same screen resolution  as
 you (looks like it's built for 1024x768, not accounting for
 wider or narrower scrollbars, side panels, non maximised windows
 etc).

 At 800x600, the logo shifts to the right (over the top of other
 pictures) and at resolutions above 1024x768 it sticks out on the
 left.  Stats vary, but this site will have the formatting problem  for a
 sizeable portion of visitors (perhaps half),

 The absolute positioning you mentioned is the cause of your problem.

 Regards
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[WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-16 Thread standards
Good morning mates,

I've just completed a re-design of a customer's site using web standards.
My XHTML (strict) and CSS validate with no errors. I'm primarily
interested in feedback pertaining to my code and how closely it adheres to
proper semantic markup.

In addition, any input regarding my CSS syntax and structure is also
greatly appreciated. Of course, suggestions or comments on the site's
design are always welcomed.

Customer site: http://www.coylemedical.com/

I've been designing for 7 years, but studying web standards for about 15
months, and still consider myself a beginner. I did check the site in FF
1.0, Opera 7.4 and IE 6 with a few minor display differences. Please know
that 78% of my visitors use IE based on my traffic report.

Respectfully requested,
Mario S. Cisneros


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Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-16 Thread Peter J. Farrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good morning mates,
I've just completed a re-design of a customer's site using web standards.
My XHTML (strict) and CSS validate with no errors. I'm primarily
interested in feedback pertaining to my code and how closely it adheres to
proper semantic markup.
In addition, any input regarding my CSS syntax and structure is also
greatly appreciated. Of course, suggestions or comments on the site's
design are always welcomed.
Customer site: http://www.coylemedical.com/
I've been designing for 7 years, but studying web standards for about 15
months, and still consider myself a beginner. I did check the site in FF
1.0, Opera 7.4 and IE 6 with a few minor display differences. Please know
that 78% of my visitors use IE based on my traffic report.
Respectfully requested,
Mario S. Cisneros
 

This is my first post to the list.  I'm a complete newbie.  There 
appears to be a problem with the alignment of the logo in FF 1.0.1 - Win 
XP Pro.  It also appears the same way on in IE 6.

Screen shot here:
http://maestropublishing.com/examples/coylemedical_logo_scrnprint.png
I'm a system programmer and I'm pretty new to css (learning it on the 
side), so I'm not sure of the fix for this.

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Re: [WSG] Site Review - coylemedical.com

2005-03-16 Thread Peter J. Farrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good morning mates,
I've just completed a re-design of a customer's site using web standards.
My XHTML (strict) and CSS validate with no errors. I'm primarily
interested in feedback pertaining to my code and how closely it adheres to
proper semantic markup.
In addition, any input regarding my CSS syntax and structure is also
greatly appreciated. Of course, suggestions or comments on the site's
design are always welcomed.
Customer site: http://www.coylemedical.com/
I've been designing for 7 years, but studying web standards for about 15
months, and still consider myself a beginner. I did check the site in FF
1.0, Opera 7.4 and IE 6 with a few minor display differences. Please know
that 78% of my visitors use IE based on my traffic report.
Respectfully requested,
Mario S. Cisneros
 

Also, IE 6 appear strangely as well:
http://maestropublishing.com/examples/coylemedical_logo_scrnprint_2.png
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RE: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL

2005-03-07 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: RE: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL





We proud to be the first car seller world wide portal to use XHTML and Webstandards
...I'd wait until AFTER your page validates before saying things like that, and check! (http://www.autotrader.co.uk)



Your fieldsets are also missing legends




Jamie





Re: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL

2005-03-07 Thread Genau Lopes Jr.
Dear Mr. Mason.
I suppose that you DIDN´T understood what i wrote before.
I said X HTML Web Standards, and for me, that site, even uses HTML tags 
as you can see follows...


div style=position:absolute;left:0px;top:117px;color:white;
bTo activate all search settings above pleasefont color=red
a 
href=javascript:window.location='http://registration.autotrader.co.uk/login/uk/WWW2?
su=1amp;cp='+escape(window.location);login./a
/fontnbsp;nbsp;If you do not have an account pleasefont color=red
a 
href=javascript:window.location='http://registration.autotrader.co.uk/reg/uk/WWW2?s=1amp;
cp='+escape(window.location);register/a/font/b/div/div/div/form/div
Sorry, but you would reconsider you comments, and read more before take 
an opinion.

by the way, the website is already validated.
best regards,
Genau L. Jr
http://www.meucarronovo.com.br
Jamie Mason wrote:
We proud to be the first car seller world wide portal to use XHTML 
and Webstandards
...I'd wait until AFTER your page validates before saying things like 
that, and check! (http://www.autotrader.co.uk)

Your fieldsets are also missing legends

Jamie

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RE: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL

2005-03-07 Thread Jamie Mason
Title: RE: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL





Am I looking at the right site? http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1=http%3A//www.meucarronovo.com.br/ doesn't validate




-Original Message-
From: Genau Lopes Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 07 March 2005 13:46
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL


Dear Mr. Mason.


I suppose that you DIDN´T understood what i wrote before.


I said X HTML Web Standards, and for me, that site, even uses HTML tags as you can see follows...





div style=position:absolute;left:0px;top:117px;color:white;
bTo activate all search settings above pleasefont color=red a href="" href="http://registration.autotrader.co.uk/login/uk/WWW2" TARGET="_blank">http://registration.autotrader.co.uk/login/uk/WWW2?

su=1amp;cp='+escape(window.location);login./a
/fontnbsp;nbsp;If you do not have an account pleasefont color=red a href="" href="http://registration.autotrader.co.uk/reg/uk/WWW2?s=1" TARGET="_blank">http://registration.autotrader.co.uk/reg/uk/WWW2?s=1

cp='+escape(window.location);register/a/font/b/div/div/div/form/div


Sorry, but you would reconsider you comments, and read more before take an opinion.



by the way, the website is already validated.


best regards,



Genau L. Jr
http://www.meucarronovo.com.br



Jamie Mason wrote:


 We proud to be the first car seller world wide portal to use XHTML 
 and Webstandards
 ...I'd wait until AFTER your page validates before saying things like 
 that, and check! (http://www.autotrader.co.uk)


 Your fieldsets are also missing legends



 Jamie





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[WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL

2005-03-05 Thread Genau Lopes Jr.
Hi,
I would like to show you some improvements that we did in our Portal.
http://www.meucarronovo.com.br
After some advices about our XHTML validation, we almost fixed all bugs 
in xhtml, leaving just one bit problem with our js function that detects 
the resolution to advertisement skyscrapper.

We proud to be the first car seller world wide portal to use XHTML and 
Webstandards, iether using some Disabilities functions like ShortTag, to 
users with Carpal Tunnel and notebooks users. (as you can see 
http://www.meucarronovo.com.br/acessibilidade.php ).

I would like to thanks all people that help us to improve the quality 
standards and ask for some Advices and oppinions.

Thanks ,
Genau Lopes Junior
Webdesigner/MediaDeveloper
www.meucarronovo.com.br/quemsomos.php

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Re: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL

2005-03-05 Thread Gizax Studios
good work, only two things :
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meucarronovo.com.br%2F;verbose=1
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.meucarronovo.com.br/c/mcn.css
regards
Daniele
http://www.gizax.it
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- Original Message - 
From: Genau Lopes Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:59 PM
Subject: [WSG] Site Review - CAR SELLER PORTAL


Hi,
I would like to show you some improvements that we did in our Portal.
http://www.meucarronovo.com.br
After some advices about our XHTML validation, we almost fixed all bugs in 
xhtml, leaving just one bit problem with our js function that detects the 
resolution to advertisement skyscrapper.

We proud to be the first car seller world wide portal to use XHTML and 
Webstandards, iether using some Disabilities functions like ShortTag, to 
users with Carpal Tunnel and notebooks users. (as you can see 
http://www.meucarronovo.com.br/acessibilidade.php ).

I would like to thanks all people that help us to improve the quality 
standards and ask for some Advices and oppinions.

Thanks ,
Genau Lopes Junior
Webdesigner/MediaDeveloper
www.meucarronovo.com.br/quemsomos.php

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