Re: [WSG] my site

2010-01-21 Thread Joseph Taylor
Marvin, I see you fixed the paragraph before the body tag. I'm re-validating your page and will send back some more tips. Joseph R. B. Taylor /Web Designer / Developer/ -- Sites by Joe, LLC /Clean, Simple and Elegant Web Design/ Phone: (609) 335-3076 Web:

Re: [WSG] my site

2010-01-21 Thread Joseph Taylor
Marvin, As I send over items I notice - for now forget about HTML 4.01 or HTML 5 and stay with XHTML for the moment. Things to fix then get back to me: Inside the div tag with the id of banner_new you have double break tags surrounding both the first level heading and the image. I see the

Re: [WSG] my site

2010-01-21 Thread Luke Hoggett
as interesting as it is... how about you guys communicate off list. On 22/01/2010 12:09 PM, Joseph Taylor wrote: Marvin, As I send over items I notice - for now forget about HTML 4.01 or HTML 5 and stay with XHTML for the moment. Things to fix then get back to me: Inside the div tag with

Re: [WSG] my site

2010-01-21 Thread Jayachandran Kandasamy
Hi Marvin, I have highlighted the code below .. please avoid using br/ tags for the line breaks please use some margin / padding to achieve the same in CSS Avoid using the inline style with the markup tags itself.. Rest all looks fine buddy :) :) Please download this validator to your FF

[WSG] My site

2009-10-07 Thread Marvin Hunkin
Hi. looking to fix my site. have not got around to it yet. doing other projects and now iwll get to it tomorrow. now how do i make all the images the same size. Do i get rid of the banana images and the second menu. only one set of links. On the credits page, do i get rid of the p link from the

[WSG] My Site

2009-10-07 Thread Marvin Hunkin
my site still errorshi. take a look at http://startrekcafe.alacorncomputer.com still errors. and okay will go and download the vision australia color tester and see what colors they say for the background. okay will go and vallidate the hoem page. did fix the table reading problem. it was the

RE: [WSG] My Site

2009-10-07 Thread Raul Ferrer
...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] En nombre de Marvin Hunkin Enviado el: miércoles, 07 de octubre de 2009 14:06 Para: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Asunto: [WSG] My Site my site still errorshi. take a look at http://startrekcafe.alacorncomputer.com still errors. and okay will go and download

Re: [WSG] my site

2009-09-23 Thread Savl Ekk
That's great to learn more, Marvin. Good luck you then. And cheers too :) 2009/9/23 Marvin Hunkin startrekc...@gmail.com hi. well. did this for a course a couple of years ago. and got legal use to use all the images. so want to put this up on a site. as a port folio of my student web

[WSG] my site and mouse rollovers

2009-09-22 Thread Marvin Hunkin
hi. well not going to change the site a whole great deal. proud of this site i created for my course. and only changing the mouse rollovers. so if it looks great. let me know. it is at: http://startrekcafe.alacorncomputer.com cheers Marvin. ps: might be a few hours before my friend uploads it. as

Re: [WSG] my site and mouse rollovers

2009-09-22 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Hi Marvin, I am interested in your angle on regarding the repeating alt attribute values in your menu, e.g. alt=Closed Banana. This would appear to be against basic WCAGC accessibility guidelines, and also totally unnecessary verbiage for the listener. What is your reasoning for doing this?

Re: [WSG] my site and mouse rollovers

2009-09-22 Thread Lesley Lutomski
Hi Marvin, To follow on from what Dave Hurley said about colours, I find the green Link text hard to read on the green background. No matter how great your site is, if your users can't read it, it's not doing its job. Visionaustralia have a really useful tool on their Web site here:

Re: [WSG] my site and mouse rollovers

2009-09-22 Thread Lesley Lutomski
Hi Marvin, To follow on from what Dave Hurley said about colours, I find the green Link text hard to read on the green background. No matter how great your site is, if your users can't read it, it's not doing its job. Visionaustralia have a really useful tool on their Web site here:

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2009-09-15 Thread Marvin Hunkin
hi. did vallidate all the pages and fixed all the errors. so what do you mean by excess tags. that is the way i set it up and want it that way. what do you mean by images not loading. cheers Marvin. *** List Guidelines:

Re: [WSG] my site

2009-09-15 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Hi, At the homepage source you have a /div too much on line 59. Also, the mango image is not loading. It seems that the file is corrupt: when trying to reach I get a message saying that the image has errors. I think all the tables are loading correctly, both at the homepage and produce. I

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[WSG] My Site Background Image and css

2009-04-14 Thread Marvin Hunkin
HI. if you visit http://tracs.co.nz/marvin and a sighted friend, helping me out. but he says that i have a image with a layover background. can any one take a look and help me out? how to do this in css, as a blind web developer, and cannot edit graphics using a screen reader like jaws for

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-22 Thread Jorge Laranjo
Well, You can start reading http://thetaoofwebdesign.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2004/10/ color_schemes_g.html and http://thetaoofwebdesign.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2004/08/ update_how_to_c.html to help you out with the colors. Then pick a pencil and start drawing... them put that in CSS / XHTML

RE: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-22 Thread Brett Walsh
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anthony Timberlake Sent: Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] My Site I think that I have done a nice job with the new stylesheets. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:58:20 +0100, JohnyB [EMAIL

RE: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-22 Thread Brett Walsh
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] My Site Well, it's getting there the html now validates but the css still does not. It has the same errors as before only now they are on all three stylesheets. You cannot list sizes or dimensions without the unit in other words padding: 2; is not valid

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-22 Thread James O'Neill
Anthony, Do not get discouraged. Designing semantically correct, accessible, and valid sites is not easy. Transitioning to standards compliant design is a long frustrating road, but it is well worth the pain. There are many that can forget the journey that we all traveled to get where we are

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-22 Thread Julia
The url given has a valid html4 button, but the doctype of the page itself is xhtml 1.0 transitional. The markup is nothing like xhtml, but the validator keeps trying to validate it as xhtml because the doctype says so. If you cant change your markup to xhtml, it would be easier to change

[WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Anthony Timberlake
My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my site? Is there anything wrong with it? Thanks for your help. -- Anthony Timberlake Owner - StaticHost Internet Services http://www.statichost.co.uk ** The discussion list for

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Anthony Timberlake
The color scheme is what I do not like. Can someone help me find a better color scheme? On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:46:27 -0500, Anthony Timberlake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my site? Is there anything wrong with it? Thanks for your

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Hanni Ross
Try http://colorschemer.com/ Great tool, I think there's a 15 day trial. Regards, Hanni On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:00:00 -0500, Anthony Timberlake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The color scheme is what I do not like. Can someone help me find a better color scheme? On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:46:27

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Johannes Reiss
My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my site? Is there anything wrong with it? Thanks for your help. -- Anthony Timberlake Owner - StaticHost Internet Services http://www.statichost.co.uk hmmm... eg. you can validate it, esp. change the to / (XHTML)

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my site? Is there anything wrong with it? Thanks for your help. Validate, fix, validate, fix, validate, ... You might start by changing the Doctype to HTML 4.01 Transitional and fix the 19 errors (as opposed to 154 with

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Tom Livingston
http://www.paletteman.com/ Tom Livingston Senior Multimedia Artist mlinc.com On Dec 21, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Hanni Ross wrote: Try http://colorschemer.com/ Great tool, I think there's a 15 day trial. Regards, Hanni On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:00:00 -0500, Anthony Timberlake

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Al Sessions
Anthony Timberlake wrote: My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my site? Is there anything wrong with it? I don't mean to be rude but a token attempt at validation is probably in order before asking for suggestions. You may want to start by limiting yourself to one

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Anthony Timberlake
I do have one set of head, body and html tags. I have validated my CSS and HTML. On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:51:36 -0500, Al Sessions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Timberlake wrote: My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my site? Is there anything wrong with it?

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Matt Hampel
have validated my CSS and HTML. This generally means you have fixed the errors the validator displays. The page you linked to still has 130+ errors. Johannes' suggestion hmmm... eg. you can validate it, esp. change the to / (XHTML) would fix quite a few. Matt Hampel On Tue, 21 Dec 2004

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Leslie Riggs
I went back and re-checked for CSS and HTML validation: You still have some problems to fix. The CSS validator shows an error page. The HTML validator clearly states your code is not valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, with 136 errors. You'll have to fix those first. It looks to me like you'll have to

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Dec 2004, at 8:10 AM, Anthony Timberlake wrote: I do have one set of head, body and html tags. I have validated my CSS and HTML. Don't see how your HTML can validate. Adding a DOCTYPE of XHTML Strict will not magically convert an HTML document to XHTML. The syntax of your code is entirely

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Anthony Timberlake
I am not new at this, just haven't done it for a while now. I thought by being on this list, I could get the help I needed. I appologize if I offended you. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:53:26 +1100, Nick Gleitzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Dec 2004, at 8:10 AM, Anthony Timberlake wrote: I

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread haggis
] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] My Site I do have one set of head, body and html tags. I have validated my CSS and HTML. On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:51:36 -0500, Al Sessions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony Timberlake wrote: My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Anthony Timberlake
with each refresh so you must be working on it ... good for you ! ... :o) HTH's ... B. William Haggerty VWH Web Services http://vwh.ca - Original Message - From: Anthony Timberlake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] My

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 22 Dec 2004, at 9:04 AM, Anthony Timberlake wrote: I am not new at this, just haven't done it for a while now. I thought by being on this list, I could get the help I needed. I appologize if I offended you. I'm not in the least offended. But if you'd like help from this list (and this advice

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread haggis
CTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 2:47 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] My Site It is now validated with HTML and CSS. Does anyone have anything else that I can do to improve my site? Sites to read and gain more knowledge, scripts? On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:32:14 -0800, haggis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Felix Miata
Anthony Timberlake wrote: My site is http://www.dotradio.uni.cc. What can I do to improve my site? Is there anything wrong with it? Thanks for your help. To me, the #3 stylesheet provides the least bothersome color combination, but that produces a section of virtually invisible text at the

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread JohnyB
Try http://colorschemer.com/ Have a look at http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html -- Jan Brasna :: alphanumeric.cz | webcore.cz | designlab.cz | janbrasna.com ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Anthony Timberlake
I think that I have done a nice job with the new stylesheets. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:58:20 +0100, JohnyB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try http://colorschemer.com/ Have a look at http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html -- Jan Brasna :: alphanumeric.cz | webcore.cz |

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Anthony Timberlake
I think that I have done a nice job with the new stylesheets. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:58:20 +0100, JohnyB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try http://colorschemer.com/ Have a look at http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html -- Jan Brasna :: alphanumeric.cz | webcore.cz |

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread simon dodson
dude that site bites ! Anthony Timberlake wrote: I think that I have done a nice job with the new stylesheets. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 01:58:20 +0100, JohnyB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try http://colorschemer.com/ Have a look at http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html -- Jan

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Anthony Timberlake
Excuse me? On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:19:31 +1000, simon dodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dude that site bites ! -- Anthony Timberlake DJ on Dot Radio http://www.dotradio.uni.cc ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread haggis
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] My Site I think that I have done a nice job with the new stylesheets. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Anthony Timberlake
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] My Site I think that I have done a nice job with the new stylesheets. ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread Marc Broad
Anthony - you are validating the individual css files. Your inline styles still leave a bit to be desired... When you validate css using a site url it takes the css that page accesses and runs . You are validating each file in isolation from inline styles. For example: div

Re: [WSG] My Site--Sorry

2004-12-21 Thread David Laakso
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:40:50 -0500, Anthony Timberlake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, see correction below--- sans-serif *not* serif How are you getting errors? http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dotradio.uni.cc%2Fstyles%2F1.cssusermedium=all

Re: [WSG] My Site

2004-12-21 Thread haggis
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] My Site How are you getting errors? http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dotradio.uni.cc%2Fstyles%2F1.cssusermedium=all http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F

Re: [WSG] My site is broken in Opera

2004-12-03 Thread José López
Alan Trick wrote: Hi, I finished a nice update for my website, added a browser detection script on my css because IE doensn't like web standards. Now my site works in all the browsers I have exept for Opera, and I don't know why, can anyone help me with this? the url is

Re: [WSG] My site is broken in Opera

2004-12-03 Thread Alan Trick
José López wrote: Hi Alan, the problem is simple, you no use the tag class else id 1) I don't think this would do anything different and 2) id's are meant to be unique and I don't want to have a whole bunch of id's all with the same css info, that's bad code and redundant. I think I'll go

RE: [WSG] My site is broken in Opera

2004-12-03 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day Incidentally, when I went to the site in MSIE, it asked me what program I wanted to open the page with, rather than displaying it. Probably related to your Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml Really? What version of MSIE do you have? I've loaded it many times in mine (6) and I've

RE: [WSG] My site is broken in Opera

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Firminger
://www.googlism.com/;googlism.com/a. /p Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Trick Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 4:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] My site is broken in Opera Hi, I finished a nice update for my website, added

Re: [WSG] my site works on Mac, not PC :: suggestions???

2004-10-18 Thread Shane Helm
Will do Mike. Thanks for the constructive criticism. I'll delete the full screen. Good suggestion. Shane Helm On Oct 16, 2004, at 6:43 PM, Michael Allan wrote: On Saturday, October 16, 2004, at 03:13 PM, Shane Helm wrote: Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! If others have solved

Re: [WSG] my site works on Mac, not PC :: suggestions???

2004-10-18 Thread Shane Helm
That worked! Sweet! My last problem seems also to be only in IE on the PC. Between the top button that says SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER and the 12px tan border of the header bar there is a green space where those 2 graphics aren't lining up. Got any reason why this is a problem?

Re: [WSG] my site works on Mac, not PC :: suggestions???

2004-10-16 Thread Joseph Lindsay
Hi Shane, It's and IE problem. Looks great on Firefox. (I don't have linux :( Firefox 0.10.1) -- Gmail invites - just ask nicely On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 15:45:50 +1000, Joshua Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be nice to PC's. I've got a PC, and all that looks fine to me. Mind you, I'm

Re: [WSG] my site works on Mac, not PC :: suggestions???

2004-10-16 Thread Nick Gleitzman
On 16 Oct 2004, at 3:13 PM, Shane Helm wrote: I'm not sure where I've gone wrong, but I must get a PC to check from now on. Must go shopping. Oh no, will I actually own a PC. Dreadful... Just teasing you PC folks. :) I'm with you, Shane - I'd never use anything but a Mac as my main

Re: [WSG] my site works on Mac, not PC :: suggestions???

2004-10-16 Thread Chris Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joseph Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Shane, It's and IE problem. Looks great on Firefox. (I don't have linux :( Firefox 0.10.1) Also very nice in Opera 7.51 -- definitely down to MSIE... -- Chris Hughes Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have

Re: [WSG] my site works on Mac, not PC :: suggestions???

2004-10-16 Thread Michael Allan
On Saturday, October 16, 2004, at 03:13 PM, Shane Helm wrote: Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! If others have solved your float problem Shane, can I suggest that you don't insist that the window resize itself to full-screen? I'm lucky enough to have a large screen (20 Apple Cinema

[WSG] my site works on Mac, not PC :: suggestions???

2004-10-15 Thread Shane Helm
I was having a great week in my Mac world of coding my newest client's website in CSS XHTML. All was well in my happy little MacLife. The site was working just fine in Mac Safari, Firefox, Netscape, IE 5.2.3. Then I got curious as to what was going on in the PC world. So I went to a