[WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread Jad Madi
Greetings I'm building new website which will only have a photo gallery, so I was thinking how can I accomplish it without breaking standards and usability... please advise -- Web standards Planet http://www.w3planet.info/ Personal Blogger http://www.EasyHTTP.com/jad/ EasyHTTP Network

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread russ - maxdesign
Greetings I'm building new website which will only have a photo gallery, so I was thinking how can I accomplish it without breaking standards and usability... please advise Try some of these: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/dl-image-gallery.htm

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread designer
Have a look too at my www.withoutgrass.com site. An original approach, AFAIK. Bob McClelland, Cornwall (U.K.) www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk - Original Message - From: russ - maxdesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Web Standards Group wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 1:40

Re: [WSG] Definition lists for comments in blogs

2005-05-29 Thread Ben Ward
Ahh, but the problem with using blockquote there is that you're trying to differentiate between content from the site owner and content from contributors. However, both those people are 'authors' on the blog, the blog article and blog comments are both first-hand content. blockquote marks up

[WSG] Standards Publication

2005-05-29 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Has any knowledgeable soul read: Web Standards Design Guide (Internet Series) [url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1584503874/ref%3Dpe%5Fsnp% 5F874/002-1365210-3711235[/url], if so what is the consensus? CK __ Knowing is not enough, you must

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Not only a nice solution, but a vigorous workout with standards and list. G/L CK How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS: http://www.webreference.com/programming/css_gallery/index.html On May 29, 2005, at 5:21 AM, Jad Madi wrote: Greetings I'm building new website which

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Sun, 29 May 2005 15:46:29 +0100, Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS: http://www.webreference.com/programming/css_gallery/index.html I don't like it. It works only on hover and that's Bad Thing for usability and accessiblity. I can't use

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread Jad Madi
actually i'm having a problem in my project, I have to have category for every person, with his albums so the site become so ugly and so huge, and the current content is only 20% of what I have would you mind to take a look http://joite.org/gallery/ On 5/29/05, Kornel Lesinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Sun, 29 May 2005 16:39:51 +0100, Jad Madi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually i'm having a problem in my project, I have to have category for every person, with his albums so the site become so ugly and so huge, and the current content is only 20% of what I have would you mind to take a look

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread Leslie Riggs
You've got a lot of validation issues. Over 180 errors, including XHTML markup while using an HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD. I think you need to decide if you want to follow that DTD or switch to an XHTML DTD. Leslie Riggs actually i'm having a problem in my project, I have to have category

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread Jad Madi
I'm working on new structure but what i'm trying to discuss now is The content is huge and cant think of anyway to organize it so it wont break usability ** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread Ben Ward
I think the problem you have there is that you're breaking the pictures down in too many different ways on a single page. You might find it more managable if you allow users to choose the presentation: For example, you can separate browsing by: * Photographer * Major catagory * Country (maybe,

Re: [WSG] Photo gallery standards?

2005-05-29 Thread Chris Kennon
Hi, Sorry, I must have cooties. Didn't intend to offend. C On May 29, 2005, at 8:12 AM, Kornel Lesinski wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2005 15:46:29 +0100, Chris Kennon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS:

Re: [WSG] a elements and what they can contain

2005-05-29 Thread Ben Ward
It is very much a legacy thing these days, since it is being solved for XHTML 2.0, insofaras you can attach the href= attribute to pretty much any element you like, regardless of block|inline condition. A navigation menu item could be 'li href=homepageHomepage/li' without the extra a / tag.

Re: [WSG] a elements and what they can contain

2005-05-29 Thread Thomas Ditmars
On 29-May-05 17:06, Ben Ward wrote: It is very much a legacy thing these days, since it is being solved for XHTML 2.0, insofaras you can attach the href= attribute to pretty much any element you like, regardless of block|inline condition. A navigation menu item could be 'li

Re: [WSG] Definition lists for comments in blogs

2005-05-29 Thread Andrew Krespanis
Heh, well if the blockquote approach is considered overkill, you'll choke on what I actually use for my comments... ol li dl dtAndrew said:/dt ddpThis is my comment. It is the definition of 'Andrew said' within this context./p/dd /dl dl class=date dtComment

[WSG] This might be off topic. I am not sure who to ask.

2005-05-29 Thread Angus at InfoForce Services
This might be off topic. I am not sure if I should create seperate CSS files for my header and footer, embed the CSS into one file with the HTML . or Have the css in my css main file and call the main file. I would like to keep to web standards and a small download for dialup users. Any

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-29 Thread Darren Wood
I may be a little late to reply but hopefully this will help you all as much as it helped me. A lot of scalable programming is done using a framework of some sort (a set of prewritten bits of code aka modules) but a lot of designers are afraid, or confused by that pure geek way of thinking (i

Re: [WSG] This might be off topic. I am not sure who to ask.

2005-05-29 Thread Prabhath Sirisena
It's best to stick to one CSS file (if you're thinking about seperating CSS rules based on the section of the page). However, it's easier to maintain CSS if you seperate positioning and other decorative/typography styles in to seperate files (E.g.: layout.css and main.css). Prabhath

Re: [WSG] This might be off topic. I am not sure who to ask.

2005-05-29 Thread tee
It's best to stick to one CSS file (if you're thinking about seperating CSS rules based on the section of the page). Hi Prabhath, can you explain why it's best to stick to one CSS file. I found it easier to maintain to create separate CSS file under such circumstance, say, the CSS rules only

Re: [WSG] style sheet set up

2005-05-29 Thread Bert Doorn
G'day http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/12/modular-css http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/17/a-css-framework Mike Stenhouse from contentwithstyle explains it way better than I could! The biggest problem, and perhaps the biggest difference between the web and program(mer)s