I like the clean layout but to be honest when I read your description I was
thinking I wuld see more green seeing its a 'greeny' website
nothing like green for the corporate ID
On 3/6/07, Sarah Peeke (XERT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
We have recently unveiled a new project on all
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/03/2007 7:06:37 am
and even fewer know that they can click it to open a new window/tab.
And they, I suspect, would be the people least able to handle
a new window spawned by the webpage. The back button is one
of the first things people learn about browsers.
I
and the web, users and people have changed a lot since 1995, I would say so
much so that that stat would know be unreliable...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/03/2007 1:19:56 pm
One of my favourite stats is that 30% of browser activity involves
using the Back button AND that 30% of users have no
I also think it is a lot easier to make the website accessible than a movie and
book. All it takes is some careful coding and you have an accessible website,
but to make a book into brail takes a lot more effort
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/03/2007 9:48:46 pm
First a disclaimer:
This post does
btw one of those persons was me :)
I wrote what I did mainly becauseback in 1995 or whenever the study took place,
I wasnt (and im sure others hear) was not surfing the Internet or even
regularly using a computer (I did not even own one). back then it was fairly
new and with not many
I have just brought the 101 tricks and tips guide by SitePoint and have read
the sample chapters. I also got a free css cheat sheet which could be handy.
I have not yet read or looked at the other books mentioned.
A number of SitePoint books on CSS seem pretty good - based upon their
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug
Excellent book.
Sorry but I woul dhave to disagree with you hear. I found the book boring, old
information and overall uniformative and a waste of time and money. If your an
intemediated web designer you
Yeah the new web design at my australian government place is also currently
involved in a redesign and it is made for a 1024 screen (funny seeing the web
managers still use 800)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/03/2007 10:43 am
Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote:
Nice site. Looks like 1204x768 is becoming
can we put our names down for the job of creating them
On 3/29/07, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry this is OT, but I couldn't resist sharing this:
On the (English) news last night it was announced that all members of
the current government are to have their own websites. NO
The best suggestion I can come up with is an ebook on grayscreen prototyping
Hear are my thoughts etc about it:
http://germworks.net/blog/2007/03/28/clients-vs-developer-wars-review/
On 4/7/07, Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I wonder if anyone can offer some advice. I've
I like the style and website, It matches the hotel but my only grip would be
that the links (besides the menu) does not have any hover attributes
apart from that top job :)
On 4/17/07, Joseph R. B. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings all,
I was hoping some of you fine Linux / Mac
My biggest problem would be the font size. It is too small...
On 5/7/07, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i'm stuck. since i don't know php i went with 1 and 1's default blog.
it doesn't render correctly in firefox 2.0.0.3, but it does in firefox
1.5.0 according to tech support at 1 and 1.
Hi group,
This may only relate to Western Australian people but someone else may
know...
I have a page that has links to a pdf and the client wanted to know
whether it can be linked to a new window or not. They dont really care
about best practises etc but rather what the state Internet
Karl and mdagn
yes we do have some publications that are currently in html format and
going through the state guidlines I found a reference about html and pdf
copies as pdf is not accessible (word is), so im think we may just do
that even though the five odd publications are 60 plus pages each...
and Kerry, how do you make the pdf accessible???
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/05/2007 12:50:25 pm
Nick wrote:
I would disagree. I believe the pdf and word issue dates back to 1999
or so, when you needed to upgrade to the latest and greatest of JAWS at
considerable cost to fully access pdfs. Things
let us know how you go
I myself are in the middle of a website were I need something similar and it
works fine in ie7 and firefox but breaks and looks horrible in ie6
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/05/2007 9:19:37 pm
Thanks, this one seems to be the best I've found so far. I'll take it
This is what I find very useful and explained very simply:
http://www.solidstategroup.com/page/1592
On 5/18/07, Stephen Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find this invaluable,
http://www.webdevout.net/css-hacks
On 18/05/07, Matthew Pennell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/18/07, Paul
and maybe you could have an anger management course while Nick is having
his lie down or maybe we could just leave personal attacks out of the
mailing list :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/05/2007 11:22:12 am
So what do you know about change management Nick?
Comment on the research Nick, stick to
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
Hi,
I get a white background in my ie6 except a square in the middle...
I do however notice that you use a png image, maybe that is the problem..
On 5/28/07, Gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I site I've started at http://entyce.net.au/index1.html
looks good in IE7, Firefox etc but
Hi
I have used cubecart for a client and he was more than happy with it..
Free with Fantasico as well :)
On 5/29/07, Mark Hedley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone.
I am currently looking for a cost-effective (preferably opensource)
solution to run our companies UK based web site.
I
Our new gov site (still in development) is 1024 x 768 and so are a few
others which they used as examples...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/06/2007 11:37:30 am
I still regard 800x600 as a necessary minimum (for government sites)
as
it accounts for approximately 10% of the viewing audience.
Many sites
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Sent: Friday, 1 June 2007 13:46
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] Recommended screen size [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Our new
Do both...
keep HTML for all the reasons already been raised (plus more) but maybe
do a few pdfs as well which can be used as either print outs etc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/06/2007 6:00:00 am
There was some discussion recently about how hard it is to create
accessible PDFs (ie very hard) but I
I will be there and finally something to go to in perth...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/06/2007 9:13:12 pm
Hi Gary
I wish I could be there but I'm in QLD for a conference :(
Cheers,
Gian
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Sent:
Hi folks,
just wondering if people can have a quick look at the following website
for any major errors, suggestions etc
The one thing that has given me major trouble is aligning the columns
the same over browsers (I am sure I have a few gray hairs from that), so
unless its horriable wrong, I am
I personally used the dl example for my clients page, which is the same mark
up as mentioned
http://www.jp2designs.com/design/clients
On 6/27/07, Ben Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dl
dta href= title=img src= alt=/a/dt
dda href= title=View/a/dd
dda href= title=Buy/a/dd
/dl
I'd
I can seem to get backto the Home page no problems from the products
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 29/06/2007 11:55:22 am
www.colouru.com.au
There is a very strange instance of a navigation link not working on
one
particular page - the products.html page link back to HOME. All other
pages seem to be
yeah just double checked and not working now
I looked at the site via the inspector in firebug and i cannot actually
select the HOME or the colour icon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 29/06/2007 12:22:23 pm
Jermayn Parker wrote:
I can seem to get backto the Home page no problems from the products
personally I have always had trouble with percentages and hence only use
em's
Maybe if you switch over to all em's it may help.
On 7/2/07, Paul Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I seem to be having trouble assigning the font-size:62.5%; property to
the body of my document. Basically,
Just a quick question.
Why we still coding/ hacking for IE5???
On 7/2/07, Sarah Peeke (XERT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Nick,
I guess I was hoping to fix the problem(s), rather than just rely on a
hack. Other suggestions appreciated.
So use a Conditional Comment - ?
2. If I don't
In short yes it would probably be best...
I had the same problem with a client and so I gave him the website in
WordPress, so now I only do major style/ structure changes and he
handles the content changes himself
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/07/2007 11:36:34 am
I am also wondering if a CMS system
yes I agree.
Graphic design and Web (Graphic) design are different, similar concepts
but different.
what works on print does not always work on web
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/2007 2:48:57 pm
Yes, but that's still graphic design of the appearance of Websites,
NOT
Website Design.
It's not
personally i say keep it in the same window
if your interested I wrote an article about it recently after reading a
few other articles about things similar
http://germworks.net/blog/2007/07/02/usability-and-accessibility-the-foreign-legion-of-web-design/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/07/2007 10:21:29
We as web designers provide a service to our customers and clients of
the website etc
so in doing that we need to provide a service that allows the user to
browse the website the way *he/ she* prefers and we cannot force the
user to browse the way 'we' like it. This means that you do not open a
I work at one of the those government places that has those horrible
pdfs scattered through out all their horrible pages. I couldnt agree
more.
I used to believe that you only open in new window for pdfs but now
only just realise that maybe its not best practise and could be thought
about more.
I think the problem is that the links are not easily reconised that it
is a pdf document you are opening
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/07/2007 9:23:44 am
Jermayn wrote:
I work at one of the those government places that has those horrible
pdfs scattered through out all their horrible pages. I
pdfs are not going to go away (and docs are not the answer)
in Nielsons article (who is over rated and take his opinion with a
grain of salt) he says pdfs are for print and I agree but for most
Government websites they need these pdfs that we all hate and as I said
in an earlier email html
I think of your 5 steps, number one is the most practable...
the others are good in a 'perfect' world but this aint and if most
other gov sites are like mine (new design coming tom), they will not
happen.
All of my pdfs are direct from the different areas and so I dont create
the pdfs and we
Unless im mistaken the original question was asking about some ideas to
sell strict DTD to the client (which means no target=blank code) and not
whether users/ designers prefer to have windows open in seperate
windows.
That discussion was last week, so discuss in that.
about the original
div
A line of plain text.
pA paragraph./p
Another line of text.
/div
Now a question, Is this actually valid??
I recently recieved some templates of another designer and this was
scattered all throughout the pages.
I went through and put p around them BUT is it valid??? Or is it a
OK thanks.
I assumed it was a no no as it does not make sense but I have learnt
that making sense is not always a W3C thing :)
In the templates that I recieved, the code looked like:
div
jhd jhd hwd wqdkh br /br /
pkhdj jwhd jhwqdj hwd/p
/div
This actually does not view the same in every
-are-here menu highlighting
divaFAQ : FAQ pages with pizazz
www.valleywebdesigns.com
JustSo PictureWindow
JustSo PhotoAlbum
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Jermayn Parker wrote:
OK thanks.
I assumed it was a no no as it does not make sense but I have learnt
that making sense is not always a W3C thing :)
In the templates
Could someone please give me the answer to this in plain english..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 25/07/2007 4:04:18 pm
div
A line of plain text.
pA paragraph./p
Another line of text.
/div
Now a question, Is this actually valid??
I recently recieved some templates of another designer
I am not an expert but from what I understand text, links etc need to be
held in block elements ie: p etc for it to semanticly correct.
Guessing this is were POSH comes into play.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 27/07/2007 11:18:45 am
I just came across some code on a website that I'm maintaining and
to be honest I like the strict rules of .com.au
Q1: NO
Q2: NO
JP2 Designs
Jermayn Parker
0407 996 820
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/08/2007 8:38:53 am
Hi all, just a two question survey on australian domain names
(.com.au)
Background : As it stands currently, the policy set out in relation
one out of every three people have bad eye sight...
this was one of the very few things I actually learnt at university
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/08/2007 2:27:29 pm
On 2007/08/07 20:38 (GMT+0100) Alastair Campbell apparently typed:
You could take Jacob Neilsons finding that small fonts were the
Hi peoples:
When viewing this website I am in the middle of designing
(http://www.jubileeworldharvest.com.au/Warriors) and I scroll over the
menu (top) the footer jumps up a few em's
Any idea on this??
I think I remember something about this
Also if anyone has ie6, can they please let me know
is to do * { height: 1% }; it'll probably do strange
things to the layout, but if it stops the jumping, you know you then only
have to narrow it down to the offending element.
And no, the background's not transparent.
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:12:50 +1000, Jermayn Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
of those larger containers, you
can then test individual elements.
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:27:39 +1000, Jermayn Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
when i test it with the 1% height, the jumping stops like u said but
how
do
I test it for what the problem is??
sorry if this sounds a dumb question
Just a question,
does it have to be enlarged on hover?? That can be pretty messy and
ugly if you mouse over it by accident. I would think onclick would be a
better option with arrows to go to the next image etc like lightbox.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 23/08/2007 10:23:53 pm
Hi,
A client would like
I am personally both!!
I do not think many people stay in the one field and most 'swing' between
corporate and government/ school etc
On 9/12/07, John Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed that a lot of articles about web design seem to assume that
the web developer/designer is
Hi
it can get annoying hey
I had the same problem with a previous website, I cannot remember what
i did excatly (used inner and outer divs I think) but your more than
welcome to look at the code.
http://www.phillipwrayracing.com
Hope that helps
Jermayn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/09/2007 2:36:47 pm
1992
that is 15 years ago :shock:
surely its time for a new updated version that includes up to date web
version of rules etc.
If you want businesses and websites to follow these standards they need
to be update
In Australia, for example, web accessibility hinges on the Disability
Act of
Put the 'main' 4-5 menu links up the top and then content with the extra
navigation (sidebar of blogs etc) afterwards or even not include it in
the mobile css
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/10/2007 10:24:30 am
An endless debate. And this is before opening up the other aspect of
the
debate... How
debatable about opening in new windows but its best to use a pdf icon with
size next to the link.
On 10/16/07, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i know that this has come up before, but would someone point me to
best practices to introduce a prompt to open or download a pdf or any
file for
In coming in late to the discussion:
Do we really need a sitemap? I recently read an article were it talked
that if all the seo was done properly and it was smallish, you
probably do not need a sitemap.
On Nov 21, 2007 3:28 AM, Designer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to say: Thanks for the
Dont know if this will help or not BUT I had some similar problems
previously and wrote about some of the solutions
http://germworks.net/blog/2007/08/28/how-to-fix-content-jumping-in-ie/
On Nov 21, 2007 9:31 AM, John Faulds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I've got a page shift happening when you
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On Behalf Of Christian Montoya
Sent: 21 November 2007 14:26
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] SIte Maps?
On Nov 20, 2007 7:04 PM, Jermayn Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In coming in late to the discussion:
Do
good example of this is:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/11/2007 9:53:08 am
But my testing shows that, with a max-width of 60em, a 1680px wide
monitor, when a browser is opened in full screen, with fontsize
increases, the page just continued expanding until it
nothing is wrong with it!!
saves times, money, grey hairs and we will all live longer happier lives!
If you have a web-based application that will break in IE8, then whats
so wrong with adding an HTTP header or a meta tag to say 'use IE7' ?
and then we will see the infamous pre-2000 days with websites reading:
This is best viewed using Internet Explorer 6
Patrick H. Lauke [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30/01/2008 11:55:19 am
Karl Lurman wrote:
I think the thing to remember here is that, over time, the older
browsers will be phased out.
Just keep the website to look and behave right in IE7 then!
and create every new website or important/ re-designed websites with the new
target IE8 tags!
sounds quite simple to me.
Maybe not the most perfect but you cannot expect everything to jump over night!
Christian Snodgrass [EMAIL
good question!!
I personally used to use lists then i realised that paragraphs actually use
these code (both html and css) and is easier to stylise!
I wrote some of my thoughts hear a week or so ago!
http://germworks.net/blog/2008/01/23/lists-p-whats-best-for-forms/
On Feb 6, 2008 12:38 PM,
I got a better theory on why lists are used for forms...
people have fallen for lists and believe that they are the bees knees for every
(x)html problem they encounter.
Chris Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/02/2008 6:53:08 am
Michael Horowitz wrote:
I've been looking at styling forms and I'm
What if you need to have 'two' paragraphs? would it not make more
sense than to style a br???
On Feb 11, 2008 12:06 PM, Ben Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You don't need the p inside the li (although it's ok to put on in there
it's not required). It's fine to just style the li.
So
best to use are fieldsets and in the fieldsets you can either use p
tags or lists (depending on what side you swing)
On Feb 13, 2008 3:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi ,
Could anyone tell me which is the best way to build a form without tables in
w3c standards.
I would really
Rochester oliveira wrote:
adapt to user's needs
That is the key.
If the users are technical you would not bother designing for 800 x 600
screens
if the users are internal and they work on smaller screens, you would.
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Hi,
I have inherited a website (http://www.koomaldreaming.com.au) with my
new job and in Safari and Chrome 3.x I have the content div floating
away from where it should be outside of the container div to the
right.
Any suggestions or help?
Thanks in advance
--
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Thanks a lot Tee!!
It does help.
Jermayn
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:39 PM, tee weblis...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 31, 2010, at 10:03 PM, Jeramy Parker wrote:
Hi,
I have inherited a website (http://www.koomaldreaming.com.au)
change your menu wrapper to this and it will bring your content
brilliant!
Thanks mate.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:22 PM, tee weblis...@gmail.com wrote:
http://d3895.mysite.westnethosting.com.au/
In other browsers it works ok.
I see it in Safari too.
Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10)
Giving a width to testimony does the trick.
Speaking of Chrome, I find
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