RE: [WSG] A few interesting articles...

2003-11-19 Thread Michael Kear
what to do because it's working for me. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Mark Stanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2003 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] A few interesting articles... Hey Mike

RE: [WSG] RE: Safari cam

2003-11-25 Thread Michael Kear
. There, were even. He thinks Im too dirty, I think hes too stupid. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 25 November 2003 8:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] RE

RE: [WSG] RE: Safari cam

2003-11-25 Thread Michael Kear
dont mind. Goes along with the people who think the site is about marijuana. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Kear Sent: Tuesday, 25 November 2003 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL

[WSG] @Import VS Link for Style sheets? WHY?

2003-12-20 Thread Michael Kear
I've noticed that some pages use a link to a style sheet, others use @import. What's the difference, and does it matter to developing sites? Or Users? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com * The

RE: [WSG] Need Assistance...

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Kear
I don't believe you have to do anything in ColdFusion for XHTML. You just put the appropriate Doctype at the top of the page, just as you would with a static page. CF will output XHTML out of the box with no modifications or special handling at all. You just tell it what you want, as you do

[WSG] How to centre a group of floated images

2004-01-06 Thread Michael Kear
I've made a small photo gallery for the fun of it, to experiment a little with the lessons in Russ's excellent Floatorial Tutorial. (and if you haven't already checked it out, you should - it's at http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/index.htm Anyway, I'm having trouble figuring out how to

RE: [WSG] How to centre a group of floated images

2004-01-06 Thread Michael Kear
G'day Russ, Thanks a lot for the help. I've done what you suggest and it's looking much better. I don't understand why in IE6 the bars at the top don't touch, while they do in NN7 and Opera7. If yo have a look at http://afpwebworks.com/beach/index.cfm in IE, you can see the top grey bar

[WSG] NExt WSG meeting in Sydney

2004-01-09 Thread Michael Kear
I just wanted to say I'm sorry that I'm going to miss yet another meeting of the WSG in Sydney. I'm taking a couple of weeks away from the computer, and I'll be stressing out on the south coast, worrying about whether to go for a swim or open another beer. It's tough work and I will be just

RE: [WSG] Definition lists - misused or misunderstood

2004-01-27 Thread Michael Kear
It's just not fair. Just when I think I'm getting a grip on this web development business, along comes Russ with a whole area of markup that I've never looked at. Where have I been? I had no idea there was even such a thing as definition lists! There's an admission for you! I can see dozens

RE: [WSG] New CMS / Framework

2004-01-28 Thread Michael Kear
I don't want to continue this off-topic discussion, because it'll just turn one of the best technical lists I've ever been a part of. There are lots of responses to my post that I feel like I want to follow up, but it's off topic. I just want to make a couple of comments to clarify what I

RE: [WSG] Cool color picker

2004-01-29 Thread Michael Kear
I've used that several times now for setting out the colours I'm going to use in a site. It's excellent because you can pick a base colour, perhaps out of the client's logo or something, and get a range of colours around it or complementary to it. And you can tweak the colours just a little

[WSG] Delimiting columns in a 3column fluid layout

2004-01-31 Thread Michael Kear
I am building a site in a 3 column fluid layout (with header and footer divs) and I want to have a grey line between the columns to delineate them. I know I can use a background graphic with a background-repeat:y; to create the line, but the problem is different columns will be the longest in

RE: [WSG] Delimiting columns in a 3column fluid layout

2004-01-31 Thread Michael Kear
Thanks Russ. You really are one of the good guys. I was hoping there was a way to do this without using graphics, because that requires that the columns be fixed in width, but I guess you can't have everything. It's still miles better than the site we had before. Here you are at 1am Sunday

[WSG] CSS Menu like on Dev-Edge - tutorial anywhere?

2004-02-02 Thread Michael Kear
I've been trying to figure out how the nice CSS-based menu on the Netscape Dev-Edge.com works, but when I look at the style sheets they use, there are so many bits and pieces all over the place, It's totally confusing for me. Is there a tutorial anywhere that shows how to make this menu?

[WSG] Wrapping text around images in a style .. possible?

2004-02-07 Thread Michael Kear
I'm using a small image in a style, and want to wrap the text around the image when it overflows on to a second line. Is this possible? Here's an illustration of what I'm trying to do - the existing style and a mockup .gif image of what I'm trying to get to:

RE: Opening pages in new windows... was Re: [WSG] XHTML (OT??)

2004-02-08 Thread Michael Kear
The reason is we go to a great deal of trouble to get users to come to our site and we don't want to send them away again. That's why I never allow a client to sign up for any of those awards sites or top 100 sites. A site gets higher ratings with search engines if there are a lot of other sites

[WSG] Can anyone see what's wrong here?

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Kear
Im building a new site and Im trying out the tabbed menus from http://www.homelesspixel.de/tabs/tabs.html but for some reason the last tab on the right keeps dropping down to the next line and going well off to the left of the page. Even right off the screen. Can anyone see what Im doing

RE: [WSG] Can anyone see what's wrong here?

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Kear
Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2004 5:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Michael Kear Subject: Re: [WSG] Can anyone see what's wrong here? Your list items add up to more than 650px wide, so it has

[WSG] Followup: was Can anyone see what's wrong here?

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Kear
You were right, Robert. I tinkered around with the widths and margins and made it fit across. Now it works a treat. Thanks! If you're interested the page is now at http://hunterrivmasta.com.au/index.cfm Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com

RE: [WSG] Cool No-delay image rollover technique

2004-02-16 Thread Michael Kear
space in the meantime. It makes no difference to a JavaScript preload at all. Much better code though so I'm not canning it. *From:* Michael Kear ** Using this technique you can get all the graphical/ 3d advantages of javascript rollovers, but instead of javascript it uses CSS

RE: [WSG] CSS Rules - Naming Conventions

2004-02-16 Thread Michael Kear
O jeez.. I was just about to launch a site with heading area called banner. Good point, I think you're right, Andy. Gotta go change it before the launch. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: Andy Budd

[WSG] Need help with navbar in Opera 7.11 please

2004-02-16 Thread Michael Kear
I've put this page up on my dev site, and it works fine in IE6, fine in NN7.1, but in Opera 7.11 the lower level of menus are arranged vertically instead of horizontally. I'm not sure what's wrong - they worked ok this afternoon, now I've made some changes and they don't work. Easy, I said

RE: [WSG] Cool No-delay image rollover technique

2004-02-16 Thread Michael Kear
rollovers, CSS is just more economical. Michael Kear wrote: Wouldn't you get the same effect with old-fashioned _javascript_ rollovers ifyou have caching turned off? I remember the first attempt I made at doing rollovers using the dreamweaverbehaviour, I couldn't figure out how come it worked beautifully

RE: [WSG] Tutorial on styling forms anywhere?

2004-02-18 Thread Michael Kear
AH!!! Just what I needed. Thank you very much. I'm moving a site from one server to another and I want to try to build the entire site with no tables, as an exercise. I had tables everywhere before - when I built it, tables were my primary layout tool. When I look at the site now, I am

RE: [WSG] A Little Off Topic - But A Real Question...

2004-02-22 Thread Michael Kear
Can anyone see why Opera doesnt like this form definition? Ive looked and looked, but I cant see whats wrong with this form in Opera 7.1. Of course its possible that Opera simply misbehaves when it comes to forms, but I though it was reasonable well-behaved. Anyone got any ideas what

[WSG] Form not formatting correctly in Opera7.1

2004-02-22 Thread Michael Kear
(sorry sending it again, only this time Im putting the right subject in DOH!!) Can anyone see why Opera doesnt like this form definition? Ive looked and looked, but I cant see whats wrong with this form in Opera 7.1. Of course its possible that Opera simply misbehaves when it

RE: [WSG] Debrief and thanks to Russ Peter

2004-02-23 Thread Michael Kear
Good pics, and nicely presented page. Can I suggest when you get a minute that you put captions on there too? One of the regular problems I have when I go to meetings like this is I realise I probably know half the people there through lists like this one but I haven't got a clue what they look

RE: [WSG] DTDS and which to use?

2004-02-25 Thread Michael Kear
Yes, I use dreamweaver for all flavours of XHTML. You can customise it by editing the template files if what you want isnt in the preferences. In a default installation on windows theyre in c:\program files\macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004\configuration you can use any text editor to change

RE: [WSG] DTDS and which to use?

2004-02-25 Thread Michael Kear
Well done Jaime, I remember only a couple of weeks ago when I converted my first one. I nearly wore out my delete key getting rid of all the extraneous crap on my pages. The size of the site is a fraction of what it was now, even though the content is the same. And I bet your site is now

[WSG] Thanks to all -its now compliant 100%!

2004-02-28 Thread Michael Kear
Thanks to all of you, my http://metacoustics.com.au site is now fully XHTML1.0 Strict compliant!! I've changed the link on the footer with the target attribute to using that little bit of javascript so it's compliant. Whooohoo!!! My first to be completed, styled by me (with a lot of

RE: [WSG] Coding Standard...

2004-02-29 Thread Michael Kear
IN my case its really simple. I started tinkering with Bradsoft's Top Style, CSS editor. The first time I used it, I downloaded a style sheet off a site, it was totally in abbreviated style, and I couldn't understand any of it. So just for the hell of it, I hit the Top Style 'stylesweeper',

RE: [WSG] A few questions needing answers

2004-03-05 Thread Michael Kear
I run a small hosting company, and for the life of me I cant see what difference it makes to them whether you have absolute or relative links. They provide the disk space and bandwidth and you fill it with your own files. What does it matter to them how you arrange your links? I don't

RE: [WSG] Bobby question

2004-03-06 Thread Michael Kear
Sorry if this is such a dumb question that it displays more of my ignorance than anything else, but this is the second time in the last few weeks I've heard references to Bobby, but Who the hell is Bobby? And what does he have to do with us? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP

RE: [WSG] A few questions needing answers

2004-03-08 Thread Michael Kear
answers On 6 Mar 2004, at 13:14, Michael Kear wrote: I can't see what difference it makes to them whether you have absolute or relative links. On advantage of using a href=/resources/reallyusefulpage.htmllink/a instead of a href=resources/reallyusefulpage.htmllink/a is that if the page

RE: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-11 Thread Michael Kear
Im sorry, Peter, but I hate your new site. I LOATHE it. Oh, not because you did a rotten job in my opinion. On the contrary, its so good it reminds me of my own shortcomings in the artistic/design department. Every time I look at a nicely designed site, I say to myself DAMN! I wish Id

RE: [WSG] New CSS site

2004-03-14 Thread Michael Kear
You are quite right, Hugh. I'm a professional at what I do, and I tell my clients that there's nothing stopping them getting out notepad or Frontpage and doing their own sites. There aren't any secret programming techniques in web sites. But they don't because they're good at running an off-road

[WSG] Suggestions about what to do here ...

2004-03-24 Thread Michael Kear
What do you guys think I should do about this . A user has logged into my bluegrass Australia web site as a member (http://bluegrass.org.au ) and says when he logs in, he cant read the site any more, because the text is too small and the menus don't work properly. The menus don't work

RE: [WSG] What's wrong with this page??

2004-03-28 Thread Michael Kear
Michael Kear wrote: I've looked and I've looked, and I can't see what's the matter here.. When this page loads in IE, the body content of the page doesn't appear. However when you put another window over the top and come back to it, there the content is. It's loading ok, as a vew source

RE: [WSG] What's wrong with this page??

2004-03-28 Thread Michael Kear
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] What's wrong with this page?? El dom, 28-03-2004 a las 11:08, Michael Kear escribió: I’ve looked and I’ve looked, and I can’t see what’s the matter here.. When this page loads in IE, the body content of the page snip You are not alone, it's a well known

RE: [WSG] What's wrong with this page??

2004-03-28 Thread Michael Kear
guessing you've taken the page down to work on it because I'm getting a 404. Sarah On Sunday, Mar 28, 2004, at 01:08 US/Pacific, Michael Kear wrote: http://mezzanines.com.au/aboutus.htm

RE: [WSG] New site - looking for feedback

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Kear
I can't contribute anything on the mac side, but I have to say I like it. I like the graphic device of using the fine white lines across the page and down. Nice effect. And the transparent effect in the heading looks great too. Very smooth. I think it's a clever way to use boxes as wide as

[WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?

2004-03-30 Thread Michael Kear
For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and Ive put it on my web site for others to use, comment about, help me improve. There are lots of colour development tools around, I know, but I got into doing my own because all the tools I have known about use

RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Kear
G'day Brian, I'm assuming you're using a narrower monitor than mine, or lower resolution so your screen real estate is less than mine. I've now laid it out differently so it's not so wide. Also I've added the italics and heading text for you. g And now the tool will accept 3 digit

RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Kear
. It allows you to select any pixel on the screen in any app and will show you the color and hex value. Leo On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 01:24 AM, Michael Kear wrote: For my own benefit, I have been developing a colour schemer tool, and Ive put it on my web site for others to use, comment

RE: [WSG] New Colour Schemer - draft - any suggestions?

2004-03-31 Thread Michael Kear
Title: Message Thanks Leslie. I did know that table didnt display properly in some browsers. Its a footer file that dates back to 18 months ago antique. Im rebuilding my site using a new CMS Im writing and a shopping cart Im writing, so I didnt pay much attention to that part of it.

RE: [WSG] hiring a standards-savvy designer

2004-04-02 Thread Michael Kear
I think there must be something wrong with your email service Darian because I haven't seen it yet. And it's the day AFTER tomorrow already. Cheers Mike Kear -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darian Cabot Sent: Saturday, 3 April 2004 9:39

RE: [WSG] target=_blank substitute

2004-04-18 Thread Michael Kear
You're right, Patrick, but life is a series of compromises. I spend a lot of effort in getting users to my site, and I don't want to go sending them away again with a link on my site. If they want to click on a link external to my site, they get a new window so their existing window stays in my

RE: [WSG] target=_blank substitute

2004-04-18 Thread Michael Kear
Patrick - A practical example which will serve to illustrate my point. Go to the Microsoft.com site, and decide whether to install any update. (Choose any of them, they're all just as bad as each other.) In order to install this update, you have to have this other update installed. Oh... do I

RE: [WSG] digital web magazine redesign

2004-05-13 Thread Michael Kear
AH, you're like me Kay - you see something cool then you start looking around for a project to use it on. Where can I do that? I have to have a site that's ready for re-development again surely! Then for me, when the time comes to do a brand new site, I find all those ideas vanish from my

RE: [WSG] digital web magazine redesign

2004-05-13 Thread Michael Kear
Justin French said: ...But personally, I'd find very little satisfaction drawing inspiration directly from bookmarks. I'd much rather take every pull-quote I've ever seen, throw them all in a blender, and come up with my OWN solution appropriate to the job at hand I know what you mean.

RE: [WSG] Tables are bad because...

2004-05-14 Thread Michael Kear
Sorry but there isn’t a place for font tags. font has been deprecated and sooner or later it'll cease working. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [WSG] Australian Communications Authority

2004-05-02 Thread Michael Kear
Look in the meta tags ... [quote] META content=Microsoft FrontPage 5.0 name=GENERATOR [/quote] HAR!! HAR!! HAR!! HARGUFFAW!!! Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

[WSG] Lines on top - anyone see why?

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Kear
Ive added a specials box to my auslegs site using that cute round-corner technique we read about on this list a few days ago. (Mountaintop Corners : http://www.alistapart.com/articles/mountaintop/) Im really pleased with how it works and how good it looks. Except for one page. Can

[WSG] Lines on top - anyone see why?

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Kear
Second try I didnt see anyone post about this yesterday everyone was too busy debating PHP and _javascript_ instead. Perhaps today then .. Ive added a specials box to my auslegs site using that cute round-corner technique we read about on this list a few days ago. (Mountaintop

RE: [WSG] Lines on top - anyone see why?

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Kear
I should have been a little more specific. Sorry . It looks fine in Firefox to me too. However the client looks at his site in IE6, and that's where the problem manifests itself. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message-

RE: [WSG] Lines on top - anyone see why?

2004-05-18 Thread Michael Kear
Thanks anyway. I guess no one has any ideas how I can make the lines go underneath the floated box on my page in IE. I don't suppose it's impossible? Surely not. I can't use percentages in the float because it has to be fixed 130px width, because of the graphics creating the round corners. I

RE: [WSG] Lines on top - anyone see why?

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Kear
? Michael Kear skrev: Thanks anyway. I guess no one has any ideas how I can make the lines go underneath the floated box on my page in IE. Try position:relative; on the floated box(#heading) / m a r t i n * The discussion list for http

RE: [WSG] WSG Redesign Closed

2004-05-21 Thread Michael Kear
Well I for one thought it was a worthwhile project, and a good thing to try. I didn't submit a design because I don't put myself in the same class as many of the others on this list. I wouldn't want to have my design work judged alongside professional designers. Now if you're talking about

[WSG] Width difference in IE - OK in Firefox

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Kear
Im stumped at what Ive done wrong here. Ive copied (or at least I THOUGHT I copied!) a structure from another site that worked, but its playing out wrong for IE6. can anyone tell me what Im doing wrong here please? The sites at http://paraklesis.com.au and the style sheet is at

RE: [WSG] Width difference in IE - OK in Firefox

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Kear
Title: Message I found it!!! Thanks for your suggestion David, but that wasnt it. However it did prompt me to go looking at the site where I got the original inspiration from (translation I went back ot the site I stole it from in the first place before I tinkered with it beyond

RE: [WSG] legal requirements for accessability

2004-05-26 Thread Michael Kear
There's a saying in the sales business (/me thinking back all those years to when I was a sales trainer):Sell them what they want, and all the rest comes along for free. If the customer loves the car's hot stereo, sell them the hot stereo and the rest of the car comes along for free. IF the

[WSG] OT: need help from a mac user please

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Kear
This is off topic so please respond off-list, but I need some help from Mac users I have a client who sees an error that I cant produce. When I go to http://nqpropertyreview.com and click enter, I am presented with a login screen, which is whats required. So are all of the 50 people

[WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
Here's an interesting article on the implications for a web development shop on using web standards for development rather than the antique table-based methods we all used to use. This author compares the time taken to develop a site then and now, after changing to using standards. If this

RE: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
I don't know I've never read it. You go to Maccaws.org and you have to go off to another link to read anything useful. Like the old days of the portals. No one had any content, only links to more sites that are themselves just pages of more links. I can't be bothered going from link to

RE: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
I've since taken a quick look at macaws.org and at a cursory speed-scan there doesn't seem to be anything in that article called What Every Web Site Owner Should Know About Standards: A Web Standards Primer at http://www.maccaws.org/kit/primer/ that has anything about the business reasons for a

RE: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
Jesse you are obviously not a business owner or a general manager. And if you are, you're not thinking like a business owner. If you can produce work far faster now than you could before, you can charge less. But that's only one of your options. You charge less if you need a competitive

RE: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards.

2004-06-02 Thread Michael Kear
You're right, the sarcasm was lost on me. My bad. Sorry. Cheers Mike Kear -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Rodgers Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web

RE: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?

2004-06-06 Thread Michael Kear
Title: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend? For those that use notepad and type everything in by hand, theres a far better answer for you Ultraedit (ultraedit.com). It is a simple text editor, but it has syntax highlighting, can handle files as big as your whole hard drive, can

RE: [WSG] Which editors do you guys recommend?

2004-06-06 Thread Michael Kear
G'day Kym, Anything to help a fellow traveller. Now if only I could find some contract work to employ my skills gainfully. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [WSG] How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Kear
Not many of these restrictions affect me, because I do most of my dynamic things on the server side with ColdFusion. But I read this with some alarm - does it mean that the DHTML menus I spent so much time getting to work will cease dropping down? [quote] Q: What does Internet Explorer consider

RE: [WSG] How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Kear
So James I have to go off and sign on for yet ANOTHER forum (I already have more than 800 emails a day to wade through, and 8 forums to check each day) just to ask if my DHTML menus are going to break here??? Surely there's someone here who knows the answer. How hard is it to just answer the

[WSG] Floats changing when mouseover How to fix?

2004-06-10 Thread Michael Kear
I know I've seen the answer to this somewhere but I'm blowed if I can find where now.. On my page at http://bluegrass.org.au/Magazine/newreleases/index.cfm. Using IE6, when you put the mouse over the link more . the float containing the image reduces in size to match the 'more' link. Then

RE: [WSG] file extensions

2004-06-12 Thread Michael Kear
Whats the point of doing this? Saving 4 characters per image as a way of reducing bandwidth? Is there any other purpose? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [WSG] file extensions

2004-06-13 Thread Michael Kear
2004 7:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] file extensions Michael Kear wrote: What's the point of doing this? Saving 4 characters per image as a way of reducing bandwidth? Is there any other purpose? */ /* There is another purpose. See this W3C Note: http://www.w3.org/TR

RE: [WSG] file extensions

2004-06-13 Thread Michael Kear
But in a shared environment, which is where the vast majority of sites actually are, all the users on a site would have to stop using .CFM extensions on their coldfusion pages if you were sending .cfm pages to PHP. That just isn't practical. And it would PREVENT people moving their coldfusion

RE: [WSG] Interesting reading

2004-06-14 Thread Michael Kear
The author's an idiot. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Greenstock Sent: Monday, 14 June 2004 8:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] Interesting

RE: [WSG] Interesting reading

2004-06-14 Thread Michael Kear
Ok let me expand on my earlier opinion and give a bit more detail He's a bloody idiot. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Greenstock Sent: Monday,

RE: [WSG] Interesting reading

2004-06-14 Thread Michael Kear
I guess my characterisation of this author didn't meet with universal approval. Fair enough Lea, but I don't take any of it back. Some thoughts about what he's written: IF Microsoft introduced the most fantastic, whiz-bang, easy-to-use new feature in the next version of IE, that wouldn't be

RE: [WSG] Problem with floated divs in gallery site

2004-06-24 Thread Michael Kear
What if you changed your design a little so you don't need to do that? Like for example putting the caption on the top instead of the bottom? I havent tried this but what about putting the image and its caption in a div, then putting THAT in another div, with fixed height attributes and

RE: [WSG] Problem with floated divs in gallery site

2004-06-25 Thread Michael Kear
John, I do like your idea of using the program method of working out the padding for the top. That's an excellent idea. I'm in the process of making my own ColdFusion picture gallery ready for sharing with others, and this trick of yours will go well with it. Very elegant answer I think!

[WSG] Importing hacks into CSS? Whats the point?

2004-06-27 Thread Michael Kear
I was reading the article Integrated Web Design: Strategies for Long-Term CSS Hack Management: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=170511 Referred to by Russ in his very useful links for light reading and I read this article. Amongst other things it suggests not putting hacks into

RE: [WSG] 100% Inaccessible

2004-06-29 Thread Michael Kear
I guess Im learning something about design after all! I looked at that e-booking site and decided it looks frankly .. old fashioned in web terms. Meaning its looking S 2001 now. I have a friend in the games business, and I looked at his site yesterday and it looked very 1990s to me.

RE: [WSG] Looking for help and critiques on a new site

2004-07-03 Thread Michael Kear
Seona, I feel your pain. There have been times I've asked serious questions to a list and had either flippant replies or no replies at all. I've wanted to say LOOK YOU BUNCH OF B*S*A*DS, I REALLY NEED TO KNOW THIS. YOU ANSWER EVERYONE ELSES QUESTIONS WHATS SO DIFFERENT ABOUT MINE? In many

[WSG] I've done it again ...

2004-07-06 Thread Michael Kear
Ive lost a reference to another excellent article I read about how to guarantee that two or three columns will go all the way to the bottom of the page, regardless of the length of any of the columns. Can anyone help? The article Im looking for shows how to have columns styled all the

RE: [WSG] I've done it again ...

2004-07-06 Thread Michael Kear
... Michael Kear wrote: I've lost a reference to another excellent article I read about how to guarantee that two or three columns will go all the way to the bottom of the page, regardless of the length of any of the columns. Can anyone help? Was it http://positioniseverything.net/piefecta

[WSG] Good radio station sites?

2004-07-14 Thread Michael Kear
Does anyone know of any decent standards-based radio station sites? Ive been looking around lately for a project and I havent found a single one that is any good at all from an accessibility/standards standpoint. It seems for the majority of radio stations theyve either let their

RE: [WSG] Good radio station sites?

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Kear
My research of radio station sites in the last 48 hours has told me that the vast majority of them are ... well to put it bluntly, they're a wank. Few of them provide content that's relevant to the activities of the stations, aside from program guides and some pictures of some of the hosts. But

RE: [WSG] Good radio station sites?

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Kear
on it. Thanks for your offer. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com From: Peter Ottery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 16 July 2004 10:52 AM To: 'Michael Kear' Subject: FW: [WSG] Good radio station sites? Hi Michael, sounds like

RE: [WSG] A California meeting? was Brisbane July Meeting - Report

2004-07-16 Thread Michael Kear
Ah yes, Los Angeles, Paradise. At least you can SEE the air they make you breathe. g Cheers Mike Kear Hi Lea, Marina Del Rey, CA is a suburb of Los Angeles, California. Paradise!!! :-) Best, Jim Barricks * The discussion list for

RE: [WSG] technique of converting to tablefree layout

2004-07-21 Thread Michael Kear
I've mostly used the good old MkI delete key - the most-used key on my keyboard. When I started renovating web sites, and using word docs and FrontPage sites, I tried using automated methods - search and replace and the like - and found there was always something left. A single b or a i

[WSG] OT: Last call for interested young desgners

2004-07-28 Thread Michael Kear
Sorry for the kind-of off-topic post, so rather than compound my transgression please respond directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than on the list. I have to make a decision in the next few days about how were going to design our new site, and if you want to be considered, nows

[WSG] Followup- what's happening with design project

2004-08-01 Thread Michael Kear
A quick followup to let you know whats happened since I asked for volunteers to help me build a standards-compliant accessible radio station web site . Ive had 5 designers put their hands up to volunteer, and Im in the process of evaluating them now. Im taking account of the fact that

RE: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-12 Thread Michael Kear
I thought I read somewhere that you can style tables by columns, just as you can by rows and cells.In the article I read, the example showed TH across the top of the table, and the first column of cells was styled using some kind of column selector, not picking the first cell in each row.

RE: [WSG] applying style to the 3rd column of a table?

2004-08-13 Thread Michael Kear
Ah! That'll be why I didn't archive it. I figure life's too short to be fretting about IE and non-IE capabilities. I figure while I have the say-so on the design aspect of a site, I'll just not use anything that doesn't work in all browsers. i.e. if it's IE only, it doesn't get done. The vast

RE: [WSG] Unaccessible - NY Attorney General busts two big name sites

2004-08-21 Thread Michael Kear
I was interested that the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission uses tables for layout in their web site at: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/index.html http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/faq/f.a.q.html Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks

RE: [WSG] Online browser XTHML editor

2004-08-24 Thread Michael Kear
I've been looking for a year now for an editor that will produce XHTML. I've chatted electronically with most of the developers/owners and I think as a group they didn't have XHTML on their radar screens at all. The guy who produces FCKEditor for example ( have trouble reading that without mildly

[WSG] Two form styling problems

2004-08-29 Thread Michael Kear
Im styling a form on a new site, and have two problems that perhaps you knowledgeable people can help me with: Form is at http://koalaframing.com.au/contactus.cfm , style sheet is at http://koalaframing.com.au/styles/koalaframing.css [A] Im puzzled at why my submit button has

RE: [WSG] Two form styling problems

2004-08-29 Thread Michael Kear
Webworks http://afpwebworks.com .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year -Original Message- From: Adam Steer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 30 August 2004 3:04 PM To: Michael Kear Subject: Re: [WSG] Two form styling problems Hi Michael ...check your code and CSS first - neither

[WSG] I found a compliant Radio station site!

2004-09-03 Thread Michael Kear
Ive been looking, on and off, for a standards-compliant radio station site for ages, and Ive finally found one. NZs government-owned Radio New Zealand has a compliant site, coded in XHTML1.0 strict. Its even got a page about its compliance and how its accessibility features work. The

RE: [WSG] WYSIWYG Editors

2004-09-16 Thread Michael Kear
Sorry Mark, but I don't think you're correct. Until very recently, they only worked on IE. Run the page on any other browser and you either get an error, or a plain textarea form control. And until the day before yesterday, there wasn't any I knew of that claimed to have XHTML support. Except

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