Re: [css-d] Maybe OT: As it is Friday - have a free CSS template

2005-09-23 Thread dwain alford
Christian Heilmann wrote: I just had some very good news and I have this template lying around. Did it for a friend but it seems it'll never pull off anyway... http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=165 enjoy and good weekend thanks chris, and that's also for the book tip. dwai

Re: [css-d] Positioning Confusion

2005-09-01 Thread dwain alford
in your heading remove top:136px in the menu change your margin setting in the menu to margin:0 auto that should do it. hth, dwain -- dwain alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com The Savior replied; "There is no such thing as sin;..." 'The Gospel of

Re: [css-d]

2005-08-28 Thread dwain alford
Where can I find a discussion about not using tables? (I'm new to CSS) Bob you found it. dwain -- dwain alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com The Savior replied; "There is no such thing as sin;..." 'The Gospe

[Fwd: Re: [css-d] faux column not working [SOLVED]]

2005-08-13 Thread dwain
ng of technique on my part. i accomplished what i wanted, but i would like a bit more finesse with the technique. i'll experiment more later. my brain is tired. thanks for all the responses. i really appreciate them. i was kind of at my wits end with this. regards, dwain -- Dwain Alf

[css-d] faux column not working

2005-08-13 Thread dwain
http://www.alforddesigngroup.com/sandbox/css/styles.css dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning

Re: [css-d] Site Check

2005-07-25 Thread dwain
ms to work in ff 1.0.6 w2k sp4; however (you knew that was coming didn't you), i'm getting javascript warnings in ff. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impuls

Re: [css-d] Music Files and CSS

2005-07-20 Thread dwain
david wrote: Now that's interesting! Where's your site, I'd be interested to see if my ad blocker settings do the same thing .. http://www.alforddesigngroup.com/sandbox/svg-test.html hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The art

Re: [css-d] Floating tables

2005-07-18 Thread dwain
loat. i don't think you can float a table within a table for positioning. dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, &q

Re: [css-d] First Post ;)

2005-07-17 Thread dwain
Gene Falck wrote: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ITS/WWW/accessibility/guidelines/priority2/.forms.php this link is no longer good. dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must

Re: [css-d] Firefox table moved waaaay to right

2005-07-17 Thread dwain
} to the table.opening, hr and your images table everything should work as you expect it to (in ff 1.05 w2k sp4). hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable express

Re: [css-d] Problems with a:hover over an image in (surprise!) IE (apologies for the double post)

2005-07-15 Thread dwain
t CSS: a { color: #000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; } #previewPanel a:hover img.previewPic { border: 1px dashed #000; } width="100" alt="alt tag" /> maybe reverse the order of img.previewPic and a:hover? hth, dwain -- Dw

Re: [css-d] Site Check: stephenjoneslaw.com

2005-07-15 Thread dwain
ext (top links) don't hold together. the text breaks out of the graphic when the text is enlarged. also the text is rather small and begs to be enlarged even on my 17" monitor set at 1024x768. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The arti

Re: [css-d] ie not bold on title boxes

2005-07-14 Thread dwain
cript stuff via an external file ff is showing that you have javascript errors. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandins

Re: [css-d] Footer Extending

2005-07-12 Thread dwain
then add: html>body #footer {width:767px;} and that should square you away with the gecko browsers and opera. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find sui

Re: [css-d] Vertical Text for Castle Hotel Menu (Italy)

2005-07-09 Thread dwain
nto a possible flaming situation. there are a lot of web developers today using linux and windows and use a mac to test on. so if the majority of people use a pc, why not layout for pc, especially for printing purposes; besides, the mac will print slightly smaller. dwain -- Dwain Alford [

Re: [css-d] Width Woes Again

2005-06-27 Thread dwain
. Thanks - george first start by validating your html and css. you've got some errors there. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression

Re: [css-d] Opera problem with links in div

2005-06-26 Thread dwain
Vicki Skinner (Stebbins) wrote: Hi Ingo, Again, many thanks for your help... that was the problem, and it's now fixed. The calendar is now sitting very neatly over a big 'red' block... soon to be green. Thank you sooo much. Thanks also to Dwain who has been looking at thi

Re: [css-d] Problems with simplebits background cheat

2005-06-25 Thread dwain
sible. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning

Re: [css-d] Opera problem with links in div

2005-06-25 Thread dwain
links are being covered by the "on top" calendar? i'm struggling here. it makes sense to me that the links are being covered in opera but none of the other browsers. the more i work with opera, the more i find what a strange, picky animal it is. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alfo

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread dwain
I was looking to immerse myself in a 3-5 day course, AWAY from work and interruptions. the best suggestion i've read was the one to get the eric meyer books and work the lessons in them and ask the list for help when you have a problem. thanks v. dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROT

Re: [css-d] Seeking intense CSS Training

2005-06-24 Thread dwain
got me understanding css quickly and this list helped me to understand even more. the rest was meditation on problems and trial and error until i couldn't stand it anymore. ;^) hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any fo

Re: [css-d] commercial site check please

2005-06-24 Thread dwain
Paul wrote: The one thing I can't get my head around is why the footer dividing line isn't centered in FF (its fine in IE). If anyone has any ideas on that then it'd be greatly appreciated. could it be the display:inherit in the .footline property? dwain -- Dwain Alford [

Re: [css-d] floats, negative margins and mess

2005-06-23 Thread dwain
hecking my approach. also, after thinking about it the image is probably used as content rather than presentation anyway, so the entire approach would not have been semantically correct. dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any

Re: [css-d] FF problem!

2005-06-23 Thread dwain
got a url so we can have a peek? dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The S

Re: [css-d] floats, negative margins and mess

2005-06-23 Thread dwain
loat: left; /* or right */ height: 140px; width: 100px; } it should not matter where you insert the tag in the text, with the above css the text should wrap. and if all of the book covers are the same size, your class will work throughout, as you well know. hth,dwain -- Dwain Alf

Re: [css-d] floats, negative margins and mess

2005-06-22 Thread dwain
utat velent, elenisit cursus ent in modipsu hendip, deliquatue maecenas iscing. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily

Re: [css-d] IE Problem w/ 3 Columns

2005-06-21 Thread dwain
and forth. looks ok in ie6 w2k sp4. even refreshed the page and all was well. dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, &

Re: [css-d] Links not working in Firefox

2005-06-16 Thread dwain
nk. this seems to be the problem you are having. also your footer is up in amongst the fray as well. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression

Re: [css-d] Links not working in Firefox

2005-06-16 Thread dwain
Matthew Velic wrote: Alright, thanks in advance to anyone who knows why my links have stopped working/being able to be clicked on. Here's the XHTML: a url might be better. dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form

Re: [css-d] Site Check - http://www.appesbach.com

2005-06-13 Thread dwain
sure took a while to load (in sections) on my cable connection. imagine how long it will take on dial up. didn't get much farther than that. sorry. i'll have another go at it later. first impressions you know. dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup

Re: [css-d] Positioning problem in IE [addendum]

2005-06-13 Thread dwain
observed in ff 1.04 w2k sp4 -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The S

Re: [css-d] Positioning problem in IE

2005-06-13 Thread dwain
column. there are design flaws that need to be corrected as well, but they are cosmetic. validate, fix and then come back. regards, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse

Re: [css-d] Tableless design advise

2005-06-07 Thread dwain
argin to your liking. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning

Re: [css-d] Tableless design advise

2005-06-07 Thread dwain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dwain, Thanks! It's working now with ie6. The other thing that's bothering me with ie6 is the bullets not showing up in the content area. FF has no problem with it. Did you notice it? Anyway, thanks again, It looks like 96% for the width fixes th

Re: [css-d] What's the name of the hack for this problem?

2005-06-07 Thread dwain
em and how can I fix it? i don't get a scroll bar in ie6 win2k sp4. dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, &qu

Re: [css-d] font-size and unordered-list menu

2005-06-07 Thread dwain
. try this on your links: contentcontent or contentcontent hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression." Wassily Kandinsky, "Concerning The S

Re: [css-d] Site Check - http://www.centralfunding.com

2005-06-04 Thread dwain
en you set the text size at "largest". you could correct the problem by making the whole design "grow", especially the images, by assigning em values to the images. dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com "The artist may use any form which his ex

Re: [css-d] Opera and images

2005-06-04 Thread dwain
Vicki Skinner (Stebbins) wrote: Hi Dwain, http://www.keeenstreet.com.au the header, logo isn't visible in Opera. Thanks Vicki 1. try placing .. in front of the / in your css at url(/images). or 2. try removing the / in front of url(/images). that might be your problem. i have found

Re: [css-d] UL margin increase in IE 5.x and 6

2005-06-03 Thread dwain
p the navigation menu. Any ideas what's going wrong here? you might try adding {display: inline;} to the ul css. that usually does the trick. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliate

Re: [css-d] Opera and images

2005-06-03 Thread dwain
Vicki Skinner (Stebbins) wrote: Hi All, I've just done the browercam trial to look at my website and noticed that Opera has a problem with the image in the 'header div'. url, please. -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_

Re: [css-d] footer floating up

2005-06-03 Thread dwain
page is at the bottom now in ff 1.0.4 w2k sp4; and i didn't even have to refresh the page to make it go to the bottom, it came up that way. dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&

Re: [css-d] Nav Lists

2005-06-03 Thread dwain
are experiencing. allow me to put on my thinking cap and i'll get back to you. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=1/ "The artist may use any form which his ex

Re: [css-d] Position menu with elastic design

2005-06-03 Thread dwain
so why? (rhetorical question) in my thinking, you would have a large negative margin on the menu div to bring it closer to the top of the page from the bottom of the page which would make the positioning of the rest of the elements touchy. could be wrong, dwain -- Dwain Alford h

Re: [css-d] footer floating up

2005-06-03 Thread dwain
e and visit the page again. could it be that your clearfix rules are incomplete? you seem to be missing: .clearfix {display: block;} in the hide from mac section. try that and see if that doesn't help. dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1

Re: [css-d] Philosophical question about images

2005-06-02 Thread dwain
descriptions to write for each image for viewers with sight disabilities to be able to "see" the images in words. i look forward to viewing your portfolio. hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http://www.spreadfire

Re: [css-d] interesting margins and footer

2005-06-02 Thread dwain
, dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=1/ "The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable expression."

[css-d] interesting margins and footer

2005-06-01 Thread dwain
.25em) padding on the header. in ie6 the header abuts the top of the page. why the discrepancy? 2. in ff and o8 the footer height is wider than the text. in ie6 the footer height is the size of the text. why the discrepancy? puzzled, dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web ho

Re: [css-d] site-map page renders improperly in opera 8 [SOLVED]

2005-05-24 Thread dwain
c show its usual horizontal scroll-bar (some 25px extra width), but otherwise fine. thanks for the look georg; and thanks for the other observations that brought about the resolution to the problem. thank you all just doesn't seem to say enough. regards, dwain -- Dw

Re: [css-d] site-map page renders improperly in opera 8

2005-05-24 Thread dwain
. i have just changed the clearfix rule there. http://www.studiokdd.com/ http://www.alforddesigngroup.com/ regards, dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=1/ "The artis

Re: [css-d] site-map page renders improperly in opera 8

2005-05-23 Thread dwain
David Laakso wrote: With regard to the site check question only, see: <http://www.browsercam.com/public.aspx?proj_id=165061> thanks for the screen shots. i'm at a loss for ie5.2 mac. it seems like it didn't pick up the styles. any thoughts? dwain -- D

[css-d] site-map page renders improperly in opera 8

2005-05-23 Thread dwain
for pc and mac? i have combined several style sheets into one and i want to make doubly sure that all is well; especially on mac and ie5.0/win. http://www.studiokdd.com/ thanks, dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http

Re: [css-d] [ot] page breaks in all but opera 8

2005-05-20 Thread dwain
egards Georg then no, i must be missing something. how did you change the font size in opera without using the zoom? dwain There is a screenshoot (attention: 84KB) http://www.kriton.de/TEST/phenomenon.png Uwe Kaiser thanks for the screen shot, but the question is not answered - how did you

Re: [css-d] user adjusted font sizing in browsers

2005-05-20 Thread dwain
/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ see: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingFontSize hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id

Re: [css-d] [ot] page breaks in all but opera 8

2005-05-20 Thread dwain
Uwe Kaiser wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Uwe Kaiser wrote: have you looked at the page in the different browsers? if you did, did you notice that opera 8 holds the layout at any zoom and the other browsers don't? this is the phenomenon i'm talking about. dwain Hi, Dwain I loo

Re: [css-d] [ot] page breaks in all but opera 8

2005-05-20 Thread dwain
st be missing something. how did you change the font size in opera without using the zoom? dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=1/ "The artist may use any form wh

Re: [css-d] [ot] page breaks in all but opera 8

2005-05-20 Thread dwain
ource code that makes the calculations. is it really wrong for opera 8 to maintain the layout *exactly* when the others don't. i think that opera has done something good that the industry could use. sure does make the design look good at what ever text zoom, yes? dwain -- Dwain A

Re: [css-d] [ot] page breaks in all but opera 8

2005-05-20 Thread dwain
Uwe Kaiser wrote: Hi dwain, http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/css.html Most tutorials are suitable for beginners, too. regards, Uwe Kaiser have you looked at the page in the different browsers? if you did, did you notice that opera 8 holds the layout at any zoom and

Re: [css-d] new 3 col layout with header and footer

2005-05-19 Thread dwain
ditor opens with your css file in the window. Yikes! When I close that window, your page re-appears. Weird! you have about a 3em gap between the header and the 3 columns in ie5.0 w2k. dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http://www.s

Re: [css-d] [ot] page breaks in all but opera 8

2005-05-19 Thread dwain
here's the url for the phenomenon page: http://s108254362.onlinehome.us/index2 dwain -- Dwain Alford http://www.alforddesigngroup.com web hosting: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=7653741 http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=0&t=1/ "The artist may use any form which his expre

[css-d] [ot] page breaks in all but opera 8

2005-05-19 Thread dwain
design (crawling up the page) in all of the browsers except opera 8. the opera 8 page stayed together and resized all of the elements in relation to the design resolution. margins appeared to remain the same instead of increasing like in the other browsers. just an observation. dwain -- Dwain

Re: [css-d] I need a PC person and why can't we all get along?

2005-05-05 Thread dwain
Benjamin Kirkby wrote: http://ben.web.arizona.edu/junk/homepage.html looks like you have a problem in your footer. search by google is in a small font and then it repeats in a larger font on the next line outside of the shaded footer area. ff 1.0.3/w2kSP4 hth, dwain -- Dwain Alford http