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davidrandall -> Work in progress... (8/14/2005 10:27:59)

Hi all,

Could you take a look at http://www.randalldesign.co.uk/gem/index.php for me please and let me know your thoughts?

Please note that the galleries aren't up yet as I'm working on them at the moment.

Many thanks,

Dave



womble -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 10:40:50)

Very nice Dave! Womble likes very much! [:)] Accessible (and visibly so), valid code, great layout, nice and uncluttered, like the colour scheme - what more could you ask for? One tiny niggle - the background on the footer copyright text seems to be blocking part of the lovely flower border (or is that intentional - if so that text may be better with a border round it), but other than that, superb!



Tailslide -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 10:45:17)

I like it - very pretty flowers!

How did you get the opacity thingy working in IE - I haven't tried that one yet - couldn't see any .htc files or other trickiness!

The only thing that I could think of would be that personally I prefer a little more padding between the text and the container likewise the right-hand box and the container - but that's just pickiness on my part!

Just spotted: the <h3> Venue tag on the Venue page looks a little too high, it's being cut off a bit.



davidrandall -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 10:54:19)

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How did you get the opacity thingy working in IE


#footer {
	text-align: center;
	background-color: #FFF;
	filter: alpha(opacity=90);
	-moz-opacity: 1;
	opacity: 0.90;
}

#footer * {
	position: relative;
}


quote:

the <h3> Venue tag on the Venue page looks a little too high, it's being cut off a bit.


Fixed

quote:

the background on the footer copyright text seems to be blocking part of the lovely flower border (or is that intentional - if so that text may be better with a border round it)


Yup it was intentional, but I've modified it with your suggestion.

Thanks for all the comments, keep them coming [:)]



jaybee -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 11:05:04)

Hey, I like it!

Not only does it tell you there's going to be a party but it gives you dates, times and a map as well.

And all they want in return is a oven tray.

BARGAIN!



jaybee -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 11:07:52)

quote:

Dave the friendly web designer


[sm=lol.gif]



jaybee -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 11:10:27)

Ooooh, the wedding party page has all gone a bit wonky in Firefox.



womble -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 11:13:56)

maybe the party tipples have started a little early [sm=lol.gif]



jaybee -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 11:23:04)

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This website has been built to try and be open to as wider audience as possible


"as wide an audience as possible"?



spitfire -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 12:00:44)

Sorry to crash the party everyone[sm=icon_redface.gif].

David I like the site very much.
All OK in Firefox,
but have you tested in IE with above medium text size?

Click back and forwards on the mainnav (clear cache of course, although that doesn't seem to matter, it'll just give you a level playing field like margin:0 etc.) From time to time the text reverts to what seems to be font-size:small. Accessnav occasionally does the same thing on the accessibility and site map links. It's just like a FOUC, insofar as IE is rendering text small/default at first then at the larger text size set in the browser. I can't see that you have declared any text sizes on these links and it may help poor old IE if you did.

BTW are you really MIME-type switching? Or is that just a liberal interpretation of the standards for XHTML1.0 Strict ?
If so, beware the Swedish Autistic Cuckoo [image]http://easy.go.is/hubs/Fools/FoolsH_susel.gif[/image]



Tailslide -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 12:14:40)

Oh I didn't notice that before - you're serving it up as application/xhtml+xml to IE as well as FF etc? Isn't that going to cause you problems?




davidrandall -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 12:19:41)

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If so, beware the Swedish Autistic Cuckoo


Tommy's not that bad, lol.

Seriously though, what do you guys recommend? Serve it as text/html?



Tailslide -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 12:25:08)

If your server-side skills are up to it you could try content negotiation - 456 Berea St do it but they send HTML 4.01 strict to IE rather than just changing the mime type. Here's a link to the cuckoo man's info on it

Otherwise I'd stick to text/html "just in case" - it's allowed by the W3C...



davidrandall -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 12:40:46)

Ok, gonna change then to text/html.

I've got the hen party photo gallery up now [:)]

http://www.randalldesign.co.uk/gem/hengallery.php



spitfire -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 12:48:41)

Apparently standards can be interpreted as:

XHTML1.0 Strict may be served as application/xhtml+xml, provided you are hiding the XML declaration/prolog (if you will) from IE. But text/html is recommended.

XHTML 1.1 should (nay, must, in some eyes) be served as application/xhtml+xml but then you need content negotiation to serve HTML 4.01 Strict as text/html to IE.

Tommy O does it, but don't ask me how[:-]



spitfire -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 12:56:41)

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I've got the hen party photo gallery up now

Fine, but the ladies are still exhibiting a Flash Of Undergarment Content.

I knew I shouldn't have mentioned MIME-types. My FOUC got smothered and lost in all that intelligent stuff [X(]



davidrandall -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 13:03:06)

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Fine, but the ladies are still exhibiting a Flash Of Undergarment Content.


I can't get error to replicate here



caz -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 13:20:25)

I don't get any FOUC'ed content either, both Fx1.0.6 and IE6 are fine



spitfire -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 13:22:02)

Screen shot IE largest text-size, when Stag Party is clicked.

[image]local://upfiles/15920/FB48439D680543D887B51C4241910569.gif[/image]

quote:

All OK in Firefox,
but have you tested in IE with above medium text size?



davidrandall -> RE: Work in progress... (8/14/2005 13:26:44)

thanks for that, I'll look into it



Tailslide -> RE: Work in progress... (8/15/2005 11:05:53)

Dave

Forgot to mention that however you try to serve up your code ie text/html or application/xml, chances are that your web server will actually serve it as text/html anyway unless you tell it not to. This is why you weren't having a problem with IE when your page said it was application/xml - your webserver ignored this and served it text/html anyway.



davidrandall -> RE: Work in progress... (8/18/2005 10:12:38)

Thanks all,

I'm live now over at www.gemandrich.co.uk

Dave



womble -> RE: Work in progress... (8/18/2005 10:19:38)

Looks good Dave! [:)]



davidrandall -> RE: Work in progress... (8/18/2005 10:22:42)

Thanks Rachel,

I'll get the stag pictures up when I get the chance, then you all get to see what I look like [8|]



womble -> RE: Work in progress... (8/18/2005 10:31:39)

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I'll get the stag pictures up when I get the chance, then you all get to see what I look like


Thanks for the warning! [;)]



davidrandall -> RE: Work in progress... (8/18/2005 11:07:54)

Come on, own up. Who just sent a load of song requests?

S Club 7 indeed...



womble -> RE: Work in progress... (8/18/2005 11:10:48)

[:D] S Club 7! [:o]
I'd hope everyone on here would have better taste than that [;)]



davidrandall -> RE: Work in progress... (8/18/2005 11:15:55)

And Peter Andre!!!!!!!!!

Wow, 41 posts and I don't use FrontPage



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