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Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/21/2006 17:05:57
With the release of the new FF browser my website became a web nightmare. I have spent the last few weeks crash learning CSS and eliminating the tables. Thanks to all the help I was able to find searching this site and without having to ask. I found that the questions had already been asked and answered. All critique positive, negative or otherwise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/21/2006 18:26:09
Thank you Womble. I will check into those errors. As far as the pop up issue there are no pop ups installed on the site. I am one of those people as you said, hate pop ups.
Jody
Just checked for the erors.My tidy says 0 errors and 0 warnings. I checked verification at the W3C and also no erors. could you tell me what errors you are receiving?
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/21/2006 19:38:39
Womble
I have been checking more of the pages and what I have found is that the frame you mentioned is from the google adsense I have placed on some pages. I found this in the following page by clicking on my tidy button and then clicking on the errors it had listed www.providerofchoice.net/crime-statistics.htm
Also I have added 5px padding to the bottom of bullet list.
Still thinking about the color you had mentioned earlier, any suggestions?
Edit
Just wanted to clarify the erors mentioned are not on my page but are within the google adsense.
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/22/2006 1:51:38
Update for changes made to site.
I have played around with the site and in an attempt to stay with the color scheme I have changed the background color as well as the logo.
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/22/2006 13:25:58
Tailside,
I appreciate the suggestions and will get to work on them.
The background is presently set for antique. I will continue to work on the colors and check out the sites reccomended.
Womble,
I am relieved to find out that my site wasn't doing something it wasn't suppose to.
As for the text problem, do I need to include the font family list in the "input" portion of my css or with-in each individual Div.
Thanks,
Jody
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/22/2006 14:33:30
If you set an overal font-family for the whole site (in the body element) then you can add changes if you need to further "down".
I'd add this:
body { font: 70% Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;}
It's better to use %s rather than pxs so that people still using IE can resize their text if they need to. From a bit of fiddling 70% looks the same on your site as 11px which is what was there before.
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/22/2006 17:26:55
There's lots of differing opinions about sorting out the font sizes.
For various hocus pocus reasons I personally use 100.01% on the body tag and then change any other elements that need resizing further into the stylesheet - usually I'll make the main container div about 75%ish. There's a reason for the 100.01% thing and it was to do with a bug (in Opera I think) but god knows now - I forget the reason I do half the stuff I do!!
It would be perfectly valid to just put 70% in the body element - which will put everything at about 11px equivalent - and then size up or down any other particular item that needs it such as the navigation or input size etc. Take out any unnecessary font declarations to make your life simpler and cut down the risk of unwanted cascade effect - just stick 'em back in if needed.
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/25/2006 0:00:21
Tailside,
OK I now have the bullet list images working properly and have added the suggested changes to the site. I had meant to ask this earlier and hope this doesn't sound to dumb, but what are the <label> tags for?
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/25/2006 3:21:58
The <label> tags are primarilly for people using non-visual browsers such as text-readers - it helps them use forms as it ties the label e.g. Name: to the related input box (think about a form being read out loud rather than seen) - it can sometimes be confusing to navigate a form if you don't have the visual clues to tell you where to enter stuff.
I mentioned it because you are obviously going to such a massive effort to get things "right" - adding labels along with your nice neat CSS layouts will go a long way to making your site "accessible" to everyone.
Here's a rather dry but informative article on forms: http://www.webaim.org/techniques/forms/
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/25/2006 9:44:25
Could maybe do with two columns down that middle (white) section!?
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RE: Site ready for the good, the bad and the... - 1/25/2006 23:52:27
Tailslide,
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.... get things "right" .... to making your site "accessible" to everyone.
Great insight - You are correct. As you know I am working on the next step
Rocket Boy,
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Could maybe do with two columns down that middle (white) section!?
Not sure what you are referring to?
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- perhaps a dash of other colour here and there?) Looks well planned and easy to navigate. You have a couple of warnings coming up on the FF HTML Tidy extension, though nothing major. 
). In general pop-ups are best avoided on the grounds that most visitors see them as an annoyance unless there's a good reason (from their perspective) for them to be there. 
. It's probably something to do with my setup. Your xhtml validates just fine with the W3C as does the CSS (3 warnings, but that's just 'cos the validator doesn't like the box model hack), so I wouldn't worry about it. 
. I was afraid I was going to have a lot of problems with the site. I can definitely deal with minor tweaks.
I have set all the proper %'s to approximate original size, cleaned up my css and have placed padding for all unordered lists. For now I have elected to not have images with the lists. Having trouble keeping them inside the container. ,,,,more to learn but at a slower pace. 