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Posted by Bergamot on 03/13/07 13:54
Dr. Compynei wrote:
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> As part of my degree I am studying Web Development, and now I better
> understand websites I am designing up the website of a charity (local
> theatre) in CSS and XHTML 1.0 Trans.
Were you instructed to use XHTML Transitional? If so, your instructor is
incompetent.
> Moving away from tables due to accessability problems etc etc.
>
> http://www.blt.org.uk/css/index.htm
>
> 1. Image Mapping. How is best to map the image to turn graphics into
> hyperlinks.
As someone else mentioned, the most accessible method would be plain
text links styled with CSS. Using list mark up for navigation menus has
become the accepted norm.
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
You can embellish with background graphics to get pretty much the same
effect as the site has now and still be scalable with varying window and
text sizes, but that is a bit advanced for a newbie. Keep it simple and
you'll get better results.
> 2. Scrolling. This is my main problem at the moment. When the page gets
> longer the content div just keeps going down the page, what I want is for
> the site to be x% sizes of the screen (leaving some red border) no matter
> what the resolution (upto a min of 800x600).
Stop wanting this. If you're dropping layout tables for accessibility
reasons, putting in a scrolling div would be substituting one
accessibility problem with another, perhaps worse one. Scrolling divs
are a navigation nightmare for keyboard users. They are cumbersome at
best, unusable at worse.
Were you instructed to use a scrolling div, too? :-(
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Berg
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