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Posted by Chaddy2222 on 06/26/07 13:24
On Jun 26, 7:13 am, "rf" <r...@invalid.com> wrote:
> "Bergamot" <berga...@visi.com> wrote in message
>
> news:5eahd0F37d7ifU2@mid.individual.net...
>
> > rf wrote:
>
> >> The other day he sat down at my computer and, over a nice merlot, proudly
> >> showed me their new corporate web site. Probably only cost them a
> >> $million
> >> or so.
>
> >> I immediately fussbudgeted my font size up two notches and we admired how
> >> the entire site fell totally apart.
>
> > I have to wonder - now that someone in the company knows about this,
> > will there be any action taken to correct it?
>
> <checks/>
>
> Yes, Action has been taken. They have fixed it.
>
> The menu is now images of text [1]. These do not resize so they never wrap.
>
> The offending escaping text is now part of a flash movie so does not resize
> and so can never escape from its box. <checks further/> Well, some of the
> text anyway, they only fixed the "home" page. The rest resizes into white
> space as before.
>
> [1] took me a couple of minutes to figure out how they had done this. The
> XHTML is quite ordinary:
So what your saying is: they broke it even more. You should now offer
them a nice amount of money for fixing the site.
>
> <ul id="mainnav">
> <li id="navhome"><a href="/">Home</a></li>
> ...
>
> It's the CSS that does the trick:
>
> #mainnav li a
> {
> ...
> text-indent: -9999px;
>
> }
>
> #navhome a
> {
> background-image: url(/images/nav_home.gif);
> width: 64px;
>
> }
>
> Gotta love those web dreziners.
>
Yeah, point your mate to the following site. http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.awardspace.biz
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