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Posted by Andy Dingley on 11/23/90 11:43
sorry.no.email@spamsux.com wrote:
> I am converting my father's family history over to XHTML from a very
> daggy frames look.
The whining noise you can hear is the Geek Chorus telling you that
XHTML is evil and you shouldn't use it.
Hey, it's your call. But there's little benefit to it (for this sort of
site) and you should only do it after reading some of the past debate
here and in c.i.w.a.h and reading Appendix C. Otherwise just ignore
it! - you're doing OK so far.
> Can someone please look at the first page and see if I am on the
> right track?
The nav list on the left is a list, so mark it up as one, not just a
sequence of <p>s. Use CSS to turn off list bullets etc., if you wish.
If you need to use "anonymous text blocks" like this, then <div> is
arguably a bit better than <p> (if you can't really say "This is a
paragraph" about a small fragment)
You aren't setting the background color or a default color on the body.
This becomes more obvious when the background image fails to load (as
it does just now).
Lay off the "font-size 85%". Leave body text size at _my_ default
choice, not yours. Or else lend me your screen and eyeballs to read it.
Equally don't mess with line-height. It's rarely a good idea to do
this.
Consider setting the <a> elements in the body text to display with a
line break before them. If you're making the URL visible in the text
like this (OK if that's what you want, or you want it to be visible
when printed) then it looks best if they're either all in-line, or all
line-broken beforehand. Stick a <br /> in before them, or else put a
class on each one and use some CSS
a.visible-url { display: block; }
Take a look at BlueRobot.com, glish.com etc. for some advice on getting
multi-coloumn layouts to behave themselves across different browsers.
it's not obvious or easy to do this well (OTOH it's easy to copy a good
example). Macromedia are clueless here (as ever!)
Instead of WEDEMEYER use <span class="surname" >Wedemeyer</span> and
the CSS
.surname { text-transform: uppercase; }
Linking placenames to the Getty Thesaurus (TGN) can be worthwhile for
genealogy - there are a lot of "Newcastle"s in the world.
Overall though, it looks fine. Keep us posted as it develops.
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