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Posted by sorry.no.email on 10/06/66 11:43
Hi Stan,
Thank you very much for your comments on my reworking of a family
history page. I have temporarily moved it to:
http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/
I shall address your very helpful comments below:
On 27 Mar 2006 10:11:04 -0700, Stan McCann <me@stanmccann.us> wrote:
>sorry.no.email@spamsux.com wrote in
>news:pmpf22lhcd2gpdf79spt4egbfed0rp5p4n@4ax.com:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am converting my father's family history over to XHTML from a
>> very
>> daggy frames look. I am not a professional designer and this is my
>> first shot at XHTML (aided by Dreamweaver 8).
>
>Why XHTML? See http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml. There's plenty
>more out there with a bit of searching.
I will admit to having a ball learning a bit about XHTML. It is
forcing me away from some very bad habits with web sites :-)
>
>> Can someone please look at the first page and see if I am on the
>> right track? Only bare bones there as yet but once the page is set
>> it will be a template for another 50.
>> http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/test.html
>>
>> I started from a an older template provided by Macromedia:
>> http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/tableless_layou
>> t.html I love the #content element with right side %.
>
>I was rather surprised that both your XHTML and CSS validated due to
>your mention of using Dreamweaver. Did you have to manually tweak the
>code? Many WYSIWYMG (What You See Is What You *Might* Get) editors
>fail to produce valid code. What you have there looks better than
>expected.
Dreamweaver 8 seems to pick up many of my errors, but yes, it adds a
few extras which do not validate.
>
>Things to consider:
>You have not set a background color for the body and I see no
>background image. Even when using a background image, the background
>color should be set for those that may have images turned off due to
>slow dial up connections or whatever. Looking at your page right now,
>it has a purple background. Your background image seems to be
>misplaced.
That was an error that I have corrected. Just white background colour
for the moment.
>Take a close look at your style sheet and see that you set a particular
>font over and over. Setting it for the body could let you set it once.
>The same with color and possibly some other settings. Set things once
>in the body if everything is the same.
Thanks for this one, I have added this to the body and removed some of
the others. Have not set link colours yet but I am quite comfortable
with this.
>Your navigation width is set in pixels. Sometimes that is most
>appropriate, but consider using % or em.
This is one I will definitely consider. I am still feeling my way with
the layout of the page. I am very pleased with the fluid contents!
>
>With that start, you can easily add header and footer blocks if
>desired. I'd say yes, you are on the right track.
I have added a header block that came free from the layout reservoir:
http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout1.html
Not sure if I need a footer, I am aiming for a simple, clean look
which seems to almost be there.
Thanks heaps!
Andrew.
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