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Posted by gavin on 06/06/05 12:49
Thanks for all the info.
This:
>> <div id=menu>
>> <a onclick="P7_swapClass(1,'sub1','sectionon','sectionoff','div')"
>> href="javascript:;">
was borrowed for a tutorial site. I just copy and pasted it!
I think alot of the problem is that all of this code has been imported from
frontpage (oooooo :() ) ! I am fairly new to dreamweaver and it is causing
me a few problems!
Thanks for all the advice though.
Gavin.
"David Dorward" <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d7vikh$lrp$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
> Gavin wrote:
>
>> I have the code below in my html page:
>>
>> <div id=menu>
>> <a onclick="P7_swapClass(1,'sub1','sectionon','sectionoff','div')"
>> href="javascript:;">
>
> Why is this an anchor?
>
> Why doesn't the href point to anything useful?
>
>> On
>> Air...</a> </font>
>
> You have a </font>, but no <font> (not that you should be using the font
> element anyway - it *is* 2005 now).
>
> You should probably pay a visit to http://validator.w3.org/
>
>> 1</a> <a hre
>
> Nothing between anchors except white space, this isn't a good idea. The
> links will tend to blur into each other and be difficult to tell apart.
>
> Since you appear to have a list of links, why doesn't your markup reflect
> that? http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/
>
>
>> font-family: Verdana;
>
> The trouble with Verdana is that it encourages authors to use very small
> fonts. This wouldn't be too bad if you could be certain that every visitor
> will have Verdana installed (its more readable then most fonts at very
> small sizes), but you can't.
>
>> font-size: 18pt;
>
> Browsers are not very good at knowing the correct DPI of the system, so
> the
> point unit is highly inappropriate for use on screen. It also causes
> additional problems in Internet Explorer since that browser provides no
> convenient way to resize text specified in points.
>
> http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints
>
>> #menu a:link, #menu a:active, #menu a:visited, #menu a {
>> color: #000000;
>
> It isn't a very good idea to set visited and unvisited links to be the
> same
> colour - you remove a very useful visual clue from the user by doing so.
>
>> font-size: 11px;
>
> 11px is very small (see my previous point about Verdana), and also suffers
> from the resizing issue in MSIE.
>
> http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPixels
>
>> I have a CSS file saying what the menu tags should be formated like, but
>> when the new drop down menu appears it doesn't display any text or links?
>
> Since you have failed to provide a complete set of code to recreate this
> problem, its rather difficult to tell. Try providing a URL to a live
> example (URLs are much between then a bunch of files since whomever
> decides
> to help would have to recreate your files, which takes time - and they
> aren't being paid to help you).
>
> I'd suggest you fix any machine detectable syntax errors though. (Some
> good
> reasons for that can be found at
> http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you )
>
> --
> David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is
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