Posted by aljones on 04/03/07 22:51

dorayme wrote:
> In article <yPiQh.48726$Ts6.16569@fe12.news.easynews.com>,
> aljones <al@shotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm back with my frustration!
>>
>
> First thing to do is put your pages through a validator or error
> checker. You would surely pick up some of the mistakes then.
>
> If you specify height and width in <img ...>, just use a pure
> number. If you specify dimensions in CSS, always add the units.
>
> About the list trouble, there have been recent threads on this.
> An unordered list has list items as children, not further
> unordered lists. A list item, on the other hand, can have an
> unordered list within it.
>
>
>
>
>
>> 1) URL looks like: http://brokenchainsministry.net/prodsupport.html
>> Ran W3C validation and it's complaining that I have an embedded <ul> at
>> line 24. As an example ....
>> <UL>
>> <li> </li>
>> <li> </li>
>> <ul>
>> <li> </li>
>> <li> </li>
>> </ul>
>> </ul>
>> Googling for embed <ul> (and several variations give me a lot - but none
>> that mean anything - to me)
>>
>> What's wrong with it - and what's the solution?? If you please.
>>
>> 2) http://brokenchainsministry.net/products.html
>> I've looked at uneven columns / unequal columns / css unequal columns /
>> etc till I'm blue in the face.
>
> I suggested ages ago to you, in your case, just use a table for
> your page and be done. Can you afford to be going so blue in the
> face?
No, no tables! And I like blue! It just doesn't go with my green hair!!
>
> About your graphic of the hands, it looks bad that it has a white
> background, it is crying out for a transparent bg. Or change the
> background of the header from grey to white. (This header is too
> big height wise)
After having a virus eat my hard drive (actually only the 'FSType' byte
and maybe a few other related that I couldn't set back), I've pulled up
a linux box. (PCLinuxOS which surprisingly isn't too bad.) I'll try
again with gimp to sett he background color in the hands but my first
couple of tries (apparenly) always missed a pixel so the whole thing got
filled in .... argh!
>
>
>
>> This page is the most atrocious of the situations I see, but could
>> someone please direct me to a reference that (please, I'm begging)
>> specifically describes how to 'fix' a two column page where the bottoms
>> are probably going to be out of synch??
>>
>> I really have to find a different play toy!!!!!
>
> The toy is tables. Tables for you Al. Al and tables. All you need
> is a two col job and Bob will be your uncle. Go ahead, abuse a
> bit, you deserve it.
>

NO! NO TABLES! In the first place I want to do it without; in the
second I don't want to take the flak if I did!

But seriously (or at least a little more seriously) I do appreciate the
comments.
--
//al

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