Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 08/06/07 22:05

mjones wrote:

> Yes, hand coded if I understand what you mean. I use HomeSite, and
> because I type fast, I generally type the code I remember or just
> TopStyle Lite (in HomeSite) to pick options.

Your sites are not hand-coded. Hand-coding is when you type everything
in the "source" with your keyboard, not using a WYSIWYMG product such as
HoseSite. Using a simple text editor. Notepad, for example (though I use
a much better one than that).

> I'm not sure what you mean by a 'large empty *dark* blue box". This

My JavaScript is off. Turn yours off to see what I mean. Approximately
10% of your visitors will have JavaScript off/disabled/stripped and will
see no content in that large blue box. IOW, your pages are blank except
for the header at the top.

> website works in IE6, IE7 and pretty much in FireFox, has been for
> several years, i.e. www.devitawellness.com works. Similarly, so does
> www.energywellnessstudies.com. And the 'month of August'? Whatever
> do you mean? It sounds like you're into the Tetigi software (the
> webstats stuff) from the bottom of the pages. What browser do you
> use?

In a previous post, I said relying on JavaScript for important stuff
(like menus and content) is like turning your web server off for a month
every year. (Like August)

Doesn't matter what browser. I've looked at your sites with Firefox,
Opera, and Safari and they are the same.

Try OffByOne sometime; http://offbyone.com/

> Thanks for pointing me to the CSS validator. It will be useful
> because I'm not sure about valid options at times. It's one thing
> that makes me nuts. In HomeSite, when you right click a tag to edit
> it and choose a StyleSheet style, you get TopStyle Lite. Then you
> pick your styles (like font-style), but more often than not the styles
> do nothing. It would be good if only the styles that are valid for
> that tag will show in the list. I think I have to pick the right
> thing from the Style Inspector drop down (I've got CSS2), but I'm not
> sure hope that works. I just added that to my very long to do list.

I looked at TopStyle several years ago. I can type the stuff a lot
faster than using it to pick things...

> Thanks again and sorry for being so green at this. Maybe I can help
> you with project management sometime; I teach it.

<lol> No, I'm retired now...

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