Could you good folks look at my page and let me know what you think? I've re-built the !@#$%^& thing 3 times now. Internet explorer is just horrible are rendering css and well, my style was a bit lacking.
I'm interested in if the navigation works well for people and more importantly if the navigation is logical and easy to follow. Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thank you.
Your tables are overlapping each other. Still needs work bad!!
Tom J
Which tables are those Tom? Could you site the page? Could you tell me which browser your using?
works fine for me. Using IE 6.0 with windows XP home.
No problem with Mozilla - renders very well. If Internet Explorer is hiccupping, too bad. Get Mozilla, it's free, better and safer than IE.
The navigation frame (on the left sied) should be hierarchical: a few bars, each of which expands into few more, to whatever depth you need, the last level(s) linking directly to the pages. The navigation frame should show all header bars plus the current state of the expanded tree. You also need a link back to Home. So you css structure needs work, but o'wise the site looks good. You also are using a vey fast server - excellent!
Morning, Timothy,
I'm on Windows XP and Firefox 1.5 and it works fine. Good job.
Yes, IE is non-compliant with standards, and a pain in the butt to write for. One way around it is to put a note on your site like: "This site is optimized for standards compliant browsers like Firefox or Opera", and a link to the download pages. That way people understand what's happening and you don't have to kill yourself making IE work.
A few comments because I'm a professional tech writer, and just can't help myself:
HTH
Stan Stansbury
Everything renders nicely in Firefox. I agree with Stan about the typeface. Switch to a sans serif font. And, the writing & grammar could use some tweaking.
Try changing font size or resolution. It works ONLY in the font size and resolution it was made with. Any variation and it goes haywire. If he's successful I expect he'll have to pay for a few hours help, because as of now, there is so much wrong it would be hard to say where to start correcting it.
Tom J who has put together a few websites & is not available
So, you think 80% of the people coming to that site will download a different reader? You have to be kidding. There are millions of websites and most of those millions can be viewed with all but the very oldest readers.
For those of you that says it looks great on your computer, I can keep changing mine to get it to look ok, BUT if I went to a commercial site that required that - lost customer!!
Tom J
Thanks for your time Doug. Dunno what to say about the typeface. I didn't declare any font types, maybe I should. As far as the writing & grammar.... I's ain't no colleged educated man, but trying...lol
Thanks for the comments Stan. It's great to be able to see the site throught someone else's eyes. It's the little things that people miss.
I went and fixed #1 and #2. Never noticed the errors on the template... thus all the pages ended up with the errors.
The whole point of the blurb on the links page is to explain why I've linked them and to drum up some link exchanges... if possible.
Like I told Doug, I didn't declair a type-face. Guess I should. Again, thanks a bunch for your time.
I'm still rather new to css and a css drop down menu is a bit beyound me atm. Great idea... maybe in the next build 80)
The css validates and I'm using Quanta plus for my editing. The css file is layed out like that by Quanta's css editor. That "fast server" costs me a $1.25 a day... hope someone will click a google advert or to to help off set the cost. Thanks for your time.
Look at the typeface here:
Just one of thousands of sites where your eyes fly through the words without pause or fatigue. I'm no web designer, but I'm sure it can't be that hard to change your font.
Tom... WTH are you talking about? There are _no_ font-size declarations anywhere in the site. The fonts are 100% their size and render as such. The widest of pages on the the site are no bigger than 800px. The site holds it's shape at 150% in opera on my 2 machines. I tested the page on 2 local machines, 1 box is a linux machine running a 1024 X 768 and #2 is a winders laptop that is a 640 X 480. To top it all off I used :
I tested it on every size screen they offer. All hold their shape. You state that theres sooo much wrong with the site but...
1 It fully validates as html 4.01 strict. 2 The css is fully compliant. 3 The site holds it's shape at 150% on 2 different screen sizes.So you seem to be able to talk the talk, so post a few links to YouR sites and lets see if you can walk the walk. Btw, still think those nntp's I posted are bunk..? Or did you figure out how to configure your newsreader?
No it's not hard to change the fonts at all. Afaik, when font-type isn't declared the browser uses it's default. I've been told that people tend not to like the default font-type and font-size messed with.
On my end the text is somewhat larger than you would find on other sites. I guess I'll throw a few pages into the sandbox and see what different fonts due for the page. Thanks for your time Doug.
That's the reason you need help. You are using default fonts and sizes and they don't fit all. Did you even look at it by clicking on View at the top and then change the size of the font. In case you don't know, a large % of veiwers do just that. Now as for it validating, sure if all the html is correct it will validate, but that sure as heck don't make it work when viewed by a different setting than what it was designed with. None of my pages validate and I don't care, because, I'm more interested in everyone that goes to the sites see what they came for. I WILL NOT post sites here because they are not related to this group, & this is my last comment on this thread because it is no longer related - if it ever was!
Tom J
O.k. Tom, I'm going to do this one more time... just for you. Sit up and pay attention.
The page renders fine at 150% of default. The default size of the text is controlled by _YouR_ computer, not my code. If the text is too small in your browser, then you should expand the text size to 125% -150%. The page will/does hold it's shape. If my text is too small, then so is google, yahoo, msn...ect, must be too small for you also. Look into getting glasses.
Many people enlarge text on web pages because the page builder set a font size. 80% on my box isn't the same at your box. Hence the reason for leaving the text size alone and not forcing the end user into using a certain size.
If none of your pages validate, then people _arn't_ seeing what they came for. Only people using browser X see it correctly. People using browsers y and z are just screwed. You won't post your "sites" because you either: A: You don't have one and your talking out your butt or B: Your sites are crap and don't render correctly.
Really, feel free email me the links. I would love to learn how to do it right. Love to see what perfection looks like.
As far as this not being a on-topic posting, again you show how little you know about the usenet. This post is about a _gardening_ site. This is a gardening group. I'm an (somewhat) active user and this post is by no means off topic or spam. Feel free to lart me to teranews if you like, but they'll round file your email. Btw, top posting is considered incorrect posting etiquette.
Learn about font sizes:
Timothy wrote: That "fast server" costs me
How many clicks would you like? I'll wear my garden gloves too, just to stay on topic!
It looks like your doing a fine job though, so good luck!
Win 2000 Firefox 1.5
Hi Doug and others, Why are we giving free computer consulting assistance to this person? We should be handling gardening issues. It's just cluttering up our usegroup. Let him hire a consultant to fix his problems.
Sherw> > Could you good folks look at my page and let me know what you think? I've
Oh, stop, will ya? Your news reader's Mozilla, right? Collapse the thread so you only see the first message. No more clutter.
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