Stylesheets - CSS side menu and IE

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CSS side menu and IE

Deborah

2006-02-07, 11:41 pm

I'm a rookie, and I guess I know just enough to be dangerous. I found a
great template website, openwebsign.org, and found an open source
template I really liked that even came in 2 versions. Spent 2 weeks
updating my website, put it up, **using the alternative** css sheet, and
pfft, IE 6.0 can't see the side menu items as hyperlinks.

Right now it's up as www.simi-therapy.com . The CSS sheet I'd like to
use is at http://www.simi-therapy.com/simitherapy-screen-alt.css . If
you use Firefox on the webpage, going to View/pagestyle/alternative will
show you the look I prefer.

Can anyone see what's wrong with the alternative stylesheet?

Thanks

Deborah

Peter Mount

2006-02-07, 11:41 pm

Deborah wrote:
> I'm a rookie, and I guess I know just enough to be dangerous. I found a
> great template website, openwebsign.org, and found an open source
> template I really liked that even came in 2 versions. Spent 2 weeks
> updating my website, put it up, **using the alternative** css sheet, and
> pfft, IE 6.0 can't see the side menu items as hyperlinks.
>
> Right now it's up as www.simi-therapy.com . The CSS sheet I'd like to
> use is at http://www.simi-therapy.com/simitherapy-screen-alt.css . If
> you use Firefox on the webpage, going to View/pagestyle/alternative will
> show you the look I prefer.
>
> Can anyone see what's wrong with the alternative stylesheet?
>
> Thanks
>
> Deborah

It can in my version of IE. I'm using IE6 SP2 at the moment to see it
and the menu seems to work fine

Peter Mount
info@petermount.au.com

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2006-02-07, 11:41 pm

Peter Mount wrote:

> Deborah wrote:
>
> It can in my version of IE. I'm using IE6 SP2 at the moment to see it
> and the menu seems to work fine

The menu works ok in IE for me as well. My only immediate criticism is
the miniscule font sizing.

body {
font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 71%; /* Enables font size scaling in MSIE */
....

First, Verdana is too large a font.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

Second, the body (and all regular content) font should be set at 100% so
as to respect your visitors' default size. If you think it looks too
large, set *your* default size (Deborah's) to something smaller. I had
to hit Control-Plus twice to be able to read your page. The 71% is less
than three-quarters of my preferred size.

Use larger percentages for <hx> elements of course, and maybe something
as small as 85% for legalese.

Additionally,
Please drop the use of: text-align: justify harder to read
Please drop the use of: font-size: 8.5pt;

You should also visit:
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...mi-therapy.com/>
<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/...mi-therapy.com/>

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