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Re: I fall on your swords...

Jim Moe

2007-05-20, 10:19 pm

paul watt wrote:
>
> www.paulwattdesigns.com
>
Is the services list supposed to be sitting on top of the main content
area? It looks like a child's set of blocks poorly stacked. (Twice you
claimed it was fixed. Not so?)
You have two competing rule sets for ".content".
Bolding the first letter at the start of a paragraph looks rather odd.
But only on the home page.

Assuming that you want the services on the left with the content on the
right at the same level...
Set "services" to some % width, say, 25%; float:left.
Set "content" to have a margin-left:27%. No need to float it. No need to
set a width.
For all horizontal spacing use percentages. For a 800px wide standard
viewport 2% = 1em = 16px. Using percentages wherever possible reduces the
likelihood that the blocks wrap around when the viewport size changes,
especially smaller, since all of the spacing shrinks or expands.

BTW there is something wrong with <http://www.buddhistaudiobooks.com/>.
The stylesheet is not applied. It always loads as though there is no
stylesheet at all.

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paul watt

2007-05-21, 6:17 pm

"Jim Moe" <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@sohnen-moe.com> wrote in message
news:5LedndrQcbuCas3bnZ2dnUVZ_qqrnZ2d@giganews.com...
> paul watt wrote:
> Is the services list supposed to be sitting on top of the main content
> area? It looks like a child's set of blocks poorly stacked. (Twice you
> claimed it was fixed. Not so?)
> You have two competing rule sets for ".content".
> Bolding the first letter at the start of a paragraph looks rather odd.
> But only on the home page.
>
> Assuming that you want the services on the left with the content on the
> right at the same level...
> Set "services" to some % width, say, 25%; float:left.
> Set "content" to have a margin-left:27%. No need to float it. No need to
> set a width.
> For all horizontal spacing use percentages. For a 800px wide standard
> viewport 2% = 1em = 16px. Using percentages wherever possible reduces the
> li kelihood that the blocks wrap around when the viewport size changes,
> especially smaller, since all of the spacing shrinks or expands.
>
> BTW there is something wrong with <http://www.buddhistaudiobooks.com/>.
> The stylesheet is not applied. It always loads as though there is no
> stylesheet at all.
>

hmm buddhistaudiobooks.com - the clients been "playing" with it I can only
assume, I may have to take it off my portfolio now

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Paul Watt

http://www.paulwattdesigns.com

Jeff

2007-05-23, 6:18 pm

paul watt wrote:

> "Jim Moe" <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@sohnen-moe.com> wrote in message
> news:5LedndrQcbuCas3bnZ2dnUVZ_qqrnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
>
>
> hmm buddhistaudiobooks.com - the clients been "playing" with it I can only
> assume, I may have to take it off my portfolio now

CMS is a wonderfull thing, keeps clients from destroying your work. I
had a client recently that complained that some of their pages were
broken. Turns out they had someone make changes by FTPing down the
pages and reuploading their (broken) changes. Just updating the site
with the CMS fixed everything.

The longer you are into web developement the more site maintenance
rises in importance. Even a site a few pages long can benifit as it is
so much easier to change a look or something in the footer in a template
rather than working on each page individually.

You may wish to include a screen shot instead of a link for your
broken client site, or just fix it for them.

Jeff
>

wayne

2007-05-25, 6:18 pm

Jeff wrote:[color=darkred]
> paul watt wrote:
>

Perhaps you should check your coding:
<LINK
href="css/dharma.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet>

There is no stylesheet named.
[color=darkred]
>
> CMS is a wonderfull thing, keeps clients from destroying your work. I
> had a client recently that complained that some of their pages were
> broken. Turns out they had someone make changes by FTPing down the
> pages and reuploading their (broken) changes. Just updating the site
> with the CMS fixed everything.
>
> The longer you are into web developement the more site maintenance
> rises in importance. Even a site a few pages long can benifit as it is
> so much easier to change a look or something in the footer in a template
> rather than working on each page individually.
>
> You may wish to include a screen shot instead of a link for your
> broken client site, or just fix it for them.
>
> Jeff

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Wayne
www.glenmeadows.us
"Faith means not wanting to know what is true." [Nietzsche]

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2007-05-25, 6:18 pm

wayne wrote:

> Jeff wrote:
>
> Perhaps you should check your coding:
> <LINK
> href="css/dharma.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet>
>
> There is no stylesheet named.

dharma.css

http://www.buddhistaudiobooks.com/css/dharma.css

href="/css/dharma.css" would probably help, though.
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