Critique requested -

There are many things I know I ned to do with this site before I open it up
to the public but would like some feedback about the basic idea and it's
implementation.

I'm - obviously - a newbee at this, have 'stolen' a lot of pieces -
understand some and learning others so I'd ask that you be somewhat gentle


It validates - for what that's worth - I understand that just means that
it's syntactically correct.

aljones.us is the site - and you should probably ignore the genealogy
pages, as I say on the front page, I'm not impressed with the program I
used to generate them so they'll be replaced at some time down the line.

Thanks //al

al jones wrote:

There are many things I know I ned to do with this site before I open it up
to the public but would like some feedback about the basic idea and it's
implementation.

"Manifold" refers to a multiplicity. Defn: Many and varied; of many

kinds; multiple. Yet your lead-in only mentions one purpose. And I do not
think 3 is sufficient for many.
The main heading extends into the content area. I have a slightly
larger than normal default font size (18px), so the heading text scales
larger as a result. The .boxbanner height could be made fluid by using ems
or % for the height rather than px.
There is little reason to use, for instance, div#all instead of #all.
It limits your options without adding advantage.
Visit <http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/> for ideas on using
lists for menus.
Visit <http://www.csszengarden.com/> to see what can be done with
proper HTML markup an CSS.

aljones.us is the site - and you should probably ignore the genealogy
pages, as I say on the front page, I'm not impressed with the program I
used to generate them so they'll be replaced at some time down the line.

I agree.

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 11:33:54 -0700, Jim Moe wrote:

al jones wrote:
There are many things I know I ned to do with this site before I open it up
to the public but would like some feedback about the basic idea and it's
implementation.

"Manifold" refers to a multiplicity. Defn: Many and varied; of many
kinds; multiple. Yet your lead-in only mentions one purpose. And I do not
think 3 is sufficient for many.
Pedant admitted that the precursor to manifold is in the singular when

it should have been plural. I just started typing and manifold was the
first reasonably appropriate word to come to mind so it went up - and then
I ran out of comments after three ...

The main heading extends into the content area. I have a slightly
larger than normal default font size (18px), so the heading text scales
larger as a result. The .boxbanner height could be made fluid by using ems
or % for the height rather than px.
Thank you for hat, I've seen it myself as I resize but wasn't sure how to

handle it - will go see what I can do.

There is little reason to use, for instance, div#all instead of #all.
It limits your options without adding advantage.
okay ...

Visit <http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/> for ideas on using
lists for menus.
thank you for the reference ... I didn't like that 'leftbit' but for the

nonce it works - but after a hundred letters or so I'm going to be asking
for some ideas on how to segregate them ...

Visit <http://www.csszengarden.com/> to see what can be done with
proper HTML markup an CSS.
I've been there - as I lean more I hope that how they work will make more

sense to me. One of the things I see done is the various fonts used in
text - now that intrigues me.

aljones.us is the site - and you should probably ignore the genealogy
pages, as I say on the front page, I'm not impressed with the program I
used to generate them so they'll be replaced at some time down the line.

I agree.
Do you know of something that will take a gedcom and produce a decent

'site'. I've looked at several genealogy web sies and this is one of the
more common ones - and I really don't like it.

Thanks for your comments //al

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:36:20 -0500, kchayka wrote:

Jim Moe wrote:

[re: http://aljones.us/]

The .boxbanner height could be made fluid by using ems
or % for the height rather than px.

Actually, the height property should be removed altogether, and
.boxbanner allowed to automatically resize as needed.

In a smaller window and/or extra large text size, linewrapping may very
well go to 3 lines instead of 2. Any fixed height, regardless of the
units, will become problematic in that case.

Now, if the OP were to suggest a min-height, that would be hunky-dory.
Elucidate please ... I think that the minimum would be the heighth of the

images + padding (borders?) not so?? That leaves the text centered (low,
damnit!) in the header. //al

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:57:18 +0900, tm wrote:

al jones <alfredmjones (AT) shotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

((Off the cuff, if two css files
are referenced, are they additive??))

yes.
see, fer instance-
http://meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/199803.html
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/style-html.html

Interesting .... thanks //al

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:01:41 -0500, kchayka wrote:

al jones wrote:

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:10:47 GMT, Ben Measures wrote:

I'd say those graphics were decorative and so are best with an empty
alt="" .

With all the discussion about *any* image without an alt you dare suggest
that I shouldn't have one

There is a difference between setting alt="" and omitting the alt
attribute altogether.

The former tells the user agent to ignore the image. The latter doesn't
give the UA any clue what to do about it. Most will show something
undesireable in its place, like [image]. Decorative images don't warrant
even that.

Oh, okay, now I see the difference ... sometimes I'm a bit dense. Thanks.
//al

tm wrote:

Jim Moe wrote:

"Manifold" refers to a multiplicity. Defn: Many and varied; of many
kinds; multiple. Yet your lead-in only mentions one purpose. And I do not
think 3 is sufficient for many.

If you are going to go to the dictionary, surely you should point out
that 'developement' is spelled 'development'.

I believe developement is an alternate spelling, if rather unusual.

--
Ben M.

Ben Measures wrote:

tm wrote:
Jim Moe wrote:

"Manifold" refers to a multiplicity. Defn: Many and varied; of many
kinds; multiple. Yet your lead-in only mentions one purpose. And I do not
think 3 is sufficient for many.

If you are going to go to the dictionary, surely you should point out
that 'developement' is spelled 'development'.

I believe developement is an alternate spelling, if rather unusual.

English dictionaries don't list it, and English spelling quizzes use
it as one of three wrong answers in a multiple choice question.

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Els wrote:

Ben Measures wrote:

I believe developement is an alternate spelling, if rather unusual.

English dictionaries don't list it, and English spelling quizzes use
it as one of three wrong answers in a multiple choice question.

I only say because it appears in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=developement

Personally though, I don't find any American English dictionaries to be
authoritative. ;-)

--
Ben M.

Ben Measures wrote:

Els wrote:
Ben Measures wrote:

I believe developement is an alternate spelling, if rather unusual.

English dictionaries don't list it, and English spelling quizzes use
it as one of three wrong answers in a multiple choice question.

I only say because it appears in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=developement

Funny - it's not mentioned in Cambridge or Merriam-Webster.

Personally though, I don't find any American English dictionaries to be
authoritative. ;-)

:-)

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