Please let me know what you think

Stan McCann wrote:

http://surecann.com/

I hate the look of the huge fonts in IE. I guess I'll have to create
browser specific style sheets.

What size do you have IE set for? Medium?
Mine is at Smaller, and the page looks fine.
Even at Medium, the page is easy to read, especially for us old riders.

It also leaves a gap under the heading. Currently, I've only reworked
the home and service pages; the others will be done when everything
is working well. All comments and suggestions welcome.

Not sure what 'gap' you mean... try adding
* { border: 1px solid red; }
to your style sheet and see if you can find out where it is.

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

http://surecann.com/

I hate the look of the huge fonts in IE. I guess I'll have to create
browser specific style sheets. It also leaves a gap under the heading.
Currently, I've only reworked the home and service pages; the others will
be done when everything is working well. All comments and suggestions
welcome.

--
Stan McCann, "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/
Implementing http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Stan McCann wrote:

I think it has to do with the larger font that IE uses by default.
There is a white line between the yellow and blue with the larger
font. I've played with all kinds of margins, paddings, line-height,
and borders.

Been playing with it a bit ... can't make it go away, without messing up
your various <div>s. Why is the #page div there?

I'm not a user of pixel settings.

With most everything I've tried, it's looked fine in FF but still has
the white line in IE. Oh well, most people won't even notice it or
will just think it belongs there.

Hey, that's the ticket! "It belongs there."

--
-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

Stan McCann wrote:

http://surecann.com/

I hate the look of the huge fonts in IE. I guess I'll have to create
browser specific style sheets. It also leaves a gap under the heading.

The font size looks fine here. Change your IE's text sizing.

What gap? Which heading?

- An improvement over the previous design.
- Why have multiple Contact areas? There is the Contact page; then there
is the "Contact Me" blurb in the copyright section.
- Services page:
- The text line "Sample Price List" has no margin below it. It melds with
the table border.
- I'm sure you mean "MiB" (Megabyte, binary), not "Megabit" (Mb, decimal).
See <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/> and
<http://www.romulus2.com/articles/guides/misc/bitsbytes.shtml>.

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Stan McCann wrote:

http://surecann.com/

I hate the look of the huge fonts in IE. I guess I'll have to
create browser specific style sheets.

What size do you have IE set for? Medium?
Mine is at Smaller, and the page looks fine.
Even at Medium, the page is easy to read, especially for us old
riders.

I don't even know. For IE, the only times I ever use it is to see how
my work looks in it. I was THE helpdesk for the college for so many
years, I know that many users never adjust settings from defaults so I
always leave the settings alone for IE. Firefox though, is set up to
suit me.

It also leaves a gap under the heading. Currently, I've only
reworked the home and service pages; the others will be done when
everything is working well. All comments and suggestions welcome.

Not sure what 'gap' you mean... try adding
* { border: 1px solid red; }
to your style sheet and see if you can find out where it is.

I think it has to do with the larger font that IE uses by default.
There is a white line between the yellow and blue with the larger
font. I've played with all kinds of margins, paddings, line-height,
and borders. With most everything I've tried, it's looked fine in FF
but still has the white line in IE. Oh well, most people won't even
notice it or will just think it belongs there.


--
Stan McCann, "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/
Implementing http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote in
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Stan McCann wrote:

I think it has to do with the larger font that IE uses by default.
There is a white line between the yellow and blue with the larger
font. I've played with all kinds of margins, paddings,
line-height, and borders.

Been playing with it a bit ... can't make it go away, without
messing up your various <div>s. Why is the #page div there?

I'm not a user of pixel settings.

I'm not much either except if I want a border (non-text) or to position
next to or within a fixed size element. Hanging onto old habits?
Older browsers mostly did an awful job of displaying graphics unless
the _correct_ pixel dimensions were given. Even today, if the size
isn't given, the screen jumps around as the browser draws and re-draws
the screen after learning the height and width of newly read elements.

With most everything I've tried, it's looked fine in FF but still
has the white line in IE. Oh well, most people won't even notice
it or will just think it belongs there.

Hey, that's the ticket! "It belongs there."

Sometimes ya just gotta. On another site, I had a curved grapic to
curve the heading background color into a side menu. Very few ever
realized it though because I couldn't get it to work in IE.

--
Stan McCann, "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/
Implementing http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Jim Moe <jmm-list.AXSPAMGN (AT) sohnen-moe (DOT) com> wrote in
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Stan McCann wrote:
http://surecann.com/

I hate the look of the huge fonts in IE. I guess I'll have to
create browser specific style sheets. It also leaves a gap under
the heading.

The font size looks fine here. Change your IE's text sizing.
What gap? Which heading?

- An improvement over the previous design.

I thought so. I'm no artist and I was trying to be too artistic
before. This one keeps it simple.

- Why have multiple Contact areas? There is the Contact page; then
there is the "Contact Me" blurb in the copyright section.

Not two areas, just two links to the same page mentioned in two places.
I often have multiple links on the same page as they each serve a
different purpose.

- Services page:
- The text line "Sample Price List" has no margin below it. It
melds with
the table border.

Easy styling fix there since that was a caption to the table. Fixed,
thanks.

- I'm sure you mean "MiB" (Megabyte, binary), not "Megabit" (Mb,
decimal).

Thanks for that; fixed to MB (Megabyte, decimal).

See <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/> and
http://www.romulus2.com/articles/guides/misc/bitsbytes.shtml>.

I couldn't find what I was looking for on the first link. The second
one cleared up my mistake. I know that stuff too having installed and
managed networks. Duh!

--
Stan McCann, "Uncle Pirate" http://stanmccann.us/
Implementing http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Stan McCann wrote:

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> wrote in
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Stan McCann wrote:

http://surecann.com/

I hate the look of the huge fonts in IE. I guess I'll have to
create browser specific style sheets.

What size do you have IE set for? Medium?
Mine is at Smaller, and the page looks fine.
Even at Medium, the page is easy to read, especially for us old
riders.

I don't even know. For IE, the only times I ever use it is to see how
my work looks in it. I was THE helpdesk for the college for so many
years, I know that many users never adjust settings from defaults so I
always leave the settings alone for IE. Firefox though, is set up to
suit me.

It also leaves a gap under the heading. Currently, I've only
reworked the home and service pages; the others will be done when
everything is working well. All comments and suggestions welcome.

Not sure what 'gap' you mean... try adding
* { border: 1px solid red; }
to your style sheet and see if you can find out where it is.


I think it has to do with the larger font that IE uses by default.
There is a white line between the yellow and blue with the larger
font. I've played with all kinds of margins, paddings, line-height,
and borders. With most everything I've tried, it's looked fine in FF
but still has the white line in IE. Oh well, most people won't even
notice it or will just think it belongs there.
Yeah. I am thinking though, that you could set 0 padding on the border

and see what happens. You may also want to hide the border by makeing
it the same colour as the yellow.
HTH.
--
Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:03:17 -0700, Stan McCann wrote:

I thought so. I'm no artist and I was trying to be too artistic
before. This one keeps it simple.

I think it looks horrid. Simple is good, but simple can also *look* good.
Of course, I realize quite well that "looks good" is very subjective. Hey,
I just found a very simple site that I think actually "looks good", just
by way of example:

http://darwinports.org/

That site is about as simple as yours but the colors work together, the
layout works, etc. I'm sure someone else will disagree.

I think the thing I like least about your site is the color choices,
especially the mauve highlights. uck.

Just my $0.02

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http://www.newtnotes.com
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"Stan McCann" <me (AT) stanmccann (DOT) us> wrote

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Stan McCann wrote:

I think it has to do with the larger font that IE uses by default.
There is a white line between the yellow and blue with the larger
font. I've played with all kinds of margins, paddings,
line-height, and borders.

Been playing with it a bit ... can't make it go away, without
messing up your various <div>s. Why is the #page div there?

I'm not a user of pixel settings.

I'm not much either except if I want a border (non-text) or to position
next to or within a fixed size element. Hanging onto old habits?
Older browsers mostly did an awful job of displaying graphics unless
the _correct_ pixel dimensions were given. Even today, if the size
isn't given, the screen jumps around as the browser draws and re-draws
the screen after learning the height and width of newly read elements.

With most everything I've tried, it's looked fine in FF but still
has the white line in IE. Oh well, most people won't even notice
it or will just think it belongs there.

Hey, that's the ticket! "It belongs there."


Sometimes ya just gotta. On another site, I had a curved grapic to
curve the heading background color into a side menu. Very few ever
realized it though because I couldn't get it to work in IE.

Its not a bug, its a feature - Bill Gates

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Cheers

Paul

http://www.paulwatt.info