suggestions, critiques

Hi, any suggestions or critiques are welcome on:

http://www.curw.cornell.edu/new/

I'm updating the old site.

Thanks,
James

Okay, so I already see a problem concerning Netscape 7

When I place a padding on the .text, why does Netscape now render the box
width as "width + padding". If I put padding as 0, then the box width is
what I want, but I do want that padding. Any way around this in Netscape?
(without placing a margin on each and every element used within the box)

Thanks,
James


"James Yu" <jjy7 (AT) cornell (DOT) edu> wrote

Hi, any suggestions or critiques are welcome on:

http://www.curw.cornell.edu/new/

I'm updating the old site.

Thanks,
James

In article <c0bj3u$5qa$1 (AT) news01 (DOT) cit.cornell.edu>, jjy7 (AT) cornell (DOT) edu
says...

Hi, any suggestions or critiques are welcome on:

http://www.curw.cornell.edu/new/

I'm updating the old site.

Try it in Mozilla Firebird/Firefox.

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http://hyweljenkins.co.uk/mfaq.php

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:51:26 -0500, "James Yu" <jjy7 (AT) cornell (DOT) edu>
declared in alt.html.critique:

When I place a padding on the .text, why does Netscape now render the box
width as "width + padding".

Where do you see this? I think you have more serious problems than
that...

Let's see:

Fixed-width design. :-(
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign

What's with the tiny font sizes? Do you actually want me to be able to
read the text?

Don't specify font size in pixels - people using IE can't resize it
(without using their accessibility options). When I do override your
font sizes, it looks _bad_.

You should validate your HTML and CSS (not a lot of errors, but still
should be fixed).

You should be using HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, and for a new site you really
should be using Strict, not Transitional. At least use a complete
doctype (including URL), so that it triggers "Standards" mode.

Hmmm:

<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

Cold, are we?

In a number of places in your stylesheet, you have specified 3 values
for margin or padding - would make sense to put all 4, even if the
missing one is 0.

HTH

BTW: Please don't post upside-down.
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

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Can someone please check this again?

Netscape/Mozilla can't seem to find the style sheet.. and I have no idea
why. It works on my local harddrive (Netscape/Mozilla does indeed see the
css)

Very puzzling..

"James Yu" <jjy7 (AT) cornell (DOT) edu> wrote

Hi, any suggestions or critiques are welcome on:

http://www.curw.cornell.edu/new/

I'm updating the old site.

Thanks,
James

Quoth the raven named James Yu:

Can someone please check this again?

Netscape/Mozilla can't seem to find the style sheet.. and I have no idea
why. It works on my local harddrive (Netscape/Mozilla does indeed see the
css)

http://www.curw.cornell.edu/new/style.css

Very puzzling..

Not really. Your server is sending it as text/html instead of text/css

"James Yu" <jjy7 (AT) cornell (DOT) edu> wrote in message
news:c0bj3u$5qa$1 (AT) news01 (DOT) cit.cornell.edu...
http://www.curw.cornell.edu/new/

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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 04:46:26 GMT, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<a.nony.mous (AT) example (DOT) invalid> declared in alt.html.critique:

Quoth the raven named James Yu:

Very puzzling..

Not really. Your server is sending it as text/html instead of text/css

Strangely enough, it was working earlier.

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http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

James Yu wrote:

Hi, any suggestions or critiques are welcome on:

http://www.curw.cornell.edu/new/

I'm updating the old site.

The links
HomeWorshipChaplainsChaplainciesAnabel TaylorSage ChapelWeddings and
MemorialsLinks
are too close together, you should at least have a &nbsp; between them.

<img src="curw4.gif"> - missing alt="CURW - Fostering Interfaith Community
since 1929".
<img src="curw2.gif"> - missing alt="Cornell United Religious Work".

"Contact Webmaster James" is too close to the gif under it, add more space
or remove it, the same mailto-link is below, this can instead be changed to
<a href=mailto:[address]>Webmaster James</a>.
Are you not concerned about spam?

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Hywel Jenkins wrote:

In article <c0bj3u$5qa$1 (AT) news01 (DOT) cit.cornell.edu>, jjy7 (AT) cornell (DOT) edu
says...

Hi, any suggestions or critiques are welcome on:

http://www.curw.cornell.edu/new/

I'm updating the old site.


Try it in Mozilla Firebird/Firefox.

I tried it in IE and it's very different to Mozilla