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Forum: Site Layout and Usability Aug 12th, 2009
Replies: 3
Solved: Web site Layout
Views: 552
Posted By MidiMagic
No, they are not. Many people with visual problems use 800X600 to make the text large enough to read.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 22nd, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 668
Posted By MidiMagic
There are different players for use with Windows, plugin for IE, and plugin for FF.

You can't put a player on your site for your users to use. The user has to already have the player on his...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 12th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 938
Posted By MidiMagic
You don't have to use different stylesheets for different browsers. I get stuff to work just fine with only one.

The following rules make pages work with all browsers:

- Don't use deprecated...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jul 12th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 678
Posted By MidiMagic
Please realize that placing text on top of an image is not accessible web design. Many people with visual handicaps can not read the text when there is an image under it.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 28th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 715
Posted By MidiMagic
No, because that belongs to the user, not to you.

You also have no control over the screen resolution or the size of the browser window the user opens. A low resolution monitor will display your...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 25th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 683
Posted By MidiMagic
Never put spaces in filenames intended to be sent over the internet. Also do not use special characters in such filenames.

Only Windows allows that. Most servers do not allow spaces in filenames....
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 25th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 825
Posted By MidiMagic
Look for the following:

- Note that the image itself can't contain these features. There must be some html provided by Fireworks to locate them.

- Is there a script to take care of the...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 25th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 715
Posted By MidiMagic
Do NOT use px. That makes the page incompatible with different screen resolutions.

How can a user resize a div? That is determined by the browser, not the user.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 24th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 812
Posted By MidiMagic
On the screenshot, I noticed that IE has no twitter plugin.

It is not a good idea to use the latest gratest tech on pages. Stuff takes several years to start working smoothly on all browsers. We...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 24th, 2009
Replies: 7
Views: 683
Posted By MidiMagic
Are your pictures in some strange format?
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 16th, 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 957
Posted By MidiMagic
The old page drove me crazy with mouseovers. Thanks for getting rid of them.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 5th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 627
Posted By MidiMagic
A footer is not intended as a part of the Internet.

It is a waste of time trying to make one. Just put it at the bottom of your content. Trying to make a page exactly fill the window is also a...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jun 2nd, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 617
Posted By MidiMagic
This is the wrong way to get search engines to find you.

It's not just the domain name. The search engine also looks for the title and the content. If the phrase appears in the website text, it...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 28th, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 725
Posted By MidiMagic
He would have to negotiate a change with the hosting company.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 28th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 609
Posted By MidiMagic
You are NOT going to make any image exactly fill a browser window.

There are several reasons why:

1. Different computers have different screen resolutions.

2. Different users have differing...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 21st, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 878
Posted By MidiMagic
With a normal host, you don't have to do anything. Indexing is automatic when the following are present:

- The host does not prohibit robots from searching it.

- The home page is named...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability May 10th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 534
Posted By MidiMagic
Usually this means that the page owner has neglected to update the certificate and it expired.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 27th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 939
Posted By MidiMagic
The problem is not the file, but the syntax of the command to open it.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 27th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 720
Posted By MidiMagic
IE often does things one pixel different. You have to make your designs so a pixel does not matter.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 11th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 863
Posted By MidiMagic
Notepad and Firefox.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Apr 2nd, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 1,617
Posted By MidiMagic
One problem is that you are using outdated code. It throws the browsers into "quirks" mode.

the embed tag is deprecated (embed never was a valid tag - it worked on Mozilla browsers, but nothing...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Mar 29th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 761
Posted By MidiMagic
Make a list full of links to your pages.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Mar 24th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 2,018
Posted By MidiMagic
As far as I can find out, they didn't come up with a replacement, just as they didn't come up with a nice replacement for center.

Another possibility is that the Firefox browser you have is set to...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Mar 19th, 2009
Replies: 3
Views: 786
Posted By MidiMagic
Maybe your idea of good style does not match their idea of good style.

I think the rounded corners are awful.

Of course, I also think all of today's culture came out of a Petri dish.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Mar 19th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 2,018
Posted By MidiMagic
This is because target= is deprecated.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Feb 28th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 13,181
Posted By MidiMagic
I'm surprised it works in Firefox. 0px is an invalid style in FF.

FF wants zero values to be just a 0, without the units of measure.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Feb 24th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 6,257
Posted By MidiMagic
Why not just open a new page? The BACK button returns you to the menu page.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Feb 23rd, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 964
Posted By MidiMagic
If you are trying to exactly fill a browser window, note that it can't be done in a way that works in all browsers, screen resolutions, and window sizes.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Feb 17th, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 909
Posted By MidiMagic
Height and width parameters are deprecated.

When you don't yet have the image, use a blank image the same size. Put some text on it, like "Bob lost the picture."

Many browsers refuse to render...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 31st, 2009
Replies: 5
Views: 2,657
Posted By MidiMagic
Try holding a compact fluorescent light bulb over your head. :icon_idea:

Ideas actually require the use of the brain.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 19th, 2009
Replies: 4
Views: 1,016
Posted By MidiMagic
Once you have downloaded the image, all pages can use the same copy without downloading it again. The only times it would be downloaded again are if the user refreshes the page, or if another page...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 19th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 884
Posted By MidiMagic
These control panels are usually not part of the website, but are part of the operating system of the server. Your client just needs an account to use the server itself.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 19th, 2009
Replies: 2
Views: 1,303
Posted By MidiMagic
The best solution is to NOT layer. Browsers are really designed for items to be contained within other items, not on top of each other.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 10th, 2009
Replies: 8
Views: 1,442
Posted By MidiMagic
Can you use word, inserting images as needed?
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 10th, 2009
Replies: 7
Solved: Linking
Views: 1,313
Posted By MidiMagic
Now we just have to teach the beginners the meaning of that lorem ipsum stuff. :icon_cheesygrin:
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 8th, 2009
Replies: 18
Views: 1,770
Posted By MidiMagic
IE is the worst offender when it comes to standards compliance.

Percentages are hard, unless you realize that IE and FF make it seem harder than it really is.

The average desinger applies all...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 8th, 2009
Replies: 1
Views: 746
Posted By MidiMagic
Your code contains bgcolor = #000000 in the body tag.

That makes the background black. What did you expect it to do?

White is #ffffff.
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 8th, 2009
Replies: 10
Views: 1,714
Posted By MidiMagic
Google uses search robots to probe each ISP for web pages.

If the ISP has a "no robots" flag set, then Google skips the probe, but it will still find individual pages on those sites when pages on...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 6th, 2009
Replies: 13
Views: 2,200
Posted By MidiMagic
The main thing to remember is that it looks at TEXT content in the html in your web page file. It can't see stuff in css files, scripts, dynamic content, image files, database files or auxillary...
Forum: Site Layout and Usability Jan 6th, 2009
Replies: 11
Views: 3,879
Posted By MidiMagic
The real tools are xhtml and css. Everything else just comes up with approximations of what you want, and tries to write code in these two languages. The code is not always good.

Even Microsoft...
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