[NBLUG/talk] NBLUG website critique

[Jackie Young]

Basically, I really like the Web Site.

A couple of suggestions:

1) The text on the page is very close to the table edge, and may look better
with cellpadding=5, or something close to that.

2) Also, the gray buttons may look better as blue buttons with white text.
Adding the following code to the CSS:
.button {
 font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 font-size: 10pt;
 font-weight: bold;
 color: #FFFFFF;
 background-color: #000088;
 cursor: hand;
}
and then adding the class link on the button command <input type="submit"
value="Go!" class="button"> will turn the gray buttons into blue buttons
with white text.

Just my 2-cents . . .

Jackie


----- Original Message -----
From: ME
To: talk at nblug.org
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] NBLUG website critique


E Frank Ball said:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:45:46AM -0700, Mike Egan, ME wrote:
> } >
> } > I agree.  The center aligned content is a little distracting.
> }
> } I was finally able to find a web browser that duplicated what you
> described.
>
> What is this mysterious web browser.  I have no idea what those guys
> were talking about.

As it turns out, Later version of MSIE and current Opera "did not do HTML
right."

When the center tag is used, and a table is embeded within an open center
and closed center, the content within the table should not be centered.
Example:
<center>
<table>
<tr><td>item</td></tr>
<tr><td> yet another item</td></tr>
</table>
</center>
should not lead to a table with text within it ("item" and "yet another
item") centered withint the table, but both of these lines left justified
within a table that is centered.

Opera and MSIE were centering the text within the table even though the
call to center was outside the table. Bad, bad!

Why? If you wished to have your table centered without centering the text
within it, you would need to violate the HTML standards by closing your
center tag in the table and such things are no-no's:
No-no:
<center>
<table>
</center>
<tr><td>....</td></tr>
<center>
</table>
</center>

bad bad above.

So to ensure the text content held within a table is not centered, I just
removed the center tags (open and close) surrounding the table. This means
I dont get *exactly* what I want, but at least I dont get something I
would strongly dislike. (Inconsistent HTML "rendering" has been a problem
since there was more than one web browser. ;-)

-ME


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