Remember this website?
www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)

You guys were ing me with it before.

Bearing in mind my still newbieness, can anyone with the following? I'd
really appreciate it. I know I still need to tidy up my css a bit and
shorten it but I don't want to that until its all right.

Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.

www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)

1) My main problem is, why is the secondary menu (in the grey bar - contact
brian barr, home page etc etc) not showing in IE 7?

2) Which divs / css do i need to amend to make the main text not bump up
against the edge of the grey sidebar on the right hand side? It works fine
in IE but not in firefox or netscape, which means I assume i've coded it
incorrectly.

3) how do i show my background images in the right sidebar? i've read about
some bug with the no-repeat but if I take these out the pics look completely
wrong.

4) how come the telephone and email dark grey box bumps right up against the
grey bar above it in NN and MF but not in IE? (why is IE so annoying in its
standards implementation?

I am desparately trying to do this right and fix the old table-based code on
the old design but I'm getting a bit stuck

Looking forward to your again.

Thanks
R


"Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Remember this website?
> www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)
>
> You guys were ing me with it before.
>
> Bearing in mind my still newbieness, can anyone with the following?
> I'd really appreciate it. I know I still need to tidy up my css a bit and
> shorten it but I don't want to that until its all right.
>
>
>
>

"Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.
>
> www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)


> 1) My main problem is,

Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which are
totally unreadble.

rf wrote:
> "Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Bc6dnQMIZ-7TbULanZ2dnUVZ8sOonZ2d@bt.com...
>> Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.
>>
>> www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)
>
>
>> 1) My main problem is,
>
> Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which are
> totally unreadble.

I believe that if you do add the /testsite/relative to the domain name
and manufacture the URL she's really asking about, you'll see she's
moving to a 100%-based format. It's just not working for her yet.

I haven't found the time to address her specific questions, however. :-(

(Seems, at a quick glance, though, to have somewhat over-long styling,
not just because of the verbose comments.)

--
John
Read about the UIP: http://improve-usenet.org/

"John Hosking" <John@DELETE.Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote in message
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> rf wrote:
>> "Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Bc6dnQMIZ-7TbULanZ2dnUVZ8sOonZ2d@bt.com...
>>> Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.
>>>
>>> www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)
>>
>>
>>> 1) My main problem is,
>>
>> Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which
>> are totally unreadble.
>
> I believe that if you do add the /testsite/relative to the domain name and
> manufacture the URL she's really asking about, you'll see she's moving to
> a 100%-based format. It's just not working for her yet.
>
> I haven't found the time to address her specific questions, however. :-(
>
> (Seems, at a quick glance, though, to have somewhat over-long styling,

> not just because of the verbose comments.)

>
> --
> John
> Read about the UIP: http://improve-usenet.org/

Thank you.

As I said in my original post I have to cut it down, but I'm not going to do
that until its all working. hope you can with my questions

R

"rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Bc6dnQMIZ-7TbULanZ2dnUVZ8sOonZ2d@bt.com...
>> Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.
>>
>> www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)
>
>
>> 1) My main problem is,
>
> Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which
> are totally unreadble.
>
Where?

Ruth wrote:
>
> www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)

Please make it easy for people to you.
http://www.brianbarr.co.uk/testsite/relative/

> 1) My main problem is, why is the secondary menu (in the grey bar - contact
> brian barr, home page etc etc) not showing in IE 7?

I think you have a worse problem - setting the content width to a fixed
60em. Maybe it doesn't matter much to those of you who use a small
default font size, but for those of us with large text, it's way too
wide. There's excessive horizontal scrolling.

Regarding your other issues, I'm having a hard time weeding through your
CSS. Too many stylesheets, too many over-specified rules. You should
simplify. For example:

#navcontainer
{
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
right: 0px;
float: right;
display: inline;
position: relative;
width: 100%;
background-color: #615D5C;
}

It's a div element, so margin, padding, right all default to 0 anyway.
Your combination of float, display, position and width don't make any
sense to me. What are you really trying to accomplish here?

If you're letting Dreamweaver generate all that CSS, you should stop
that practice now.

BTW, you should set a foreground color to go with that background.

--
Berg

"John Hosking" <John@DELETE.Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote in message
news:47e0b7da$1_6@news.bluewin.ch...
> rf wrote:
>> "Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Bc6dnQMIZ-7TbULanZ2dnUVZ8sOonZ2d@bt.com...
>>> Sorry - sent it by mistake before I finished typing.
>>>
>>> www.brianbarr.co.uk (please add /testsite/relative)
>>
>>
>>> 1) My main problem is,
>>
>> Nope. Your main problem is that you are using flyspeck sized fonts which
>> are totally unreadble.
>
> I believe that if you do add the /testsite/relative to the domain name and
> manufacture the URL she's really asking about, you'll see she's moving to
> a 100%-based format. It's just not working for her yet.

Ah, is that what that meant? I had no idea that I had to manually change the
URL after I had clicked on it. Why not just direct me to
www.brianbarr.co.uk/testsite/relative ?

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:doraymeRidThis-604B3E.03080920032008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
> In article <Wh8Ej.385$n8.159@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> "rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
>
>> "John Hosking"
>> > I believe that if you do add the /testsite/relative to the domain name
>> > and
>> > manufacture the URL she's really asking about, you'll see she's moving
>> > to
>> > a 100%-based format. It's just not working for her yet.
>>
>> Ah, is that what that meant? I had no idea that I had to manually change
>> the
>> URL after I had clicked on it. Why not just direct me to
>> www.brianbarr.co.uk/testsite/relative ?
>
> This last question is a pretty good one.
>
> --
> dorayme
>

some silly part of me not wanting to put the site "out there" as a direct
link as it will be taken down soon. ignore my paranoia. but i thought it was
quite clear anyway.

"dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> In article <U9CdnSUFuOEaz3zanZ2dnUVZ8sSrnZ2d@bt.com>,
> "Ruth" <NewsgroupRuthNoSpAm@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:doraymeRidThis-604B3E.03080920032008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
>> > In article <Wh8Ej.385$n8.159@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
>> > "rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> "John Hosking"
>> >> > I believe that if you do add the /testsite/relative to the domain
>> >> > name
>> >> > and
>> >> > manufacture the URL she's really asking about, you'll see she's
>> >> > moving
>> >> > to
>> >> > a 100%-based format. It's just not working for her yet.
>> >>
>> >> Ah, is that what that meant? I had no idea that I had to manually
>> >> change
>> >> the
>> >> URL after I had clicked on it. Why not just direct me to
>> >> www.brianbarr.co.uk/testsite/relative ?
>> >
>> > This last question is a pretty good one.
>> >
>> > --
>> > dorayme
>> >
>>
>> some silly part of me not wanting to put the site "out there" as a direct
>> link as it will be taken down soon. ignore my paranoia. but i thought it
>> was
>> quite clear anyway.
>
> Ah, it is early and I never guessed this one.
>
> You can't be too careful! I have enemies on all sides, I have
> never revealed my street address to anyone, not even family with
> the same address. I always let them think I was the electrician
> or plumber or something making a service call.
>
> Sometimes my enemies employ professionals and they sometimes have
> gotten close. But they never quite home in to finish me off. For
> example I can see two extremely burly Finnish men on watch on the
> corner.
>
> Today when I go to get the paper I will do it with my best
> disguise ever: a kangaroo suit. I will hop by them and give them
> a little playful kick (they will have seen a boxing kangaroo on
> Finnish TV. They look so stupid they must have spent their whole
> childhood watching the box. But stupid or not, they also look
> pretty mean. One of them is 7 ft tall).
>
> --
> dorayme
>

You never know, in your case caution may be justified.