Re: My new website

On 15 Sep 2005 14:27:21 -0700, Frank wrote:

> DM wrote:
>> In article <1126771303.044061.37300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> frankzafiro@xxxxxxx says...
>>>
>>> Irina Rempt wrote:
>>> > Frank wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Lucy Kemnitzer wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >> Okay. You might not like this: but I don't like the animations. I do
>>> > >> like the layout, which is neat and clean and easy to navigate.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> Lucy Kemnitzer
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks for the response.
>>> > >
>>> > > Do you find the animations distracting? Is it those specific
>>> > > animations, or just animations in general?
>>> >
>>> > I'm not Lucy, but I don't like animations in general; they're not only
>>> > distracting, but they make me dizzy.
>>> >
>>> > Irina
>>>
>>> I (mostly) agree with both of you.
>>>
>>> I took out the spinning CD, the page-turning book and the email
>>> animation and replaced them with static pictures. I did leave the
>>> coffee pot and the radio animation because they are less busy.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>>
>>>
>> First page: you haven't specified a doctype.
>> None of the images has an 'alt' specified - so if i have images turned
>> off in my browser, there is nothing but a few titles.
>> Have you given any thought to using CSS for presentation? You wouldn't
>> need all those non-breaking spaces for positioning, and it would be
>> easier to read and edit your page.
>>
>>
>> --
>> D Marshall
>
> Great advice...if I wasn't such a noob that I didn't know what you
> meant...I used FrontPage for this. I'll have to read up some more and
> learn enough to soak in your advice.
>
> Thanks, though.

Arrgh. FrontPage.

You will need a text editor. Notepad is probably enough, but you'll outgrow
it quickly -- it won't handle big files.

The "doctype" or document type should be the first line. There are many
browsers (not IE, though) which read that line so they know what to render.
It looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

That is, this is an HTML document which is publicly accessible. The stuff
inside quote marks is optional. In this case, it says 'if you don't know
how to render this, look up the World Wide Web Consortium (which defines
HTML) and check the Document Type Definition "HTML 4.0 Transitional".' The
final two letters say it's in the English language, and you can add a
character-set definition if you like. There are many DTDs, so you may want
to finesse the whole thing by just putting "-EN" in there. That's legal,
but considered a bit crude :-)

Then go through and find all the <img src="filename"> tags. Inside the
angle brackets, add alt="alternate text" strings; the alternate text should
explain what the image is, and if it's a link it should explain what the
link is all about. People who don't see graphics -- Lynx users, the blind,
and impatient folk on dialup -- will see (or have their screenreader
pronounce) the alt text and know what they would see if they could see it.
You can also add title="title string" strings, which on some browsers will
show an image title or caption in a bubble-help box. So a complete image
tag looks like:
<img src="URL" alt="Description of Picture" title="Title or caption">

That often comes out pretty long, especially if it's inside a link. Don't
worry. In HTML, all whitespace equals one space; unlike newsreaders and
other display programs, you can break links and tags into as many lines as
you want. The browser will change all the newlines into single spaces
before interpreting anything.

CSS is worth a study, but it's one of those things where you'll probably
stare at it for hours before you finally figure out what they're driving
at, whereupon it becomes simple. It's just whether or not you want to
invest those X hours of puzzlement first. Tables will do everything you
need to do, and they render faster.

BTW, I meant to say last night, but the server crashed: looks pretty good
to me, but I don't like the animations. I seem to be in the majority.

Regards,
Ric
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