Eskymo

I wish rounded corners were supported by all browsers NOW! I'm building a site at the moment and the designer has got rounded corners on everything and not only that he's mixed in gradients too, so that makes my job even harder. It's good to get a challenge though and I'm determined to find an easy solution! If I do I'll be posting my code up here in case anyone else gets stuck with the same problem.

I've got the Web Standards Solutions book too and it helped me make the transition from tables to CSS. However if you already know CSS, I'd recommend Dan's other book Bulletproof Web Design it's brilliant - it takes real life website issues and makes them bulletproof with CSS - I found it a Godsend!

Your link doesn't work and it's not up to me what you do with your site as in "you want me to change the current layout". I offered you a few suggestions and said what I liked / didn't like. I'm not telling you to do anything. I know about this and there's no way of getting around it as I couldn't make the clickable area overlap the H1 area and I'd got so far with the design stage by the time I started coding that it was too late to re-arrange things. I don't think it's that noticeable - only to designers and colleagues - the general public never noticed it and if they did, they didn't comment on it and it has no impact on the usablility of the site.

I looked into GAWDS a while back, as I thought it would be a beneficial stanp of recognition as Accessibility is something I became quite a guru about when I was working for a company in Edinburgh. The fact that you're checked out by them and the sites you've done tested for accesibility [up to level 2] and valid code is brilliant. I was put off a bit by the price, but mostly scared I wouldn't pass their rigorous testing. I'm going to try and improve the accessibility of my website and try and convert it to XHTML Strict and once I've done that I'm thinking of joining them.

I preferred it the way it was - that was more web 2.0. Now you got a green that just looks awful with the rest of the page - go back to what you had originally - it was far superior to what you have now.

Well I think the design of the splash page is far better than the homepage - so I would restyle the home page using similar fonts and colours to the splash page.

sort out your snoring then! kicking could work!

I hope you have a comfy sofa!

How come you were up so late last night then? I was busy doing my Eskymo Newlsletter...

I think your homepage is great - looks very stylish. Very disappointed when I clicked to enter though - what comes next is something completely different. There is no consistency in the design...On the splash page you define a style and colour scheme that works really well along with the streamline design. Your homepage however, doesn't contain any of that - its like visiting two separate sites. The colours are completely different as are the fonts....and the style for that matter. If you could style your homepage and the rest of your site along the same lines as the splash page, I think you're on to a winner.

Oh I feel so old now! Happy Birthday!!!

I bow down to your amzing wisdom... Thanks for taking the time to explain it all to me! Oh My God - I thought I was the only one up at this time of night!!! Time for bed methinks and it's nearly 3am!

You BEAUTY! That works perfectly! So do some explaining! Why does that work and what you had before didn't - I've not used the IE comments before - feeling less of an expert every time you post something...

It kind of makes me think of the day I've had - trying out lots of possibilities and none of them working and going round in circles then stumbling on a final solution, trying it and then finding I'm back to where I started!

I just wish I could get my hands on the music and play it all day long!

I was minding my own business watching ER after a hard days work and the ad break came on and a Bupa advert had a Bobby Mcferrin track in the background that was taken from the Pixar animation called Knick Knack that can't help but make me laugh...so i had to come and find it online and thought I would post it up here for all to see. Knick Knack the sheer determination of the snowman is great! Enjoy! E

I registered with them years ago - just because I thought I should. It's done nothing for me - but clients who aren't really into the web or techy stuff see it as some some of acreditation [if that's the right word]. So I keep it on my sight just to please folk like that. I don't see any other benefits to be honest.

I just used your code and the page stopped validating - I don't think you can mix the object and embed tag anymore.

Hey - thanks for taking the time to do that. I didn't think you could use both the object and embed tag together as that's not valid XHTML? Maybe I'm wrong.

I didn't mean it in a bad way - that's just one of my catchphrases!

That's me told! Thanks for the info - that all makes sense especially with regards to accessibility. I'm going to start with my site and try and get it to be XHTML strict and see how I go.

you're a star - I'd really appreciate the code!

Hi there I did this site recently as an offline site - it's now gone online and I can't get the video to play in IE7. Check this link as it's the only page containing video: Clapping Video code used to embed video: <div id="videobox"> <object id="quicktimefile" data="nosoundclap.mov" width="318" height="254" type="video/quicktime"> <param name="src" value="nosoundclap.mov" /> <p class="alert">Please download the Quicktime plugin to view movie</p> </object> </div> I've checked the site in other PC browsers and it works fine - IE7 throws an eppy and declares that an acitve-x control needs to be run - you click ok to accept this and the video still doesn't show. Anybody got any ideas?

I totally agree with the community aspect. I love it here! It's a great forum and has great people...but it also has other features like the blogs and gallery and other ways to contribute like adding to the links section etc and I think Ben is going to be adding more stuff. I think Ben should probably have a clear out of members as I checked through the list recently and there are a lot of dodgy names in the list which I think have arisen from before the upgrade when the forum was being bombarded with spam links. Not sure how you determine which is spam though and which is genuine - wouldn't want to offend anyone.

E = Expert!