Could I SUCK anymore?!?

Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...

My tables are ALL JACKED UP...

There is supposed to be about a 300x900 header image in the top cell
of every table and it is not manifesting...
ON the index file...that column on the right is NOT supposed to be
that small...i've tried to embiggen the parameters, to no avail..

AND/ALL insight is sincerely appreciated!

Thanks,
Ginae Mc.

http://katiemaudstephan.com/index.html

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

On 2007-06-24, Ginae wrote:
> Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...
>
> My tables are ALL JACKED UP...

That's what you get for using tables for layout.

On hover, the links are illegible (blue on black).

You have flush-right text (which is hard to read), without any
margins (which makes it even harder).

If this is a new page, why are you using a transitional doctype?

> There is supposed to be about a 300x900 header image in the top cell
> of every table and it is not manifesting...

Does the image exist where is is supposed to be?

> ON the index file...that column on the right is NOT supposed to be
> that small...i've tried to embiggen the parameters, to no avail..

Which column? The one with text, or the one to the right of that?

Before you do anything else, make the page valid HTML 4.01 Strict
(it doesn't even validate with the transitional doctype).

--
Chris F.A. Johnson
============================================================ =======
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

Thanks so much and you are waaayyyyy over my head...
What is this validating business? Are you referring to the doctype?

And yes, this TRULY is what I get for using tables...argh!

And...thanks again :)

On Jun 24, 2:22 am, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
> On 2007-06-24, Ginae wrote:
> > Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...
>
> > My tables are ALL JACKED UP...
>
> That's what you get for using tables for layout.
>
> On hover, the links are illegible (blue on black).
>
> You have flush-right text (which is hard to read), without any
> margins (which makes it even harder).
>
> If this is a new page, why are you using a transitional doctype?
>
> > There is supposed to be about a 300x900 header image in the top cell
> > of every table and it is not manifesting...
>
> Does the image exist where is is supposed to be?
>
> > ON the index file...that column on the right is NOT supposed to be
> > that small...i've tried to embiggen the parameters, to no avail..
>
> Which column? The one with text, or the one to the right of that?
>
> Before you do anything else, make the page valid HTML 4.01 Strict
> (it doesn't even validate with the transitional doctype).
>
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson
> ============================================================ =======
> Author:
> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

On Jun 24, 2:22 am, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
> On 2007-06-24, Ginae wrote:
> > Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...
>
> > My tables are ALL JACKED UP...
>
> That's what you get for using tables for layout.
>
> On hover, the links are illegible (blue on black).
>
> You have flush-right text (which is hard to read), without any
> margins (which makes it even harder).
>
> If this is a new page, why are you using a transitional doctype?
>
> > There is supposed to be about a 300x900 header image in the top cell
> > of every table and it is not manifesting...
>
> Does the image exist where is is supposed to be?
>
> > ON the index file...that column on the right is NOT supposed to be
> > that small...i've tried to embiggen the parameters, to no avail..
>
> Which column? The one with text, or the one to the right of that?
>
> Before you do anything else, make the page valid HTML 4.01 Strict
> (it doesn't even validate with the transitional doctype).
>
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson
> ============================================================ =======
> Author:
> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

And, no. The image does not populate...

The column with the rambling text is entirely too narrow...why? I do
not know

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

On 2007-06-24, Ginae wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2:22 am, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
>> On 2007-06-24, Ginae wrote:
>> > Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...
>>
>> > My tables are ALL JACKED UP...
>>
>> That's what you get for using tables for layout.
>>
>> On hover, the links are illegible (blue on black).
>>
>> You have flush-right text (which is hard to read), without any
>> margins (which makes it even harder).
>>
>> If this is a new page, why are you using a transitional doctype?
>>
>> > There is supposed to be about a 300x900 header image in the top cell
>> > of every table and it is not manifesting...
>>
>> Does the image exist where is is supposed to be?
>>
>> > ON the index file...that column on the right is NOT supposed to be
>> > that small...i've tried to embiggen the parameters, to no avail..
>>
>> Which column? The one with text, or the one to the right of that?
>>
>> Before you do anything else, make the page valid HTML 4.01 Strict
>> (it doesn't even validate with the transitional doctype).

[two replies merged into one, with top posting fixed (but it would be
better interspersed with the previous post)]

> Thanks so much and you are waaayyyyy over my head...
> What is this validating business? Are you referring to the doctype?



> And, no. The image does not populate...

There's no header.jpg in your images directory.

> The column with the rambling text is entirely too narrow...why? I do
> not know

You gave it a width of 100 pixels:


--
Chris F.A. Johnson
============================================================ =======
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

Ginae wrote:
> Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...
>
> My tables are ALL JACKED UP...
>
> There is supposed to be about a 300x900 header image in the top cell
> of every table and it is not manifesting...
> ON the index file...that column on the right is NOT supposed to be
> that small...i've tried to embiggen the parameters, to no avail..
>
> AND/ALL insight is sincerely appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Ginae Mc.
>
> http://katiemaudstephan.com/index.html
>

In addition to what Chris said, when having inline JavaScript and
stylesheets what is between the opening and closing tags of each must
comply to the respective syntax, so the old practice of using HTML
comments to hide from ancient browsers needed tweaking to
comply with each syntax. So for JavaScript "//" means comment and to add
it to the tail end of the html and you get




But for stylesheets /* */ us for comments so your JavaScript tweaked
comment throws an error...



As I said before, the practice of hiding both stylesheet and JavaScript
code is obsolete and you should add the html comments.

But more basically you need to update your coding method about 10 years
and save yourself a lot of grief and work. Go through the tutorials at
www.htmldog.com to get started... Then Google for "3 column with header
and footer CSS layout" to find a template for your redesign.



--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

Ginae wrote:

> Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...
>
> My tables are ALL JACKED UP...

Yeah well...

> There is supposed to be about a 300x900 header image in the top cell
> of every table and it is not manifesting... ON the index file...that
> column on the right is NOT supposed to be that small...i've tried to
> embiggen the parameters, to no avail..

> http://katiemaudstephan.com/index.html

Further advice.

1. Get rid of that silly 'no-right-click' script.
2. Your pre-loading of images takes forever. They are all way too large
in bytes (need optimized).
3. For a visitor with JavaScript disabled, or stripped by a corporate
firewall, your page falls apart.
4. I would mention using a 2- or 3-column CSS layout, but I don't
actually see three columns of content. Try just one column, with your
(one or two) images inserted in the text as floats.

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:04:51 -0400, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> As I said before, the practice of hiding both stylesheet and JavaScript
> code is obsolete

....and is (usually) best avoided altogether by using external files for
them instead of in-line coding. It makes them available to other pages,
and avoids mixing code and markup in confusing ways.

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

On 2007-06-24, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Ginae wrote:
>
>> Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...
....
>> http://katiemaudstephan.com/index.html
>
> Further advice.
>
> 1. Get rid of that silly 'no-right-click' script.

Apart from the fact that it doesn't work, and that it cannot work
if the viewer has JavaScript turned off, it will not prevent
downloading the images. In fact, you make that very easy to do by
having the filenames in a handy list in your JavaScript. A 3-line
script can download them all.


--
Chris F.A. Johnson
============================================================ =======
Author:
Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

Thanks, ya'll!
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On Jun 24, 1:00 pm, "Chris F.A. Johnson" wrote:
> On 2007-06-24, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>
> > Ginae wrote:
>
> >> Okay, people...please...I am sooo stuck...
> ...
> >>http://katiemaudstephan.com/index.html
>
> > Further advice.
>
> > 1. Get rid of that silly 'no-right-click' script.
>
> Apart from the fact that it doesn't work, and that it cannot work
> if the viewer has JavaScript turned off, it will not prevent
> downloading the images. In fact, you make that very easy to do by
> having the filenames in a handy list in your JavaScript. A 3-line
> script can download them all.
>
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson
> ============================================================ =======
> Author:
> Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)

Re: Could I SUCK anymore?!?

On 24 Jun, 06:07, Ginae wrote:

> AND/ALL insight is sincerely appreciated!

Take that page out and shoot it, then start again.

* LOSE THE 10-YEAR OLD