ideas?

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:00 pm

Woa, that looks superb! Perhaps I will trade for that lol...

Yea, everytime I add a certain doctype my little grey bar next to my navigation bar dissapears, gah this is confusing.

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:02 pm

Uaintseenme wrote:Woa, that looks superb! Perhaps I will trade for that lol...

Yea, everytime I add a certain doctype my little grey bar next to my navigation bar dissapears, gah this is confusing.

Then the code you are using is not valid for that doctype. Try using this:

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd'>

Ew, the way you're making that grey bar is ugly. Why not do this:

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navFrame {
border-right: #A9A9A9 20px solid;
width: 150px;
height: 900px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
<iframe class='navFrame' src="nav.html" valign="top" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes"></iframe>

Post by **inphlict** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:02 pm

Make the header smaller and replace that fox image, and don't use tables.

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:20 pm

bitWISE wrote:
Uaintseenme wrote:Woa, that looks superb! Perhaps I will trade for that lol...

Yea, everytime I add a certain doctype my little grey bar next to my navigation bar dissapears, gah this is confusing.
Then the code you are using is not valid for that doctype. Try using this:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd'>
Ew, the way you're making that grey bar is ugly. Why not do this:
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navFrame {
border-right: #A9A9A9 20px solid;
width: 150px;
height: 900px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}
<iframe class='navFrame' src="nav.html" valign="top" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes"></iframe>

I added that doctype, then revalidated, got this as my first error:

Line 5, column 12: there is no attribute "XMLNS"

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute.
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Also added that code you suggested for my navbar, didn't do anything, unless I did it wrong, here;

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<head>

<style>
navFrame {
border-right: #A9A9A9 20px solid;
width: 150px;
height: 900px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
} 
</style>

</head>

<body>
<iframe class="navFrame" src="nav.html" valign="top" width="150" height="900" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" 

frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" bordercolor="#000000">
</iframe>

Post by **inphlict** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:21 pm

Here is a quick mock up.

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:23 pm

inphlict wrote:Here is a quick mock up.

Hey! That's actually kinda sweet, I just like having my foxhound image up there though ;p How much altering did you do to the code? just borders to my tables?

Post by **inphlict** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:26 pm

I didn't edit the code, it's just a quick mock done in photoshop to give an idea.

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:27 pm

Ah, what I should do is go get my old copy of Dreamweaver MX, open the site up in that and fix the errors that way, this is a major head-ache, specially since I'm tired.

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:33 pm

Do I really have to comply with these W3 bastards? :icon23:

edit: going to sleep, will reply to whatever posts here later

Post by **inphlict** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:56 pm

Yeah you really should, it sort of like saying do I need to use correct grammer & spelling when I publish a book.

Post by **mik0rs** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:56 pm

If you don't your site gets taken off the internet. Plus it's less likely to cause problems for various browsers.

Post by **4days** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:30 pm

Uaintseenme wrote: Also added that code you suggested for my navbar, didn't do anything, unless I did it wrong, here;

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<head>

<style>
navFrame {
border-right: #A9A9A9 20px solid;
width: 150px;
height: 900px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
} 
</style>

</head>

<body>
<iframe class="navFrame" src="nav.html" valign="top" width="150" height="900" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" 

frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" bordercolor="#000000">
</iframe>

you need a '.' in front of 'navFrame' in the style declaration, eg: ".navFrame {".

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:44 pm

Doh, didn't realize I left that out.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:27 pm

Uaintseenme wrote:Now that I completed the layout, I have a really shitty resolution picture of my car in the digital camera section, I'm sure everyone wants to see it so here you go!

Post by **Auburndale** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:40 pm

please change your windows scheme. it looks shitty

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:57 pm

why not color the fox in photoshop and clean it up so it looks less like a scan of a cocktail napkin and more like it belongs on a computer.

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:27 pm

bitWISE wrote:Doh, didn't realize I left that out.

also, always use double quotes. class='navframe' aint valid either

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:59 pm

MKJ wrote:
bitWISE wrote:Doh, didn't realize I left that out.
also, always use double quotes. class='navframe' aint valid either

According to the validater it is. I'm used to using single quotes because I always use PHP to generate the HTML.

Post by **eepberries** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:27 pm

pretty neat site
[lvlshot]http://mywebpage.netscape.com/ekeerf/pictures/cap.jpg[/lvlshot]

Post by **Coreiel** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:03 am

holy fuck that looks bad.

honestly, whats with that grey background on the left under the links? make it seemless with the rest of the page.

/rage off

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:13 am

Maybe I should make a new layout, this just isn't working the way I thought it would.

Post by **Coreiel** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:20 am

yeah. the new layout should look like a 404 page and do fuck all. even if you click the refresh button.

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:26 am

Coreiel wrote:yeah. the new layout should look like a 404 page and do fuck all. even if you click the refresh button.

Somebody should break your hands.

Post by **Coreiel** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:43 am

i'm up for anything, as long as it means your site wont be plaguing the internet.

Post by **Uaintseenme** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 12:55 am

Dr_Watson wrote:why not color the fox in photoshop and clean it up so it looks less like a scan of a cocktail napkin and more like it belongs on a computer.

Done.