http://support.westciv.com/ Support Forum: Forum: CSS Course - Recent Posts en Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:47:37 +0000 http://support.westciv.com/topic/ie7-problem-w-masaman_prawnhtml#post-1603 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:18:00 +0000 joeyrestate 1603@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Hi Guy,<br /> Perfect fix. Thanks so much<br /> Joey </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/ie7-problem-w-masaman_prawnhtml#post-1602 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:44:29 +0000 guyleech 1602@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Thanks for that Joey, the link worked fine.</p> <p>It turns out the problem is that the paragraphs ('&lt;p'&gt;) inside the .description &lt;div&gt; still have a left margin and a text indent, which is causing them to be pushed over. It does actually happen in FF and Opera, it's just less noticeable.</p> <p>The paragraphs are inheriting this margin from 'spice_style.css', line 14 and 15.</p> <p>There's two easy fixes: the first is add a little bit off CSS like this to one of your CSS files:<br /> <code>.description p {<br /> margin-left: 0;<br /> text-indent: 0; }</code></p> <p>That will remove the margin / indent from and paragraph inside the description.</p> <p>The other way is to remove lines 13, 14 and 15 from 'spice_style.css', because you don't have any paragraphs anywhere else. If you're planning on adding more paragraphs later, I'd suggest going with number 1, above.</p> <p>Hope that helps,<br /> Guy </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/ie7-problem-w-masaman_prawnhtml#post-1601 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:10:12 +0000 joeyrestate 1601@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Thanks for your patience. I am trying this service drop.io for sending files (the recipe file and two css files). Here is the URL -<br /> <a href="http://drop.io/ywglksu" rel="nofollow">http://drop.io/ywglksu</a> </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/ie7-problem-w-masaman_prawnhtml#post-1600 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:01:36 +0000 guyleech 1600@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Just copy and paste the website address from the top of your browser into the text - for example, this thread's link is "http://support.westciv.com/topic.php?id=379".</p> <p>What may be easier is just to copy and paste the code you're using into the text block here, which will save you linking. Just select all the code you're using and pop it in a post.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Guy </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/ie7-problem-w-masaman_prawnhtml#post-1599 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:03:24 +0000 joeyrestate 1599@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Oh my, I don't know how to send a link to my files. I guess I really have a long way to go. If you can help I'll send.<br /> Thanks Joey </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/ie7-problem-w-masaman_prawnhtml#post-1598 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:44:21 +0000 guyleech 1598@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Could you give us a link to the HTML file and the CSS file you're using, or post them here - without seeing more of the code, there's not really much I can do to help you.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Guy </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/ie7-problem-w-masaman_prawnhtml#post-1597 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:11:44 +0000 joeyrestate 1597@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Newbie here, re: CSS 1 course (Spice Emporium):<br /> Finished up with just 1 problem. The recipe page has a class "description."<br /> &lt;div class="description"&gt;&lt;p&gt;This all-time favourite Thai curry can also be made with chicken, beef or tofu.&lt;/p&gt;<br /> &lt;p&gt;Serves 4&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;<br /> The type in this box should be centered left to right. It has extra space on left in IE7 but not in FF or Opera. The main style sheet has margin and padding set to 0px. Both my Style Sheet and html file were validated over at W3C. Is there anything else I can do? Thank you in advance for any help! </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/relative-paths#post-1424 Tue, 20 May 2008 22:32:31 +0000 Cary 1424@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Sometimes I use the base tag for testing purposes. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/relative-paths#post-1423 Tue, 20 May 2008 17:58:11 +0000 Storyman 1423@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Anyone ever use the BASE meta tag?</p> <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html</a> </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/relative-paths#post-1420 Mon, 19 May 2008 11:58:44 +0000 Tengachaya 1420@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>You know I had this problem when I done a course on HTML last year, but I had been away so long that I had forgotten. But you guys certainly prevented me from pulling out what little hair I have left, so cheers!</p> <p>Orrabest,</p> <p>T </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/relative-paths#post-1419 Sat, 17 May 2008 22:32:04 +0000 JohnAllsopp 1419@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Hi Cary,</p> <p>Just a little edit. / itself refers to the current directory. ./ takes you to the root directory (but depending on how the server is configured, that may not be the root of the web site).</p> <p>j </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/relative-paths#post-1418 Sat, 17 May 2008 20:22:47 +0000 Cary 1418@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>The "../" takes you up one level to the directory above the html which isn't always going to be the root.</p> <p>Just "/" without the dots will always take you to the root. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/relative-paths#post-1417 Sat, 17 May 2008 07:29:35 +0000 Tengachaya 1417@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Cheers Gary,</p> <p>href="../style_sheets/spice_style.css" did the job. It is the paid for CSS Level 1 tutorial.</p> <p>I tried many different permutations, but not the dot dot slash. I take it the dot dot slash takes us to the root directory.</p> <p>Thanks for reducing my stress!</p> <p>All the best </p> <p>T </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/relative-paths#post-1416 Fri, 16 May 2008 21:23:01 +0000 Cary 1416@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Maybe try this instead:</p> <p>href="style_sheets/spice_style.css"</p> <p>or this</p> <p>href="../style_sheets/spice_style.css"</p> <p>This is just my guess as I know nothing about that tutorial and how the files are arranged. Is it one of the paid for ones, or is it a free one that anyone can look at? </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/relative-paths#post-1415 Fri, 16 May 2008 18:20:22 +0000 Tengachaya 1415@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>I am having the same problem. I have tried "spice_emporium_site/style_sheets/spice_style.css" as you have done (seems the logical answer) but I can't create a pathway to the target stylesheet which is ultimately supposed to render my HTML document into something more lovely. Anyone got any advice on how I can do this? </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/css-tutorial-failed#post-1294 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:34:21 +0000 yagreek58 1294@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>anyways, thanks for helping me out of my stylesheet - desaster , i searched for it and couldn't find it. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/css-tutorial-failed#post-1293 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:27:20 +0000 Cary 1293@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Oh, that's not my style sheet. These are Westciv's pages. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/css-tutorial-failed#post-1292 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:34:48 +0000 yagreek58 1292@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Hi Cary, thank you for posting your core-style.css<br /> i barely can't believe that someone could do the css-stylesheet from the tutorial. yours is so clean , i don't know how you did that, respect. now i'm so happy that i can go on and study a bit more of those style-sheets. thank you so much. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/css-tutorial-failed#post-1291 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:22:47 +0000 Cary 1291@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>You mean this <a href="http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/hands_on_tutorial/finished_project/core-style.css">core-style.css</a> for <a href="http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/hands_on_tutorial/finished_project/index.html">this page</a>? </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/css-tutorial-failed#post-1290 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:02:20 +0000 yagreek58 1290@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>i made the CSS tutorial a several times , but at the end - something is always wrong. this time i only get the outer-image half in, the other half<br /> is just black _LOL_ i dont get this fixed without<br /> help. could anyone post send his core-style.CSS from the tutorial so i could search for<br /> the mistake i made. if no one has finished it, so<br /> i can understand - it is not meant to be finished. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/week-7-problem-help#post-989 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:12:02 +0000 Mrkus 989@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>According to your class for Week 7...<br /> This should link to my style sheet named "recipe.css".<br /> However - that does not work.</p> <p>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style_sheets/recipe.css"&gt;</p> <p>Root folder: spice_emporium_site<br /> But the file you are referring to is in a folder named "recipes" inside the root folder.<br /> When I copy the style sheet into the recipe folder , the link works. How can I make it work according to your class? It specifically says that it would work in the original folder (style_sheets).<br /> Thanks<br /> <a href="mailto:M@rkus">M@rkus</a> </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/bad-links-to-color-chart-week-5#post-834 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:03:42 +0000 maxinesherrin 834@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Apologies for this, the link is now all fixed. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/bad-links-to-color-chart-week-5#post-833 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:53:02 +0000 Otoole 833@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Ditto. I was hoping to view the chart. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/poor-design-in-lession-4#post-823 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:00:22 +0000 oldmanphoto 823@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Underlining for emphasis is very common for printed material but a definite no-no for the Internet where underlining MEANS LINK. It is really sad to see it used here in a tutorial in an inappropriate way. </p> <p>When one sees an underline, it attracts the mouse and when it get there it says "Fooled ya", Ha-Ha,you expected a link you dumb viewer. It is not nice to piss off your viewer with misleading structure. </p> <p>You could have chosen a much better example. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/bad-links-to-color-chart-week-5#post-822 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:09:48 +0000 stevespeirs 822@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>There are a couple of bad links to a color chart in the free Week 5 course:</p> <p><a href="http://www.westciv.com/courses/free/color_chart/color_chart.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.westciv.com/courses/free/color_chart/color_chart.html</a></p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>--Steve </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/anyone-have-week-1-and-2#post-817 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:56:55 +0000 stevespeirs 817@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>I missed the first 2 weeks of the free course as I was out of the country on vacation. Does anyone have details of week 1 and 2 so I can catch up?</p> <p>TIA,</p> <p>--steve </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/relative-paths#post-758 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:26:16 +0000 mwang27 758@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>For exercise 7b, I understand that the relative path that you enter in the href quotations changes, but what does it change to? For example, if I go into the books directory and go to index.html and add the link to the style sheet, would it show as href="spice_emporium_site/style_sheets/spice_style.css"? </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/week-3-snapshot-links#post-757 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:17:58 +0000 maxinesherrin 757@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Oooops, sorry about that, I had uploaded the wrong set of snapshots - all fixed now and you are good to go. </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/where-do-i-find-the-resources-for-the-current-online-free-course#post-756 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:03:11 +0000 maxinesherrin 756@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>You need to download the <a href="http://www.westciv.com/courses/free/course_materials.zip">course materials</a>, as below. When you unzip, be sure to left click and choose "Extract All..." </p> http://support.westciv.com/topic/pdf-resources-for-week-1-are-404d#post-755 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:00:41 +0000 maxinesherrin 755@http://support.westciv.com/ <p>Yes, the files will continue to be there at the beginning of each week - though you only need to download them once.</p> <p>As above, I have checked again and there is definitely nothing wrong with them, and I was able to open the PDFs no problem. They were created some time ago, so maybe there is a versioning issue going on here, but really, Acrobat Reader should be able to open documents made with older versions anyway.</p> <p>Having said all that, the PDFs are not vital to the course: as long as you can get the other course documents, which are used to actually create the site, you are fine. </p>