Help please

**John Marcotte** · Jul 20 '05, 08:10 PM

Re: Help please

>[color=blue]
> Next time you're posting sample pages with half-nude women, put up a
> warning. Some people are trying to help you from their office, and we
> don't have cubicles in Europe. It's not that we're prude, but pages like
> this wouldn't look like we're helping out people in HTML/CSS related
> subjects, in other words, doing something work-related. Reduce the page
> to the actual problem, get rid of the rest, and you might get much
> better help.[/color]

It's a girl in a bikini. I didn't really think of it as a "not safe
for work" issue. I apologize. Girls in bikinis are not a focus of the
site or anything like that. The pictures go with a (somewhat)
legitimate news story.

Here's another page with no bikini-clad women:

http://www.badmouth.net/archives/000058.php

Seperating out the problem is somewhat difficult, as these are
generated pages. If I mess with the template to create just the
problem in isolation, I basically take down my entire site.

**Jacqui or (maybe) Pete** · Jul 20 '05, 08:10 PM

Re: Help please

In article <52bc4584.03082 50744.add13e1@p osting.google.c om>,
editor@badmouth .net says...[color=blue]
> After a bit of experimentation , I can say that the page is recognizing
> the first style I define in the head, but not the second. I switched
> the order of the styles, and now look0 works and look1 does not. Did I
> do something wrong here? (Styles are identical for right now. When I
> get them both to work, I'll monkey with colors to differentiate.)
>
> ----------------
>
> <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
> <!-- comment for old browsers not supporting CSS
>
> .look1 { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:
> 10px;
> color: 333399;backgrou nd-color: 93A7F0 }
>
> .look0 { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:
> 10px;
> color: 333399;backgrou nd-color: 93A7F0 }
>[/color]
Go here to check your css:

The W3C CSS Validation Service

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Color values are preceded by '#', eg #333399. Spans can't enclose block
content. Why are you repeating the font family a gazillion times in the
code?

Go here to check your html:

The W3C Markup Validation Service

http://validator.w3.org/

W3C's easy-to-use markup validation service, based on SGML and XML parsers.

**Stephen Poley** · Jul 20 '05, 08:10 PM

Re: Help please

On 25 Aug 2003 08:44:33 -0700, editor@badmouth .net (John Marcotte)
wrote:
[color=blue]
>After a bit of experimentation , I can say that the page is recognizing
>the first style I define in the head, but not the second. I switched
>the order of the styles, and now look0 works and look1 does not. Did I
>do something wrong here? (Styles are identical for right now. When I
>get them both to work, I'll monkey with colors to differentiate.)
>
>----------------
>
><STYLE TYPE="text/css">
>
></STYLE>[/color]

Well, yes. As a quick check with the validator would have shown:

Not Found

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html

You're missing some hashes. Don't know whether this will cure the
problem, but when you've got an obscure problem, always start with the
validator.

In addition, consider scrapping Verdana:

Web Matters - Why you should avoid Verdana

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

The font-size: 10px is not good news either:

Web Matters - The Wrong Size Fonts

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/fontsize.html

--
Stephen Poley

Web Matters - Main Page

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/