Re: 2 questions

Thank you again Capt. Fuzzy...
On a related note,  don't web accessibility issues come into play with
government sites too?  I recall a thread about Janet Reno's directive (I
could be wrong on who issued the directive) about all government sites being
accessible to people with disabilities.
This is NOT supposed to start a thread about accessibility, or a flame
war...just curious.

much alohas,
Lady Wistfulee
"He who asks is a fool for 5 minutes.
He who doesn't ask remains a fool forever."
----- Original Message -----
From: Captain F.M. O'Lary <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
To: Web boy <web_boy_(at)yahoo.com>; <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: 2 questions


| My best, most professional, experience earned, advise:
|
| Quit Immediately.
|
| Whoever is pulling your strings is COMPLETELY clueless - but obviously
| powerful enough to see to it that YOU take the blame when this project
goes
| in the toilet.
|
| Given the information you have already passed along here; it is OBVIOUS
| this project is destined for exactly that: The toilet.
|
| What ever your name is (it's not on your post anywhere): YOU ARE BEING SET
| UP TO FAIL.
|
| Trust me on this part: I do a LOT of work for government agencies - both
| state and federal. What you are relaying is CLEARLY not in compliance with
| the standards and procedures set forth for these agencies in presenting
| their WWW presence.
|
| "Somebody" is eventually going to catch on to that. When the poop hits the
| fan, you KNOW it's not going to be your boss that stands up and says "I
| really screwed up. I wasted thousands and thousand of hours and dollars on
| this, and I really deserve to be fired immediately - because I'm an
idiot."
|
| Nope.
|
| He is going to stand up tall and proud, disavow any knowledge, and _swear_
| to can the person responsible for writing those page ~~immediately~~.
|
| Woops.
|
| Seriously, it's pretty common knowledge on this list that I make the
| majority of my living fixing other peoples brain farts (what you describe
| is an *excellent* example of one). I have attended more than a few meeting
| exactly like I just described to you.
|
| HTH,
| Fuzzy
| <been there - done that>
|
|
| At 06:03 AM 9/6/00 -0700, Web boy wrote:
| >Hello,
| >
| >I have recently been thrown into creating a web site
| >with no real expereince in the acutal coding aspect of
| >web design and I have a few questions that maybe you
| >seasoned web slingers can answer.
| >
| >1.  The site I have created www.nywd.uscourts.gov has
| >a background image that I must use.  I because of lack
| >of time and experience had to create four different
| >copies of the site to handle the 4 resolutions that
| >was deamed I must support. I have a javascipt that
| >will send the user to the approperiate copy of the web
| >site. I need to know is there a way that code can
| >resize the picture based on the resolution instead of
| >having four copies of the site?
| >
| >2.  On the site I use layers (Dreamweaver3) to
| >position all of the content.  If the imagge could be
| >sized to the resoultion I would think that the layers
| >could be also if so any hints?
| >
| >3.  Any other hints/comments on how to do the site
| >better would be appreciated as like everyone has
| >probably expereinced being thrown into somthing a
| >fresh pair of eyes can see things in a different
| >light.
| >
| >Thank you for all of your help in advance.
| >
| >
| >=====
| >Pokemon,Warhammer,Magic the Gathering for sale please ask for pricing!!!!
| >
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| __________________________________________________________________
| Captain F.M. O'Lary
| webmaster(at)canopy.net
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