Re: Many questions--mostly CSS

At 11:16 AM 6/12/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>My company's website was in disarray, so I started from scratch--my first
>real project.  The temporary URL is
>http://homepage.mac.com/gardenia/Frames.html, and I have a list of my 
>first few questions.
>
>2)  In order to get the disclaimer at the bottom of the first page down to a
>reasonable size in IE, I had to make the font 70% size, which is almost too
>small to read in NN.  What to do?

Use absolute point sizes in pixels instead (i.e., *20px*)

>3)  At the end of each section in the Advisory page, I give the option to
>e-mail us for more info, just using mailto:.  Is there any way to know where
>they clicked from?

Yes. Code a little JavaScript as an onClick event handler. Fill in the 
*Subject* line of the email. If you need help with that, e-mail me or the list.

>Unfortunately (and for reasons that I haven't been able
>to overcome) we only have one e-mail address for all six of us, so I can't
>use different addresses in each place.

What a pain in the arse!

>4) On the main page (that has the five boxes), the box headings won't
>center.  In my style sheet I've used
>
>tr.one {
>     color: #FFFFFF ;
>     font-family: Capitals ;
>     font-size: 125% ;
>     text-align: center ;
>     width: 33.3% ;
>}

You could place the text absolutely with a
tr.one1 { position: absolute; top: xxx; left: xxx }
statement. Perhaps not as elegant as you would like, but it will work ;-)

>5) In the disclaimers at the bottom of the main, securities, and Michael G.
>Wendlandt pages, the font size of "Member NASD/SIPC/Registered Investment
>Advisor" must be two points smaller than the surrounding text.  All I could
>come up with was to enclose that phrase in <.font size="-2"><./font>, which
>doesn't seem to work.  It does in some places, but not in others.

Of course, if you use absolute pixel sizes this won't be an issue. I seem 
to recall being able to apply terms like *big* and *small* using CSS, but 
can't put my finger on it immediately. No doubt one of the other 20 
responses you get from this list from people far more intelligent than me 
will provide you that information ;-)

>6) My last question has to do with frames and non-frames versions.  I know
>that some people hate frames, so at the bottom of the navigational frame
>I've put an option to view the non-frames version.  The main page on that
>version has an option to go back to the frames version.  But after that, I
>drop the option of returning to the frames version.  Should I bother with
>any of this?

I wouldn't. It depends how you do your frames. If they're elegant, I don't 
believe most people would object.

>The other side of this coin is for browsers that don't support
>frames.

Statistically speaking, people surfing with *other* than NN4+ or IE4+ 
account for less than 2% of surfers. Why bother?

>I've put the main page in my <.noframes> tag with links to MS and
>NN for a new browser--is that dumb?

No, but who's gonna go do it because they see your button? I wouldn't waste 
the real estate. After all, you're trying to sell something on your site, I 
presume? Or conduct some business function exclusive of pushing new browsers?

>I really appreciate the time that everyone takes to help everyone else, and
>I look forward to being able to return the favor--when I catch up to the
>rest of you!

Well, I appreciate returning the favor too! HTH,
BenO

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