Howdy do,

http://www.the-web-seeker.com/

I am running Vista... curse of curses...Actually for this
development work, its fabulous... but not for legacy music
stuff...

Normally run FireFox, my browser of Choice...
Also run I.E. for testing of my screens etc...

Have gotten couple of comments about

Text display being overlapped on different parts of the
screen...

Somewhere here I saw a posting bout a possible fix for
this...

Or if my memory was failing me some suggestions please...

Thank you in advance,

Seeker

Seeker,

In your CSS do you specify the font, and things such as line height?

IE uses defaults that a not the same as Firefox, and Opera probably uses a different set from the others, etc.

I am certainly not the expert, but that is what I recollect having been told.

BillR,

I could not remember the words... think they are magic ones...

Will do a search of the forum now, should fix me up,

Thank you,

Seeker

hmmm...I'm having the same problem with text overlapping in some browsers. I'm trying to figure out what advice you were just given to fix that and I'm lost! what is CCS?

Leach,

You may want to click on profile and change your forum name to something other than your email address. Spammers are always looking for live addresses.

Cascading Style Sheets are saved externally with a CSS extension. This is one location where you can put your style commands. You can also have a Style section in the head section of your pages, and you can have styles for individual elements.

If you are having trouble with text overlapping, it may be caused by different browsers having different default fonts. You can specify the specific font (providing the viewer has that font installed), font size, and style the font. If every browser uses the same font, the same size, and the same size line height, you may eliminate the text overlap.

Hope this points you in the right direction. Let us know if you need more information.

BillR,

Couple of Questions,

1. Fonts, think I've been sticking to Verdana, but may
have some variations... Will check a bit later...

Question: Is there such a thing as a standard Font set
that say 99% of Net users would have on their machinces ?

2. Am working with tabbed menu's mainly modifying with
some amount of success...

Would like to obtain pdf, or buy a really good book
That covers all the Detaily parts of CSS construction..
Precise syntax use as used in applications.
Like a dictionary type or glossary with samples of code ?

With my short few weeks of CSS it rocks....

Thank you,

Seeker

Seeker,

I have the book "My Website is Better than Yours" and on page 39 there is a listing of fonts. Arial, Arial Black, Courier New, Times New Roman, Impact, Comic Sans MS, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, Verdana

If you stick with those, you will get most viewers. For the one or two users that don't have these installed, you can specify a generic family such as serif, sans-serif, cursive, monospace

Just use {font-family: georgia, serif;} or something like that. If you use a multi-word font, enclose it with quotes.

I have purchased a couple of books on CSS, and mostly look up what I am looking for first in one, then another, etc. Chapter 7 in "My Website is Better than Yours" is Formatting Web Pages with Style Sheets, and it is about 10 pages.

I also have several links to web pages about CSS:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/center#vertical

There are more, but tend to be very specific, like one on making background colors have rounded corner, and another on setting columns.

If you run across a good book on CSS that is also a PDF, let us know here.

billr,

The font family... new to me, but do understand now,
I've seen it used... so if one font does now work,
it default to second, etc... Great tip thanks.

I'm very new to this aspect of software, but did
a lot of VAX work...dates me a bit... had about
15 ft of manuals on the shelf... you at least I could
not learn it all, but did learn how to skim, locate
and use the manuals... invaluable asset, especially
when in new area....

Talking with another net friend this net, which has
really surprised me, is just exploding with applications,
new languages etc.. again I'm green, but was really
surprised...

I will take a look a the sites.. a bit later.

And yes I will post here if I get a good link on
centralized information or PDF...

Tickles me that you folks would be interested also,
I put you up as true "Guru's" in this Net world...

Am currently working on about a 25-30 page for all
practical purposes website... Actually its a set
of special Yamaha Lessons for Registration use
in their keyboards...

I wrote it last year late, but the formatting etc.
would make you throw up...

So am using the slick VSD Cutting Pasting and formatting
very carefull the Text body's into the VSD pages..
This formats, generates my internal CSS does a lot
of Instant cleanup for me... I have a few grapics to
add, then the VSD part will be done... Will add the
CSS menu's and do some additional text editing...
Make most of the CSS External... Quite a chore, but
good "forced" learning experience...Not a damn dime,
just payback for all the help these music folks
had given me...

Again great tip on the font family, and will let you
folks know if I find a nice reference for CSS...

Thanks,

Seeker

Seeker, it's refreshing to me to see such an adamant spirit in someone who calls himself "green" in all this.

You're doing quite well with the resources you have, and if you're interested in a good resource to help further your cause and knowledge, you'll be interested in WPDFD:

http://www.wpdfd.com/

It's called Web Page Design for Designers, and the articles therein are from some very talented folks.

I hope this helps you out!

David R.,

I thank you for the compliment...
I'm 64 and had many years in hardware/software arena.
So have lot of background... Pieces and parts I like
to call applications...

Knowing where things are and how to put them together..
Your company's folks and also your Software products,
have really jump-started my efforts... And I'm having
a blast..

A stress factor not there...
My retirement check, albeit small and S.S.. every month
like clockwork...Thats my day job...

All this stuff is just gravy, if and when a few bucks is
made...

Thanks for the link, hadnt found that one yet....

Later,

Seeker