ok re-evaluate please

Ok i noticed a problem, firefox shows the bottom of the page with the white space instead of the background color unlike all other browsers.
Why?

Josh

You've got a lot of validation errors. You need to see to them first.

what validation?

You obviously haven't read the forum rules: http://www.csscreator.com/css-forum/ftopic6045.html

ok the validation system really didnt came up with important replies. I am not setting font color for most of the areas and will just be leaving them as default because i will be changing font where necessary in html. Also, they reccomend i change my font but I do not want to so I can't see how the validation is that important.

That is for css, I will check html, hold on.

i decided to change my doc type to make it possible for more of my elements and changed many of the problems, most consisting of closing tags.

The rest of the problems can not be changed because many just don't seem to be correct and are required.

So now, any suggestions.

ok i figured out why the white space was there, overlapping construction pic and in wrong div.

My only question is that I am going to have to go and change all the other pages and each successive time i change my layout, but i have don alot of research and i just cant seem to find how it would be quasi easy for me to have one file with most of layout stuff like header footer and right column etc.

Josh

Drop down to xHTML 1.0.

For the updating stuff, google for "PHP Includes".

Replace all instances of & with &

Change onMouseover to onmouseover.

Stop using inline styling.

ok i changed everything and am making sure most inline styling is out minus one table and some special coding.

I cannot change all the &s in my doc because the only ones there are part of javascript code and are not suppose to be displayed.
I saw those errors but i didn't know what to do about them.

Josh

ps. about the inline coding, i am bound not change the coding in areas that are marked by other companies. i can see that this is causing most of the errors that are pulling up as compared with one of my other pages.

ok i used the <[CDATA[ tag inside the javascript to get rid of those errors with &. All the inline coding errors are comming from my login box, so do i need to go through all of that and put it into css adding divs?

josh

Well, yes and no.

Yes, you should use CSS for it, no you shouldn't use Divs.

Forms have numerous semantic elements you should use - legends, fieldsets, labels etc, all of which can be styled via the css.

I'm just getting to grips with them myself, there's a good example here:

http://jeffhowden.com/code/css/forms/

It's huge, but shoudl contain pretty much every form element there is

but do take care how one uses his work and respect his CC deed

As this link testifies he's understandably a little touchy how his work is used, very amusing reading, and highlights how dumb and rude people can be when they don't get their own way and the misplaced belief that all work is completely and totaly free to take and abuse, copy, re-distribute, omit attribution, etc.

That was great!

I just love the way it starts out fairly respectful and polite but gradually descends to "your crap, you can't code for toffee, your work is trivial, web coding is crap" etc and from a physics phd student, god they must be accepting them from kindergarten .

I reckon that guy's got as many university qualifications as I have Ferraris parked in my garage.

ok, that email conversation was hillarious. How did it manage to go on for so long? The little insults just topped it off, and it started off so innocently, then they guy just threw in that little jab, then realizing there wasn't gona be a reply, he decided to just send another one. what a joke.

You need to sharpen most of the images, they are currently jagged and blurry.
The text in the main area would be more legible with a dark color on the grey background.
As indicated before you need to delete all the inline styling, not some of it. Font-tags for instance are deprecated outside CSS files.
Also the intended effect on the navigation menu does not work in Firefox. You are probably better off using hover effects in your CSS instead.

Hope this helps

tech

That email volley was great for a laugh!

Oh noes! Threatened over the intarweb!!1