Whitby

Accessability Changing Font Sizes

Hello Again,
So I am wondering if anyone can help or has some similarly good idea
for a solution to this problem. We as currently trying to deploy a site
which will be generated HTML, on this site we need to provide an accessable
method to re-size the font between meduim, larger, largest. We need a
non-javascript alterntive, we where thinking of using a set of three
diffrent stylesheets to acheive this. But is there a cunning CSS hack
for example we can use to adjust the base font size rather than using a
scripting language (asp/php/javascript)?

I would have toyed with the idea of maybe triggering the browsers text
re-size ability but it needs to be usable across browsers up to two
versions old. Any thoughts gladly appreciated :)

Cheers

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Need help with character entities

Hi every!
First: forgive me if I write something wrong, but my English is what it is (that is bad).
Second: I hope you can help me, but, whatever, I want to thanks you. :)

I'm studying XHTML, using the W3C validator. I use Dreamweaver MX as editor, but it cannot help me with the little problem I have.

I must write the apostrophe, but the editor proposes only these choices: test.

Given that the first is the acute accent, and the second and the third are for quotations, have I to resolve that I have to mean "prime" as the correct one for the apostrophe? Or rather there is another character entity for the apostrophe?

I checked a page with the validator, and it told me:
Your best bet is to replace the character with the nearest equivalent ASCII character, or to use an appropriate character entity.
In the list of character entities, there is:

&39; Apostrophe

... But I don't understand how I must use this info. If I write &39; in the code, it doesn't work. Given that I'm a dummy, I rely on your clemency.

standard compliant code

I'm a big fan of valid xhtml/css/div/table-free design. I'm just not great at it. So when I opened up some phpbb templates and poked around I wanted to cry.

Creating a standards-compliant phpbb theme is sadly beyond my capabilities, so I am looking for help.

I'd like a dark, gritty, industrial feel to it.

I'd also really like the templates to be fully xhtml/css compliant, but that can be split into two tasks. One task is developing the artwork, which can simply be putting together a sliced psd file, and the other is making the templates. If you have artistic skills, or xhtml/css skills, I can use your help either way.

Here are a couple examples of themes I like to give you an idea. The top example is probably the best, and the theme I normally use is Zarron's Charcoal3Steel.

design - http://osc.template-help.com/forum…
Charcoal3Steel - http://zarron.com/
side tabs - http://osc.template-help.com/forum…
dance - http://osc.template-help.com/forum…
Ambience - http://www.extremepixels.net/phpbb…
Tren_z - http://www.extremepixels.net/phpbb…
mechanical_creator - http://osc2.template-help.com:8081…

I like how some of these break up the layout with some white space, move the navigation tabs to the left, and utilize non-standard lines to break up the usual boxy layout of phpbb. Sometimes it is just the same blocky layout, but the graphics have nifty tabs and curves to dress it up.

The artist who helps me would obviously still own the work and would decide distribution rights of it as they wish.

Thanks for your time!
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HR in TD

Complete newcomer here, so my apologies if this has been asked in the distant past or it's off-topic etc.

Why does xhtml-transitional complain bitterly about the inclusion of hr within a td element, and what's the alternative to achieve the same result?

Edit Wait a minute, I had it in a P element. Ignore me :/
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Explaining Standards

I am attempting to come up with a "short and sweet" explanation why standards are important to the average person/company needing a web site developed. I believe my use of standards is a definite selling point in someone hiring myself over another designer though I often stumble over elegantly explaining this to the average non-tech-savvy individual and freezing. Typical situation, "…by using web standards maintenance time is reduced, your page is more easily index by search engines…but do you know Flash?" Is it just that some people will value quality and some will not? Below are some pages I've collected from Google, had seen most of them before. The Mozilla explanation seems to be the simplest and direct. Does anyone know of any from more common business sites, say Money or Fast Company or something a bit less tech based?

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/do…
http://www.maccaws.org/kit/way-for…
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/07/WebAg…
http://www.webstandards.org/about/
http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/xht…
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  • jdnnj

Formatting Forms

Is there a way to isolate styling to a <label> in the following exact instance:

<fieldset>
<legend>Billing Address</legend>
<div class="row"><label>name:<input type="text" size="40"></label></div>…

What I want to do is the typical label is right aligned to the input without using for="name"…id="name". I would like to avoid adding any additional class, spans or divs.

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