Site nearing completion - some help please

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SooTyLaD

SooTyLaD

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well, my site is nearly good to go - just gotta create a gallery section and tidy up a few loose ends...

temporary upload: http://www.odysseydesigns.com/testingstage


here are the loose ends that i am a bit stumped on:

• first up: the XHTML validation - if you click the "XHTML" link at the bottom of the right hand site then i get 7 fails, all to do with my flash animation and i can't make head nor tail of em - keeps telling me atributes dont exist but they bloody do otherwise the flash wouldn't work :rolleyes: (still gotta get rid of all the CSS validation errors but thats on my to-do list - shouldn't be a problem)

• secondly: i have no idea why but the flash movie at the top of index.html gets misplaced in IE - i designed this whole thing using firefox so didn't notice till just now :(

• last (but by no means least): i still cant get the pages that do not have enough content to extend beyond the length of the page, to fit to the page (see the "basic spec" section and also the "phone and post" section) - a few people on here tried to help me with liquid faux columns and the like but i couldn't get it going...


well... thats all the problems so any help with any of em would be greatly appreciated :) - this was my first CSS site so i wanted to work from a solid basis, so based the design on one of the css-pages on the css:zen site (lonely flower it was called) - borrowed some of the basic sizing etc then built it up myself using the original as a guide... overall i'm very happy with the final product (it look me long enough :p)

so, lemme know what you think :)
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
• last (but by no means least): i still cant get the pages that do not have enough content to extend beyond the length of the page, to fit to the page (see the "basic spec" section and also the "phone and post" section) - a few people on here tried to help me with liquid faux columns and the like but i couldn't get it going...
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I've only skimmed your post, but for this problem, look up "Faux Collumns" on A List Apart.

:)
 
To sort your flash out, which will solve a lot of your problems, you should use the following code;-
Code: 
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="c.swf?path=movie.swf" 
width="400" height="300">
<param name="movie" 
value="c.swf?path=movie.swf" />
</object>
This should cause no errors in your markup and hopefully make it work in IE. The only things you will need to change are the data, width, height and value attributes.
 
Flanders: i will have another go at em by like i said i couldn't get it goin when i had a crack before...

Mr L: it did indeed cause no problems and i passed the XHTML validation :D - thanks mate, but could you tell me why it passed and mine didn't? (just for future reference)

HOWEVER, it still dont look right in IE, have a look and you'll see that its off to the right a bit and also the orange bit underneath it is dragged up a bit :(

so close, yet so far :(
 
The simple way to explain is that the embed tag, which I assume is what you were using, is no longer supported in XHTML strict and the object tag is the only one viable to implement flash in a XHTML strict page. The way I have shown you is just a simpler and lighter way of including flash.

As for it not working in IE it does for me, so I'm not sure what is going on there.

IE Screenshot.
 
Yep, works fine for me in ie. Its validating fine aswell. Maybe you made some changes (Mr L's suggestion perhaps). Great design btw - love the way the flash spans the columns
 
Evil-Penguin said:
Only difference between browsers i can see is that the "Welcome to the new prowler site!" text doesnt appear in IE
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maybe you guys ain't noticing because you ain't seen it as much as me, but yes the text is missing but also the orange thing is higher up in IE... there is a 1px white gap in firefox which it how its intended, in IE the orange bar is tucked behind the flash slightly... see now?

btw: thanks for explaining that Mr.L :)
 
i still have this weird problem in IE... the orange bar still gets misplaced and the text is missing...

i've been off the project for a bit as i've been busy with other stuff but i've really gotta crack on and finish it now...
 
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