... Thanks for the link sister, I didn't digest every word of it, but I think I got the general idea. And believe it or not I'm almost a bit surprised they...
5304
blake mooney
mooney_rb
Dec 2, 2005 7:22 am
John, Your suggestion prompted me to send the following request to you and any others who care to reply. My grandson is about to enter college. They are...
5305
Greg Chapman
gregchapmanuk
Dec 2, 2005 3:33 pm
Hi John, ... Nor did I, but it's strange that in the circles I move in (news:uk.net.web.authoring) one mention of Verdana will get their pulses really racing...
5306
John Zeman
john041650
Dec 2, 2005 5:52 pm
... Blake I'm not really qualified to answer this as my true programming experience isn't worth mentioning. I can do anything I want with the NoteTab clip...
5307
John Zeman
john041650
Dec 2, 2005 6:04 pm
... Greg I'll certainly concede that my actual choice of fonts is probably not the best. I have the luxury of basically knowing the target audience for my web...
5308
blake mooney
mooney_rb
Dec 2, 2005 7:18 pm
John, Thanks very much. Your answer is helpful. I'll focus on several books as a gift to him at graduation. I know he'll read them and try out many things in...
5309
Greg Chapman
gregchapmanuk
Dec 3, 2005 12:05 am
Hi John, ... I accept your general thrust, and don't take my comments as a personal attack (If it was one then I would suffer some self inflicted wounds, ...
5310
sisterscape
Dec 3, 2005 12:52 am
... I totally agree that Times New Roman doesn't work well on a webpage for any number of reasons. After all, it is a font meant for paper not a monitor! I...
5311
LEE CRESSWELL
l.cresswell@...
Dec 3, 2005 11:45 pm
I agree with you about Verdana being the nicest. I use it for my Assignments at College and they seem to like it. It may seem extraordinary for such a minor...
5312
John Zeman
john041650
Dec 4, 2005 11:16 pm
... I think we're basically on the same page there Sister. I set my base font size at 100% and then down size to .85em (give or take a few em's) to get what I...
5313
Bruce Meyers
oldguy1166
Dec 5, 2005 5:49 pm
A site that I created in NoteTab has recently been moved to a new server. Question marks are showing up on the page in different ways depending on which...
5314
Rudolf Horbas
rhorbas
Dec 5, 2005 6:20 pm
Hi Bruce, ... That's because of the encoding. The page ist UTF-8 encoded, and browsers have different ways to handle that, if conflicting charsets or encodings...
5315
sisterscape
Dec 5, 2005 6:21 pm
The question marks seem to be in pages that were created in MS Word 9. Yikes!! A word porcessor should never EVER be used to generate html. It produces...
5316
Mike Breiding
mikebreiding
Dec 5, 2005 8:03 pm
Greetings, I want to insure a site is always refreshed when viewed to disallow a cached version being viewed. I tried using the Refresh meta tag but I could...
5317
loro
yastupidhoo
Dec 5, 2005 8:14 pm
... Afraid you can't do that. ... Yup. Do it on the server. <http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/> Lotta...
5318
Mike Breiding - Morga...
mikebreiding
Dec 5, 2005 8:24 pm
... Whew! I will give it a shot. As always, thanks! -Mike Some of my web pages: http://www.mBreiding.us/web_pages.html [Non-text portions of this message have...
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Rudolf Horbas
rhorbas
Dec 5, 2005 8:43 pm
Hi Mike, ... meta refresh ist the wrong method. If you can't do it on the server, use <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" /> instead. ...
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Lee Underwood
ereedj2001
Dec 5, 2005 9:18 pm
Bruce, I am using Firefox 1.07 and the only pages I see with question marks are those created with Microsoft Word 9. That could be the problem. It's not very...
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Fay Johnston
feigh@...
Dec 6, 2005 2:12 am
When I saw question marks on a web page--in place of apostrophes, as these are--the webmaster told me that the people who owned the site had been putting stuff...
5322
bruce.somers@...
bruce.somers
Dec 6, 2005 10:11 am
Since one cannot know what character set a visitor to a site is using, it is careful progamming to use the escape-code ' in place of all apostrophes.. ...
5323
Mike Breiding - Morga...
mikebreiding
Dec 6, 2005 10:49 am
Thanks Rudi, I could not quite wrap my pea sized brain around the document Lotta linked to so I have decided to use the expire "tag". -Mike p.s. Will this...
5324
Rudolf Horbas
rhorbas
Dec 6, 2005 11:22 am
... "low-tech";, and (mostly) working, if your web server is configured properly. Check the http headers if the server sends the expires header (in a Mozilla...
5325
Mike Breiding - Morga...
mikebreiding
Dec 6, 2005 11:24 am
... Thanks, Rudi. -mb Some of my web pages: http://www.mBreiding.us/web_pages.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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dave
david_99_au
Dec 6, 2005 12:06 pm
hi the font you have chosen does not have the characters in it, I would use arial or similar. THANKYOU DAVE M ... From: <bruce.somers@...> To:...
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Don - htmlfixit.com
dpasseng
Dec 6, 2005 2:17 pm
... Typical result. People just like the concept of easy publishing so they go with word, excel, etc. and save stuff in html having no idea what all that...
5328
Bruce Meyers
oldguy1166
Dec 6, 2005 4:07 pm
Thank you to all who replied to my question about question marks. You gave me the answer I expected, but was hoping it was not true. A simple explanation: The...
5329
bruce.somers@...
bruce.somers
Dec 6, 2005 4:41 pm
Is this intended for me of for the orignal poster? I don't know what it might mean for me. Bruce...
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Jeffery Scism
scismgenie
Dec 6, 2005 5:12 pm
Word has (in my version) a option to save as HTML without the proprietary coding. Save as: Html ( web Page), choose Web Page FILTERED in the save as type ...
5331
sisterscape
Dec 6, 2005 5:31 pm
I never thought I'd be saying this but could she use FrontPage rather than Word to generate the html? Even the bloated code it produces would be an...
5332
Piotr Bieńkowski
syntaxpb
Dec 6, 2005 8:13 pm
... Also, typing the page in OpenOffice.org Writer and saving as HTML is a "lesser evil" than doing that in Word. Regards, Piotr...
