[thelist] site check/advice please?

[Daniel Medley]

"Scott Schrantz" <scotts at rci-nv.com> wrote concerning
http://www.lobowalk.com/chezbetty/home.html:

> Looking better all the time.
> It's good to see that you convinced him to do away with most of the
pop-ups.
A little arm twisting helped.

> But now the navigation menu acts a little strange. The listings on that
menu
> shouldn't change as you go to different pages; for example, when you go to
> the garlic soup page, Garlic Soup disappears from the nav! (So does the
> Dinner Menu link) A better way to do it would be to leave the Garlic Soup
> text there, and make it bold, or put an arrow next to it, or in some other
> way change it from a link to a "You Are Here" indicator.
Agreed. Will remedy this.

> When the window gets below a certain width (about 700px in IE), the main
> text starts to get a bit squashed and run outside of its box. You could
fix
> this by putting a spacer image to hold that box at a minimum width. It's a
> little messy, but IE doesn't understand CSS min-width:275px yet.
> <img src="spacer.gif" alt="" width="275" height="1" />
Thank you for this tip. I will look into this, or perhaps I may just
decrease the margin a bit; depending on the effect that it has on the
structure.

> IE6 and Mozilla 1.0 look really good. Netscape 4.75 doesn't even look all
> that bad. Its biggest problem seems to be that your <div>s aren't
inheriting
> the font styles. Try putting the font-family declaration in #main and
#nav,
> and see if that helps Netscape.
Will do. I will be tidying up the css in the next couple of days.

> In all, it sure beats www.chezbetty.com.
He showed me this to use as a reference and I about fell over.

Thank you for the advice and input. You've been a lot of  help and I
appreciate it.

Daniel