From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 15:46:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AD21065674 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 15:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B058FC0A for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 15:46:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dkelly@Grumpy.DynDNS.org) Received: (qmail 3052 invoked by uid 0); 29 May 2008 15:46:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Grumpy.DynDNS.org) (216.186.148.249) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 29 May 2008 15:46:30 -0000 Received: by Grumpy.DynDNS.org (Postfix, from userid 928) id 6DD8E28429; Thu, 29 May 2008 10:46:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:46:29 -0500 From: David Kelly To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20080529154629.GA38618@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080529065732.GA36261@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Stumped:: web HTML. Caution, may be OT. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:46:33 -0000 On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:57:35PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Several weeks ago a friend asked why my www.thought.org page > was so hard to read. She said that part of my text was black > on the deep-blue bg on my RHS. I stopped and checked with > firefox; things looked fine. I've done all markup by hand since > '94, very carefully, with only browsers in the ports tree-- > mozilla, firefox, a couple others. Others have suggested online validators. /usr/ports/www/tidy is another that can check your code, even attempt repairs. Can also be used to standardize the coding format much like GNU indent for C code. Comes built-in to BBEdit on Mac where I do most of my HTML authoring. Eyeballing your code the first thing that stood out was: BACKGROUND="/usr/local/www/data/Graphics/paper0.jpg" Don't think that will work for anyone other than yourself, and only when you are on the server itself. Unless one has a file with that exact same name and path. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.