Note on positioning with CSS: Sometimes absolutely positioned text slides around when the window is smaller or large, other times it stays put in relation to the rest of the page. Why? The coding looked the same to me in various examplesI checked. The answer comes from Karen Plummer an instructor at HWG-IWA web schools.

The sliding text problem does have to do with absolute positioning: your overlapping text is set to an absolute bottom position so whenever the page is resized it is going to place the overlapping text so many px away from the BOTTOM of the browser window which means it will slide upwards on very small windows! Hope this answers the question.

-- posted by Palema on 3/29/2004

 
I signed up for the introduction to css course offered by the International Webmasters Assn/HTML Writers Guild. I wondered if I should go for that or the intermediate, since I've been using css for some time now. Decided to make sure I filled in any gaps in my basic knowledge before progressing. One area I am really short on is positioning, so this will be good for that.
-- posted by Palema on 3/20/2004

 
The much-maligned mailto url I have found useful through the years, despite the statements of experts that not everyone can use it. It works in all the browsers I've used and -- in my opiinion -- is superior to a mail form because you get an automatic record of what you sent. When I write to my senator using the mailform on his webpage, I wont have a record unless I laboriously make a copy and figure out whre to file it so I can find it when I want it. If he had a mailto link, the copy would be right where I keep copies in my email program.


So... how to do it? Read about it at ViewSource, a Netscape developer website.

Unleashing the Power of mailto URLs

The mailto URL is extremely useful but sadly underutilized.Of particular interest is the ability to preformat a message by supplyingthings like the subject line of the message in the URL. You can specifywho should be copied (cc) or blind-copied (bcc), and even fill out thebody of a message! In this article, we'll look at how to take advantageof these powerful features of mailto URLs. more...

-- posted by Palema on 3/03/2004