Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 09/20/07 02:55

In alt.html.critique, windandwaves wrote:

> Can you please have a look at: http://www.winsborough.co.nz/ and tell
> me what you think.

I can barely read the light grey text on the white background.

It looks disjointed with nothing on the right but those five staggered
images. What do they mean?

There is a lot of white space, and very little content. Hopefully, that
will come along?

You didn't assign a background color to the body; I see my default
purple.

I know I am on the other size of the planet, but your server seems very
slow.

The validator thinks it is HTML 4.01 Strict!
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.winsborough.co.nz%2F>

but forcing 1.1,
<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.winsborough.co.nz%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=XHTML+1.1&group=0&verbose=1>
"This page is not Valid XHTML 1.1!
Failed validation, 43 Errors"

There are CSS errors:
<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.winsborough.co.nz%2F>


> Apparently it is not working in IE6, although for it does.

"although for [me] it does?"

No, it will never work in IE6. You are serving it as
Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml;
and IE6 is clueless as to what that is.

Also remove the XML prolog above the doctype. Why XHTML 1.1? What is
wrong with HTML 4.01 Strict?

--
-bts
-Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

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