Posted by mbstevens on 08/05/05 02:01

Rich wrote:
> I am receiving come complains from some of my clients that

> A sample of one of the actual web sites with this problem is
> at http://www.5pillars.com/rkotter.
>
The page does not have a doc type. This can lead to browsers
not knowing how to correctly display your markup, and to the
validator at http://validator.w3.org being unable to
validate it correctly. Correct and validate. If id doesn't
validate -- fix the things it tells you about.

Your page uses deprecated markup. Perhaps your source of information
is old. Try changing to more modern markup.
The most common sympton of deprecated markup is
placing instructions about where or how a thing is displayed in
the (X)HTML markup instead of CSS.

Your page uses non-semantic markup. There is a special
tag for almost anything you'll need, but you are ignoring
these tags.
Typical example:
1) If some information is a list, it should be marked up
as a list (<ul> or <ol>), not as a table.

Link mouseovers are written with a big chunk of JavaScript.
That is the old way to do it. Use the quicker loading, faster
working CSS hovers. How old is the reference you are using?
It might be time for an update, and more study of CSS.
--
mbstevens
http://www.mbstevens.com/cgi/mkatt.pl?name=python/Critique_Generator

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