Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 09/07/05 19:18

easygoin.net wrote:
> Ok on this site below I have attempted to get to grips with DIVs
> and CSS a little bit more. My theory was to bring up to some modern
> compatability /standrds the design and clean it up by using CSS
> and divs - as you do ...

I still see layout by tables.

> towelsrus.co.uk - clients site so don't order unless you want them.

http://towelsrus.co.uk/ Please make it a clickable link.

> all is fine and seems ok in firefox (needless to say) and dare I
> say it IE when it works (opera and the rest also seem fine but may
> be wrong...

All is not fine.

> Ok, getting to the point - many times in IE 5> it will only load
> part of the page or simply not load the images. I have read
> recently about the div background image flicker problem with IE,
> and wondered if you chaps could shed some light on this problem and
> if you think it might be down to this, or really anything else you
> can find.

1. Minuscule font size. Use percentages: font-size: 100%;
2. Pale grey text on white is nearly unreadable.
3. For new documents, use a Strict doctype.
4. No background color so I see my ugly aqua color everywhere except
in the content.
5. Looks like your attempting to feed keywords in the content, instead
of writing .. real content. Not only could that tip off Google to
ignore you, it is confusing to your human visitors.
6. Dreamweaver?

I do see what I guess are all your images in both FF and IE6.

> A lot of the users seem to stick on checkout page 2 - I realy don't
> know why - code seems clean and error free, so does any javascript

<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//towelsrus.co.uk/>
"Failed validation, 61 errors"

<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//towelsrus.co.uk/>
Several errors.

> that I had (removed to see if that was cause) - so you guys and
> grils are my last hope - all "grown up" responses welcome.

So we can't tell you it sucks?

My interpretation of "clean code" is something easy to read when I
select View Source. Yours is certainly not easy to read, highly
compressed, and with some lines a couple meters long ...

> Any ego-boosters won't be given the time of day - this is my work
> and hobby and I have no time or energy for childish attitudes and
> responses - you know who you are ;) - to the rest -thank you for
> your time and knowledge.

By stating that, you will probably encourage some of those to
respond... :-)

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