Website critique please

I've been trying to unlearn bad habits and write good HTML/CSS. The
result is at http://www.cyberus.ca/~kirstyh/ I would very much value
your criticism of it.

Thanks.

(PS I've been messing about with different layouts and stylesheets so it
has some Alternative Stylesheets associated with it. I know that some
of them aren't really very good and that there are some issues with them
in IE).

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Kirsty

In article <c6gor0$bk3u4$1 (AT) ID-213201 (DOT) news.uni-berlin.de>,
quorlia (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk says...

I've been trying to unlearn bad habits and write good HTML/CSS. The
result is at http://www.cyberus.ca/~kirstyh/ I would very much value
your criticism of it.

There are issues when the browser window is reduced in width:
http://kibo.org.uk/usenet/Explorer640.jpg
http://kibo.org.uk/usenet/Firefox640.jpg
http://kibo.org.uk/usenet/Opera640.jpg

Opera also does something peculiar with your photo and the Union Flag.

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On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:47:11 +0100, Hywel wrote:

Opera also does something peculiar with your photo and the Union Flag.

Looks like the Opera <img> padding/border bug. This only appears in
7.21-7.23. Earler versions are fine and previews of 7.5 are fine too. Not
something to worry about too much.

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
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In message <c6gor0$bk3u4$1 (AT) ID-213201 (DOT) news.uni-berlin.de>, KirstyH
<quorlia (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> writes

I've been trying to unlearn bad habits and write good HTML/CSS. The
result is at http://www.cyberus.ca/~kirstyh/ I would very much value
your criticism of it.

Thanks.

(PS I've been messing about with different layouts and stylesheets so
it has some Alternative Stylesheets associated with it. I know that
some of them aren't really very good and that there are some issues
with them in IE).

Quite an attractive first page; perhaps the resume page could be based

on that to provide a common 'look-and-feel'?

Anyway. Just a few initial observations.

(1) I am not sure why you have a UK flag on the first page. As the page
is in English already, it would seem to be a redundant link.

Perhaps it would be better to remove it, along with the 'Welcome' link
-- which seems to point to 'itself'.

(2) The layout has problems when the text size is increased:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/K2.JPG (75k)

(3)
You have a list of 3 links on the page:
* Skip to end of links
* Welcome!
* Resume

You have styled 'Skip to end of links' as 'display:none:

This will hide it from the majority of screen-readers and talking
browsers -- which may be just the opposite to what you had intended ;-)

See:
http://www.gododdin.demon.co.uk/ng/K1.JPG (48k)

If you want to hide it from graphical browsers, but make it available to
screen-readers, you might want to consider using a 1-pixel .gif image as
the link, with the 'alternative text' set accordingly.

(4) Putting it through the w3c validator, it returns:
"This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!"
(still, there are just two errors -- on the Javascript code)

As it's a new page, perhaps you might also consider validating it to
'4.01 strict'.

(5) Consider changing the all-numeric date to ISO 8601 for the benefit
of the international audience ;-) ............ YYYY-MM-DD

regards.
--
Jake

KirstyH wrote:

I've been trying to unlearn bad habits and write good HTML/CSS. The
result is at http://www.cyberus.ca/~kirstyh/ I would very much value
your criticism of it.

Cool lay-out with the sunset stylesheet.
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"KirstyH" <quorlia (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote

I've been trying to unlearn bad habits and write good HTML/CSS. The
result is at http://www.cyberus.ca/~kirstyh/ I would very much value
your criticism of it.

Thanks.

(PS I've been messing about with different layouts and stylesheets so it
has some Alternative Stylesheets associated with it. I know that some
of them aren't really very good and that there are some issues with them
in IE).

dont really like the bg, some will complain about not enuff contrast for the
body text on the 1st page, use flying fowl wisely lol
--
Hung Diep
http://www.intro-spect.co.uk

I've been trying to unlearn bad habits and write good HTML/CSS. The
result is at http://www.cyberus.ca/~kirstyh/ I would very much value
your criticism of it.

Cool lay-out with the sunset stylesheet.

Other than downloading the files, is there a way you can view the page with
the alternative CSS files?

KirstyH wrote:

I've been trying to unlearn bad habits and write good HTML/CSS. The
result is at http://www.cyberus.ca/~kirstyh/ I would very much value
your criticism of it.

Thanks.

(PS I've been messing about with different layouts and stylesheets so
it has some Alternative Stylesheets associated with it. I know that
some of them aren't really very good and that there are some issues
with them in IE).

Looks OK, except when I opened your page with a small browser window the
content was obscured by the left column.

Limelight wrote:

I've been trying to unlearn bad habits and write good HTML/CSS. The
result is at http://www.cyberus.ca/~kirstyh/ I would very much value
your criticism of it.

Cool lay-out with the sunset stylesheet.


Other than downloading the files, is there a way you can view the page with
the alternative CSS files?


Mozilla:

View > Use Style

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:26:07 -0400, KirstyH wrote:

I've been messing about with different layouts and stylesheets so it
has some Alternative Stylesheets associated with it.

Alternative stylesheets should use rel="alternate stylesheet", not
rel="alternative stylesheet". I think the second one works in Mozilla but
it's non-standard and won't work in other browsers.

Do you have any reason to use a Transitional doctype? It looks to me that
you could quite happily switch to Strict and enjoy a more rigorous
approach to validation.

Add some <body> padding to the resume. The text goes too far to the edge.

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