I made a lot of changes to the site’s code this weekend. First of all I converted the layout from an old style table style layout to the newer more favoured div/css layout, looks the same right? That’s what it’s supposed to look like, the apparent advantage of using divs and css tags is the cross-browser compatibility, and also it apparently makes it a lot easier for search engines to read your page, therefore making your page ranking go up. It will be interesting to see if it makes any difference in that respect. The only visual change is the navigation bar, I’m using CSS rollovers which load much easier and with less issues than a javascript rollover and because it uses text links as well as images, it’s once again, better for search engines.
The other major change is all the pages, (except for the photo gallery) are XHTML 1.1 Transitional validated and CSS validated, what does this mean to the average person visiting this site? Bugger all, but it helps out my coding skills and makes the site more compatible to browsers other than Mozilla or IE. It would be XHTML Strict, but I still wish to use a few HTML atributes that aren’t used in XHTML, so transitional is the go.
Well, for most people that is possibly the most boring meaningless read ever, oh well.
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May 16th, 2005 at 1:46 am
You could make your page xhtml 1.0 strict easily, i think. Firstly, the align=”center” could be text-align: center; in CSS couldn’t it? Use CSS to set the border to 0 on your images, use margin-bottom/top instead of
, and use javascript to open new windows, although i don’t really think you should force a new window anyway, but that’s just my personal opinion. And the language=”javascript” is OK i think, it’s got the type attribute aswell so it shouldn’t be a problem. They are the errors off this page, if they are the only ones, then you could go xhtml 1.0 strict. But i prefer html 4.01 anyway.
May 16th, 2005 at 1:54 am
Yeah I know it would be pretty simple, the only one I do want to keep is the target attribute, Me personally I’ve always liked links that open in a new window if it is a URL outside the site you are on, and I know that can be done with javascript but that seems so unnecessary.
On another note I forgot to check this comments layout for errors…eep.
Oh and by the way, you are the first person to officially put a comment on this site, barring all the bot ones I have to disapprove. Doncha feel special