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[davidcholley]

It's a bit sparse graphically (a situation that should be rememdied shortly), any comments on the feel of it though would be appreciated.

www.gatewayorlando.com

David H

[PeOfEo]

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gatewayorlando.com%2F&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&charset=utf-8+%28Unicode%2C+worldwide%29&verbose=1 no doc type
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gatewayorlando.com%2F&charset=utf-8+%28Unicode%2C+worldwide%29&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional&verbose=1 when I validate it with html 4.01 transitional it fails. You are using many deprecated attributes. Also you are nesting tables for your layout, another nono. If you fix these you will have a more accessible site and get more revenue.

[davidcholley]

I can handle the deprecated tags, but how do you NOT use nested tables when you're using them for formatting? There are some that I can remove, but there are others that have to be there.

[davidcholley]

Never mind. I get it. The alternative that I despise.

David H

colspan

[Sam]

colspan has nothing to do with your solution. The problem is that you are using tables for layout in the first place (when in fact they are made for displaying tabular data). The solution is to switch to a css layout. Since your site seems to be a moderately simple 2col+header layout, here (http://bluerobot.com/web/layouts/layout1.html) is a suitible css replacement

[davidcholley]

My knowledge of CSS is quite limited. Thx for the direction. Did you take a look at the page below? It features a calendar selector that is drawn and updated using a table and accessing the individual <td> tags. Hurry though, I'm about to publish V3 of the page which will make numerous changes (still table based) and shift the calendar logic server-side. Take your notes now if you like it.

http://www.gatewayorlando.com/content/reservationrequestV2_submit.asp

[davidcholley]

Actually, I just got V3 out there, but it is not yet publically available. I have to update the error handlers and then its ALIVE!!!

http://www.gatewayorlando.com/content/reservationRequestV3_Submit.asp

David H

[HansonIsTheBest]

Your site rawks!!! It's almost as good as www.dahboo.com !!!

[davidcholley]

Given that I'm not gifty graphically, I'm quite satisfied with the look, however I've already decided to pay someone for help.

David H
P.S. I'm all on the tech side of things.