Please help review my site [Archive]

ronburk

07-22-2004, 01:25 AM

Your HTML does not start with a DOCTYPE declaration. That makes it hard to use automatic error checkers like W3C Validator (http://validator.w3.org/) to keep the page bug-free. If you're not using an automated tool to generate or check the HTML, then the odds of nasty bugs in there are close to 100%.

How to Get DOCTYPE Right. (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/)

How bad could the bugs be if it "looks ok" on your screen? Well, you're missing a <body> element. This is a pretty basic requirement. You're missing a </html> tag as well. It's very impressive that IE manages to render this page at all. Can search engines parse it well enough to correctly locate all the text? Who knows?

In other news :-), the text size stays teeny tiny, even though I set IE's View|Text Size|Largest option.

The layout is shotgun: some things left justified, some things centered, some things right justified. An hour or two spent with "The Non-Designers Web Book" would probably fix you right up.

Using bold blue for dates when you're using underlined blue for links is confusing to me. I would not have expected the dates to be links if they had just been bolded black.