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[golflinks]

The bulk of our experience is with VB6 desktop and back office applications. We are going out on an edge a bit with www.GolfLinks.com

Golf Links is a DotNetNuke app using our c# controls. I want to learn how to develop professional, accessible, standards-compliant websites.

Based on our example, what high impact item should we concern ourselves with first.

Thanks a bunch folks, really appreciate your time.

John

[Green-Beast]

The very first thing I would suggest, golflinks, is to make the site valid HTML. It has 387 mark-up errors and it should have none. But before correcting all of the mark-up issues, you may choose to just redo it using CSS and replacing tables with page divisions (Divs), thus separating your mark-up from your presentational styles. That'll make your site a lot more accessible right from the start. Then you could work on accessibilty features and have much better results.

Check it for yourself and locate the errors by plugging in your URL at the W3C Mark-up Validator (http://validator.w3.org/).

You will want to use proper heading tags and link separations, script bypass options, and a host of other features .

Do explore the W3Schools (http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp) and the W3C itself (http://www.w3c.org/). The answers you need are there. I could give you more links, but these two are enough for starters.

I did like the looks of the site on the surface, it was easy to read and such, but the the underlying site really needs work. I hope this helps.

Mike

[golflinks]

good stuff. all pretty foreign to me. thanks for the right direction, and so quick. very kind.