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if it took you two hours to do that then I'm screwed. I haven't been doing scripting for that long..so a month isn't that long to set up a website for an Ebusiness, to study for exams and other programming projects aswell.
 
So decided it was about time to set myself up a website (seems a bit silly seen as ive just sold my camera :eek::( but its useful to have for the time being).

Ive had the domain for ages and used it for various different things but ive actually, out of bordom, decided to put it to some good use.

http://www.chris-dawson.info

None of the links work as of yet as there isnt any content to the site. Just the front page for testing the general design and layout.

Any opinions or ideas would be great as its better I change them now rather than later :)

Its not XHTML Valid, sort it. Basically i've had a look, and height nor background aren't supported for table tags, you have to use CSS, which I suppose has its advantages.

You have random doctypes everywhere too :)

Also, I don't like the design, to say your a photographer the design is very amateurish, Very Basic and wouldn't want entice to ring you up for a few pics.
 
I never asked you to look at the code of the site lol. I dont code, its all through dreamweaver.

Care to explain whats actually amaturish about it? You say its basic but then I dont really want anything OTT or stupidly complicated. Ithink people prefer a website that loads and is all there infront of you instead of having to go through menus and silly flash crap.

Its not XHTML Valid, sort it. Basically i've had a look, and height nor background aren't supported for table tags, you have to use CSS, which I suppose has its advantages.

That doesnt really mean alot to me. care to explain? What browser are you looking at the site on? If it doesnt appear correct then its your browsers fault, not mine. It appears spot on in IE and Firefox on 3 PCs which I have viewed it on.
 
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I never asked you to look at the code of the site lol. I dont code, its all through dreamweaver.

Care to explain whats actually amaturish about it? You say its basic but then I dont really want anything OTT or stupidly complicated. Ithink people prefer a website that loads and is all there infront of you instead of having to go through menus and silly flash crap.



That doesnt really mean alot to me. care to explain? What browser are you looking at the site on? If it doesnt appear correct then its your browsers fault, not mine. It appears spot on in IE and Firefox on 3 PCs which I have viewed it on.

The bit about it not being valid will have come from the validators at www.w3c.org The fact dreamweaver has coded it for you, and therefore its not valid XHTML. means I now think very little of the quality.
 
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It means that according the World Wide Web Consortium that the code is wrong. If the code is wrong, then imo the site is wrong and untill the code is correct the site can only be deemed as poor and amateurish in quality.
 
Yet the code does exactly what its supposed to do. Therefore it doesnt really matter :sleep: And in all honesty, I find it a little sad that you think it does :shakehead:


I agree. As long as it looks like you want it to in the vast majority of browsers then who cares......

Ive designed websites for two company's using dreamweaver as a secondary duty, Im mainly from a technical background in IT so don't like fannying on with arty farty graphics but dreamweaver makes it easy and painless and my sites works in the top 10 used broswers so they must do something right......
 
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Yet the code does exactly what its supposed to do. Therefore it doesnt really matter :sleep: And in all honesty, I find it a little sad that you think it does :shakehead:

Sorry, obviously I was mistaken in thinking that there was any reason for the world wide web consortium and there really is no need for web code to regulated, and in fact there is no need for web developers because we can all do it just fine by letting dreamwever program for us...

Back in the real world, I will stick to following what is considered best practice
 
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but it is an amateur site, he not been payed loads of £££ to make it, so should be judging it as is it a good amateur design or a bad amateur design surley?

Something as technical as web design should not be done by a computers guess work, which is what dreamweaver and front page etc do. IMO if you want a website it should be coded professionally.
 
Yes and back here in the real world I wont be sat here all day staring at code and critising it on how things may or might not be in the right place or not even though it doesnt make a slight bit of difference to anyones life because it does what it was intended to regardless of whether it is wrong or right by consortium of analy retentive geeks who have **** all better to do.

Again, get off your high horse mate. Noone gives a ****.
 
but its just something he done for fun and some thing to do, there plenty of sites out there that companies have payed loads for, and they are crap and dont even work in opera, like when you go from buying some thing on ebay and want to pay by paypal it comes up as error in opera only work in ie
 
Something as technical as web design should not be done by a computers guess work, which is what dreamweaver and front page etc do. IMO if you want a website it should be coded professionally.

Thats like saying that writing is technical and that using Microsoft word is a cheat. All real writing purists use ink and a quill on parchment! Jesus, whats the world coming to :rolleyes:

Same for using Photoshop. Damn all those people cutting corners using computers and cameras! We should all still be in the 1700s using paint and canvas to create pictures!

If you want to make a website but aren't fluent in geek then, whey! Dreamweaver is my best mate. Dont get me wrong. I can understand what all the code is doing and I often do edit certain parts of the code that Dreamweaver doesnt quite manage. I just prefer to create a website using a graphical interface rather than typing a load of bull**** all day long. Plus considering my website is fully graphical based, its alot easier trasfering the design from Photoshop to dreamweaver and putting it all together that way.

And at the end of the day. If it aint broke, dont fix it! My layout aint broke so I aint gonna fix it.
 
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At the moment your site is one page. we'll see if its broke when you are finished.

Oh and as for writing, since when did purists use quill and parchment? I mean really wiriting is all about the words not the method by which they were written. Unless you were referring to caligraphy as an artform, but i dont think you were.

All i am saying, is design should be done through the correct methods. I would dread to think how much worse my car would be if someone had jsut dumped some very basic information into a pc and asked it to build it!
 
Thats like saying that writing is technical and that using Microsoft word is a cheat. All real writing purists use ink and a quill on parchment! Jesus, whats the world coming to :rolleyes:

Same for using Photoshop. Damn all those people cutting corners using computers and cameras! We should all still be in the 1700s using paint and canvas to create pictures!

If you want to make a website but aren't fluent in geek then, whey! Dreamweaver is my best mate. Dont get me wrong. I can understand what all the code is doing and I often do edit certain parts of the code that Dreamweaver doesnt quite manage. I just prefer to create a website using a graphical interface rather than typing a load of bull**** all day long. Plus considering my website is fully graphical based, its alot easier trasfering the design from Photoshop to dreamweaver and putting it all together that way.

Its nothing like. If you make a mess in PHP the script will not work, Should be the same for XHTML.

The errors you have are rather trivial, but are there.

for example:

Line 49, Column 29: there is no attribute "height".

<table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

the tag table does not support height. it used to in HTML but now is not supported in XHTML, as the concept of CSS should be used to style the table, where the XHTML is just the content, CSS being the graphics.

The following would be replaced by:


<table style="width:100%; height:100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

That would sort your errors. Basically Style allows you to apply CSS to any tag, to keep XHTML in check.

XHTML is not hard to learn, at all.

And you have a background image for what it is a solid colour, that could be easily done in CSS and save you a load of troubles, and get rid of images.

The design IMO is also poor, There isn't enough padding on the bottom, and the colours, images are all, very static and wouldn't want me to browse your site.

If your using it as your Portfolio website, I would change it. Just my advice. :eek:
 
The design IMO is also poor, There isn't enough padding on the bottom, and the colours, images are all, very static and wouldn't want me to browse your site.

If your using it as your Portfolio website, I would change it. Just my advice. :eek:

Thank you, a bit of constructive critisism. Agreed, the images on the front arent necessarily the best that I coulod have chosen but they were what I had to hand and the time and are simple to change.

As for the errors. I get no errors when browsing the site. I use IE and Firefox. Neither bring up errors and the site works and looks spot on in my browsers.

As I already said, if it aint broke, don't fix it (y)
 
Thank you, a bit of constructive critisism. Agreed, the images on the front arent necessarily the best that I coulod have chosen but they were what I had to hand and the time and are simple to change.

As for the errors. I get no errors when browsing the site. I use IE and Firefox. Neither bring up errors and the site works and looks spot on in my browsers.

As I already said, if it aint broke, don't fix it (y)

I know its not broke :p It just doesn't valid against the XHTML standard, thankfully, all browsers mix and match code you so can chuck crap at the browser and it still renders fine (y)

I intend to do a portfolio site, and it should be pretty damn special, coded from ground up and using AJAX for loads of swift animations :)

And the topic title has changed, I wonder why.... :D
 
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