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Old 07-01-2004, 04:48 PM
dhromed dhromed is offline
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My notes:

- Get rid of the splash page. It's unnecessary, and as fate would have it, I don't have Flash installed yet anyway, so I can't see the Cool animation. Not to mention the fact that it uses some really bad-looking HTML, such as <font>. No <font>. Do not use it.

- Your site likely looks different between IE/Gecko/Opera because of some things:
* No valid doctype. Get one here:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
No doctype, and IE6 switches to quirkes mode, which is mostly an incorrect box model that affects padding/border/margin/width, and can upturn a layout.
* IE's generally bad support of CSS in these modern times. Advice: write for Gecko (Mox, FFX, Netscape 6+) or Opera, then squish bugs for IE.

- I'm not sure why your site looks different online/offline. There must be some kind of difference somewhere, so view the source of the online file first, and compare it to the offline file.

- for :visited and :hover, you only need to specify styles that actually change. And font-weight:normal is obviously unnecessary, unless the parent element has its font weight set to bold.

- try not to use P (paragraph) for DIV. Try not to use too much DIV with all those unique classes; they'll only clutter up your stylesheet. Use logical markup. For instance this baby:
<p class="image">
<img src="picz/theboard750x500.jpg">
</p>


Why the P there? Why not remove the P, set the image to display:block and predictably modify its CSS from there on?

Clean XHTML = :driver
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