You can use tidy to convert your pages to xhtml (warning: it may change something you weren't expecting) though it won't magically change html-transitional into xhtml-strict - I can help you on that one if you want/need, I've got lots of experience with that stuff. On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:48:29 -0600, Rene Rivera <grafik.list@redshift-software.com> wrote:
Cory Nelson wrote:
Hmm.. Make the boost logo horizontal, that empty block of blue doesn't look good (imho).
Noted.. see my reply about this elsewhere.
If you must keep the icons,
I must ;-) They are the elements that make the page interesting. Without them the page would be basically back to the original. The point is to introduce something non-obtrusive and useful in the page that gives the eyes something to do other than fall asleep reading text.
make the text for them run right next to their icons and much bigger (took me more than a quick glance to find my way to the text).
Well this is where I'll likely put my design foot down :-) Icons serve the purpose of stand ins for a corresponding text. In this case the icons are stand ins for the headings. Icons loose their effectiveness if you have the equivalent text near it. This is the stand in usefulness not the visual interest usefulness, although it also looses some of that because of the distraction that the text becomes.
My ideal would be to not have the text headings at all. But I concede that it is of some clarification value to part of the audience as to what the sections contain. The current design ties it to both the section and the icon without intruding onto the icon. And it takes at most a few seconds for someone to find the text so they are not likely to get totally lost.
Congrats on using the h* tags correctly, not many people do that ;)
Thanks :-) HTMLTidy and the W3 validators are my friends on this one.
How about making it xhtml/html-strict?
Will try... Most of the HTML is not mine. It's copied from the CVS state and only slightly modified to make the CSS style easier to do. There's at least two validations that the HTML currently doesn't pass. All because of the Google suggested HTML ;-)
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