A fine example of the question of why standards. On the one hand the page renders in Opera, Mozilla and IE. But the code is a mess: no opening <html> but 2 </html> tags, spans which close but never open. Deprecated <font> and <b> all over the place. Table elements with a wide array of varying attributes. No indication of units of measure. Probably unreadable on anything other than a pc. It loads slowly. Pretty much all the criticisms of table as layout. But Quirks mode overlooks all the faults and heaves it up on the screen.
On the other hand, if you want to make changes, the changes have to be wholesale. This nested little nugget would have to be rebuilt from scratch. A CSS design version would make future segmental changes far less painful. And CSS would bring some order and logic to the chaos of nesting. But you know all this. One appearance issue. The extra left borders on sub pages don't seem to add much. And the colors aren't always "comfortable" together. So it's a complete redesign or just leave it be. Leave the code untouched until or if browsers actually stop rendering deprecated tags. Or redo it completely and properly. I don't think it's worth your time to try to tweak it. drew -----Original Message----- From: Cheryl D. Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] Site critique - Chamber of Commerce Somehow I've been nominated to make suggestions on how to improve the "Greater Southwest Houston Chamber of Commerce" website. Not that I'm being paid to do this since they already have a contract with the people who produce their directory but since I'm a member of the Chamber I've gotten stuck with the making recommendations. Without any power to actually make changes mind you just 'suggestions'. I've been working on taxes so my brain is fried. I'd appreciate any comments, suggestions, criticism, what is missing that should be there, navigation improvements, etc. that any of you may have. Be brutal if you want, after all you won't hurt my feelings. <grin /> http://www.gswhcc.org/ Believe it or not it is a vast improvement over what they had a year ago. They've got a new board who supposedly is wanting to make the site more intuitive and actually useful. Cheryl D. Wise WiserWays Office: 713.353.0139 Mobile: 713.412.0406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____ * The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM * ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
