Our New Site

[GhettoT]

http://www.team330.org

Please visit, comment, and give ideas on what I could add in order to make it even more appealing to the user.

Also, of you use a browser other that Firefox it would be cool if you could post any problems (Firefox is strangely the only browser I have accessibility to...)

[mburt]

Hmm... nice site. On the menu, you might want to remove the yellow border around the links (not the header). It makes it look a bit... blocky. Also:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.team330.org/
Tonnes of errors in the validator. Other than that, good job! :)

[pcbrainbuster]

LOL :) - anytime anyone asks for some appreciation/comments tey get turned down with - errors/validation/desighn/...

[BLiZZaRD]

I think it looks good as well. I would perhaps lighten up the background even more. Maybe a #CCCCCC or even an off white.

It would flow better with the sunset header image, I think.

And yes, get it valid code so it fits all browsers.

[pcbrainbuster]

You see what i mean :)

[mburt]

Dark colors are hard to make a site layout look good, but they also make the site look like there's more content. It's good the way you have it done.

[GhettoT]

Thanks for all the help! I am still working on all of those HTML validation issues... I got my CSS to validate (only 5 minor issues...) But thanks for all the advice and such... Hope full we have a chance against all the other competitors:)

[Twey]

You're using XHTML Transitional (which you shouldn't be; stick with HTML Strict until IE supports XHTML, then go to XHTML Strict), but it looks as if you've written HTML and then put a few Xs in the DOCTYPE and hoped that would make it XHTML.

It didn't. :) If you don't need any of the features XHTML provides, and/or you want to support IE, stick with HTML.

I agree with John on the yellow boxes.
anytime anyone asks for some appreciation/comments tey get turned down with - errors/validation/desighn/...Well, if it were a useless site and we said "yeah, go ahead, it's brilliant" we'd hardly be doing anyone any favours, would we? :) Generally, when someone posts a site for review it's because we can point out problems other people would miss. If all the author wants is a "ooh yes, very pretty colours dear" s/he can ask his/her mother/grandmother/younger sibling/uncle/aunt/cat-loving elderly neighbour.

[Blake]

Looks good.

Just one small suggestion--The border between buttons is 2 pixels wide, but the other borders are one pixel. This is because you're seeing the left border from one button and the right button from the other. Try giving each of the buttons a border on only 3 sides to eliminate those double-wide borders.

[pcbrainbuster]

Lol sorry thats a good point :) By twey

[GhettoT]

Looks good.

Just one small suggestion--The border between buttons is 2 pixels wide, but the other borders are one pixel. This is because you're seeing the left border from one button and the right button from the other. Try giving each of the buttons a border on only 3 sides to eliminate those double-wide borders.

How would I go about doing that?

Also, on the validator when it shows something like,


Line 5, column 72: character data is not allowed here .

...ype" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>

Why is the ">" red?

[Demonicman]

news and link tables cut off for me... im using IE

other than that looks good

(FF freezes or else i would be using that)

[GhettoT]

Also, my #1 error I keep getting is,


there is no attribute "ALIGN", "HEIGHT", "WIDTH" .

Anyway to bypass using those tags?

[Twey]

Yes, use CSS instead.
Why is the ">" red?It indicates the position of the error.

[thetestingsite]

Sorry I'm late for the party :), but nice site layout. I like the way that you have laid everything out and the use of color. As mburt said before, dark colors are hard to implement into a layout to make it look good; but you have seemed to have pulled it off. Another thing that I like is the header image. Although I like the layout of the site, it is not valid (as pointed out before). I checked the CSS and it appears to have 30 warnings (even though it says you passed CSS validation, it would be wise to fix these warnings as well). Also, on the HTML validation, there 59 errors on the main page.

You can view the results by using the following links:

W3C Validation (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.team330.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&outline=1&No200=1&verbose=1)

CSS Validation (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.team330.org%2F)

[GhettoT]

Man... I didn't even see the 30 warning before... LOL. They are simple though. How would I use CSS to define the alignment of a table?

[thetestingsite]

Instead of doing a table align, try using a tr align. As far as CSS goes, I have no clue how you would align a table. I think it is something with margins, but like I said, I have no idea.

Hope this helps.

[Blake]

How would I go about doing that?



Add the following to your stylesheet (the part in bold, the rest is already there)


#menuh a.top_parent, #menuh a.top_parent:hover /* attaches down-arrow to all top-parents */
{
border-right: none;
background-image: url(navdown_white.gif);
background-position: right center;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}

#resources
{
border-right: 1px solid #FDFD01;
}


And make the following change in your page.



<!-- Resources Top -->
<ul>
<li id="resources"><a href="http://www.team330.org/global_map.php" class="top_parent">Resources <b>v</b></a>

<ul>




Basically, I took the right border off of the class top_parent, but then added it back on to the last button in the list.

[GhettoT]

I must say... This whole validation thing.... Its overrated! lol... Its good buts its a pain when the only way to validate the site is to lose the beauty of the site!

[Twey]

Not so. Don't use tables for layout -- that's not what they're for.

[GhettoT]

Well, its kind of late to fix that now... They could judge my site at any time between now and March 22nd.... So next year I will know better. But for now, I am stuck! I guess I will try and resolve all the validation issues I can for now and leave the rest until I can try and re-do the issues.

Unless there is a simple way to take out the tables and keep everything the same.