Hedir Review : I'm all caught up! (more or less)

Señor COOL · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:09 am Post subject: I'm all caught up! (more or less)

...and I'm back to moderate, extrapolate, opinionate and all the other stuff I do.

Anyway, for those who may have wondered where I was:

1) I moved.
2) I launched 4 sites for clients.
3) I completed a site project of my own, which I will submit to HEDir in a few days once I get the kinks worked out.

http://www.searchenginefriendlylayouts.com is the site. So if you guys wanna give some feedback and stuff, go for it. It's an attempt at fusing two industries that seem to be worlds apart and shouldn't: web standards-compliant design and SEO.

Anyway, if you wanna give unofficial feedback, go nuts.

Google Junky · SuperMOD Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 3868 286 Hedir Points

Welcome back Adam

I checked out your site. Looks like what I have been needing Smile

A little on and off topic here about html...
I have yet to figure out why W3C thinks that I have to use a TR tag where no TD's are stacking. Very annoying.
I realize its maybe a standard, but not needed if you aren't stacking anything.
Did I happen to say "I'm not stacking TD's"? Smile

Señor COOL · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:22 am Post subject:

Thanks, dude. How's Skip coming along?

Not really sure I get your question. Are you saying that you have no TRs, yet you have TDs somewhere? URL, son, URL! Smile

Anyway, when the thing's out of public beta (which so far, no one has found a bug, although some have criticized the use of JS and absolute positioning...bleh), I'll submit it here for review. And the more you guys help me shamelessly plug the thing, the more money and time I'll have to review all of your wonderful contributions. (HINT. Wink

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Google Junky · SuperMOD Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 3868 286 Hedir Points

I Have quite a few things to weed through on my site to make W3C happy.
One of the things I'm dealing with is going back and forth through the autogenerated script displays on the homepage and correctng little things like alt tags and such.

Well, now I'm down to these TR tags W3C says are missing.
W3C thinks that every time you have a <table><td> that you must have it written as <table><tr><td> whether stacking or not.

The site? HorseSearchEngine.com
I've been working on it when I have time to Smile

Señor COOL · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:40 am Post subject:

That actually makes sense. How else would it know where the table rows were in a table?

Mind you, if you were to use tableless (i.e. div) layouts where possible, you eliminate that issue. Wink

Google Junky · SuperMOD Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 3868 286 Hedir Points

that's exactly what I'm thinking about doing

Google Junky · SuperMOD Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 3868 286 Hedir Points

By the way. These sites I'm reporting as Down have been down for more than 8 hours. Atleast for me. My route to the UK and a few others gets a little wacky sometimes. Just double check them.

Thanks

lakhya · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 15240 Hedir Points

Welcome back ADAM.

baggeroli · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:06 pm Post subject:

Welcome back ADAM. Very Happy

About your site: looks great. You should also tell people about possible drawbacks of using XHTML.

Señor COOL · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject:

baggeroli, I thought about that. The problem is that XHTML has a bad enough rap as it is (and not really justified IMHO)...I don't think I need to make it any worse. Smile

Edmond Dantès · Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject:

Welcome back ADAM.