Anyone willing...

Would anyone be able to rate my website for me please (http://www.harrymills.co.uk). If you do can you please rate it under the following categories:
>Code
>Looks
>Content
>Accessibility

Thanks

Pyromancer

Code -> html validate, so thumbs up -> though gallery script doesn't work in Firebird (Mozilla)
Looks -> OK if you like green, bit bland generally
Content -> Apart from the blog (not my thing), just seems to be a collection of links.
Accessibility -> 508 OK, needs repair with full priority checking according to Bobby http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/bo...lth=Bobby%2F3.3

Overall, not too shabby

when using xhtml1.1 you should serve the page as application/xhtml+xml, yours is served as text/html,
you have to set this serverside, it doesn't help with the meta-tag.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/
http://www.greytower.net/en/archive...tmlcontent.html

you have a bit illogical order of headings,

it would be better if you had
the topbanner as h1, then the headers in navigation as h2, and the first p in maincontet also as a h2, then use css to controll the look

just an example,
<div id="topbanner"><h1>Welcome to harrymills.co.uk</h1></div>
<div id="leftcontent">
<h2>Navigation Links</h2>
[..]
<div id="maincontent">
<h2>On this site I aim to provide:</h2>

http://www.webaim.org/techniques/structure/

in lower screen resolution the elements overlap each other,
one of the problem with position:absolute, and a set height.
would be better if the only navigation was positoned, then use margin-left on the other two elements,

something like this. (not tested)

div#topbanner {
margin-left: 22%;
width: 75%;
padding: 1%;
border: thin dashed #009900;
background-color: #006600;
font-size: 1.8em;
font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial;
font-weight: bold;
color: #ffffff;
text-align: center;
}

div#maincontent {
margin-left: 22%;
width: 75%;
min-height: 80%;
padding: 1%;
border: thin solid #009900;
background-color: #003300;
font-size: 0.8em;
color: #FFFFFF;
}

and remember to set a background color to the body,
if you want a white background then set one, not everyone have white as default background color.

otherwise a clean and simple design,