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Old July 25th, 2004, 10:47 PM
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This is the site for accordionsoftware. It was designed to be standards compliant (XHTML 1.0), using css for layout rather than tables. It also uses css for the navigation, rahter than messy js.

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Old July 26th, 2004, 11:23 AM
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nice design, however, i would suggest choosing another font for your h1 (font-family: impact currently it is not too readable.

you have drop down menus that go over your main section, why not use up some of the acres of room you have by shifting the content down so it's free of the menus.

I would also add some meta data into your head, the only page info i get at the moment is your charset

and you say your site is compliant with xhtml 1.0, it wouldn't take much to push your site to xhtml 1.0 strict.
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Old July 29th, 2004, 11:33 PM
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nice design, however, i would suggest choosing another font for your h1 (font-family: impact currently it is not too readable.

you have drop down menus that go over your main section, why not use up some of the acres of room you have by shifting the content down so it's free of the menus.

I would also add some meta data into your head, the only page info i get at the moment is your charset

and you say your site is compliant with xhtml 1.0, it wouldn't take much to push your site to xhtml 1.0 strict.

I added more space at the top for the nav bar, added more meta data and changed the h1 font.
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Old July 30th, 2004, 12:25 AM
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why the tacky "best viewed in Mozilla Firefox" thing at the bottom? It seems to look pretty similiar in Mozilla and MSIE.
I do not like that the drop down options from the menu are not the same width as their parents.
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Old July 30th, 2004, 12:32 AM
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why the tacky "best viewed in Mozilla Firefox" thing at the bottom? It seems to look pretty similiar in Mozilla and MSIE.
I do not like that the drop down options from the menu are not the same width as their parents.
Check out the contact page. The main reason for that is that in order to make it look good in IE I am forced to use numerous hacks, like the hack the gives IE users alpha transparency for png images and the hack that allows IE users to see the menu work properly, as IE does not fully support the :hover pseudo class. Also, in pre-IE 6 versions it displays padding incorrectly.

As for the menu issue, I was thinking the same thing and will probably change it.
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Old July 30th, 2004, 10:55 PM
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Check out the contact page. The main reason for that is that in order to make it look good in IE I am forced to use numerous hacks, like the hack the gives IE users alpha transparency for png images and the hack that allows IE users to see the menu work properly, as IE does not fully support the :hover pseudo class. Also, in pre-IE 6 versions it displays padding incorrectly.

As for the menu issue, I was thinking the same thing and will probably change it.
I did change it. The changes are viewable at the site. Also, in reply to an earlier post I just finished getting my site to validate with the XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype.
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I thought most of your site looked ok, but I think you could do with increasing the line spacing a little. The text looks squashed up and it's not like you don't have enough white space that you could fill up.

Cheers, John.
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Nice work. Looks a little plain but I am always impressed by folks who go the extra mile to get XHTML strict validation. Well done. Is that a suckerfish drop down menu by the way? I noted your comment about making the effort to leave out "messy JavaScript" and then you go and add that hit counter at the bottom which adds bucket loads of JS. Not sure about your colour choices for the drop down menu - why not stick with the green theme? Just my thoughts.
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Old August 3rd, 2004, 08:08 PM
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Nice work. Looks a little plain but I am always impressed by folks who go the extra mile to get XHTML strict validation. Well done. Is that a suckerfish drop down menu by the way? I noted your comment about making the effort to leave out "messy JavaScript" and then you go and add that hit counter at the bottom which adds bucket loads of JS. Not sure about your colour choices for the drop down menu - why not stick with the green theme? Just my thoughts.

It's a variant of the suckerfish dropdowns. About the counter, that is only temporary until I figure out how to install zlib on my server. About the color for the drop down, that is a good idea.
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i cannot click on your popup menu's at all in netscape 7.1, i checked it in firefox and it definitely doesnt' work the same in ns7
the popup <li>'s appear in the top left corner far away from the main menu
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Old August 4th, 2004, 05:00 PM
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Thank you for letting me know that. I just assumed that since they both use the same renderer (gecko) that they would render it the same. I have only really tested it in firefox .8 and .9 on windows and linux and IE 6 on windows. Any other incompatibilities with other configurations would be very useful to know.
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Old August 4th, 2004, 07:05 PM
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That's a known bug with the suckerfish drop down menu but I thought it only happened when using Safari on a MAC. Are you seeing this with Netscape browsers on a MAC or PC?
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