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OK, I had to study this really hard to find anything to write about, other than to say that it is a very carefully and beautifully designed site. I remember the last site you posted here, and I remember that I had a few minor quibbles with it, but I couldn't find any of those quibbles this time around. None of my pet peeves showed up either (anyone who uses proper encoding is automatically on my good side). Um, you misspelled "language" on the comments page. ;) I was wondering whether or not I should suggest a different color for the links, rather than just bold text, but I honestly like the way it looks now. Very classy. After reading through the page, I decided to dive under the hood to see if I couldn't find things for you to add to your "todo list." Here's what I came up with: 1) Get rid of the browser upgrade campaign message. For better or for worse, WASP has discontinued the campaign. See their [url=http://www.webstandards.org/act/campaign/buc/]Beyond the Browser Upgrade Campaign[/url] page for more details. 2) You might want to consider using an unordered list for your navigation bar. This is a semantic thing, really, but it seems to be a generally accepted practice these days. A List Apart has a [url=http://www.alistapart.com/stories/taminglists/]good article[/url] on this. (You should be able to apply the ids to the list items just as you apply them to the divs, so you shouldn't have any problems with the rollovers.) 3) Use character entity references instead of the actual characters for things like curly quotes and apostrophes. This is, in fact, the only thing that [url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smithpaul.com%2F]keeps your page from validating[/url]. The W3C has a [url=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html]list of character entity references[/url] that you can refer to, but right now you only need three of them: 8217 for the apostrophe, 8220 for the opening double quote, and 8221 for the closing double quote (note: just put those numbers inside "&#xxxx;", where "xxxx" is the number"). 4) Your [url=http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smithpaul.com%2Fincludes%2Fcss%2Fcssdoc.css&warning=1&profile=css2]CSS doesn't validate[/url] either, but I'll be darned if I can figure out what this means: [quote]Line: 340 Context : h4 Invalid number : fonttoo few values for the property bold 12px,arial,helvetica,sans-serif : bold 12px,arial,helvetica,sans-serif[/quote] You'll have to mess around with that a bit to see what's wrong. At any rate, the warnings are pretty clear: always include a background color when you specify a color, and vice versa. If you don't want to specify a background color you can set it as "background: transparent" and if you don't want to specify a color you can set it as "color: inherit". I guess that's about all I have for you at the moment. I'm sure there's something that I've missed, but I bet someone else will come along and fill in the blanks. Very nicely done overall. It was a pleasure to look at. [Edit: fixin' stuff that was broken] [img]http://www.liminality.org/asylum/fortunes/fortune_cookie.php[/img] [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url]
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