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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	As far as the visual appeal - I like the orange, and white always goes great with orange, but that yellow is a bit too harsh for me. The overall layout is fine - relatively clean and simple. I think it could use a little more punch though. As it stands, the strongest visual elements are the thick yellow background of the headers (note: the background, not the header text =( ) and the banners at the bottom. I think a dark orange stroke around the logo text would help, and I think the stronger look for the navigation is in order. I would personally recommend bold text, and making the links fill the block that contains them. Kind of like the effect I made with your menu for the curves site. I would also make the text for the headers bold Overall, it's pretty good. Moving over to the code - Some vast improvements here! Of course, there are issues that need looking at. look here for starters - [url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wayoutwestenterprises.com%2Fsrv2%2F]http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wayoutwestenterprises.com%2Fsrv2%2F[/url] DOCTYPE and Encoding are essential parts of a webpage that cannot be overlooked. Now, the W3C has inlcuded a function to specify for the validator what the doctype is, so here are some results with various doctypes 1) HTML 4.01 strict - [url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wayoutwestenterprises.com%2Fsrv2%2F&charset=utf-8+%28Unicode%2C+worldwide%29&doctype=HTML+4.01+Strict]http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wayoutwestenterprises.com%2Fsrv2%2F&charset=utf-8+%28Unicode%2C+worldwide%29&doctype=HTML+4.01+Strict[/url] 2) XHTML 1.0 strict - [url=http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wayoutwestenterprises.com%2Fsrv2%2F&charset=utf-8+%28Unicode%2C+worldwide%29&doctype=XHTML+1.0+Strict]http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wayoutwestenterprises.com%2Fsrv2%2F&charset=utf-8+%28Unicode%2C+worldwide%29&doctype=XHTML+1.0+Strict[/url] XHTML is what you want to aim for... That <body> tag needs to be straightened out. The good part - no font tags! yay! (oh, wait - there is one! Why?!?!? You don't need it!) Somewhat minimized code, compared to the other site. Less is always better =) There still seem to be a few extraneous <span>'s though... Some semantic issues - You have instances where you have a header, followed by a paragraph of text. Only you code it as if that header is just the first line of the paragraph, and use <br>'s to break it up visually. Code it like it is - <h2></h2> for the header, and <p></p> for the paragraph. Remember that you can style the <h2> tag however you want =) You have headers that should be <h1>'s inside <td>'s, with inline style specs. These should be coded within the same <td> as the textual content, as <h1>'s, with the styles specified in the style sheet. You have items in the 'this week' box that are a list of events/issues. With a 'bullet' included even. Only you have them coded as <p>'s with a '-' for the marker. Code it as a list, and style the UL and LI elements how you want them =) Now, the CSS - [url=http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wayoutwestenterprises.com%2Fsrv2%2Fsr_style.css&warning=1&profile=css2&usermedium=all]http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wayoutwestenterprises.com%2Fsrv2%2Fsr_style.css&warning=1&profile=css2&usermedium=all[/url] Good sign, but there are some things that need addressing. As Alvice said, consolidate your declarations for your font - one line can cut out 30. Also, your 'content' and 'contentmain' aren't doing anything at the moment, because they are missing the period. Overall, this is a very large coding imporvement, and the visual presentation is good, barring the couple issues mentioned above. :) Loading...
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