Topic: Site review

Would appreciate another review since converting to xhtml.
Hopefully the link is still with the sig..
Thanks guys...

Nice looking site ...
If only my speakers were working ... and me too ...

hey nice site. simple, small, fast. and a nice db of midi's also no tables there.....really nice

is that all hard-coded html? I'm sorry.

Looks the same as it did before, so you're green.

-S

Yep, very clean, very simple, does its job. And a nice collection of MIDIs to boot.

Nice site.

The layout looks like I remeber it, so that there's no problems there. The code looks good as well, except that you've used <br /> tags to create the paragraphs on the first page. Change that to <p> tags and you're all set

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twItch... I wish...
Now that I'm not working maybe I'll learn to do my own coding... )
Right now I'm using "html kit & style master".

Also got rid of all the br's I could find on the site.

Less than 100 lines of php would put together a nice little system for you.

Seriously. If your server can run PHP and you have MySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL, you're green. Simple stuff. Email me if you need some pointers.

-S

"You're green" ?

I depise making posts to make little clarification points like this...
But I'm not going to let this post irk me..... because I'm blaming Stephen for me having to.
*smirk*

sonicsnail - It's like saying... "you're good to go".

"you're good to go" ?

Jason

*eats idioms for breakfast*

-S

Looked through your index page only.

You're using a lot of unnecessary markup. You could delete almost all of your class attributes for instance.

First of all, you could remove the div used for the navigation. Secondly, all items in the menu have a class attribute. Instead, you could give the nav an id and then use something like

#nav li a { ... }

To be real pedantic, maybe it should be an unordered list too.

Is

<base rel="nofollow" href="http://bennieshepherd.com/" />

really needed?

<div class="center">

"center" is not a good classname since it's not really separating style from structure (if you understand what I mean). "main" or similar would be better.

Also, personally I think the "Valid XHTML" and Bobby icons are pretty annoying, and I don't really think people care if your site validates or not (At least I don't).



[This message has been edited by HZR (edited 10-10-2003).]

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<div class="center">

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Actually, since he's using a class selector, it makes sense to call it "center," since there's a possiblity that more than one div will be centered. If he were using an ID selector (which I think is what he meant to use), "main" would be a better name, because there can only be one "main" div.

What difference does it make?
(IMO) you should never use classes/id's that reflects the elements style/position, like "yellow", "left" or similar.
What if he decides to redesign the page with that div aligned to the left. That wouldn't make sense.

BTW, midi, you are sending XHTML as text/html.



[This message has been edited by HZR (edited 10-11-2003).]

[This message has been edited by HZR (edited 10-11-2003).]

Okay then, suppose I have a few divs on a page that I want centered, purely for visual effect. Assuming contextual selectors are out of the question, how would you approach the situation? I would probably add class="center" to each one, but since you object to this usage, tell us what you would do.

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BTW, midi, you are sending XHTML as text/html.

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While I am aware of the issues regarding this, I still send all my XHTML pages as text/html. Why? Because sending them as application/xhtml+xml just happens to break horribly in many of today's browsers, including IE6. I don't want my IE6 users to see this.

So what are my options? Going back to HTML 4, which in my opinion, is taking a step backwards, or using XHTML anyways, which is like taking three-fourths of a step forward, even if I can't always adhere to strict standards.

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tell us what you would do

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If it's just for purely visual effects, I can agree with you on doing something like <div class="center">. But then you could also use the <center> tag. As I said earlier, what about when you want to redesign that page and have the divs aligned to the right?

About the XHTML as text/html:
XHTML 1.0 may be sent as text/html (though it should not) if the document follows the appendix C guidelines, as you know ozphactor. However, midis site does not and that's why I pointed it out.

I don't see the benefit of using XHTML today though.



[This message has been edited by HZR (edited 10-12-2003).]

Errr, I thought using contextual selectors and a properly structured and well described and "marked up" page meant you can pin point almost any element in your page (depending on how detailed your class and ID values are).

As per HZR's argument about the issues that might pop up when having to redesign the page, if you use element classes and ID's to describe the document structure (to the detail required by thestyle sheets) then you shouldn?t have an issue. You might end up with redundant CSS rules and selectors, but I think that's a better option than using classes like "centre".

Although, IMHO there's little point structuring detailed descriptions of a document in XHTML if it were just a one off page. So if it was a one-off job, and I was pressed for time, I'd also opt for a "centre" or a "float_left" class, but I'd still think it a poor practice.

Don't understand a lot of what you guys are saying. "sending XHTML as text/html", "remove class for menu devision".
I did change div class center to content.
Also went back to dtd html 4.01 transitional.

Steve.. when you said I was green I thought you meant I was new to creating web pages..