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I have had a look at the website www.cornwall.gov.uk and it has several issues which frustrate me. First and for most it has several errors, which cause it to render badly on browsers such as Netscape 6.x and Mozilla. Check it for compliance with this link: http://makeashorterlink.com/?F1B221921 I suggest you come up with a publishing system not based on the poor Frontpage product. The general way the HTML is written is poor. You should not being using tables all the time to set the text. Paragraphs should be simply encapsulated in <p> tags and be positioned with CSS. Tables of for tabulated data, and this website has abused HTML design. The whole technical implementation regarding you server software is also disappointing. As a citizen of Cornwall, it is not re-assuring that you are running Microsoft IIS software, full of security and performance problems. A professional implementation is done using FREE opensource products such as Apache which is distributed in packages such as Suse or debian. Another sign of a bad web design is how you often how text as images. For example with the navtop.jpg. Most of Cornwall has a very poor Internet connection, while you use bandwidth costly images where they can simply transmitted as HTML (as WWW intended!) marked up or decorated with CSS. You are using an old version of HTML where the font sizes are explicitly set. This is not good, as devices for the hard of seeing have trouble resizing it to a readable size. Simply do not fix this, leave text to marked up by browser settings. Use HTML4 or rather XHTML.
From a usability standpoint the front www.cornwall.gov.uk is overloaded
with links. Categorize them. Use logical structure. h1 -> h2 -> h3 -> h4 See www.useit.com for some more advice. Your copyright page is a tad disappointing, but I will not engage in an argument over that. Just remember that the WWW was designed for sharing and discerning information. Contact me and I would be glad to help Cornwall slide into the 21st century. Regards, -Kai Hendry from Cardinham -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.