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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 11 June 2003 9:31 am, Richard Brown wrote: > Dear All > > Thanks for recent advice re search engines. I have just completed first > web site using CSS and.... well this is where I would like you guys to > tell me. What do you think? How can I improve it? The address is: > > www.samc.org.uk I'm not a designer but it looks ok to me - I like things simple. On the technical front, the best thing to do is to submit the page to the World Wide Web Consortium's html validator: http://validator.w3.org/ If you do this, as I did, you will find it complains that it can't work out the doctype, i.e. which version of html you are using, nor can it work out the character encoding you are using. To put a doctype declaration in your document try the following line at the top. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/HTML4.01/strict.dtd";> This complex little thing tells web browsers that it conforms to html 4.01 standard and that it does not contain any outdated tags (strict). The choice of which version of html you conform to is up to you of course. To declare your character encoding add another meta tag looking something like this: <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-8"> Once you have done that, try the w3 validator again to find out any other problems you have. Cheers Tony -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+5xB/+ZJrkBuz/nkRAh3PAJ9Mm8UWEmd5AD2tJJwqcYKG6kIg0gCfc063 RDvH3uVPtFgIOeYTBqIjyBA= =9ndy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.