Help with final touches!

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DAS19

New Member
Ok so I just finished designing a site for our recording studio thats not doing so well financially. We needed a fresh new site on a tight budget. I think I am quite pleased at what I came up with and what I could actually remember from when I was twelve trying to make websites for my friends. Anyway so I finihsed the site and everything is looking great the only problem I seem to be facing is the fact that when I check mark up validator it comes up with about 20 errors (sometimes less on other pages). When I go to make the chnages that the site tells me to my whole table formations go all out of whack so technically these errors are actually ebenfiting my site. What do you suggest I do as someone thats just trying to get a site out there that looks good and is compatible on mutiple platforms. Any help will be much appreciated.

Check out the site here: http://www.sabellastudios.com/newsite

Let me know what you guys think of my coding and the errors that ensue... Check the error validator here.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...e=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator/1.2

Thanks again for your time
Cheers,
Dave
 
Phreaddee

Phreaddee

Super Moderator
Staff member
hi
first of all you've built it in tables, which will cause you headaches, but save from redoing the entire thing again, and if you are remembering from building sites when you were 12, its no wonder you are using tables. so worth doing some research as to why table layouts are not a good idea.

as for the validator issues. they are all quite basic.

the first one refers to a deprecated element. ie its not used anymore.
add margin:0 to your body css instead.
remove this as well
marginwidth=0" marginheight="0"

anything regarding ALT requires an alt on an image. for instance
HTML: 
<img src="image.jpg" alt="imagename" />
the end tags for the td and tr ones are also self explanatory.

you've done some messy nesting of your tables which is causing these errors. the validator will tell you which ones.

the ones requiring a type want you to add type="text/javascript" to the script tag.

you can only use one instance of an id within a document. if you intend on using it multiple times make it a class instead.

and the rest is flash. and flash is never good for validators. dont worry about that.

seriously tho, get away from tables...
 
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d a v e

New Member
you made your slideshow using an animated gif? omg :) 1.3 mb... use a jqery image rotator (googl one)

"25 minuets outside of Manhattan by car" it's this attention to detail that will get you customers :)

no favicon

all bold, white text ... try plain text, and off-white for easir reading (say #e0e0e0) and more line height (say 1.5 -1.6

optimise your images, please . thumbnails should be around 10 - 20 kb for that pixel size

oh come on, why is the gearlist an image?

is there no way you can hire someone? otherwise it means you have a bit of a slog to catch up with the times ;)
 
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fahimc97

New Member
the design is quite good but as mentioned before the tables will cause headaches

but apart from that its fine
 
Phreaddee

Phreaddee

Super Moderator
Staff member
"25 minuets outside of Manhattan by car"
Click to expand...
maybe he likes to play his favourite Mozart or Beethoven pieces in the car and it takes on average 25 minuets to get to Manhattan?
 
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