Web Design News
Two days ago I commented on how the former BBC Broadcast site has gone a little retro with the inclusion of a splash page, well it seems they aren't alone in their insanity - Mickey Mouse has gone mental!
What we have here is the stuff of nightmares - a beautifully handcrafted standards compliant site has been corrupted by the perverse of mind as a part of some fiendish plan to destroy the interweb. If he was in a position to I'm sure the site's original designer would be turning in his grave. Perhaps old Walt is instead?
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... since I posted about BBC Broadcast's (X)HTML/CSS redesign. Well it's still there, sort of, and it's still making a reasonable attempt at using standards based markup - but now it has a new splash page to go along with the new name.
What's that all about? Don't the Beeb's, sorry the Red Bee's, developers realise that the home page of a site is the most valuable one available, or that splash pages are as entertaining as the testcard?
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The Guild of Accessible Web Designers complete their protracted launch today.
Pop along for some interesting thoughts on accessibility. There's also a competition to redesign the site.
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Two more big name site's go all css - blogger.com (nice article about the process over at Stop Design) and mp3.com.
If you're sick of all this standards high ground, go visit the Interface Hall of Shame.
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BrowserSizer might be a useful tool for anyone working on high res screens.
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Shaun Inman explains his 'other' FIR technique.
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I'm not a big football fan but apparently Manchester United annoy people as much on the pitch as they now do off.
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Want your content accessible to handhelds, but don't know where to start? Webmonkey has an 11 page article on developing for handheld devices using XHTML and CSS.
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This has to be the most original yet.
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Another "Biggie" Goes Compliant
Yep, MySQL.com have gone all XHTML and CSS.
It's failing validation on most pages but mainly only due to invalid character entities. There also seems to be a few missing opening or closing tags here and there but nothing that won't be sorted out.
It must have been a massive job and one well done in my opinion.
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The DRC released a report today on the standard of accessibility of UK websites.
The report doesn't make for very pleasant reading with an incredible 81% failing even the most basic level of accessibility- Priority One (full checklist here).
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I'm loving GUI Galaxy.
Nice design, nice code, and maybe just enough curves to please the anti-box brigade ;)
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This week's A List Apart provides a brief article on the implications of UK Law, and the Disability Discrimination Act, for Web Designers and aims specifically to debunk the myths surrounding the act which came into force for UK web sites in 1999.
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The BBC Broadcast site has had an overhaul using XHTML transitional markup and a CSS layout. Even though some areas aren't quite fully compliant, one or two of the inner pages use invalid characters and one of the stylesheets uses a few proprietary properties in order to achieve certain effects, it's a good tableless layout and one that could just as easily be XHTML strict - the home page uses a border attribute on one image which could have been done via the CSS.
It's nice to see the bigger sites begin to make an effort, especially as it'll help with convincing clients that a switch to XHTML/CSS is a worthwhile step to take.
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Some shcmuck has posted about W3C's lack of proactive behaviour on Juicy Studio.
Following on from a recent DDN debate about the lack of '_target' in XHTML 1 Strict, Gez started a related debate and I added my 2p to the effect I found it aggravating in the extreme, which mutated into my comments that:
"Here's my broader point: The sort of people who influence the decision making process at W3C are neither representative of web designers/developers at large nor the average marketing dept. That's not their fault, W3C is an opt in process and these people have elected not to opt in therefore they don't get a say. However, I do believe that W3C are not good at encouraging people to have their say and the refusal to have any sort of flexibility is bizarre to say the least."
And Gez quite rightly started a new thread based on this comment thus forcing me to change from usual tactic of spouting crap and actually saying what I believed in!
Judging by the response I got in the original thread, I think its safe to assume I'm going to get a 'warm' reception.
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