new website

cellpack · 28 Oct 2011 at 16:27

hi

just after a bit of advice

im currently getting a new website designed using XHTML 1.0 transitional with css e.t.c

the guy doing it has put <ul></ul> type syntax in the html pages, is this okay or does it not conform to current standards?

thanks very much

Tripnologist · 28 Oct 2011 at 16:31

<ul> is the current standard way of doing navigation, as well as actual unordered lists.

GravyMonster · 28 Oct 2011 at 16:33

Yup, completely fine.

cellpack · 28 Oct 2011 at 16:35

he has this type of syntax

<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Advertising </a> </li>
<li><a href="business-guide.html">Business</a></li>

</ul>

so does that seem okay?

cheers

GravyMonster · 28 Oct 2011 at 16:36

Yes. As Tripnologist said, that is the recommended XHTML way of creating a navigation structure that is easily readable by google and screen readers.

cellpack · 28 Oct 2011 at 16:39

excellent thanks very much so xhtml and css are uptodate standards, seems to change quite a bit hard keeping up

mistercrabb · 28 Oct 2011 at 21:01

If you feel like reading more, have a look at this:
http://htmldog.com/reference/htmltags/

And "bad" tags: http://htmldog.com/guides/htmlintermediate/badtags/

You can even learn (good) HTML/CSS from the tutorials there, someone on the forums recommended it to me.

Draeger · 28 Oct 2011 at 21:05

If the site is "live" at the moment you could run it through the Validators for XHTML and CSS :-

http://validator.w3.org/

cellpack · 29 Oct 2011 at 09:42

thanks very much tried a few pages through the w3 validator and its only failing on things like & instead of being alt tags e.t.c

the designer iss till working on it at the moment, but it doesnt display to well in 1024 x 768 as you have to scroll a bit to the right to see a little bit of that suppose people use higher resolutions these days though

Chanc3 · 29 Oct 2011 at 16:48

A site really shouldn't be wider than 1000px at the moment, as that is still a common resolution for many people.

m4rkw7 · 30 Oct 2011 at 04:12

I used to use a 1024 monitor.. back in 2006.

sharkkk · 30 Oct 2011 at 21:01

Steam Hardware Survey says that 4.73% of their gamers are using 1024 x 768 at the moment. Taking non-gamers into account this figure is probably higher, and don't forget the popularity of netbooks at the moment!

edwardcasbon1 · 30 Oct 2011 at 21:20

That's true. All our work is designed using a 960px grid to cater for the 1024 screen resolution.

cellpack · 31 Oct 2011 at 19:51

thanks there going to change it to work from 1024 x 768 upwards