Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Validating My Work

For this project I also had to validate my html on the Internet using W3C Validator.
http://validator.w3.org/ This way I can see if my website is compliant with the web standards at which the W3C upholds.

Here is a screen shot of my work when I copied and pasted into the correct area on the site.

Once I clicked on the word validate, I had found that within my code I had got 9 Errors and 1 Warning, (Errors means that you must fix the problem and Warnings means that they advise you to fix the problem).

I had looked through my work and I had tried to fix some of the problems that were accoring. Some were easy some were harder, however when I had tried to fix all of the problems my website worked in Internet Explorer however it did not work in Firefox or Safari, therefore I had to go back and have a look at what I needed to do to correct this error.

When I looked through the coding I had found that some of the conditional comments in my header section that linked my html to the correct css was not correct therefore I had to go back and correct the conditional comment, this then was flagged up again when I again placed it into the validator.

Here is what the errors look like on the site:


They are listed in a very organised way, however, I did not understand some of the problems that I was having and the way that the website had worded the problems, I therefore asked my tutors.

After all of the problems I had fixed all that I could, even though I cannot fix them all I will still be trying to find out what is wrong.

Monday, 1 March 2010

Background Colour Changes

After showing my website to my peers and tutors someone had suggested for me to maybe change my background colour so that the middle area stands out more.

Therefore here are a few screen shots that I have taken to show what variables I have done:


However, after experimenting with different background colours, I had decided to stay with my original idea, this is because I was initially wanting to create a simplistic and easy to understand website, therefore I will be keeping my original design, of the white background.
As demonstrated here: