On 23/07/07, adam nicholls <inkysplat@gmail.com> wrote:

This is why I've always hated MySpace, it was a nice idea that was
engineered totally the wrong way.  Any website that is stupid enough
not to check for CSS/HTML code would be considerd a exploit, but
MySpace instead embrace it and call it a "Feature".  Facebook has
sucesseed where MySpace has failed in terms of design.

I'm also however guilty of poor choice in colour schemes. I remember
sitting down with Netscape Composer and uploading my un-W3C'd websites
to angelfire/geocities.  However that was 7 years ago, and the web has
moved on.  But its a process I think all designers go through when
first using HTML, once you've worked out how HTML allows elements to
be coloured and positioned you can then make the transition into CSS.
Atm I can write HTML and CSS to W3C standard and even write PHP
scripts and setup MySQL databases to link to it.  However my PHP
coding probabily isn't even written efficient enough that would make
it usable by the hundreds.  But its a learning process.

Its interesting though to see so many major companies on the internet
not using W3C compliance infavour of competant web design. For example
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.amazon.co.uk    1,160 errors on
the page!!  W3C and web design should go hand-in-hand, some of my
personal favourite designs on the internet are open source projects.
Examples like www.jokosher.org www.joomla.com www.scribus.net.

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Adam Nicholls

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