Hi, I just finished setting up a new design for my site and got it successfully validated too yippee!
Anyway I used css, along with a couple of embedded css lines for my pages (mainly in order to get them to validate! - darn background tag is not allowed! )

I'd appreciate it if you guys could tell me what you think of the design / text and link colour scheme, and anything else you reckon I could improve on...
All pages are there, and now there is content on every page... yay!

Also, if someone would be able to see what it looks like in opera browser, and maybe anyone with a mac on safari, thatd be great!
It displays how I like it in firefox, and also looks fine in internet explorer, so comparisons to firefox (preferred) or internet explorer please

www.projectjim.co.uk

Thanks
James.

This post has been edited by Jimmy: Apr 5 2007, 09:08 AM

Well, your site looks just dandy in opera. Your coding isn't the best though. Consider changing to XHTML 1.1 to clean up the code a little bit, and consider writing your site in divs rather than tables for various reasons.
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/

I dont have opera but I can tell you it looks good in Firefox. You might want to go with Tetraca's suggestion on changing it to xhtml1.1 and writing it in Divs if you would like to take it one step further. It looks nice though, good job

Thanks for the feedback, its good news it works fine in opera, thats everything pretty much tested.
Looking at that link you showed, it does seem a nice idea to get rid of my tables and use the css / divs more throughout.
Trouble is, I'm really not familiar with div's that much nor am I the most able css coder, I'll see what can be done though

P.S. What is the difference between xhtml and standard html?

I use opera and it looks great. If it got validated it should look good in all browsers i guess, so no need to worry. I just have to remind you, that you have a few broken links on the "links" page...that is the worse thing a page can have so fix that as soon as you can..

Otherwise a very nice site!

Best whishes, Mark

Yeah thanks Getting some nice feedback.!

I only just got the page up so those links are temporary, so I can just see the layout I may end up with.. they'll be gone soon as long as I can get the content done

I'm in the process of setting wordpress going, may need a bit of help..!! we'll see..

the sites looks really good in opera and firefox even thou coding for opera browsers is not all that good. But the site design and the color scheme is simple and not a lot is going on and it draws attention to the things you want the viewers to see.

HTML is a very loose standard - you can get away with a lot of errors and the browser will do nothing about it. XHTML is a much stricter standard that forces you to make code cleaner - all tags and attributes must be in lowercase + termination marks in single tag tags are the most noticeable differences which were imported from XML. There are also some discrepancies in where you are able to put tags(for exa
mple you cannot put <p> tags in <a> tags and you cannot embed tags as so: <p><b>Content</p></b>). Other than that there aren't any major differences from HTML unless you make the server transfer the document as application/xml+xhtml as the W3C wants you to do, which will force your coding to conform to XHTML perfectly or it won't display in the browser(currently if you were to pass correct XHTML with the application/xml+xhtml mime type to an IE browser, the browser will not parse it. This is no problem for Opera nor Firefox, though. I suggest you don't worry about the mime type now until IE supports it.).

I viewed it in Firefox and it looks fine. Going with the previous posters, the code needs to be tidied up. I recommend upgrading the mark-up to XHTML 1.1 it's nicer to understa