[MACCAWS] Recreating a business site...

"fstorr" <[email protected]> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 16:08:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.vkit
Message-ID <000001c251c9$63e036b0$4363989e@DHGQCD0J>
Hi all

One of the things that has been talked about for a while for our launch
was maybe re-doing a site (or a page of) using standards.  This
afternoon I was trying to find a new cd rack and, being too lazy to walk
out of the house, I went online to sites for whatever shops are close to
me.  I was browsing away with Moz 1.1 and came across this:

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/gecko.html

I've no idea if Argos are an international company but they spend
millions of pounds on TV advertising in the UK (forcing us to either
endure Status Quo as backing music or Richard E Grant losing his acting
kudos...).  Looking at the site in IE, it's DW stuff (MM_ on the
javascript).  There's font elements, no css, no doctype and so many
graphics that resizing fonts will make negligable difference to a user
with poor vision.

I've e-mailled them to ask why their site appears to only be visible in
IE, but what does anyone think about maybe doing this?

Regards


Francis