Re: [MACCAWS] Recreating a business site...

--- fstorr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

That's brutal! Anyway, I agree that we should do this as proof of
concepts. This is a good site, and I still want to do the yahoo!
site. If any volunteers want to step forward, please do, and email
me.

Tom

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