You forgot to provide an address to which Tom could mail his check!

John H




On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:30:39 -0500, Gene Kearns
wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:16:49 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

I'm changing my website around - in fact, it's undergoing a complete
rewrite - everything is being changed.

I would appreciate it if you would take a look at the front page and
tell me if it display's right. I'm getting mixed results on the
background with other browsers and I want to know so I can make the
proper adjustments.

http://www.swsports.org/

Thanking you muchly very I am.

It looks fine in IE 7.0 and Firefox 2.0.

My web page validator had the following output:

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should be the first line. For HTML 4.01 Transitional documents, the
first line should be !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd". For HTML
4.01 Frameset documents, the first line should be !DOCTYPE HTML
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd". Although HTML
recommendations generally require this line, most browsers probably
ignore it.

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that a user will want to click on when it's listed on a search engine.
A good title is also important when a visitor bookmarks a page.
Recommendation: that the "title" tag be the first tag inside the
"head" section.

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remaining readable.

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the "bgcolor" attribute, consider using the CSS property
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attribute is critical for accessibility. It lets authors specify
equivalent text to serve as content when the image cannot be seen or
displayed. Use alt="" when alternate text is not appropriate, such as
when images are intended to format a page (such as spacer images).

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been defined (note that the validator would not see this declaration
if it is sent as an HTTP header by a web server). HTML 4.01 and XHTML
require this for correct documents. However, for all practical
purposes, leaving it out is very unlikely to cause problems. If you
still want to define a default style sheet language, then include this
in the "head" section of your document to specify "text/css" as the
default style sheet language: meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type"
content="text/css". See
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/s...#default-style for more
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message is displayed only once.

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want bold typeface but do not want strong emphasis. Many web authors
use the "b" element when the "strong" element would be more
appropriate.

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available on a significant number of browsers: "Comic Sans MS". Also,
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equivalent text to serve as content when the image cannot be seen or
displayed. Use alt="" when alternate text is not appropriate, such as
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when images are intended to format a page (such as spacer images).

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"height" and "width" attributes should be used with the "img" element.
Using these attributes generally result in faster and smoother (less
jumpy) rendering. Using them is also considered to be good style.

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that the "alt" attribute be used with the "img" element. The "alt"
attribute is critical for accessibility. It lets authors specify
equivalent text to serve as content when the image cannot be seen or
displayed. Use alt="" when alternate text is not appropriate, such as
when images are intended to format a page (such as spacer images).

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make your web pages more accessible. An accessible page is one that
more individuals can use, such as individuals who are blind or deaf.
It can also increase the usefulness of your web page for individuals
who browse the web using slower devices like older computers or
wireless devices like cell phones and PDAs. An accessible web site
makes good business sense (and possibly good legal sense as well).

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(1x), Sportfishing (1x). Complete list.

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accessibility, it's good for search engines too. Use the "alt"
attribute to describe images but use relevant keywords and search
terms in the description when appropriate, but don't overdo it by
cramming in too many keywords.

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every page include an ICRA label. For more information, please visit
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tag similar to the following in the "head" section of this document:
meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"


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--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
...

Actually, I might owe him! In researching his page, I found some
errors in my own...

--

Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepage
http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/

Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide
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That is quite an extensive and impressive webpage Gene. While
reconstructing the page you may want to resize some of the pics as they load
slow even on cable. ;-)

BTW: How long have you been flying and what is the longest flight you
piloted with your Cessna?

wrote in message
...
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:27:26 -0500, "JimH"
wrote:


That is quite an extensive and impressive webpage Gene. While
reconstructing the page you may want to resize some of the pics as they
load
slow even on cable. ;-)


Yeah.... I've fixed some of them, but I've got a lot more to do. Some
of the pictures are pretty sucky, too. But, I'm learning as I go....


BTW: How long have you been flying and what is the longest flight you
piloted with your Cessna?


About 25 years and I guess Key West is about the farthest flight.....
(about 900 mi.)
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