Re: A Perfect Web Site!

Sathish,

I guess I am missing something here.

What has the quality and count of graphics got to do with the code used to
display them?

If the valid pages you are finding don't use a lot of graphics, and the
logic follows that you have to be a little brighter than average to create
standards compliant pages, wouldn't logic also follow that there is
something to be learned from finding pages correctly coded by experienced
people, that have few graphics - and as I take from your messages - most of
the graphics they do use are either 'simple' or ugly.

I'm inclined to think the former. If they are smart enough to learn and
code by hand they are probably smart enough to have done their
(demographic) homework.

MHO,
Fuzzy.
<who, by the way, loves pretty graphics on his pages>


At 12:45 AM 2/12/01 -0800, Sathish C. Bramhan wrote:
>
>I would like to kick off a new discussion in the related HWG forums.
>
>The problem is of a Perfect Web Site. Perfect here, is conforming to w3c
>standards as well as the Advertising criteria. (Sites costing anywhere
>between $100,000 to a $ Million plus per web site)
>
>My problem is that I work for several Web Development companies that are
>really good (You can call it excellent) in Advertising part of Web
>Development. They are hopeless in terms of sticking to w3c standards! I have
>tried my best to make sure the sites I'm in charge, compiles to a great
>extent to w3c standards. I don't want to talk about smaller problems like
>"alt" tags that gave my/our clients a heart attack. (I stopped assigning
>'alt' tags to every image on the page. My/Our clients [Idiots] decided a
>text pop-up next to the arrow of their mouse is annoying and poor me had to
>clean up the 'alt' tags from the entire site! [I tried with '*' they still
>complained, Arrrgh])
>
>The problems are not of plain text sites or even cool looking sites,
>basically 'text' with some graphics here and there. That's easy, I've done
>sites in HTML 4.01 Transitional, Strict and XHTML 1.0 Transitional or
>Strict. As an example, (my sites are similar to these. I'm sorry; I cannot
>give out the actual identity of the sites I've worked to anyone, it's in my
>contract.) Check these sites out: http://www.mgm.com/;
>http://www.jamesbond.com/; http://www.website.fi/; etc., (I did not do these
>sites. I wish I did! The sites I do are as big as these or even bigger)
>these sites are incredible, but do not conform to w3c standards. These sites
>escape from the Big Bad Netscape 6, only because they don't have the right
>"document type declaration"
>
>Please do not validate sites on w3c validator. (That's bogus. Big Bad
>Netscape 6 do not respect it) my former sites were perfect. All the sites I
>have done for the last One and half years validated perfect! Till Netscape 6
>turned up! (I was the laughing stock of the graphics community) The easy and
>crisis management way was to ditch the URI next to the "dtd" That worked,
>but the problem remains. (Please Note: I'm not against Netscape 6. That's
>the future of Web Development. I want my sites to work perfect on it with
>the correct "dtd." Remember, Correct "Document Type Declaration" [That's the
>Key!])
>
>So, have you guys seen or worked on a "Perfect Web Site"??? If so, please
>send me the URI. I would like to study it and create a Perfect Web Site! The
>only site I have seen which is graphic (to some what) intensive, perfect
>coding (except for a 'tr' tag, according to w3c validator) and browser
>independent (excluding Netscape 2!) is: http://www.spinner-scripts.com (I
>did not do this! I wish I worked as an assistant to the people who coded
>this site, FREE!)
>
>Programming is easy! I just cannot do a site with incredible graphics, w3c
>compliant! I'm so tired of all this!!!
>
>Consider this as a Challenge! Show me a PERFECT WEB SITE!
>
>PLEASE!
>
>... SATHISH
>
>
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