Re: A Perfect Web Site!

I do not believe there is a perfect website. As a matter of fact, although I
learn a lot from Netscape (at times) it is a chore to have to deal with the
perfectionism it expects all the time. I am at a point on my site, where I
am ready to call "UNCLE" and hang out the button that says"best viewed in
IE"  Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sathish C. Bramhan" <sathish(at)bramhan.net>
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Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 2:45 AM
Subject: A Perfect Web Site!


|
| 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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