I was interested to see the Miva article about
www.nauticawatches.com and
how Carl Thien has created a store that makes good use of
CSS and the site
meets the accessibility guidelines. He was quoted as saying
"The new site
has an HTML 4.01 Strict DTD, uses no tables except for the
display of
tabular data, has relative font sizes so the user can
increase the size of
the text using View > Text Size in their browser, has no
JavaScript, and is
easy to update."
In creating my site at http://www.p
ower2u.org/mm5/merchant.mvc? (With
extensive help from Lynda Freeman aka the Miva Diva) I used
CSS as much as
possible, and for the doc type used <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML
4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd
"> which worked on
the main part of the site.
I have never been able to get the store to validate. Do I
have the wrong
doc type? Should it be Strict DTD?
I surveyed 23 stores featured in the Miva gallery, 9 were
transitional, 13
had nothing, and only one (nauticawatches.com) was strict.
Tom Rogers
www.tomrogerswebdesign.com
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