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Posted: **Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:56 pm**

http://www.pppsa.org.za

This newly redesigned site is now up and running, thanks our web guru Mike Schulz and CMS Made Simple. Any comments on look and feel, usability etc. very welcome.
Adrian Crewe

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:52 am**

Look and feel: I personaly didn't like that red there, it clashed and stood out way too much. IMHO having the red text the same color as the rest of the text would be better.

From an accessibility and standards compliance

1. Using the tag is a shooting offence. Never use the font tag. Use css and proper markup instead.

2. Make headers headers:

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<p> </p><p><font color="#000066" size="5"><em>Passion, integrity, commitment</em></font></p><p>The first programme of its kind in South Africa, PPP . . .

should become:

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<h1>Passion, integrity, commitment</h1>
<p>The first programme of its kind in South Africa, PPP . . .

3. Do you really have to use so many tables?

4. Neither your XHTML nor CSS validate. It's great to have those buttons to show that you support the standards (and I did find one page were the XHTML validated) but you should probably work on that or remove the buttons. I have a fair amount of experience with this and there are good reasons to put stuff in a page that doesn't validate (like supporting legacy browsers like IE), but there was a lot of stuff in there that just shouldn't have been there.

5. Other programming horrors:

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</font></em></p><p> </p><b><font color="#000066" size="2"><font color="#000066"><b><font color="#000066"><font color="#000066"><b><font color="#000066"><font color="#000066"><font color="#000066"><font color="#000066" /><b><font color="#000066" size="2"><font color="#000066" size="2"><b><font color="#000066" size="2"><font color="#000066" size="2"><b><font color="#000066" size="2"><font color="#000066" size="2"><b><font color="#000066" size="2"><font color="#000066" size="2"><p><font color="#000066">

and later on:

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</div></font></font></font></b></font></font></b></font></font></b></font></font></b></font></font></font></b></font></font></b></font></font></b>

Just curious, was this done in dreamweaver or frontpage

Good luck

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:43 am**

this "nice" code is something results of many updates of content page using TinyMCE editor...in some situations every update will append some tags

Posted: **Mon Sep 19, 2005 9:44 am**

I think:

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</div></font></font></font></b></font></font></b></font></font></b></font></font></b></font></font></font></b></font></font></b></font></font></b>

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