Offering good value web development to boost portfolio

Duncang · Jul 11, 2006

Morning all!

Right, I have been building websites for over 3 years now, and time I boost my portfolio further, so I would be happy to consider most projects and dare I say it most budgets.
I specialise in php/MySQL database driven websites, and have worked on small to large projects, from websites for the Turkish Chamber of Commerce to a local travel agent via a translation company:

www.tbcci.org - a lot of services offered and admined in two languages
www.lindoltd.com - online full ecommerce shop
www.diplomat-travel.com - travel site
www.syntacta.co.uk - translation site with content management in 6 languages.

If you require an experienced web developer, able to code with W3C compliance then get in touch via my website: www.spider-consultancy.co.uk or PM me!

Many thanks,

Duncan Glendinning
www.spider-consultancy.co.uk

A-Wing · Jul 11, 2006

Do any web designers here use non-tables designs anymore?
Where has the standards compliance gone these days?

The funniest thing is your website talks about your thesis on internet access for visually impaired but the site itself is flawed for visually impaired users.

No alternative stylesheets for visually impaired users or font enlargement options.
Colours (although the red-on-red used officially not breaking accessibility rules some other colour choices are).
Tables layout (doesn't look good on text readers so will not render correctly for text->speech).
No accessibility shortcuts set.

rob · Jul 11, 2006

plus buttons on the claim to be valid HTML ...

This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!

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A-Wing · Jul 11, 2006

If the W3C could sue everyone who said they were valid but weren't they would make a fortune. I can think of several examples of this straight away.

mishmash · Jul 11, 2006

Lets step through:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/

*Guideline 1. Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content.
In both the header and footer there is textual content presented as images without any alt text. There are not even any empty alt attributes - to indicate that it has been considered, but decided inappriopriate to provide alternative text to describe the content of the images. Fixing this would also solve the validation errors!

*9.3 For scripts, specify logical event handlers rather than device-dependent event handlers
http://www.spider-consultancy.co.uk/testimonials.html
This page contains small fast moving text when it is loaded - that's not making it easy to read for anyone. That aside, it's impossible for users not using a mouse to stop.
The content of the page is pulled in using Javascript, yet there are no NOSCRIPT tags.

*Use of images for the navigation buttons means that the text within them is not resized to reflect users preferences.

*3.5 Use header elements to convey document structure and use them according to specification.
There's no structure to the page, no HTML header tags, instead we've got things like:

Code:

<p class="Header">PORTFOLIO</p>

*At http://www.spider-consultancy.co.uk/about.html there's link text of "Click here", rather than descriptive text which makes sense when read out of context.

A quick glance at one of the pages from the portfolio - http://www.syntacta.co.uk/ shows the same "standards" can be found there - just on the front page there's a "Click here" with the here as the link text, headers without HTML header tags, a whole bunch of missing alt tags - and that's before we get to the Three! Doctype declerations and multiple "<html>" tags!

To have all these basic mistakes from someone who's written a thesis on accessibility on a site promoting his experience in the field of "Internet Accessibility" is shocking. Though perhaps he should be given some credit for at least considering accessibility - far too many people don't, even though quite apart from the legal and ethical requirements to make sites accessible, there are good business reasons too, not least as all of the improvements suggested in this post would be good for Search Optimisation.

retired_member27 · Jul 12, 2006

Duncang said:
If you require an experienced web developer, able to code with W3C compliance then get in touch via my website: www.spider-consultancy.co.uk

Hmm, putting that quote was like a red cape to a bull with these guys.

W3C standards are purely a guideline, you could proberly go to most of the biggest websites and find similar discrepancies, including my own sites.

You are supposed to use DIV instead of TABLE nowadays but most don't.

mishmash · Jul 13, 2006

I'm all for W3C to only produce guidelines - and that they should not be restrictive - in the spirit of Wikipedia's Ignore all rules - if you don't agree and think you can do better then by all means go your own way and break some new ground.

However while the guidence is optional, making websites accessible is not.