Shoutbox

Remove the h3 tags around the ul and use css to change the formating, like it is designed to do
header tags (h1 to h5) are not ment to style your content, the are intended to be used for headers (captain obvious ).
Infact you should never use html tags to apply a certain styling to your page, you should always use css rules.
HTML marks up the page, and CSS styles it

Also get rid of that 500kb gif it looks pants because it's over compressed, and its huuuudge.

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Originally posted by Absorbation
just

code:

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alt = ""

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in your image tags

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you better not be implying that he uses blank alts to sidestep the validator, if you are then you should be shot
Doing things like that just to sidestep validation make your page no better. Alt attributes are important for people using text browsers and incase the image dies (along with countless other reasons)
if you meant include alt tags that arn't blank then ignore me

ok
so i'll change all of the text formatting in my website and then sort that (deleting html - replace with CSS )
and i did set the "alt=" " " as text anyway

and the 504kb image is the background and i want a fade much like that one and the only way to do it that i can think of is to set an image like that - and it has to be big to cover all of the area that the website takes up.
are there any other ways i can get a similar fade without that image?


EDIT:
i think...i think... i think i've sorted it
apart from a few errors (11) which i cant see how to fix i think it's ok
i am now using CSS instead of HTML for the text
and i have alt: "" tags
and DOCTYPE
and META tags
i think its ok

(to check go to: www.2347atc.teaspoondiner.net/index.htm
its only the homepahe in XHTML at the moment!
* DJKAL is happy and runs around bedroom dancing and being hyper

* DJKAL doesnt do hyper or dancing! so i was lying

Result:       Passed validation
YAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY

Instead of using a GIF, use a PNG for the background. It allows full 32-bit colour, and will compress well.

i thought PNG took longer to load on the internet because if its huge size...

thats why i used gif and not PNG even though i considered PNG for that colour reason

Try PNG8 instead of PNG32, also you can strech the image so it does not need to be so big

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Originally posted by Absorbation
Try PNG8 instead of PNG32, also you can strech the image so it does not need to be so big

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PNG8 will mess the colours up exactly like gif, because they both work by limiting the amount of colours in an image

And how would he go about stretching a background image?

i have saved it as PNG
try and see what its like now
www.2347atc.teaspoondiner.net

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Originally posted by DJKAL
i have saved it as PNG
try and see what its like now
www.2347atc.teaspoondiner.net

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1.4 MEGABYTES O.o

it should be illegal to use images of that size as a background image O.o
It took me over 6 seconds to load it
And think of the bandwidth usage, if you have 100 unique visitors, then thats 140mbs of bandwidth just used on a background

Try just having a plain background colour, it wouldn't look that bad, promise

i know the size is a bit
but i dont know any way to compress it

nah he wants a fade like that ( the site is for my mate's AC squadron )

EDIT:
the home page (i think)is to plain,
i was wondering if it was possable to get the hyperlinks on the left to go from where they are now and move to the left of the "2347ATC logo" (alt. text) but keeping the logo in the same place (centered)

i used:

code:

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img.x
{
position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:0px;
z-index:-1
}

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but it didnt work  - it jsut made the image "dissapear" behing the background i think.
any way to solve this as the home page would look much better

You can make it fade going down very easy, I suggest you try that