That site is admittedly terrible. It has no navigation on the frontpage in Firefox for Win either
However, it is not indicative of all Australian government sites. I recently discovered http://www.immi.gov.au when a client cited its previous design (it has been redesigned to conform with the new system that seems to be going into place) as "brilliant, unreal and just how I want my site to look". So, I took a look, I was horrified by the navy blue buttons on a deep red background and other similar shockers, but I persevered to discover that the entire site validated XHTML 1.0 Strict (well, the homepage and two or three others I tested. All three CSS files validated as well. The only problem I had with the site were the terrible flyout Javascript menus Having visited again (just to check) before telling you folks, I found a redesign which looks significantly better. This time around it is one error short of passing XHTML 1.0 Strict and both CSS files pass. It still has the horrible JS though http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.immi.gov.au/ http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.immi.gov.au/includes/styles/flyout.css http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://www.immi.gov.au/includes/styles/homepage.css Still, it is nice to know that someone out there is trying! Cheers, Lachlan ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
