Hi Paul, > "Keep in mind that not many people here will want to help you > sort out a > design that uses tables for layout." > > Are we not being a bit classist?
I don't think so. This is from the guidelines: --- We encourage people to ask for help on the list. One of the primary goals of this group is to help members move towards building sites that are standards compliant, so we do not want to stop members posting questions of this nature to the list - in fact, we encourage it! --- The site in question heavily uses tables, not just for simple layout issues like multiple columns. It has a lot of other issues like px based font sizes and even me with decent eyesight have difficulty reading some of the text with no option to scale it up (in IE). There are some convention issues in there. I strongly suggest thinking about naming conventions. Never make class or ID names the same as element names (e.g. this site uses .body). What I was trying to do was give the member possible reasons why no-one had answered the post (they may have off list but we don't know that). I looked at it at the time, hit the validator and closed the browser, I assume others did the same. Later (as no-one had answered) I looked again (in the code this time) and found a site that it will be very difficult to diagnose due to the way it has been built. I don't think I'm classist at all, if I go to help you with a problem and you haven't done the basics to make it easy for me to help you, I don't have the time spend wading through it. Who knows (without spending an hour on it) what effect the 125 errors has on the issue in question. If it was using tables to simply sort out a column issue or similar I wouldn't have mentioned it. I was trying to be gentle and still provide some level of help. I guess we missed that train. My apologies to Jeff as this has gone a bit deeper than I wanted it too and maybe I should have handled it all off-list. P ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
