Hi all
Next week bibliotek.dk [Denmark] (url http://bibliotek.dk) is going to
redesign their website
"In bibliotek.dk you will find records of all items published in Denmark
as well as all items found in the Danish public & research libraries."
There is a beta version ready http://proto.bibliotek.dk/ - This was a
chock/surprice to see such a bad redesign in 2005 from a web standards
point of view. I am going to write a review article (sorry this article
is going to be in Danish) what's wrong with this new redesign.My major
findings and what is wrong is
1) Divitis - they use 80 <div> "Sic!) - lot's of them for things like
inline CSS <div style="border-top:1px solid #FFFFFF;"></div> and
<div style="display:inline;float:left;">
2) Id versus Class - all <div> have been (all most) marked as class -
more logical to marked most of them as id instead of class
3) lots of <b> and <br>
4) Embbeded JavaScript which also have errors - The W3C validator finds
them -
5) the design looks very very bad in Firefox and Opera
6) no use of <p>text</p> any where
7) use of target attribute in HTML 4.01 Strict <a class="lnk"
href="http://www.e17.dk/"; target="_blank"> No Go
8) Menus/navigation have not been marked as lists <ul> or <ol> would be
more logical
9) CSS file is also bad the CSS Validator finds a lots of warnings
10 Spacer gifs http://proto.bibliotek.dk/common/pics/dot_trans.gif
for things like <img src="common/pics/dot_trans.gif" width="1"
height="18" alt="">
11) No print style sheet - very important when people printing their
search results out - and don't want all menus and other graphics also
been printed out -
(waste of paper) and also because IE 6.0 don't shrink the page when
printing out.
12) some minor errors like <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=is0-8859-1"> in "iso" there is 0 (zero)
Conclusion- The persons behinds this redesign don't know such much about
HTML, CSS, JavaScripts and best practices in 2005. [could send them the
book "Designing with web standards" by Zeldman for a start] The redesign
website is build so hard to maintaine/edit (24.7 KB code main page) -
this resign could have been a lightwheigt XHTML for structure, and CSS &
JavaScript placed out in external
files, but now the danish taxpayers gets this amateur coding redesign.
As a note I can tell in Denmark, the Danish Ministry for Science,
Technology and Innovation strongly encourage all
governmental/national/municipal authorities to use W3C standards
(HTML/XHTML standards) on their Web pages. But we don't see it here.
If you have more comments/feedbacks/input about the redesign website, I
would be very thankfully to hear it, like testing on Mac, WAI issues etc.
best regards
Soren Johannessen
Copenhagen, Denmark
PS- I hope you all understood my english above.
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