Ouch - yes, I'm a bit embarrassed for the EducationalNetworks crowd - their own website, presumably their calling card, is also a dogs breakfast from a web standards point of view - haven't looked at it much beyond that.
I should point out that the sites I mentioned earlier in this thread - the two a Hagley Community College (it's a high school, using college in the English rather than American sense) were both designed to be XHTML 1.0 strict compliant. The main school site validates, and the computing one has 2 errors related to an image tag with a border attribute and no alt text... The teacher involved is a strong web standards advocate. My suggestion to EducationalNeworks... try web standards - they're not that hard. Cheers, Dave On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 22:47 +0000, David Dixon wrote: > Perhaps the blatant disregard for common web standards could be the > reason? (this is after all a web *standards* list and not a web > designers list...) > > Lets see: > > - tables for layout > - no alt attributes for images > - obtrusive javascript (are "professional" companies really still > getting away with the default Dreamweaver rollers???) > - reliance on javascript for basic functionality > - the marquee tag ?!?.... > - no form labels > > So that's inaccessible, non-semantic and non-xhtml/html compliant > > ... im not sure i can stand to review any more of the site, the home > page is enough to kill my spirit. > > David > > Rick Faircloth wrote: > > What did you find to be so bad about the site, Stuart? > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On > >> Behalf Of Stuart > > Foulstone > >> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 2:11 PM > >> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > >> Subject: Re: [WSG] Examples of great high-school websites? > >> > >> > >> Perhaps the students should code the site - they couldn't do much worse! > >> > >> On Fri, January 16, 2009 7:00 pm, Fred Ballard wrote: > >>> Take a look at Sullivan High School's http://www.sullivanhs.org/. As you > >>> can > >>> see in the homepage's lower right corner it's from the Chicago Public > >>> Schools, http://www.cps.k12.il.us/, with a company, Educational Networks, > >>> http://www.educationalnetworks.net/, behind it. > >>> > >>> Is it too slick? I'm of two minds. It's great that it's a good-looking > >>> site, > >>> but it might be nice to let the students be the designers. I don't > >>> actually > >>> know what the students think about it, on the other hand. > >>> > >>> Fred > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:29 PM, David Lane <d...@egressive.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Oops - should've been "Disclosure" rather than "Disclaimer" :) > >>>> > >>>> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 15:21 +1300, David Lane wrote: > >>>>> Disclaimer: I've had occasional association with the work being done > >>>> at > >>>>> Hagley, and have been a guest speaker to the computing students on a > >>>>> couple occasions :) > >>>> -- > >>>> David Lane = Egressive Ltd = d...@egressive.com = m:+64 21 229 8147 > >>>> p:+64 3 963 3733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents > >>>> http://egressive.com ==== we only use open standards: http://w3.org > >>>> Effusion Group Founding Member =========== http://effusiongroup.com > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ******************************************************************* > >>>> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > >>>> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > >>>> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > >>>> ******************************************************************* > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> ******************************************************************* > >>> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > >>> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > >>> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > >>> ******************************************************************* > >> > >> > >> > >> ******************************************************************* > >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > >> ******************************************************************* > > > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > > ******************************************************************* > > > > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > -- David Lane = Egressive Ltd = d...@egressive.com = m:+64 21 229 8147 p:+64 3 963 3733 = Linux: it just tastes better = nosoftwarepatents http://egressive.com ==== we only use open standards: http://w3.org Effusion Group Founding Member =========== http://effusiongroup.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
