[Glastonbury] March poster

[dodski775 at btopenworld.com]

Hi I went to have a look at the web site of Lugog and I thought it was very good. It is informative and easy to navigate a first class job. Keep up the good work you do for open source. Regards Ian 

>  from:    Kelvin McNulty <kelvin24 at gcircle.co.uk>
>  date:    Sat, 21 Feb 2004 10:32:41
>  to:      glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
>  subject: Re: [Glastonbury] March poster
> 
> On Thursday 12 February 2004 20:20, Sean Miller wrote:
> > Anyone else apart from Martin and Duncan bothered to look at the LUGOG site
> > I created? http://www.lugog.org.uk
> 
> Yes, but only today. Looks good to me apart from the newsfeeds being a bit 
> mixed up. Most of them appear to be above their headlines instead of below 
> and one of them - Linux on Laptops - has only a headline and not a paragraph 
> while the paragraph above that does not seem to have a headline.
> 
> But stylewise it does look really good IMHO. Very good!
> 
> I downloaded the article and it was good so I recommended it to a colleague.
> 
> He runs on Windows and as soon as he accessed the LUGOG site his browser (a 
> recent IE on Windows 2000) started throwing errors. It was just a little 
> embarrassing as he knows I am fussy about standards... he made some comment 
> about non-standards complient Linux browsers... and I know this is an issue 
> because I do find that Konqueror, Mozilla and Netscape (the three browsers 
> that I have) do render things very differently from each other.
> 
> So I went to the Validator at w3c at
> 
> http://www.w3.org click HTML Validator
> 
> and (after a slight protest about the redirection which I overcame by entering 
> the URL for the redirected front page) it generated a HUGE list of errors! 
> but there are multiple errors on relatively few lines so it would probably 
> not be as bad as it looks to fix. However, being that the site is generated 
> by Mambo, I know not what sort of changes one would have to make.
> 
> I think that if we want other people (most of whom run on Windows) to be able 
> to look at our site we should fix it so it complies with the Web's standards 
> with which even Microsoft have to comply. I am willing to have a look at it 
> but have no knowledge whatsoever of Mambo. I imagine that to fix it would 
> mean modifying Mambo's scripts, which could be a right minefield... maybe the 
> level on which it should be tackled is by submitting a bug report to the 
> Mambo writers.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Kelvin
> 
> 
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