Archive for September, 2007

In an Ideal World, The Semicolon Would Be There

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 by The Director

Ideals magazine and its publication division have a couple problems with their Web site (also at IdealsBooks.com); first and foremost, no one has looked out for JavaScript problems as I mentioned earlier, otherwise that person would have seen the problem with the missing semicolon that seems to occur on every page in the site:


Missing semicolon
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Also, this site was not reviewed in other browsers such as Firefox, or someone might have seen that the size of the edit boxes is different and sometimes throws off the layout:


E-mail wider in Firefox
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These are some very basic things to look for when building a Web site. However, in the tension between someone wanting to have a Web site fast and inexpensive and someone trying to build a Web site for as much money as possible with the least effort possible, basic quality goes out the window.