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[Mark Suter]

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Clinton,

> 1) Not standard's compliant HTML, run tidy over them and watch the
> errors scroll past...and keep watching...

You aren't referring to the front page when you say this.  As a final
check, the pages should pass both of the following checks.

    http://udl.cast.org/bobby?browser=AccEval&URL=http://www.humbug.org.au/&output=Submit
    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.humbug.org.au/

A good step would be the correct DOCTYPE :-)  The first link is
a little awkward - you need to use "&" to place the link in a
HTML4.0 Strict page.

> 5) It doesn't have the next meeting information right up the front.

Yes!  It is there; however, I've had moderately determined people
give up and email me.  I'm sure that other members have had the
same experience.

> 1) Stick to the HTML 4 and CSS 2 standards, and use tidy to check it
> all. Now, this does make using the site a little hard under lynx, but
> we'll work around that eventually. Lynx is just such a crappy client.

You misunderstand the point then.  Do a check with Bobby and read
all the associated text.  Lynx is one of the better clients, esp. wrt
correctness and speed.

> 3) My first thought would be to just have links to the authoritive
> pieces of information, but that increases the number of clicks to find 
> info, perhaps it could just be #included somehow...

It may be a fair bit more work that you intend; however, have you
considered using PHP and pulling all the data out of a database?

> The work in progress is at 
> http://student.uq.edu.au/~s344025/humbug2/index.html

Seems to be a good direction.  It looks fairly good in Lynx :-)
Suggested links for the room are as follows.

    http://www.uq.edu.au/about/locations/st-lucia.html
    http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.phtml?menu=1&z=2&id=25

Yours sincerely,

- -- Mark John Suter | I know that you  believe  you understand
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