the road to validation

Most of my mental energy has been going toward further refinements of my work site. I’ve changed the Stylesheets to clean up a couple of DIVs that are no longer needed and to change a couple of text sizes. I’ve also been moving my SSIs around and just refining why some of those are needed. Most of my templates just needed a couple of changes, but nothing too drastic. Perhaps the biggest change is with the Event calendar. I rebuilt the calendar using part of Mark Pilgrim’s calendar and a couple of changes to the main template. I had it in a pure-css layout, but it worked better on all browsers using tables. All of this would probably be version 1.5 or 2.0 if I used a versioning system.
I’m now going page by page, correcting dumb errors…mainly how Microsoft Word processes html. Including the new event calendar, I have over half of the site validating xhtml. That should increase as the week progresses. Starting out with valid templates took care of most of the problems, leaving the actual posts with a majority of the problems. Some of the errors are “goofs” on my part, setting up unordered lists inside of a post while letting Movable Type Convert Line Breaks. Causing a paragraph tag to incase each li list tag. Thereby throwing off validation for that page.
More Later…

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2 Responses to “the road to validation”

  1. Yep, calendars are tough. I just spent more time than I would to like admit hacking apart the same Mark Pilgrim calendar for my photolog. Of course I had to complicate things and get it to suck the most recent entry for a given day as cell backgrounds :)
    Finally got it to validate, but I am quite sure it works on little else than the most current Win browsers… a luxury I have on a personal site that you don’t on a *real* site.
    If your curious, this was the result, http://fultonchaindesign.com/photos/archives/2003_01.php

  2. It looks good to me, Al. I love that background for the daily photos. If I didn’t have other projects killing me, I’d do that on the work site too. Maybe pull images from a webcam or something….or from our photo library. Actually seeing your calendar kicked my ass into gear and got the calendar updated.
    I’m still not happy with the work calendar, it’s not rendering a couple of the css classes like it should. But it’s workable now, and doesn’t look too screwy. I spent about a week total getting it to where I liked it, only to rebuild the thing in a day. Same problems on both the css and the live table version.