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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: May 20, 2005 6:17AM

> I'm updating a club website and using templates which do not have absolute
> sizing in them yet Bobby says they have!
>
> The site is at www.newchaletclub.co.uk/TESTZONE/ if anyone can help me.

One of the most basic technical requirements of an accessible site is
that it is valid HTML, to allow for any technology to render it
properly, this site isn't as of yet:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&;uri=http%3A//www.newchaletclub.co.uk/TESTZONE/
Meta keywords are only important to some minor search engines, and a
page should have one description, repeating yourself will only get you
punished by search catalogues with real editors.

The sizing thing bobby found is the following:
span style="font-size: 9px"

If you really want to show you care, better give the site a good
clean-up, structure it properly and worry about bobby later. The
navigation would make a lot more sense as a list for example and the
pages shouldn't link to themselves. Furthermore it'll be good to know
what link opens in a new window and which doesn't.

Why do you even bother with a bobby validation when you are planning
to use a right-click prevention script to make it hard for visitors?
Or is that just a copy and paste thing?

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