Techknow Group

[Luudee]

Located in the state of maryland, we recently rehauled our tech site and are working on the design side.

CnC appreciated.

www.techknowgroup.com
www.techknowbutler.com
www.techknowvision.com
www.itneedshelp.com
www.quicklyfixit.com
www.remotelyfixit.com
www.zipsnap.com

Are all owned by our company!

[sjlplat]

The Good

• Well designed graphics
• Layout works well
• Easy to navigate
• Good color coordination
• Lots of valuable content

The Bad

• Lots of XHTML validation errors
• Menu text does not contrast well with background
• Right alignment of the content container
• Email addresses published in plaintext

Recommendations

• Fix the XHTML validation errors using the W3C validation tool at http://validator.w3.org/
• Change right-align to justified and adjust the left margin to position the text in the content container.
• Mask the plaintext email addresses with Javascript or use a form mailer to prevent spam

Overall, very nice site. I really like the graphics and colors!

[coreyspeed]

takes a long time to load the images at the start maybe look at reducing the quailty and size of them

[Luudee]

Alot of the slowness has to do with the current hosting server were on,

@ xhtml validation error: might it be the websites i have hidden in the source!?

[sjlplat]

Originally Posted by Luudee

@ xhtml validation error: might it be the websites i have hidden in the source!?

Here's what I have from Tidy and W3C on the home page. There are probably some stragglers on other pages, but I think this covers a large majority of it. For the most part, it just boils down to unencoded ampersands and duplicated element IDs.

Result: 15 errors / 5 warnings

line 96 column 152 - Error: document type does not allow element "div" here; missing one of "object", "ins", "del", "map", "button" start-tag
line 101 column 1896 - Warning: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "q"
line 101 column 1896 - Error: general entity "q" not defined and no default entity
line 101 column 1897 - Error: reference to entity "q" for which no system identifier could be generated
line 101 column 1895 - Info: entity was defined here
line 101 column 1913 - Warning: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "hl"
line 101 column 1913 - Error: general entity "hl" not defined and no default entity
line 101 column 1915 - Error: reference to entity "hl" for which no system identifier could be generated
line 101 column 1912 - Info: entity was defined here
line 101 column 1919 - Warning: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "cd"
line 101 column 1919 - Error: general entity "cd" not defined and no default entity
line 101 column 1921 - Error: reference to entity "cd" for which no system identifier could be generated
line 101 column 1918 - Info: entity was defined here
line 101 column 1924 - Warning: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "cad"
line 101 column 1924 - Error: general entity "cad" not defined and no default entity
line 101 column 1927 - Error: reference to entity "cad" for which no system identifier could be generated
line 101 column 1923 - Info: entity was defined here
line 101 column 1939 - Warning: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "ei"
line 101 column 1939 - Error: general entity "ei" not defined and no default entity
line 101 column 1941 - Error: reference to entity "ei" for which no system identifier could be generated
line 101 column 1938 - Info: entity was defined here
line 141 column 9 - Error: ID "blocksWrapper" already defined
line 96 column 9 - Info: ID "blocksWrapper" first defined here
line 142 column 10 - Error: ID "blocksPage" already defined
line 97 column 10 - Info: ID "blocksPage" first defined here
line 146 column 11 - Error: ID "id0_outside" already defined
line 101 column 11 - Info: ID "id0_outside" first defined here
line 146 column 98 - Error: ID "id0_inside" already defined
line 101 column 236 - Info: ID "id0_inside" first defined here