MrB

What's up David! Welcome to WDF.

Hi Matt, welcome to WDF!

Fair doos. I'd imagine having just one to highlight the active menu button could fit the theme. Having all of them there at once though does look somewhat excessive

Quite atmosperic this! Gotta be design 1. The second one feels a bit overdone with the 'blood stains' everywhere. The photos look a bit CG - like they come out of a computer game - intentional? Otherwise, as has been mentioned before, have a good think about designing for audience. Some people could find this design a bit *too much* in the 'dark & weird' sense - and be put off by it as a result. Good luck.

At last! Good stuff. Good to see some of the common features are finally getting native support. Was starting to get the impression the web was gonna carry on as a mixture of ever-wilder workarounds.

Hi Joel, I like your new version better - it has a fresh and positive feel to it. I think you're heading the right direction there. Just a couple of points.. i) no footer - the site doesn't seem to end. ii) The 'welcome' title doesn't stand out enough IMO. Different font-style or size perhaps? iii) To me the citations font-style and size don't fit into the clear'n crispy feel of the rest of the site. Some food for thought for you there. Good luck.

Merry Christmas, Richard! And welcome.

No problem.

Yea, better use the full open/close form here. div is not implicitly an empty tag afterall. The browser can get confused with those. The short form should still be fine with tags like meta, link, img etc though.

Welcome Beaver! Make yourself at home.

Either should be valid.

Hey man, less than 20 years since then - some progress has clearly been made! Although I'd argue it was the World Wide Web that took off around that time.. the Internet itself had already been around for a while.

Strict - as the name suggests - is a more restrictive DTD when it comes to markup validation. Kinda depends on your idea of 'better', but in the sense of 'cleaner' and 'more correct' then Strict is your answer. Transitional is there more for backward compatibility reasons than anything else. So in short - if you want your code fully standard compliant - use Strict. Check this out for a quick summary of differences.. http://www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/About...DOCTYPE_in_HTML and this for more details.. http://www.zvon.org/xxl/xhtmlReference/Out...comparison.html

I don't think you'll find many people out there that know every detail of a language or a system inside out and don't *ever* have to look up anything. And for those that do it's likely because they are gurus focused on one particular discipline (and often one that doesn't evolve at the pace of the IT sector) and have many years of experience doing it. The point is that most people are likely to look things up every now and then. It's the extent to which they do it - depending on their experience, the job itself, etc. - that varies.

What.. no crazy Second Life bash? or on an island in Lively? Haha. Whatever it is though, I can't make it I'm afraid - won't be around a computer those days. You guys have fun!