Posted on: 08/15/03 02:36pm
By: Anonymous (Mark Beihoffer)
Validation is important because it allows people with disabilities to navigate your site more easily. For instance, I have rather poor eyesight, so I've edited the default theme on my site to include proportional font sizes in percentage (i.e. font-size:120%; instead of font-size:14px), which allows users of Internet Explorer to resize the text. It's very difficult to read 10px or 12px fonts on a 1600x1200 screen sometimes.
Validation also ensures that people using different types of browsers can access the site - we're going to see a lot more devices with web browsers built-in, and there are things like text-to-speech browsers for the blind that are already in use. In any case, once my site validates I'll make the theme I have available for download (it's not pretty, I'll be the first to admit, but it might be useful to someone else).
Another thought I had is that although I think the default themes that ship with Geeklog are really nicely made, and have a definite visual appeal, I would almost personally prefer to have an extremely simple theme that shipped with almost no font attributes, markup, style sheets, etc.
That way, people could modify the site starting from a very simple layout, and add complexity and richness as they see fit, rather than try to shoehorn one of the other themes into something usable.
Anyway, I hope that some of the planning that's going into Geeklog 2 is spent on validating markup, more CSS-oriented theme layouts, and accessibility control.
It's a great CMS, truly the best one I've worked with, and I can't wait to see what the future holds.
So long and thanks for all the code!
Posted on: 08/19/03 01:02pm
By: DTrumbower
Posted on: 11/30/06 12:38am
By: garfy
I've been working on getting my Geeklog-powered <a href="http://www.dragonfly-networks.com">business site</a> to pass the <a href="http://validator.w3c.org">W3C's HTML validation tests</a>, and I think I'm almost there.
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Validation is important because it allows people with disabilities to navigate your site more easily. For instance, I have rather poor eyesight, so I've edited the default theme on my site to include proportional font sizes in percentage (i.e. font-size:120%; instead of font-size:14px), which allows users of Internet Explorer to resize the text. It's very difficult to read 10px or 12px fonts on a 1600x1200 screen sometimes.
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Validation also ensures that people using different types of browsers can access the site - we're going to see a lot more devices with web browsers built-in, and there are things like text-to-speech browsers for the blind that are already in use. In any case, once my site validates I'll make the theme I have available for download (it's not pretty, I'll be the first to admit, but it might be useful to someone else).
<p>
Another thought I had is that although I think the default themes that ship with Geeklog are really nicely made, and have a definite visual appeal, I would almost personally prefer to have an extremely simple theme that shipped with almost no font attributes, markup, style sheets, etc.
<p>
That way, people could modify the site starting from a very simple layout, and add complexity and richness as they see fit, rather than try to shoehorn one of the other themes into something usable.
<p>
Anyway, I hope that some of the planning that's going into Geeklog 2 is spent on validating markup, more CSS-oriented theme layouts, and accessibility control.
<p>
It's a great CMS, truly the best one I've worked with, and I can't wait to see what the future holds.
<p>
So long and thanks for all the code!
Posted on: 11/30/06 03:00pm
By: beewee
Posted on: 11/30/06 03:05pm
By: garfy