"Graham P Davis" wrote in message
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Gavin Staples wrote:


What an excellent weather website Graham:-) The pictures are great and
download really quickly and I am on dial up.
This site also shows just how nice Cornwall is. I am not surprised
the
place is now so popular.

Gavin.

Graham,

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with Gavin. The text on the weather page
is
overprinted and looks a bit of a mess. I've tried to check the page at
http://validator.w3.org/ and got the following messages:

"I was not able to extract a character encoding labeling from any of the
valid sources for such information. Without encoding information it is
impossible to reliably validate the document. I'm falling back to the
"UTF-8" encoding and will attempt to perform the validation, but this is
likely to fail for all non-trivial documents."

"Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on lines 77, 128 it
contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other
words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character
Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character
encoding indication."

Your home page also displays badly and the above error message applied for
lines - 132, 139, 170, 177, 235.

The W3C site should give you some idea as to how to fix these problems.

Good luck,

Graham



What Browser/Version are you using?

I've checked the site with from various PCs with various browers and it
looks fine. This is the first problem I've had reported over several years,
and I've had many emails from people about the site. I fully accept that
much of the code is generated by Serif, which is technically imperfect, but
I don't spend time correcting the code unless there is a real problem, on
the basis if it is not broken don't fix it (and I don't have that much
time!)

Serif does a great job of getting the photo compression just right, so as
Gavin says, the page loads quickly. (my pet hate are sites with 100kb
pictures when 15kb would be fine)

Certainly my cottage web site, also largely generated by Serif, gets 100-200
hits a week, and no problems reported to date (except for the odd
mis-spelling!)

Graham