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1st moblog

Now this is my first real moblog :)

Bad site = prosecution \o/

So apparently, bad web site = prosecution. I'm having a little fun with this. Over the years I've seen sooo many bad websites, bad horrible companies trying to just make money. Now its against the law to have them. Excuse my while I lmfao. I've always wanted these people hurt, and now they will be. Its great, I can ring up any company with an invalid site and tell them they're breaking the law and I can fix it for a fee. Please please please let this work, I'd be minted. Seriously tho, I do disagree with them going after personal websites. I think that people should be allowed to express themselves however they want to personally. Its about the person, nothing else. But company websites are providing a service to the public, and theres no reason why they shouldn't be accesible.

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Finally no more horrible frontpage websites by people who think they're a designer. Maybe it should only be company websites tho, so people who are still learning how todo valid html can be left to learn. But still, a step in the right direction. I read most of your comments, and I must laugh Ugly sites? Tables? Firstly, CSS Zen Garden will show you just how pretty a valid xhtml + css site can be. 2ndly, tables aren't meant for design anyways. If you use xhtml + css, then you can still do 100% browser width via the css. That would be valid then. I'm all for the day where web design has to be tested. I'm sick and tired of seeing sooooo many people who know html 2.0 making money off other peoples ignorance. £200 a site, oh yer brilliant site that must be. These people have no idea about how a site should really be built, and the client doesn't either. The client is only happy to have a url they can tell people about. If compliant websites is the law, then it'll force all these wannabe companies to shape up, as all their clients will be shouting at them. Every day we're moving further and further away from browsing the web on a windows box with ie6, designing for standards and compliancy will enable your site to be viewed by the blind, deaf, web-enabled phones (i'm not talking about wap here people) and other such devices. IMHO, anyone who has a problem with it really doesn't know the power of html + css. Some links for you; The Business Value of Web Standards An Introduction To Accessible Web Design XHTML Web Design for Beginners.

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Yer I kinda agree with you nige. I don't think it should be done for personal sites at all. But I do think its a great way to get company websites upto scratch, and looking a hell of a lot better as they'll ask those pansy designers for a new compliant site, the pansy designers won't be able todo it, so they'll goto a decent design company. Its a great way to get people using better browsers, people build better sites, n stuff. How many UK companies do you think have even heard of 508 or WCAG compliance? They pay their designers to do all this, and with so many frontpage designers out there, theres far too many bad sites in the world.

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I personally don't like Bobby's output. I much prefer Cynthia. A simple yes or no does it for me. Plus its also in one of my firebird extensions, one click validation, oh ya shake that thing Cynthia.

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LOL @ Mr. Sensitive. I think the point they're making is that the technologies have been around for 10yrs now and still blind people have problems. 10yrs is a long time to fix a problem. CSS2 and XHTML have been around for 5 yrs, and still its only really the past one or two that big changes are happening with regards to accessibility. Its not exactly hard to make a website that blind people can view. If your current site is massive and has 100 pages of handcoded html with no css, then it should be rebuilt anyway as it'll save you time/money in keeping it upto date. If there are any companies that want their site rebuilt, gimme a call I'm happy to help

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If massive sites like Lycos UK or News or ESPN can justify using tableless designs, why can't everyone? They have a massive userbase, spanning every major browser around, and yet they justified redesigning their sites to their "suits". Read this - The Business Value of Web Standards An interview with the guy who did the ESPN redesign, well worth a read.

Hopefully I'll remember this page and use it to show people who still don't use CSS.

Planes, fireworks, and possibly some automobiles

2 weeks ago was Southport Airshow. Was quite good, loud, wet, cold, but all in all quite fun. Then last week it was the Southport Fireworks Competition which was much better on the 2nd / 3rd days. This week in Southport its some classic car show. Might go tomorrow when its dryer.

I had an odd dream last night. I was at a fair ground, possibly based on Southport, and all I really remember was that they had microlites. I wanted to go on one, but it was getting dark so I left. As I got to my car I thought, "Worth trying", so ran back and got in one. I asked if they were ok for people who didn't like heights, to which the woman said yer it was. :o Anyways, I got in one, it had a co-pilot that i had to ly on top off for some reason. So we took to the skies, and it wasn't bad at all. I wasn't scared, but then this was a dream :) After a while of flying for some reason my co-pilot, now sitting comfortably behind me, took out a gun and started to shoot down the other microlites. It was a game apparently, and only paintball guns. I'm not sure if I woke up wanting to really fly one, or whether that was part of the dream. But it was cool.

So I caught this show the other day on C4, Scratch. Very very cool. You've got these guys scratchin the impossible outa their decks. Seriously amazing. So I've got a whole bunch of DJ Shadow tracks i'm listening to. Its very different to anything I've got in my collection. Its a mix of 60s funk/jazz to breakbeats. I don't think Ian or Dave will like it tbh, its far too extreme (?) or far too outside the normal realms of what constitues a tune. I have to say tho, you watch Scratch, you see what they do with the decks and hear the music they make, and you've just gotta respect that. Its just awesome talent.

Mr Light

deviantART: the angel within by *phlezk - Inspired by this image, I'm starting to make my own, and its working :D

Say hi to Mr. Light :D

David Blane - Above, slightly left of the below

Hehe, the ad for its on :)

I think its an intresting study/bit of modern art. If he's doing it to push himself / grow as a person, then i'll respect him for that. If he's doing it for money, then he's an idiot as theres far easier ways to get money.

I'm gunna try and cut down on some things I eat, just to try that, just to try and push myself a bit harder. So far the past 2hrs have been annoying to say the least. "Hmmm i'll get some toast....no no I won't" 5 mins later .. "Yey toast....damn it"

Alts

Thanks to OcUK peeps;

Quick Time Alternative

Real Alternative

Once installed, use Media Player Classic to view them.

Look ma, i'm outside

See I went outside today, it even says so. The "outside" world has its own .com \o/ So in future I can just go outside.com and save all the hassle :D

Also nice to see pr0n stores in Liverpool now

Recently on Petes life...

Saturday was spent at the Llangollen Balloon Festival which was quite cool. In the evening they had glowing balloons to music, decent tunes too. Electric 6, Beyonce, Moby, n co.

Sunday, Dave came back from Canada (technically Sat, but he slept n stuff, so I say sunday). He showed us the photos from his two weeks which were pretty cool. Some where cheating as he used cool places to take cool pics ;)

Monday....won our ET games. Tuesday, lost our ET games to some div 1 lamers :) Wednesday...today, beat a few peeps in ctf. Took some of my Dads old pics and cleaned them up. You've gotta love photoshop for cleaning images. All the colour is back in the image.

Saturday and possibly Sunday will be spent at the Southport Airshow which should be very cool.