[UCIMC-Tech] Website Validation

[Eric Phetteplace]

Kristina,

Almost all of these warnings are inconsequential. CSS validation only runs
up to CSS2.1, but the theme you've picked out uses a few CSS3 features
(box-shadow, last-child). That covers almost all the errors in the first
section.

Then the big group of warnings is all "same colors for color and
background-color". But if the site is readable to you, that's something you
don't need to worry about.

These are the only ones I'm not certain about:
138.text_below_mapValue Error :
text-align<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#propdef-text-align>
justified
is not a text-align value : justified justified156.results_entryValue Error
: cursor <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ui.html#propdef-cursor> hand is not a
cursor value : hand hand163.results_entry:hoverValue Error :
background-color<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/colors.html#propdef-background-color>
salmon
is not a color value : salmon salmon

One of those (salmon) is just adding in a hex code for a color. The
text-align one is probably pretty easy to figure out too. I suspect that
these are all CSS3 features too so it's not a huge deal.

Best,
Eric Phetteplace
Graduate Assistant
Reference, Research, and Government Information (
http://www.library.illinois.edu/rex/)
Library Assessment Working Group (
http://www.library.illinois.edu/assessment/)
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Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Kristina Williams <kristinawho at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> So the basic content of the new *public i* site<http://newpublici.ucimc.org>it now publicly accessible. The next hurdle: search engine optimization.
> First step is to pass HTML and CSS validation. I'm using the W3C validation
> services.  We passed HTML validation no problem (see report here<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnewpublici.ucimc.org%2F>
> )
> BUT --CSS didn't look so promising.  In fact, far from promising.  (see
> report here<http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fnewpublici.ucimc.org&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&vextwarning=&lang=en#css>)
> Well, okay, it's not that bad, but the list of warnings is daunting to say
> the least.
>
> I'm relatively new to CSS code, could use a crash course (either in person
> or virtually) in reading CSS and editing. Any online resources would be
> helpful. Thanks!
>
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