Jun 13 2008

ETPM website launched

Posted by mark at 5:40 PM
3 comments - Categories: Launches

We've just launched the new website for ETPM this week so go have a look. We've added some fancy unobtrusive jQuery and some PHP/mysql based content management of job vacancies and applications as well as giving the whole site a massive overhaul, we're kinda pleased with it!

www.etpm.co.uk

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Ryan

Ryan wrote on 06/15/08 1:13 PM

Some criticism for ya ;)

You forgot to fill out the description yet you filled out the keywords meta tag. I'd get that fixed.

I couldn't see any H1 tags... I'd swap the H2's for H1's then work down from there.

The header div is empty. I'd stick the company logo in there as an image or just text and ID it, mark it up as an H1 on the homepage though.

What's with the empty .actions lists? If they're for the show hide links then why not insert the whole thing with jQuery?

The contact form has some empty paragraph tags, and the label/inputs should really be wrapped in divs since they're not paragraphs.

xhtml served as text/html is kinda pointless, and true xhtml isn't particularly viable in real world use. I stick with html 4.01 strict these days.

One more thing which may or may not be a problem. It looks like you're using javascript to validate the contact form. With JS disabled it still work which opens it up to all the worlds spammers. This is also something I have to get fixed on one of our sites.

Other than these small points ;) it's nice and simple, much better than the old version.
mark

mark wrote on 06/16/08 11:05 AM

Hey Ryan, thanks...i think! for your input.
Fixed the descriptions and H1's, they'd actually been overwritten at the last minute pre-launch with older files, thats the problem when 3 developers are working on the same thing outwith of version control at the last minute, no biggy and fixed now, cheers for noticing ;)

As for the .actions list, this is not supposed to be empty, there will be further options to go in here along with the js enabled options it is also used in 2 sections of the site (services and vacancies) so to re-write it for a short period of time doesn't make sense as its only empty...well...for a short period of time.

Take your point on the contact form p tags, its a bad habit i have picked up but easily changed, so I'll add that in to the list to do for the next milestone.

xhtml/html is really a non issue...they both serve the content as required and as the uptake of html 5 shows, you never know what those crazy w3c kids will take a million years to decide on next! lets not forget the "must be xhtml" argument of previous years...in all honesty i don't think this really matters unless you're going 100% by the ever changing rule book...in which case everything we've all written as xhtml with have to be re-visited gratis....up for it? no...didn't think so ;)...until we have a firm spec and decent browser support for html 5 (or whatever else) I think we're kinda in limbo at the moment....of course, we could just put everything into a swf....superb browser support, cross platform....go on....bite! haha

seriously, cheers for the feedback, if we can do the same for you guys, let us know.
Ryan

Ryan wrote on 06/16/08 12:03 PM

Cool. I see your point about XHTML, I used be an XHTML guy but after a few debates I decided to move stick with HTML (also partly because HTML 5 is takig off more than XHTML 2).

Feel free to crit any of our sites, I recently finished work on http://its-energyservices.com/ ... Like your site above it's not 100% finished yet so you may find a few issues down to be resolved. And of course we have the new Scotia site coming soon, not sure when that'll be though.

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