Check my page for erros please

Some of your mouse cursors break convention (on the rh scroll bar), better to stick to what users expect from mouse cursors.

frankyees,

Click the link below. It is the HTML Validator.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.frankyees.com%2Findex1.html&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&ss=1&No200=1

Your site is not HTML4.01 or XHTML Compatible according to the Validator.

Click this for HTML4 Examples
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

Click this forXHTML
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp

I went to the page, and if you choose the jokes section of the main site links, the resulting menu goes off the bottom of the page.  There are no scrollbars to get to it, and you have to click and drag down.

whoops, looks like someone already said that

Ok, I think I have fixed the menu problem and now I am working on making it validated, and if you guys have any suggestions to help make it easier to be validated please let me know.  Thanks so far for the help.

I noticed you changed the menu somewhat, but now I have to already know to go and open "Jokes section 2" to submit a joke.  If I am a first-timer to your website and only open "Jokes section 1", how will I ever know that link was there?  Also, your menus still do go off the screen in my browser, since I keep a lot of chrome open around my monitor.  Which brings me to a BIG topic that I think you need to address: You're site is not laid out well or designed well for screens at resolutions less than 1024x768.  Over half of Internet users still use an 800x600 screen resolution, and this percantage is not going to get much smaller as the average age of Internet users increases.  Take a look at your site at 800x600.  Much of your menu is unusable when it is expanded, your elements do not adjust for the change in available window space, and many areas are just locked.  I suggest you take a look at this website and read up a little bit on designing your website to be more screen resolution and window size independent: http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?AnySizeDesign

That's it for now! ;-)

gator4life
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Ok, I have fixed the resolution problem a little, the only thing left that I really need to work on is the menu, bause it runs off the screen.  And goes way off with the resolution set lower, so can anybody point me in a direction of a better menu script or something plesae?  Thanks for all the help so far.

http://www.frankyees.com

What kind of a menu would you like to have? I think a menu with hidden layers might be a little more appropriate for the long lists that need to be displayed.  That way, the main menu would remain static, but hovering over one of the menu items would display a submenu to the right of that same menu item.

I think the basic changes you made to support different screen resolutions and different window dimensions helps a lot, since the content can now dynamically resize itself accordingly.  Good job.

One more usability thing.  In the menu, the Home menu item should not be at the bottom of the list.  It should probably be at the top.  Users expect to get back to a home page usually by clicking on a site logo in the upper-left corner of the page or by clicking on a home button or hyperlink that is situated somewhere near the upper-left corner of the page.

Good luck to you...

gator4life
(chomp, chomp)

It is always a good idea to have a top-down design style.  It is easier to read and troubleshoot.  Are you using any kind of WYSIWYG application to build your pages?

By the way, cut and paste the below code to your CSS.  I fixed it up a little for you.


a {
      text-decoration: none;
}

a:link {
      color: #006699;
      text-decoration: none;
}

a:visited {
      color: #003366;
      text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
      background: #99CCFF;
      border: 1px dashed #336699;
      margin: 0px -3px 0px -3px;
      padding: 0px 2px 0px 2px;
}

a.cla0{
      color: #FFFFFF;
      font-size: 12px;
      font-weight: bold;
      text-decoration: none;
}

a.cla0, a.cla0:link, a.cla0:visited, a.cla0:hover{
      background: #336699;
      color: #FFFFFF; /* All sub2 level links */
      text-decoration: none;
}

a.cla1{
      color: #000000;
      font-size: 11px;
      font-weight: bold;
      text-decoration: none;
}

a.cla1:link {
      color: #000000;
}

a.cla2{
      color: #000080;
      text-decoration: none;
}

a.cla3{
      color: #000000;
      text-decoration: none;
}

a.cla4{
      color: #008000;
      text-decoration: none;
}

b {
      font-weight: bold;
}

body {
      background: #FFFFFF;
      color: #003366;
      font: 12px/16px Trebuchet, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
      height: 100%;
      margin: 0px;
      overflow: hidden;
      padding: 0px;
      width: 100%;
}

div.afilter {
      color: #003366;
      filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=#FF6347,direction=45);
      width: 150px;
}

div.clslidemenu{
      font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;
      font-size: 10px;
      height: 22;
      overflow: hidden;
      position: absolute;
      width: 150;
}

div.slidemenubg{
      left: 0;
      position: absolute;
      top: 0;
      z-index: 1;
}

div.slidemenutext{
      left: 2;
      position: absolute;
      top: 2;
      z-index: 200;
}

h1 {
      color: #FF6347;
      font: 24px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
      font-weight: bold;
      margin-bottom: 30px;
      margin-top: 30px;
      text-align: center;
}

h2 {
      color: #FF6347;
      font: 18px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
      font-weight: bold;
      margin-top: 40px;
      text-align: center;
}

h3 {
      color: #FF6347;
      font: 16px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
      font-weight: bold;
      margin-top: 40px;
}

h4 {
      color: #FF6347;
      font: 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
      font-weight: bold;
      margin-top: 3px;
      text-align: center;
}

hr {
      color: #003366;
}

img {
      border: none;
}

p, td {
      color: #003366;
      font: 12px/16px Trebuchet, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
      margin-left: 20px;
}

.absdiv {
      position: absolute;
      visibility: hidden;
}

.content {
      background-color: #FFFFFF;
      color: #9F9F9F;
      font-family: arial, garamond, sans-serif;
      font-size: 0.8em;
      padding-left: 20px;
}

.enter {
      color: #FF6347;
      font: 18px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
}

.front {
      color: #003366;
      font: 24px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
}

.version1 {
      bottom: 5px;
      color: #999999;
      cursor: move;
      font: 12px/16px Trebuchet, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
      position: absolute;
      right: 5px;
}

.wavetext {
      font: 12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;
}

#slidemenucont{
      height: 600;
      position: absolute;
      visibility: hidden;
      width: 200;
}

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