Sent by Karen Stevenson Brown on 11 December 2002 12:12
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The company I work for, Development InfoStructure, was contracted to
build the recently launched DisabilityInfo.gov site (we also did the
previous incarnation, DisabilityDirect.gov). In designing it, I wanted
to design a site that was fully accessible while also being visually
interesting.
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Andy,
I took a look at your site in Netscape 4.5/Windows and it completely falls
apart. I can only see part of the top of the page. I second all the comments
about getting rid of the table, most especially for a government disability
site. I would suggest changing the design as needed so it can be accomodated
with CSS only rather than adding a table to accomodate the design. I assume
that Netscape 4.x support is required for a government site, so you'll need
to consider using a fairly simple design that will work in that browser (or
serve them a different design than other browsers get). For examples of
multi-column, CSS-only layouts that work in NN4 I suggest the following:
http://www.projectseven.com/whims/cssp_3box/3boxnoscript.htm
http://realworldstyle.com/nn4_3col_header.html
http://realworldstyle.com/2col.html
Also, my site, http://www.elderweb.com, which uses 1, 2, and 3 column
NN4-enabled layouts.
Karen Stevenson Brown (http://www.elderweb.com)
