John, I checked Google. In fact, your site is listed under the keywords search "contract hire" at an impressive 5th in Google. Since your post was at this forum I presumed you meant your site was listed in the MS search engine. Sorry! However, you have made a mistatement/oversite in asserting that the Officeavenue.com site had validation errors. Though most on the forum would recognize this as referring to W3C, others might think the site somehow had an error. In fact, had lots per your post. Of course, this is not the case. Foremost, we have chosen at officeavenue.com not include the doc type above the html header for participation in this measurement system:
Would you have posted:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Failed validation, 108 errors. per W3C.
This is the entrance page for Google’s search engine, itself. I don't think you would consider sending Google a similar recommendation as far as their popularity ranking:)
As a further note, usability compliance ought not be confused with W3C, you might check:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Failed validation, 49 errors. Per W3C
Whitehouse.gov is surely Sec. 508 compliant. It simply will not validate using WC3. The two concepts are not the same. I admit spending a bit of time considering the merits of building W3C compliant sites. I could not determine W3C to be the "gold standard" to which you attribute to them. Surely, W3C compliance seems utterly unrelated to, the quality of the site, or the sites search popularity/SEO.
I do appreciate the heads-up on the alt tags. During a recent update, three alt tags, in particular went amiss. There are a great number of images on the site, of course. These alts were fixed prior to this post..
As stated, officeavenue.com was created for local visitors. However, we do offer automatic delivery of content based upon network connect speed. We used this detection method to serve content on our site for awhile. However, since we had the scripts running we could see which pages the viewers of our site went to, and thus see connection speed of viewers in our site stats. We observed that almost all of our visitors were arriving using dsl. So, we removed the script, for the time being.
Many features are demonstrated on the Office Avenue website site. Demonstration to our potential customers is the overall purpose of the site. Demonstration of various applications, flash, 3d rendering, photography, templates, Microsoft SharePoint services collaborative site possibilities, and much more…
Regarding the recoding: (1) CSS is used. In fact CSS link navigation can be utilized throughout the site, located in the sidebar at officeavenue.com. There is surely no fault in using Html over CSS where the purpose of the page is to demonstrate design elements. Html is recognized by 100% of the internet. (2)There are a number of instances where we have placed java scripts in separate files. That is if other pages will require the same script. As far, as “avoiding using.. java scriptâ€
