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Well here we go again.
http://www.takeonepicture.org:
Tiny default text size. Did anyone actually try viewing the site with larger-sized text before it was launched? It makes a bit of a dog's breakfast of the site, and actually makes it harder to read.
Perhaps a visit to the validator would be in order too. There's a lot of missing ALT attributes.
http://www.takeonepicture.org:
Microdot default text size again. Why should I _have_ to resize the text to maximum just to get it back to IE's (relatively comfortable) default size? Try text at 'largest' here: <http://www.takeonepicture.org/nesw/general.aspx?itemid=1>
alt="spacer", alt="divider" --incredible! No, not incredible, what's the word, oh yes: incompetent.
Missing closing </li> tags (not allowed in XHTML).
Lots and lots of 'click here'.
Using styles instead of structural mark-up (<div class="title">).
There's more, but there's a limit to how much I'm willing to type...is this yet more public money spent on sites that can't get the HTML basics right? And don't get me started on the fixed-width design...
Come on people! This is basic stuff which NO-ONE should get wrong, least of all a National Museum.
Absolutely astonishing. Again. It's as if no-one bothers to actually test sites before launching them.
</soapbox>
Pete
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Peter M Gray
Museums Officer
> The National Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of two
> new websites
> aimed at primary schools across the UK.
>
> Both sites have been made possible by the DCMS Strategic Commissioning
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