Critique Please

Alrighty, I just uploaded my new site for my clients to visit.
I got it working in all the browsers I tested on (IE,FF,Opera,Chrome,Safari). But I don't have older browsers anymore (ie6) and wondered if any of you could take a look at my site and let me know if you see any problems with alignment, or other things.
Also, if you have other suggestions I would be glad to hear them.
The web address is jasonandersonwebdesign.com.
Thanks in advance!

A few minor coding errors you may want to fix.
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fjasonandersonwebdesign.com%2F
SEO oh, ohs:
No <h1> <h2> or <h3> tags on your site. You've replaced heading tags with Div classes which is not a wise thing to do. Also, the company name which should be prominently displayed in an <h1> tag on your home page doesn't appear until the footer.
http://www.seo-browser.com/
You have no Meta Descriptions on your pages for SERPs to use.
Read this - Google's SEO Starter Guide (PDF)
http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf.
Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
Web | Graphics | Print | Media Specialists
www.alt-web.com/
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www.alt-web.com/blogspot.com

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Web site critique please

got a new index page up but would love a litle advise -- no
need to pull punches --
have a small question though -- when i reduce my browser size
things fly out -- any ideas on how to fix
index page www.healthhokkaido.com
many thanks to anyone who takes their time to help out

Your coding style is flawed, and by using an XHTML doctype,
you are being
trapped by it. For example, this error -
Error Line 89 column 23: document type does not allow element
"li" here;
missing one of "ul", "ol", "menu", "dir" start-tag.
<li class="page_item"><a
href="
http://www.healthhokkaido.com/files/google_map.refers
to this snip of
code -
<li class="current_page_item"><a
href="
http://www.healthhokkaido.com">home</a>
<li class="page_item"><a
href="
http://www.healthhokkaido.com/files/google_map.cfm">hospitals</a>
Notice that you have NOT terminated the <li> tags
properly. XHTML is
catching this as an error, and telling you that you cannot
have a <li>
inside a <li> tag, which is what your code appears to
be saying.
In addition, you have a number of these errors -
Error Line 125 column 10: ID "suckertree1" already defined.
<ul id="suckertree1">which mean that you are using the
same ID attributes
on more than one page element - that's not allowed. ID values
MUST be
unique on a page.
And this line -
Error Line 172 column 86: end tag for "img" omitted, but
OMITTAG NO was
specified.
...b.jpg" alt="" width="50" height="50"><br>which
means that you have an
XHTML doctype, but you are using HTML tag syntax -
<img ...>
instead of the required XHTML syntax -
<img ... />
Also, you have this -
Error Line 177 column 18: an attribute value specification
must be an
attribute value literal unless SHORTTAG YES is specified.
<strong class=linkTitle>
which means that you have not properly enclosed your
attribute values in
quotes.
And this -
Error Line 192 column 32: required attribute "action" not
specified.
<form id=wf_Testform method=post>which means that you
have not specified the
required ACTION attribute for your form.
And, of course, the zillions of unspecified alt attributes on
your
images....
See - like that....
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> Hi Everyone benn through and fixed as many of the errors
as possible -
> still a
> little confused why i have still 132 errors
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http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.healthhokkaido.com
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Need Build Advice/Critique Please

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Before I tear it up and start again....critique please

Within the last few months I have built my first iWeb site and along the way have learnt an awful lot. First up was the incompatability with IE when viewing photo's and whilst I have tried to convince myself that everyone has a Mac the reality is that most people use a pc and IE.
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G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

The only suggestion I would have for you in terms of
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Here is one approach to making photo index pages...
http://www.mac.com/web/en/Blog/013C4180-4787-4847-BAAB
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organized into albums in iPhoto.
Give it a shot.
This will give you one page where you can group
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representative thumbnail for each individual photo
album. When this thumbnail is clicked then the
respective photo album page opens. The good thing is
that this can be done for you pretty much
automatically as long as you have your photos
Hi James
You kindly provided the above link when I enquired about improvements to my site. I did not have the opportunity to make the changes at the time but when I came back to your reply I cannot get the link to work . Has it changed. Thanks for your help
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For blog software, you will have to look under Manage under your admin account. There's an option to define the maximum image size for previews (inline images) and medium image sizes. if they are set to samll, the software will resize them, yet the theme you use may scale them up again to full column width, so they look mooshy. Make sure the image size in the settings panel matches the images you upload. For Facebook it may be similar, but I won't rule out that eitehr of the two services frcibly will change your images to save bandwidth. This should be stated in their terms of use somewhere. If you're merely referring to color shifts, you may wish to check your default color settings and the Embed color profile and Preserve RGB options in the Save for web and Devices dialog.
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Please critique my zfs-fuse setup - wiki to follow - help needed

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For example im trying to figure out why when i do a
# zpool create pool /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde
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Last edited by wolfdogg (2013-01-18 05:16:45)

So, that article you have there is like a draft you are planing to add as a regular arch wiki article?
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1) to get to step one on the ZFS-FUSE page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS_on_FUSE i had to do a few things. that was to install yaourt, which was not necessarily straight forward. I will be vague in these instructions since i have already completed these steps so they are coming from memory
That style of writing is more fitting for a blog than a wiki article. The style article mention:
Write objectively: do not include personal comments on articles, use discussion pages for this purpose. In general, do not write in first person.
Check it here.
So, instead of saying things similar to this:
"I had to install blabla, I did it with yaourt like this: yaourt -S blabla, but you can download it manually from AUR, makepkg it, and then install it with pacman"
Is better if you say it like this:
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Do you suggest anything else in addition to getting a Sata drive? How big a drive do I need?
As much as I would love to switch to vista 64, your talkign about a significant investment. I did however ask for a motherboard when my cpu was being built that can handle both vista 32 and 64...so I have that covered. However, I don't feel like shelling out a ton of $$$$ on PS 64, Lightroom 64, vista 64, and any other program that is currently 32 bit on my cpu. That seems like alot bigger investment than I'm ready to make. ALso, I doubt all the bugs are worked out of 64 bit software as of right now. I ordered a floppy disk drive just to have it as I find they don't scratch as easy as CD's...lol. Also, they are just big enough to hold important docs such as password lists and stuff.
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Request: Please Critique This iWeb Site

Hello all! I'm hoping you can take a few minutes and look at a site I've created in iWeb. It's about 80 percent complete, so you will see some issues such as missing text, pink text, a few missing pictures, etc. The entire "Give and Support" section is still being written.
I'd really appreciate feedback from this community because I've relied heavily upon you and this message board to build this site. Your past discussions have been awesome resources.
It's for a place called Mt. Irenaeus, which is a Catholic Franciscan Retreat located in Western New York. It's run by a great group of Franciscan friars and I'm trying to help them communicate with a larger audience. Most of the people who know about this great place are graduates of a nearby university. For more objective details, read The New York Times profile in the Mountain Media section.
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-- I use MassReplaceIt for a variety of tasks, including changing the link colors. However, within the last three weeks, that code has stopped replacing and I've been left with Apple's default colors. Can anyone help?
-- Plan to add comments to the blog section once I receive more blog entries and as we get closer to launch in the next few weeks. It appears that Haloscan is the best option?
-- The embedded Google Calendar works only sometimes on Safari. Works fine on my PC. Any ideas?
-- I can't seem to get the RSS feed for the blog to save properly in my RSS reader. It ends up titled as "MyBlog."
Here's the site:
http://www.mounti.com/Mount_Irenaeus/home.html
The URL will change when it goes live; everything is in a test folder right now. Pages will move the root address when live.
In addition to the questions above, what do you think of the overall presentation? Content? What other iWeb gems can be added? As total strangers, does this site help communicate what the place is about?
Thanks again, all.

In your website, in order to protect your content, you have this notice: "Copyright 2007, Mount Irenaeus Franciscan Mountain Retreat". But in the two "Mountain Chronicle" videos it appears that you are using a copyrighted soundtrack by Ennio Morricone from the film "The Mission". ...I say "appears" because I don't know for sure - I suggest you determine what the music is and check whether you can legally use it.
For works created in circumstances of employment or works known as “works for hire” (as is Morricone's composition) the term of copyright is 95 years from the date the work was first published. ...If the copyright owner were to discover your use of his work, you would probably receive an attorney's "cease and desist" order.
For more information about copyright, consult the following guide - which applies to websites aswell as podcasts...
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/PodcastingLegalGuide
MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

New HDV system - Please Critique

Hello all, I've been lurking for a few days just sucking up all the fantastic info on this site. We are just about to pull the trigger on a new editing machine and would appreciate your opinions on the matter.
We will be working will approx. 5TB of HDV from a dozen canon xh a1's. Our current editing machine uses an adaptec 5085 with an 8bay external tower. Our editor would like the new system to be more "portable" (HA!), so the raid will be smaller and internal. You may question my choice of raid controller but I "think" it is the right thing to do for management, scalability, compatibility, and backup plan in case of controller failure.
Build:
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ASUS Sabertooth X58
Intel Core i7-930
X2 Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 6GB (3 x 2GB)
SPARKLE GeForce GTX 460
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(routed back into case) SFF-8088 Infiniband to 4 SATA Cable
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XIGMATEK Dark Knight
LG Black 10X Blu-ray Burner
CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W
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Thanks!

Hi,
what spec is the memory, if you can i would go for min 3x4gb ddr3 1600mhz so you can upgrade to 24gb in the future.. Also 1000w for the PSU (coolermaster or Corsair), a GTX 470 (difference in warranty of brands) . and also consider the Noctua NH-14D or the new corsair H70 (tested both on my system).
Also consider the cosmos S as it has better cooling. (have one my self)
good luck
Baz

Please critique this workflow

I have a pile of miniDV tapes that I want to use as source material for various video projects.
To do this I plug in the camcorder, find the right tape, capture the entire tape and then edit in iMovie.
Now I have discovered OneStep iDVD so I'm thinking of adopting this workflow:
1) Convert all my tapes to DVDs using OneStep iDVD.
2) When I need the source material, I use Handbrake or DVDxDV to extract the entire DVD or portions of it.
3) Import the resulting MGEG4 movie into iMovie.
Before I go ahead with this, I wanted to ask if anyone sees any problems with this workflow. Specifically, am I going to lose any quality as I do the conversions? Will the scene breaks be preserved?
Thanks.

Personally, I think of DVDs as a final delivery format.
In other words, once a movie is on a DVD, that's it. I don't try to bring it back into iMovie. Sure, there are workarounds to do so. But there is a loss of quality so I avoid it.
How many tapes do you have? Can you log them on paper and use that to create a "paper edit" of you movie first to work out which tapes you'll need to import from.
Ultimately, there's no way around it. Video editing requires a great deal of disk space.
Matt

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