I work as a webmaster for small state college in Florida and just some basic technical observations here:

1) You need to get used to using a DTD in your xhtml.
2) Do not use tables for controlling your layouts, tables are for tabular data. The CSS box method is much more flexible. (Yes, there are times where you must use a table ... but this is definitely not one them).
3) Using an image map for site navigation is absolutely inexcusable. NEVER EVER use an image map for site navigation, there are better and more elegant ways of building a site menu that uses images that does not involve using an image map.

A list apart http://alistapart.com/ shows some good techniques, however I don't like they their css hacks. There are very elegant ways of handling exceptions for IE that does not required javascript, or some ghetto malformed css.


> http://student.ed.umuc.edu/~cm385e14/
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> I did a lot of css for it, found myself able to condense a lot of tags into one
> css tag and my god do i love css for that. Still no master at it but i am
> definately going to be using css a LOT more. I just need to dive into the css
> table thing next rather then using the table structure. any thoughts and
> comments?
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> i know some of the information on there may be incorrect/no the truth...
> basically some of the info is blowing smoke up there asses because i just wanted
> to get the pages filled with the information, after couple hours of writing some
> of the stuff i kind of shortened the answer or gave a explanation how i figured
> people might understand even though it may not be entirely correct.
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