Help checking CSS/HTML

[reubster]

Hello!

I’m new here but love the CSS-Tricks website – the articles and snippets have been a huge help to me!

I’m in the process of setting up a new website, although I’m not really an expert web designer. I was wondering if someone could take a look the HTML and CSS of my “under construction page” and let me know if I’ve made any great mistakes.

I’m especially concerned about cross-browser compatibility issues and perhaps in some places my own CSS has been a bit messy and half-assed :)

The website is: http://www.commotionfilms.com

Thanks very much and glad to be a member here!

[Mottie]

The first step to check your HTML would be to check if it is all valid. Use the W3C Validation site for this… I see two errors on the home page with this method. But if you think like me, validation is more of a suggestion than an absolute.

Other than that I think everything looks pretty good. Nice clean markup and css :)

The only real suggestion I would make is to consider updating the page to HTML5. Which really is a pretty minor update when all you’ll need to do is change the html tag at the top and remove some of the close tags (i.e. <input/> should be <input> in HTML5). In future projects, a really good HTML5 starting point would be to use the HTML5 Boilerplate which also takes mobile platforms into consideration.

[reubster]

Thanks very much for the help, Mottie. Glad it all looks to you. I will definitely update the page to HTML5 and use HTML5 Boilerplate in future!!

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