Themes and Wordpress
WordPress a fantastic script with all it’s plugins and themes that someone has spend time to create and share with us not so skilled users I am very grateful for the privileged of being a user.
After visiting several site theme creators and trying out several themes I have found out that some of them are not XHTML compliant, so I visited their blogs and found that theirs also failed, I would suggest that the authors of these themes to state that their themes are not compliant so that new inexperience user’s do not implement a theme that is not up to the standards.
I can’t blame some of the authors, I decide to go on a search of compliant websites and I have found that the majority of sites and that includes some of the largest Portals on the web are not following the standards of the W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) for example AOL 132 errors, Yahoo 45 errors no Doctype found, AltaVista no Doctype found, WordPress.org 4 errors, Animalbeach.net 121 errors just a few sites that failed Validation.
I have come across a few themes that visually are excellent but they failed to be XHTML compliant, some have a few errors that can be fixed with a little time, but others have too many errors for the average user, as for plugins they are on the same category some of them fail.
I should have kept a list of the ones that I found to have errors, unfortunately I didn’t.
The theme that I am currently using is Theme by Isnaini their web site takes for ever to load and finally I just gave up trying to get any assistance from them.
I have found the theme by Isnaini to be excellent probably one of the best ones that I have found. There were some errors but I have fixed them, one thing that took quite a while for me was to try and place my ads bellow the search bar on the side menu, when a user reads the categories or when reading recent entries, but I have succeeded in placing the ads.
After checking with W3C CSS Validator I have found that the style sheet failed and there are too many warnings to mention, I will have to fix it latter.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
After checking CSS Validator site to validate its CSS, the returned data had warnings as follows:
Warnings
URI : http://jigsaw.w3.org
* Line : 15 font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as a last alternative
* Line : 15 (Level : 2) font-family: You are encouraged to offer a generic family as a last alternative : body
* Line : 30 (Level : 1) You have no background-color with your color : .colored
Apparently it’s beyond my comprehension or ability to come up with a fix for my CSS sheet, but the Validator did reply that (This document validates as CSS!).