After reading Joe Clark’s blog entry on failed redesigns I thought I’d keep an eye out for UK sites failing to meet web standards after a redesign. Well I went looking a moment ago and from the following article Netimperative – MSN redesigns UK entertainment channel trooped off to the MSN UK Entertainment website.
Visually, it’s very clean and simple – under the hood though? Oh my God!
- No doctype
- in-line JavaScript
- JavaScript to give Jeremy Keith a fit (probably)
- Tables! lots and lots of tables
- in-line Styles
- multiple to force white-space
- Unescaped ampersands (naturally)
I could probably go on. They have the cheek to say this is accessible? When they are using an 8 point font size somewhere in there?
Pull the other one, it’s got Bill Gates on it.
Technorati tag: FailedRedesigns
I searched for recent redesigns on Netimperative and found that nearly all of them were just as bad :-
Variety Club – a horror of frames and tables.
CD:UK site – tables, invalid code…
UK Red Cross – more tables and invalid code
and lot, lots more besides.
Home Page Validation returns with this: