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• david on 18 Oct, 2006 wrote:

  Wow, graphically this site is beautiful, but I almost pooped in my pants when I looked under the hood. Now don't get me wrong, I am not in the crowd that believes validity is the end all be all, and I am surly no standardista, but for a hosting company that prides itself on being the 'unofficial' design community web host, this was a shock ... and I'm a customer.
  
  The only reason I even looked under the hood is because I have plugins in my browser for production that show validation and I was curious =). Maybe this is in response to IE7, a member of logopond told me our site needs work in IE7, do you think MT saw this and decided to go tables to compensate?
  
  What do you all think, much todo about nothing?
  

• ryanj on 18 Oct, 2006 wrote:

  As a professional web developer, It feels like Media Temple stepped back in time with this one. The tables and the spam at the bottom of the page (hidden text) are truly awful. The code says that the spam is for SEO & Accessibility which I refuse to believe.
  
  I think the developer needs to search Google for more solutions on having an SEO optimized site, without resorting to hacks or sneaks. Perhaps they should consider hiring an agency to handle their online marketing?
  
  I also think that IE7 is no excuse for the tables - I'm working right now on making adjustments (site-wide) for a major auto brand's USA site for IE7 while testing on almost all browsers (Mac & PC). Most of the time we can get away with small tweaks and have only had to use CSS conditionals for a handful of legacy styles.

• P.J. Onori on 18 Oct, 2006 wrote:

  I have to say, I'm disapointed about this one as well. Why even go through the process if it's going to end up like that?

• JoshuaKendall on 18 Oct, 2006 wrote:

  I like the design, it looks like their old one as far as layout (last time I looked at it atleast). I'm not going to go off on them for using tables. You have to keep in mind that their users/customers might not all be using the best browsers out there. And like I said, it looks like it's the same basic layout as the old one, so perhaps it was just a design update and nothing else.

• JoshuaKendall on 18 Oct, 2006 wrote:

  And before someone jumps down my throat for "You have to keep in mind that their users/customers might not all be using the best browsers out there", just remember it's not only web professionals hosting there.

• Diego on 19 Oct, 2006 wrote:

  IE7 works much more better than 6 with CSS layouts, so there's no excuse for that.