Web Standards Compliant osCommerce

[Av4t4r]

Hi all,

 

I am just starting an e-commerce project using osCommerce and am very interested in making the site web standards compliant. I have taken a first step of using the valid XHTML Catalog Side 2.3 to convert the catalog to xhtml. What I want to do is use symantically correct code throughout, so the catagories list would be a <ul> <li> list and tables will only be used as tables.

 

I have already switched the layout a to <div> based layout but everything else is none symantically correct code (i.e xhtml tables all over the place to layout stuff). I was wondering if anyone knows how much work is likely to be involved in making osCommerce web standards compliant? Has anyone else succesfully managed this? I have a good deal of experience with valid XHTML and CSS coding and have limited php knowledge. Just wondering if anyone has any experience of making a valid oscommerce site.

 

Any input much appreciated :)

[♥toyicebear]

Hi all,

 

I am just starting an e-commerce project using osCommerce and am very interested in making the site web standards compliant. I have taken a first step of using the valid XHTML Catalog Side 2.3 to convert the catalog to xhtml. What I want to do is use symantically correct code throughout, so the catagories list would be a <ul> <li> list and tables will only be used as tables.

 

I have already switched the layout a to <div> based layout but everything else is none symantically correct code (i.e xhtml tables all over the place to layout stuff). I was wondering if anyone knows how much work is likely to be involved in making osCommerce web standards compliant? Has anyone else succesfully managed this? I have a good deal of experience with valid XHTML and CSS coding and have limited php knowledge. Just wondering if anyone has any experience of making a valid oscommerce site.

 

Any input much appreciated :)

 

 

I have set up both valid html and xhtml osc sites (W3C Validated)....its not that difficult..but requires some in detail work....

 

If you want a totally tabeless design, that is a totally different mather....it is possible but would require a massive rewrite....

[Av4t4r]

I was thinking that in general, the tables could be fairly easily switched to divs. Is this looking at the problem in an over simplified way?

[spax]

This is a project I intend on taking up, once I have my own store running.

 

If you had a clean canvas, I don't think it would be a massive task. However, because there are so many nested tables used for layout, it would be a major job to keep the same layout, purely using CSS.

 

Not an impossible one though! My first step would be to go through all the tables and turn the borders on every one. Then I would create that layout on an empty page and an empty stylesheet, using HTML and CSS.

 

When you have that, it would be a matter of filling in the blanks.......wouldn't it? :blink:

[♥toyicebear]

If it was just to change every table with div ..well everyone could do it...its a bit more complicated than that....