a) What worked the best for me was constantly saving/refreshing to find problems as I created them, rather than being overwhelmed by errors on validation. Adding colors was easy and fun.
b) My target audience is history buffs, mainly those nautically inclined. Many will be men, but plenty of young men and women will be stumbling upon the site looking for Northwest history report research material. Since shipwrecks have a wide appeal, and story of this particular one is so moving and dramatic, I feel I can draw in many readers who otherwise wouldn't be interested in "history." Genealogists, (many of whom are women,) Pacific Northwesterners in general, and those of American Indian descent will be keenly interested in this story.
c) I tested in Firefox 4, IE 9 and Boat Browser Mini on my phone. Boat browser is an up-and-coming Android-based browser. It is highly rated on Android Market and easy to use. I feel Android-based browsers will grow in popularity.
d) Firefox had a weird quirk where it didn't display my HR line in red. I wasted the better part of an hour trying to "fix my CSS" when there was nothing wrong with it. IE9 and Boat did a great job of displaying the HR line. IE9, however, did not display my CSS3 text drop-shadow.
e) My XHTML code validates beautifully, except for my fancy blockquote with the vertical line. When I code it differently with the way, the thing validates, but then the quote doesn't look correct. I'll have to investigate it, because I think that quote looks nice. My CSS has a few problems I have to work out.
f) I marked all of my div tags and lined them up properly. That best practice is a good idea. Lining up my list code too makes it look clean and neat, and easy to adjust.
Midterm Project Phase 1 - The Doomed Voyage of the Tonquin
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