Hay Paul, I'll give you some feedback, sorry if this gets long been a while since I did one of these.
Starting from the top ~
By the looks of it you have all your tags ended properly and you use HTML5 up your doctype to XHTML strict no reason why not to TBH as your more than capable ~
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
Change your opening HTML tag to this ~
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" dir="ltr">
As that tells user agents that the language of the page is English and the text is to be read from left to right.
<meta name="robots" content= "ALL" />
That's pointless as search engines will index a page unless told otherwise so that can be removed.
<meta name="keywords" content= "Graphic Design, Web Design, Illustration, Printing, Typography, Basildon, Laindon, Essex, let the kids dance, fashion, tshirt design, product design, freelance, london, mr site" />
That again is pointless and can be removed as it is not used by any major search engine and just adds pointless bytes that have to be downloaded.
Change you title element to ~
<title>Paul Huxen graphic designer based in Essex</title>
As that will help the search engines rank your pages better.
<!--[if IE]>
<script>
document.createElement("header");
document.createElement("footer");
document.createElement("nav");
document.createElement("article");
document.createElement("section");
</script>
Should be in an external file to help with caching, reduce server strain and help increase page performance.
<script src="assets/js/typeface-0.14.js"></script>
<script src="assets/js/helvetiker_regular.typeface.js"></script>
Both need the
type="text/javascript" attribute on them to be correct.
<a target=_parent href="index.html" title="Back home" ><span class="logo"></span></a>
That wont do you any good in the search engines, blind users on the other hand will benefit. Don't see why you don't just link the image and in the ALT attribute write
your name, not
your name home, just
your name then on hover change the opacity of the image to a lighter colour. Same effect but everyone, blind users, users with out images and the search engines all benefit.
<li><a target=_parent href="contact.html">CONTACT</a></li>
<li><a target=_parent href="resume.html">RESUME</a></li>
<li><a target=_parent href="typography.html">TYPOGRAPHY</a></li>
<li><a target=_parent href="projects.html">PROJECTS</a></li>
<li><a target=_parent href="illustration.html">ILLUSTRATION</a></li>
That should ideally be written up as first letter capitalized then in the CSS write ~
text-transform:capitalize
Same effect but wont annoy blind users.
Change you h1 to ~
<h1>Paul Huxen graphic designer in Essex</h1>
As that will help the search engines rank the page better.
New project looks like a link remove the underline.
This text is pointless ~
However if you are interested contact me here.
Change it to ~
However if you are interested contact me for further information.
Also put an actual contact form on your site,
http://www.designforums.co.uk/web-c...html-contact-form-copy-paste-jobs-goodun.html. then link it into that, more professional that way.
Again the link for the kids dance should say ~
View my designer artwork for the Let The Kids Dance clothing company.
Again adds better words for the search engines and the user.
Change your about heading to say ~
About Paul Huxen
Again better for the search engines then remove I'm Paul from the text.
HTML and
CSS
They are abbreviations so they need to be coded properly. Check out my
abbreviations post in my
accessible web coding thread for more info about pulling that off properly.
The flicker link should read my flicker otherwise your implying that that link links to the Flicker home page. Removes ambiguity and makes it more click-able.
The JS at the bottom also should be external.
Hope it helps
Jaz