Site check: findthatpart.co.uk

I notice that scriptless folk are told that their browser might not support JavaScript and you reccomend to "Upgrade your Web browser to a newer version. We recommend Internet Explorer 5.0 or above."

Is this a joke?

Also on a more serious note you are using a background image for you logo - I would say that this is not approptiate, background images are for images that have no real meaning, decoration. Your logo not only has meaning but also text. By using a background you are displaying informaiton that only a sub section of people ever stand a chance to see.

On your search box, the use of Javascript with the onchange event on the dropdowns is effectively preventing keyboard navigation and is not all that nice a practice.

Infact looking at things I really don't see why you are relying on JS for the whole thing to work, is it just to have the dynamic forms?

Other than that it's a nice clean look!

Yeah, need to update that NOSCRIPT text

Thanks for the info on the title image.

The javascript is needed to populate the lower boxes, ie, select a make and the appropriate models are loaded

Yes I know that what you're using it for - but do you really need it I mean.

By using the Javascript in this way you are excluding anyone who does not use a mouse and/or who has JS turned off for what ever reason.

Ideally dropdown boxes should be accompanied with submit buttons, in this way your site would be more usable to different people/browsers but would loose no functionality.

Of course this would involve adding buttons and extra work so you might just want to not I guess.

This is the reason I use JS sparingly.

If you insist on this message, you should at least be cross-browser friendly.

Come on, this is a CSS forum, I want to know if my CSS is up to scratch, I know i'm using JavaScript and for the time been, that won't change.

It doesn't validate there are some minor errors

Doesn't it? Thought i'd checked most pages, which page doesn't validate.

cheers

Only page I checked.. the first one
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//www.findthatpart.co.uk/

In case you're interested...
Links, seller directory, search all have html errors

I like the design and color scheme of the site... except the blue text.. not fond of that but that's just me...

cheers for the comments, i'll look at the css bugs.