Yes mktplace, it's an older Site!
and you do bring up a very valid point:
What would you suggest, should I approach my client and ask for additional funds to redesign the site?
or should I take the view that this older Site:
www.vortexventures.com too, slopped up with DHTML follower navigation "nasties" etc..... which has blown out with +10-20% traffic during "Jagger"... and what?
Yes I know our latest;
www.precisioncompletion.com launched a couple weeks ago has "nested tables". No I don't like them either but the facts are:
That's what the client wanted
CSS Positioning hasn't progressed into "stark" viability yet
It validates
I could go on and on here, but the fact remains that the GOOG has never penalized sites that validate for any reason outside of "Blackhat" practices, and no one can site examples there, until now.
Our Sites are cleanly coded - more than most... several examples show that isn't a key issue here anyway. There is a full spectrum of nasties, including "all out blackhat" slapping legit sites down, right now.
Ken