You guys probably won't ever see this, but one of my Moz extensions seems to freak this site out. It seems as though the new URL doesn't have non-Flash content as I get this:
Not Found
The requested URL /resort/noflash.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.29 Server at bpbltd.com Port 80
So - no non-Flash content is available and the custom 404 page is missing! Luckily a refesh worked on getting the page served. This is the only site that has had a problem with blocked Flash content. And, I'd suspect, the only one that has probably sniffed for Flash. Browser sniffing still happens, but these days Flash seems to have been relagated (at least in the things that I see) to banner ads.
Well, the new site is a frameset that, infuriatingly, still uses "your browser doesn't support frames" text. In this day and age, which browser doesn't support frames?! The only ones that don't are the pure text ones, the users of which will be fully aware of that fact. Still, at least the provide an alternative URL, albeit surrounded by useless markup:
<noframes><FONT SIZE="3"></FONT><EM><I></I></EM><STRONG></STRONG>
Your browser doesn't appear to support frames - please click
<a href="http://bpbltd.com">here</A> to view the site.
<DIV ID="202"></DIV><DIV ID="736"><B></B></DIV><B></B></noframes>
Addionally, this frameset just pulls in the old site, which is itself in a frameset. The two scrollers on the right are strange - initially I thought they were Flash things, but they're not - if you break the main page (http://www.bpbltd.com/HTML/home/index.php) out of the frameset and toggle the CSS, the text formatting will change. Which might explain why the scrollers aren't as good as they should be - the line-height is terribly messed up in some sections on Moz making the content unreadable.
I want the top left-hand area to be a logo and not a Flash-based advertising thing. It doesn't feel right at all.
The HTML doesn't validate (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.bpbltd.com/HTML/home/index.php)
The CSS doesn't validate (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//www.bpbltd.com/css/main.css) and it's yet another example of people not understanding the cascading part of CSS: you don't need to specify the font on almost every element and pseudo element. It's a big, fat waste of time and bandwidth.
It's an accessibility nightmare - nested framesets, Flash content, scrollers with very poor support for stopping the scrolling (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/wai-pageauth.html#gl-movement): you can try and slow it down by clicking on the tiny top arrow, but that's it. They have made good use of alt text on nav bars, the site title, but have missed putting it on the "news" and "shows" scrollers which is sloppy. The huge "book online now!" button changes on the "The Shows" page to "Buy online now" but still has alt text of "Book Online Now!".
The only meta content in the head is that of the developers - no description tag, no robots tag.
The navigation is "my third website" and gets dramatically worse when you go to a sub-page - the sub-nav is very poor.
And is there really any need for the sound?
So, not great then.
As for your IE and view source, is the view source button or menu item greyed out? If not, it might just be the site - it took a couple of seconds for my IE to bring up notepad - slightly longer than normal. If those menu items are greyed out, you could just try typing view-source into the URL bar before the http:// bit.