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Jonathan
07-04-2003, 12:20 AM
I need some tips on how to improve my site... on my layout... and no Charles... I have not yet validated the html becasue I can't I dont know how to do the doctype thing...
The website: www.crosspoint.org
woh.. hold on... it isn't updated yet... give it a minute.. :) lol... I uploaded it like an hour ago and it still istn' updated..
DaveSW
07-04-2003, 07:00 AM
wow
what happened?
I recognise the words and the url...
It looks much better!!
To get it to validate add
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
somewhere in the head section.
and you should really change your doctype to this
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">.
Anyway
You're down to 2 errors!
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crosspoint.org%2F&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&charset=utf-8+%28Unicode%2C+worldwide%29
One is in your javascript, and the other is a closing center tag which doesn't appear to open anywhere.
However, your css is fully valid (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crosspoint.org%2F&warning=1&profile=css2)
It looks about the same in Opera 7.1 and IE6, and it's a nice clean layout. improvements? I'll have to think about that one. Maybe take the menu out of it's table. Switch to plain p tags, or anything you fancy really.
Congratulations!!
Charles
07-04-2003, 07:17 AM
Originally posted by DaveSW
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">HTML 4.0 was done away with on 24 December 1999 and for a lot of good reasons. (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/changes.html).
If you know what you are doing or if you want a page that will work for all browsers, use:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
But if your tender little ego cannot handle much criticism then use:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
DaveSW
07-04-2003, 10:09 AM
*stands corrected
James L.
07-04-2003, 11:14 AM
"But if your tender little ego cannot handle much criticism then use: "
...wow, that was a helpful comment! :)