Doctype and global accessibility?

[aRené]

I have tried to make my website accessible to older computers and probably "antique" browsers, as I know people from all over the world with these types of computers and browsers will be (have been) on my website.

And to make them work without coding alternate pages I have had to strip Doctype messages from the top of my html pages.
When I tried the Validator, I got all kinds of errors and "This is not a valid..." whatever.

I have been using CSS, and have been trying to clean it up and make it easier to use.

Is it essential that I have these codes at the top, or do I have to come up with redirects, and alternate pages? What a pain.

Also need some kind of script to get visitors to leave me some info when they download my Free Samples.

Any suggestions would be more than welcome.

aRené
René

ReneOdeay.com

[Kravvitz]

Oy.

Use some kind of server side template script to create two versions of each page.

Using a correct doctype puts modern browsers in standards compliance mode, which is a very good thing.

http://www.hut.fi/u/hsivonen/doctype
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/
http://www.juicystudio.com/choosing-doctype/
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html