Validating my site... it's tricky!

ingeborgh · 11-10-2008, 07:17 PM

I have never bothered to validate my sites before. I've started to think this might come handy, and everybody is recommending it. Also, I have some trouble with accessing my sites from different browsers. So, here goes:

But, when I try to validate, there are to many issues I can't manage to fix.

Something with the META tag, and some are just annoying always refering to either " 's or the tags. Can anyone take a quick look. I warn you for "error-shock"

I have been floating on air with my coding, now I really want to learn the real deep down basics of a validated file.

You may check out this file for validation:
http://ingeborgh.com/index.php

zoobie · 11-10-2008, 08:05 PM

you've got no doc type for beginners
way to many large pictures on one page
iframes confuse search engines and validators
forgot <tr> & </tr> on tables
etc

put it in the link below and post for each problem you can't figure out
http://validator.w3.org/

ingeborgh · 11-10-2008, 08:13 PM

Thank you for answering

I can't understand this.

Unable to Determine Parse Mode!
No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
No DOCTYPE found! Checking with default HTML 4.01 Transitional Document Type.

_Aerospace_Eng_ · 11-10-2008, 08:22 PM

Read this sticky on doctypes.

http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=18346

Also add this just before you closing </head> tag.

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

coothead · 11-10-2008, 08:31 PM

Hi there ingeborgh,

and a warm welcome to these forums.

Quote:

I can't understand this.

It seems that at your present level of coding, page validation is beyond you.

So here is your page validated.

Code:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">

<title>ingeborgh</title>

<link type="text/css" href="/layout/stylesheets/css.css" rel="stylesheet">

</head>
<body>

<table style="width:100%; height: 100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<table style="width:477px; background-color:#969696;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td style="height:471px; background-color:#969696;">
<img src="http://ingeborgh.com/layout/headers/side12.jpg" border="0" alt="">
</td>
<td style="width: 477px; height: 471px; background-color:#969696;">
<img src="http://ingeborgh.com/layout/headers/middle2.jpg" border="0"  alt="">
</td>
<td style="background-color:#969696; height: 471px;">
<img src="http://ingeborgh.com/layout/headers/side22.jpg" border="0" alt="">
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td style="width: 50px; height: 243px; background-color:#969696;" rowspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
<td style="width: 477px; height: 5px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-right: 5px; background-color:#ffffff;">
<div align="right">
<center><span class="tekst">
<a href="/webdesign.php"><span class="mini">WEBDESIGN</span></a> ⁘ 
<a href="/meg.php"><span class="mini">INGEBORG</span></a> ⁘ 
<a href="/index.php"><span class="mini">FORSIDEN</span></a> ⁘ 
<a href="/o"><span class="mini">ODINS SIDE</span></a>  ⁘
<a href="/stubbe.php"><span class="mini">STUBBE</span></a> ⁘
<a href="2/outside.php"><span class="mini">OUTSIDE</span></a>
</span></center>
</div>
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td style="padding:10px; width: 477px; height: 100%; background-color:#ffffff;">
<iframe src="b" height="10700" width="100%" name="innhold" marginwidth="40" marginheight="20" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0"></iframe>
</td>
<td style="width:17px; height:243px;background-color:#969696;" rowspan="2">&nbsp;</td>
</tr></table>
</td>
</tr></table>

</body>
</html>

...perhaps you will be more successful with your CSS validation...

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...om%2Findex.php

You may, also find some of these links illuminating.

Quote:

coothead

ingeborgh · 11-10-2008, 08:44 PM

Are tables really that bad

EDIT:

I admit page valitation coding is beyond me, and appreciate your help

Quote:

PHP Code:


			
document type does not allow element "P" here; missing one of "APPLET", "OBJECT", "MAP", "IFRAME", "BUTTON" start-tag.

&#8230;serer meg for (altså ikke ex phil).<p></span>

This does not make sense. I always use

PHP Code:

<p>

as paragraphs, or paragraphdividers.

ingeborgh · 11-10-2008, 09:08 PM

Whoa! I managed to validate a site!

I notice I don't use "-s and alt="" and close tags properly. I will hereby be strict to myself when coding.

Click here to see the marvellous result!

zoobie · 11-11-2008, 04:05 AM

very nice of coothead to do that...
it's probably best if the coder learns themselves
because of aerospace eng's red sig text

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