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Started by alien13 , Mar 30 2006 12:00 AM

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Posted 30 March 2006 - 12:00 AM

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Hi,

Im fairly new to the web site building so my site isnt the best (i think ive coded it incorectly), but what i want to know is if YOU think its an ok site for someone in the middle of beginner and moderate.

Link to site removed.

PS- If im not allowed to post my site, just say so and ill remove it, thanks :whistling:
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 02:19 AM

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Hi Alien13:

As with all things, it is a start. LOL

HTML Tidy reported 107 warnings and a validattion check listed a lot of serious errors...72 according to the w3c.org validator. Might check out the validation yourself and it will list what corrections you need to make to your code:

The W3C Markup Validation Service.

Use of the Extended Interface or Extended File Upload options is recommended. Make sure "Show Source" box is checked before validating.

Let me know if you need further help with this.

Ron
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 05:01 AM

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lol. Whoa thats alot, i thought it would have a fair few errors. thanks for the link.

Also, where it says something like:

"Error Line 21, column 77: required attribute "ALT" not specified .

...om/clipart/pbi/c.gif" height=1 width=100></td>"

whats does it want me to do?

Thanks again
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 05:06 AM

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from xhtml1.0 on, every image element has to have the "alt" attribute- it's the text that shows when u put ur cursor over an image. if u don't want any text to show up, just put alt="" for example <img src="blabl.gif" alt=""> that would be the apsolute minimum for using the img element
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 05:08 AM

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Ahh ok thankyou for the quick reply TaNkZ101 :blink:

[update] well i got it down to 68 errors, i might have less but i added some more i think... its kinda confusing because im not sure what to edit to make it right... :whistling:

Edited by alien13, 30 March 2006 - 05:30 AM.

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Posted 30 March 2006 - 05:51 AM

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Hi:

Hey, you're doing much better. Just a few more corrections and you should have it.

You need a <!DOCTYPE> tag at the top and outside your <html> tag. Use this for now:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR...ml4/loose.dtd">

You should also use the <title></title> tags with the title you wish to use. Makes search engines happy. There are some <meta> tags you need to include for content description and keywords.

One other important one is the character set call out. I use:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

The title and meta tags go between the <head></head> tags. Here are the others:

<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">

You will probably find a lot of errors disappear when you make the right correction. After you've put these in and rechecked validation. We can look at what else you need to do.

Ron
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 06:00 AM

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Ok, thanks, well i put them in and now im down to 63 errors.

With things like :

Line 43, column 16: document type does not allow element "TR" here .

<tr valign="top">


What is it asking me to do?

[edit] i just looked at my page and its mixed up... what did i do...?
[edit2] i went and had a look and took out "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR...l4/loose.dtd">" and it went back to normal..?

Edited by alien13, 30 March 2006 - 06:05 AM.

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Posted 30 March 2006 - 06:11 AM

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This is what a basic HTML document should look like before you do much with it:


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR...ml4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title></title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="author" content="">
</head>
<body>

CONTENT HERE

</body>
</html>

Edited by Major Payne, 30 March 2006 - 06:16 AM.

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Posted 30 March 2006 - 06:17 AM

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yay. i got it down to 56 errors.

I had to move my ad's at the bottom above the [/body][/html] i didnt realise that until your last post, thanks for that :whistling:
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 06:19 AM

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The link to your site has been removed, and this thread is being closed. Most of the content on your site goes against the Terms of Use you agreed to when you joined this site. Even though the content isn't being posted directly here, it's still in violation. We have thousands of visitors a day, many who are minors. By having illegal and questionable content on your site..then linking it here...subjects our users to it.

Thank you for your cooperation.
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