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| Oregon Girl |
 Jan 16 2010, 03:03 PM
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Hello,
I have a website that a friend created for me, he no longer is able to help due to a new job. I have not been able to get very good SEO standings so I got software to help me out. This is how I found you. Originally when working with the validator program I only had 3 errors, but noticed that I did not have the Markup Language (I think that is what it is called) or this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The errors did not require that I have this but I thought it was important and added it anyway but when I did it showed I had over 850 errors and 64 warnings! You can view this at: http://www.strictlyeurope.com/alps_walk.html I am overwhelmed and hope that there is someone who can direct me on how to fix this. My website is http://www.strictlyeurope.com. I have taken a couple courses in Web Design but never learned coding, just the basics on DreamWeaver Thank you! NanC |
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| pandy |
Jan 16 2010, 05:38 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟  Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,730 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
In HTML case is of no importance. In XHTML all element and attribute names must be lower case. In HTML and XHTML Strict you can't use deprecated elements and attributes like for instance 'bgcolor'. No matter what doctype you use, you can't use proprietary stuff like 'topmargin' and so on. Well, you can, but it won't validate.
 You must have changed a lot more than the doctype. Even if you don't follow the lower case requirement of XHTML you do have the closing slashes, so you would get a lot of errors for that if you tried to validate as HTML. Basically you have to make your mind up. Either HTML ot XHTML, either Strict or Transitional. QUOTE I have not been able to get very good SEO standings so I got software to help me out Watch it so you don't hurt yourself. |
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| Oregon Girl |
Jan 16 2010, 06:40 PM
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QUOTE(pandy @ Jan 16 2010, 05:38 PM)  In HTML case is of no importance. In XHTML all element and attribute names must be lower case. In HTML and XHTML Strict you can't use deprecated attributes like for instance 'bgcolor'. No matter what doctype you use, you can't use proprietary stuff like 'topmargin' and so on. Well, you can, but it won't validate. You must have changed a lot more than the doctype. Even if you don't follow the lower case requirement of XHTML you do have the closing slashes, so you would get a lot of errors for that if you tried to validate as HTML. Basically you have to make your mind up. Either HTML ot XHTML, either Strict or Transitional. QUOTE I have not been able to get very good SEO standings so I got software to help me out Watch it so you don't hurt yourself. So let me see if I've got this right. My site is using both HTML and XHTML? Is there an uncomplicated way to change it all to one or the other? Could you recommend which would be better to use? I take it it's all in the doctype that starts the page: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Would I just change all the XTHML or HTML, and vice versa? Oh, and so far the SEO software is just helping me to choose keywords like on Google AdSense and introduced me to the validator. So hoping it won't hurt too much  |
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| Darin McGrew |
Jan 16 2010, 08:59 PM
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WDG Member Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,365 Joined: 4-August 06 From: Mountain View, CA Member No.: 3 |
Without the doctype, our validator assumes HTML 4.01 Transitional. That is a pretty good assumption for most pages that don't have a doctype.
You've added a doctype that is XHTML 1.0 Strict. You're probably going to get a lot of errors trying to validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. First, there will be things that HTML allows, but XHTML doesn't. Second, there will be things that (X)HTML Transitional allows, but (X)HTML Strict doesn't. Try adding a doctype for HTML 4.01 Transitional. Then you'll get a validator report that is almost the same as the one you got with no doctype. |
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| Oregon Girl |
Jan 17 2010, 01:31 AM
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Darin~That was amazing!!! It brought me down from 847 errors to just 82 errors and 12 warnings. It still would seem high to most people, but when you are looking at what it was compared to now its not quite as intimidating.
This is the doctype I used and hope it's the same one you were referring to. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> I do have one more question if you wouldn't mind answering for me. Regarding this error: Line 55, Column 79: Attribute "TOPMARGIN" is not a valid attribute. Did you mean "marginwidth" or "marginheight"? …bg_blue.jpg" LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" MARGI Why would "TOPMARGIN" not be valid? I thought maybe it was because of the capitalization but when I changed it I still recieved the same response. Thanks! Nancy This post has been edited by Oregon Girl: Jan 17 2010, 01:32 AM |
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| pandy |
Jan 17 2010, 02:16 AM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,730 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
Because it isn't defined in the HTML 4.01 standard or any other standard. As said, topmargin and its pals are proprietary "extensions", invented by this or that browser vendor (Microsoft and Netscape respectively in this case) and mostly understood only by their own browser. There is no reason to use any of that margin stuff anymore, since one line in your style sheet removes the page margins.
CODE body { margin: 0; padding: 0 } |
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| Oregon Girl |
Jan 17 2010, 07:03 PM
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QUOTE(pandy @ Jan 17 2010, 02:16 AM) Because it isn't defined in the HTML 4.01 standard or any other standard. As said, topmargin and its pals are proprietary "extensions", invented by this or that browser vendor (Microsoft and Netscape respectively in this case) and mostly understood only by their own browser. There is no reason to use any of that margin stuff anymore, since one line in your style sheet removes the page margins. CODE body { margin: 0; padding: 0 } Thanks Pandy~This coding is a complicated battle for me.  I understand the part with the browser vendor's where certain code will be picked up better by them. But I'm not sure I follow the one line in my style sheet removes the page margins. Does that mean all I need is the code you gave me above in place of what what I already have? Again, I appriciate your help very much! This post has been edited by Oregon Girl: Jan 17 2010, 07:05 PM |
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| pandy |
Jan 17 2010, 07:15 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,730 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
According to your markup you have two style sheets. I didn't check if they are really there.
CODE <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.venere.com/common/styles/wwwroot/vac_box.css"> <LINK HREF="style.css" TYPE="text/css" REL="stylesheet"> You open one of them and paste the line above in, exactly as I wrote it. You do not place it in the body tag as you've already found out. Well, you can, but then you need to use a style attribute and you have to do it on every page instead of just once if you use it in an external style sheet. I don't remember what margin stuff you had there originally, but it will replace all that. You may also want to read this http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/. |
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| Oregon Girl |
Jan 17 2010, 07:16 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 16-January 10 Member No.: 10,848 |
I just tried the code you gave me but it put this above my header when previewed it on a browser:
{ margin: 0; padding: 0 } onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/m1tours_over.jpg','images/m5accommodations_over.jpg','images/m6whattodo_over.jpg','images/m1tours_over_.jpg','images/m2hotels_over_.jpg','images/m3reviews_over_.jpg','images/m4travelguides_over_.jpg','images/m5cruises_over_.jpg','images/m5_5tourist_offices_over_.jpg','images/m6traveltips_over_.jpg')"> This is how the code originally was created: <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF background="images/bg_blue.jpg" LEFTMARGIN=0 TOPMARGIN=0 rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/m1tours_over.jpg','images/m5accommodations_over.jpg','images/m6whattodo_over.jpg','images/m1tours_over_.jpg','images/m2hotels_over_.jpg','images/m3reviews_over_.jpg','images/m4travelguides_over_.jpg','images/m5cruises_over_.jpg','images/m5_5tourist_offices_over_.jpg','images/m6traveltips_over_.jpg')"> |
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| pandy |
Jan 17 2010, 10:29 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,730 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
Read my post above again. You aren't supposed to put it in the HTML. You are supposed to put it in one of the two style sheets (.css files) you already have.
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