Re: [PCWorks] web page puzzle
- From: Hugh Vandervoort <hughv2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:49:41 -0400
Let me put it this way. There are over 100 errors in this one page alone,
and you can't expect that many problems to help any.
He would benefit greatly from HTML Tidy:
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
<http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/>I suspect the <sub> tag is being
mis-used:
http://www.quackit.com/html/tags/html_sub_tag.cfm
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin <
PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I saw what he was talking about on IE6, so it's also on IE6.
>
> You may be confusing him with doc-types Hugh. ;-) While they are good
> to have on some occasions, and IF used **properly**, that's not your
> problem Vern. (I added one just to be positive and it didn't change
> anything). Using certain wrong types of doc tags can actually prevent a
> bot's ability to spider a page.
>
> BTW, I checked it in FF 3.6 and while your/her original issue still
> shows in it, the area of purple text that starts with "This is a 1 day
> sale..." is double spaced in IE, probably because of the <sub> tags, you
> should remove those <sub> & </sub> where ever you have them since it's
> not subset text.
>
> You should also get into the habit of using all lowercase everywhere in
> the HTML code. That will eventually cause a problem (and is currently
> now sometimes). Using a + before the font size # shouldn't be there.
> Remove the email address in the <head>, that's just food for spammers
> and spambots. The background scrolls in FF, but it's fixed on in IE.
> So that's a problem with this area:
>
> <BODY bgProperties=fixed BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF"
> VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#FF0000" BACKGROUND="mu15bkgd.jpg">
>
> You need to lookup (or ask at HTML-Haven) the proper tag for the bg
> either being fixed, or floating.
> -Clint
>
>
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