Re: [PCWorks] web page puzzle
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:03:06 -0500
Sure, they won't "help" any, but my point is that doesn't necessarily
mean that any of them have anything to do with anything important.
There are few sites on the net that validate. Even HTML authority sites
are full of HTML errors. ~90% of the time they have nothing to do with
the way a page is displayed because they are usually things like
improperly ordered closing tags, too many closing tags, font tag in the
wrong place, etc. That's NOT to say that the cause of his issue is not
due to an error, and yes, it's good advice and I agree it's good to use
them to find errors, but it's logical for him to try the fastest
simplest thing first due to his "newness" at this. Then, he can tackle
all the other errors.
By his own admission ("poor coding") he's a newbie at this and I don't
want to confuse him with anything other than what he's trying to fix
(although I probably already did that with my last post, LoL, but they
were simple).
-Clint
God Bless,
Clint Hamilton, Owner
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Vandervoort"
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/
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 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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