Basic HTML problem

Hi

I have run my site through various HTML checkers and it fails them
all miserably. As I am a complete novice with HTML coding could someone
take a look at my site (the URL in my signature) and give me advice
on how to fix the problems. The site was created with Frontpage 2000.

Thanks

 

If you created it in frontpage and it works then you most likely just need to forget the checkers. Frontpage creates all kinds of code that nothing else on the planet knows anything about... so will hardly ever pass validators if anything complicated at all has been attempted on the page.

 

if you try and remove 60% of the HTML code of your site that Frontpage created, you'll still have the same site

You'd better use some other software next time, something like Macromedia DreamWeaver or Homesite, Allaire Homesite, etc.

 

Thanks for the advice. I've just ordered Dreamweaver 8.

 

try to use frontpage2003 or frontpage2004 or any latest version of frontpage.

 

Are frontpage 2003 / 2004 a lot different to 2000?

 

it should be, every software is better than its forfathers
at least it should be

 

Good move! Congrats!

 

I would suggest you not to worry much about the code validation.
Just concentrate on the content, linking , reference and relevance.

Even Google has errors on validation.
and you know it doesnt hamper its performance.

Just my opinion.

Prawin

 

Using invalid html markup can only be due to ignorance, which can be easily cured. HTML is not rocket science. There are only about 80 total elements, and and you'd be hard pressed to find more than 30 in common use.

With so simple a markup language, how hard can it be to use it correctly? Especially, when not using it correctly means you're at the mercy of each browser's guesswork as it tries to do what you want, in spite of what you said.

Debugging invalid markup is an exercize in futility, as you cannot expect consistency of results for any change.

If you have invalid markup, fix it. If you don't know how, learn html.

gary

 

Hello, brynrees.
In my opinion, trying to validate a page made with a WYSIWYG editor like FrontPage is useless. This kind of editors is made to produce a page that is visually acceptable for the user, and not something that is acceptable for validation programs. They thrown in any type of things which you must take or leave. I think that Dreamweaver produces a code that is more compatible than FrontPages's. If you have decided to use WYSIWYG editors, you should certainly take a try at Dreamweaver. Make a page and run it through the validator. However, I wouldn't expect to get a 100% validated page unless it is hand-coded.
Good luck.

 

You can try to create your site in the newer version of Frontpage. You can also use the Macromedia Dreamweaver because it has more enhanced feature than Microsoft Frontpage.​