When I go to W3.Org to validate my HTML for www.AccurateInspections.com I get a time out error because the page is too big. Can anyone please be kind enough to tell me if there is another way to vaildate the HTML for that page? Can anyone please be kind enough to tell me how to fix the errors between lines 600 and 650 that other validation tools have found? Thanks for your help
When I put your site into the w3.org validator it didn't timeout. It did, however return the following error: Your HTML source doesn't specify a character encoding so the validator assumes utf-8. So apparently on lines 600, 613, and 655 that are not utf-8. I would figure out what is on those lines, delete them, and retype them. That might be the easiest thing to try.
Hi, One line no 600 you have sign for copyright, you need to replace it with the code of the same i.e. © Line 613 and 655, try to break the line into 2-3 lines and also assign doctype and charset <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> Code (markup): You can set other encoding charset also. You need to put the doctype just before html tag. Deep
So it seems that your page is not too big, the Internet was possibly just slow that day. However, you can still greatly reduce the size of your page, improve the page itself, and improve your skills all at the same time. All the font tags, all the table tags, and any other HTML elements and attributes included for their visual effect should all go and be replaced by style sheets. The source will be shorter, cleaner, the layout much more powerful and adaptable to change, and the greater emphasis on semantics rather than presentation will allow your page to be accessed from a wider range of devices and people. The article A Dao of Web Design <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao> provides much greater detail and reasoning on the topic.
Are you using a WYSIWYG editor? This seems really code heavy for hand coding? As stated above your copyright symbol should be coded as either © or &#169; not whatever you had copied from MS WORD or your other word processor. Get your scripts out of the page. Call them from an external file if you can. I am not a no-tables zealot but the tables used to create your left navigation is probably 60 to 70% more code than you need and could be achieved using CSS and lists, not to mention if the images didn't load you could still navigate the site. All the best, Jay
Begin with adding a proper DOCTYPE tag. Start with HTML transitional: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> Then make sure you selected the correct character set. If English is the only language you use, put this into <head>: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> Once you get these two, you can start using W3C validator. There's about a couple of dozen errors you need to fix (incorrect tags, invalid attributes, etc). J.D.
I'll get started, thanks for the help. As for your comments reguarding design, the problem started when the person who originally designed the page made a few errors and a general configuration that was just about impossible to edit. My changes made with Front Page just made more code and more problems. I do not have the expertise to fix the problems so I am living with them until the next time the site is redesigned. Thanks for the information you have provided so far!
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