I'd like to show designers my new website design. So guys, the site link is here. I ve been reading tutorials and all since long, and finally I ve made my first handcoded complete site design. I use photoshop, then hand coded the psd using notepad in xhtml and css. Wordpress can be implemented on it pretty easily. Design is very basic I know. Also, the css has been validated without much redo. But the xhtml is showing a whole lot of errors, even for basic common tags. I think many people must be facing this. eg. this is how we write title, isnt it? validator has a problem with this '>' in tags such as title, li, ul and many more.. this is my url(http://www.practiseweb.7co.org/) can someone check the validator(http://validator.w3.org/) errors and help find my mistakes? I would appreciate very much. +rep for those who give best advice. Please tell me your views.
<li>©; Copyright Environment Blog</li> - missing semi-colon You had a few of these too (red is where it was, green is where it should be): Categories <ul>Categories <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li> This validates: <!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"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>What happened to the environment?</title> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen, projection" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="header"></div> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Events</a></li> <li><a href="#">News</a></li> </ul> <div id="tagline"> <h2><br /><br />>> Environmental Blog- about the environment</h2> </div> <div id="env"></div> </div> <div id="main"> <div id="sidebar1"> <h3>Who are we?</h3> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. <h3>What is our mission? </h3> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. </div> <div id="content"> <h1><a href="#">What happened to the environment?</a></h1> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Why do we use it? It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like). Where does it come from? Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32. The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham. </div> <div id="sidebar2"> <br /> Categories <ul> <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Events</a></li> <li><a href="#">News</a></li> </ul> <br />Recent <ul> <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Events</a></li> <li><a href="#">News</a></li> </ul> <br />Tags <ul> <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Events</a></li> <li><a href="#">News</a></li> </ul> <br />Other <ul> <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Events</a></li> <li><a href="#">News</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <br /> <ul id="footerlinks"> <li><a href="#">About Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Gallery</a></li> <li><a href="#">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="#">Events</a></li> <li><a href="#">News</a></li> <li>© Copyright Environment Blog</li> <li><a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"><img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss-blue" alt="Valid CSS!" /></a></li> </ul> </div> </body> </html> Code (markup):
After converting psd to xhtml and css , the next step is always to valid the markup and css . It will helps to improve your css skills . Well done, man .