I am currently reviewing my site, and trie out the validation website, but I am not great at working out all the tags, /a etc, does anyone know of any good help guides, or people I can tap into to help me get my site fully validated. Many thanks in advance. Pitorian
Starting of with a link to the site would help us help you I'm not sure of any guides to the vaidation process, sorry.
Hi thanks for the post, the site I am validating is b2rhosting.com, trying to get rid of all the errors.. help appreciated. Pit
Follow that by reading the next post. If you start with invalid markup, you cannot expect consistent results from the various browsers or from your own debugging efforts. The validator is not easy for the newcomer to understand. Have it show the source when it checks your markup. Each error or warning has a line number. The validator's source listing is numbered, making it easy to find the line in question. This is especially important, as many errors are cascaded from one initial error. For example, there may be a number of invalid attributes that are due to the element they're on being invalid. Did you use <marquee>? It and all its attributes will throw errors. Maybe you capitalized an element in an xhtml document. All xhtml elements and attributes are lower case, and xhtml is case sensitive. When you've corrected the errors you can, bring us the problems you have trouble with. There will be someone to help. cheers, gary
Having looked at the validation of your page at 3wc (your page results http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.b2rhosting.com/) From what I can see you have started some lines with a <p> tag and closed with a </font> tag and started other lines with a <font> and ended with a </p>. Changing these will set you right with 95% of the errors on the page. You also seem to be missing a closing </head> tag which should be closed before the starting <body> tag. This is set near the top of the page. I hope this helps in some way.
Try this... HTML: http://home.earthlink.net/~duhomax/b2r.html Source: http://home.earthlink.net/~duhomax/b2r_source.html Validation: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.earthlink.net%2F~duhomax%2Fb2r.html Also, with this line... Javascript files should really end in .js (or some browsers will give a security error)
Hello, pitorian. In my opinion, the best solution for your troubles is to get a paid or free program that validates your pages. I think a program like CSE Html Validator is ideal for you, as it reports the errors and lets you edit the source code of the page.
Test out the validity etc at accessibility101.org.uk If you need any more help post me a private message - I'll reply to the forum, though.