Comments on: Some Web Design Basics 1: XHTML

By: webomatica

webomatica — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:47:40 +0000

mlankton — yep it’s a good goal to get to. The worst feeling is thinking your site is okay and then realizing it’s not loading on someone’s computer, due to some tiny html mistake like a missing tag or something.

By: mlankton

mlankton — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:29:57 +0000

I got my site to validate last night. Actually, after hunting down all the things that were causing me errors, and seeing how many errors some of the other sites I use around the web have, I was pretty proud of myself. So much so I even put the w3c button in my left sidebar. Geeky, I know, but having valid code doesn’t hurt.

By: webomatica

webomatica — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:45:14 +0000

Tia the information between isn't for images. Make sure the image is after the tag. Phil perhaps I should go for "strict". Right now I need to get the pesky MyBlogLog widget to validate and then I can proceed.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:02:38 +0000

Hmm... sorry to comment again... I left a link in the last comment about strict and transitional doctypes, here it is again as it seems to have disappeared! http://24ways.org/2005/transitional-vs-strict-markup

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:58:29 +0000

You’re right, and aren’t deprecated in XHTML (yet…) but their use is discouraged as they are purely presentational. The use of for emphasis and for strong emphasis is much better and you can style each element as you like.

Also, I would recommend using strict doctypes over transitional ones.

By: Tia Martyn

Tia Martyn — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:19:53 +0000

Hi,
I have started blogging lately and i cud not insert image to the header tag , any take on that one?

Regards