If you’re interested: you have some problems with the markup, as the validator shows. One thing you really should fix IMHO is the encoding mismatch (page sent as iso-8859-1 but meta-element says its utf-8, so which is it?)…
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gpiper
(@gpiper)
Yes, indeed, I see that I do have some compliancy problems, per the output from http://validator.w3.org for my main page.
103 errors are listed, after fixing the encoding mismatch you mention. I’m now going to work on fixing the rest of them, although I must admit tthat I’m not exactly sure just why they’re problems. The HTML code itself looks fairly reasonable to me. But, then, I’m not the swiftest coder around… ;^)
-ghp
It may pass as reasonable for HTML, but certainly to claim XHTML some work needs to be done (XHTML being a form of XML is unforgiving).
I see a
You certainly want that to be
Also some unclosed br and hr elements (which you really shouldn’t be using at all as these things can be done in CSS). Also I see some things that want to be headings and paragraphs but aren’t marked up as such.
Well, God bless in your quest for knowledge! If I can help in any way, drop me a note, and while you’re there, have a look at my site and the blogs I have on my blogroll, most of them are xhtml/css related. There are also some helpful people on the Mozillazine and Sitepoint forums.
