Posted by Adrienne on 10/05/53 11:17

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed The Magician
<vanished@thedropofahat.com> writing in
news:MPG.1d06704cb7d7c94c98982b@news.optonline.net:

> In article <d7hev5$4tp$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk>, dorward@yahoo.com
> says...
>> The Magician wrote:
>>
>
> Hmmm...oh well, guess it'll have to stay as is. But that HTML validator
> thingy said something about not being some kind of "doc type". How do I
> fix that in Dreamweaver?

Go into Code View (or whatever it's called) and add a DocType declaration.

<snip>
> None of the stuff on the validator made any sense to me really, except
for I
> get a sense that the webpage needed some kind of html "dogtag" stating
> it's a "regulation webpage that's had it's shots" or something similar
> to that.

No, validation is not the beat all to end all, it's a tool to help you in
your authoring. If some element is misbehaving, validating the page will
often show the culprit, an example is a floating DIV that's not floating
because the prior div is not closed.

Yet I view it fine in my IE6 browser. So what's the big
> deal...? It won't be viewable in a browser like...Mozilla or something?

IE is not the only browser available. Who knows, maybe at the last minute,
MS will make IE7 more like its younger siblings (I doubt it), and then it
won't show correctly in IE7 either.

> Trust me...the target audience won' be using Mozilla, etc.

Firefox is gaining on IE rapidly, mostly because of security issues, and
because IE just doesn't do some of the things the younger browsers do, like
tabbed browsing.

> I'm not really a code geek, and I use an html editor. But since that
> page was a downloaded prefab, webpage template... how would I go about
> adding the tags needed to make the pages "on the up & up"...?

You need to start fixing the errors the validator points out one by one.
Then, when it is no longer throwing errors, start working on the template.

Thanks
> again David. I do appreciate your help.
>



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