Posted by Smiley on 01/22/98 11:39

"Stan McCann" <me@stanmccann.us> wrote in message
news:Xns9765CB95F4298stanmccann@216.234.192.142...
>
> A couple of starters:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
> http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/articles/doctypeswitch.html
>
> What you are doing is semantically incorrect. The modern thinking
> (you're thinking 1995 methodolgy) is to separate content from layout.
> HTML handles the content, and CSS handles the layout.
>
> Imagine being a blind person listening to your page and hearing
> something like "line break line break line break line break ..."
> Most people I've talked to find it easier to maintain their documents
> along with a consistent format for them.
>
> There are plenty of free resources out there (this group is one if
> you'll read here often) that can help you learn HTML. I've maintained
> a web site largely authored by others using a 1996 layout and design
> for a number of years. Yech, secretaries don't make very good web page
> authors. Now, I'm in the process of a task that, if I had to do it
> your way, would take years. By learning/using valid HTML (XHTML in
> this case, against my advice) and CSS and how to do things in a
> meaningful way, I expect months instead.
>

This is all very interesting, but it doesn't help explain why I'm having
problems here. Do you have answer to that?

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