White Ash wrote:
p.s. cited: "We all need to listen to the messages the universe has to send us": This page is not Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional :)
I am new to Web Standards. Two basic questions ~ could you share with me _how_ you know it is not valid, and also, _what_ I can do to make it valid?
Most likely, the pages were checked with the W3C Validator. The Validator "checks HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML Recommendations and other HTML standards".
<http://validator.w3.org/>
http://www.amyarver.com/home.shtml
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.amyarver.com/home.shtml>
http://www.amyarver.com/aboutamy.shtml
<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.amyarver.com/aboutamy.shtml>
The majority of your errors are easily fixed. For example, in your document you have:
<div id="nav"> <li><a href="home.shtml">home</a></li> <li><a href="aboutamy.shtml">about amy</a></li> ... </div>
You are missing either the stating <ul> or <ol> tags for your list:
<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a href="home.shtml">home</a></li>
<li><a href="aboutamy.shtml">about amy</a></li>
...
</ul>
</div>The "non SGML character" errors mean that you are using using characters such as " (quote mark), or ' (apostrophe) within your displayed text. Some user agents may not be able to properly render these types of characters, so you should use SGML character references or entity references to display these characters. In addition to proper rendering, these types of "symbols" are also used within markup and may have a different meaning than when used in displayed text. For example, when using "<" within displayed text, you would want to use the entity reference <, to be sure this character is not confused with the opening bracket of a HTML tag. You are already using some entity references in your navigation markup: in used to represent a "non breaking space" character.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html>
HTH
-- Best regards, Michael Wilson
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