Hey could ye have a gander at a website i did for a project please?

Shnig · Jan 14, 2005

Hey I did this web page today for a project (given three months ago but of course I only started it today!). Its a web site reviewing others, including this one! I did it as I learned HTML (thats right I didnt know a character of HTML before today). I did it mostly by hand but used a tiny bit of front page image formating wizzidry! It is my first site so go easy but have a gander and tell me what ye think please! Anyway heres the site = http://student.cs.ucc.ie/~slfoh1/Index.html

RealBlackStuff · Jan 15, 2005

http://validator.w3.org said:

The DOCTYPE Declaration in your document was not recognized. This probably means that the Formal Public Identifier contains a spelling error, or that the Declaration is not using correct syntax. Validation has been performed using a default "fallback" Document Type Definition that closely resembles HTML 4.01 Transitional, but the document will not be Valid until you have corrected the problem with the DOCTYPE Declaration.
This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!

Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.

1. Line 1, column 0: no document type declaration; implying "<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM>"

<HTML> <head> <title>C.S 1102 project home</title> </head>

The checked page did not contain a document type ("DOCTYPE") declaration. The Validator has tried to validate with the HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD, but this is quite likely to be incorrect and will generate a large number of incorrect error messages. It is highly recommended that you insert the proper DOCTYPE declaration in your document -- instructions for doing this are given above -- and it is necessary to have this declaration before the page can be declared to be valid.

You should place a DOCTYPE declaration as the very first thing in your HTML document. For example, for a typical XHTML 1.0 document:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Title</title>
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

Assuming you use Firefox, get a fantastic plugin "Web Developer 0.8" from the mozilla website, great help for developing web-pages.

Your first attempt works, but looks rather boring with all that grey background. Making the clickable logos a bit smaller will make the page look friendlier.
Use the above-mentioned (official) validator in future.

Also, try to avoid the use of the word "banner", lots of popup-stoppers and some firewalls are "allergic" to it and either suppress that banner or refuse to load that page altogether.

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Hey could ye have a gander at a website i did for a project please?

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