This is my first web site, and I would like advice please.

luckybeachstones · Apr 26th, 2008, 18:06

I'm not too sure about the coding, layout, or the content. Any advice, likes, or dislikes would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you. the site

unitedcraig · Apr 26th, 2008, 22:13

Firstly you have no doctype, visit here to find out more http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html

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Why have you got all the above codes, have you designed this with a "what you see is what you get" editor?

I would get rid of the tables and look at using CSS a bit more, and you also have no H1 tags.

What I reccomend is getting a doctype, then taking a look at using CSS to get rid of all your tables

Any questions just ask mate

Craig

luckybeachstones · Apr 28th, 2008, 00:45

Thanks, Craig.

Yes, I did use a tool called Yahoo! SiteBuilder.
However, I discovered that it left a bunch of extra tags that made it impossible to read in a normal browser, so i stripped it of those using Dreamweaver.

I've never even heard of a doctype before... but it definately solves a huge problem i've been having about how the page is rendered. Which one do you recommend for a novice like me?

I've just read an article about CSS, and it seems very useful. I'll find tutorials on it.

Thanks again!

unitedcraig · Apr 28th, 2008, 06:36

Doctypes are used on every website, if you view the source of this page for example, you will see this at the top

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

This tells the browser that it is a transitional doctype and should be rendered as such, the other alternative is a strict doctype.

The difference between the two is that a strict is harder to validate(get 100% correct code without any errors, I would start off placing a transitional doctype on your page and after you have fixed the errors you have got, then think about a strict doctype.

Hope this helps mate

Craig