[SOLVED] Validating HTML

thewebkid · #1 Dec 2nd, 2007, 11:55

I have validated my css and it's great.

The only issue I have is my html. Although my html editing program vaildates it as good, I can't validate it through validator.w3.org.
It keep saying this

Quote:

No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
None of the standards sources gave any information on the character encoding labeling for this document. Without encoding information it is impossible to reliably validate the document. As a fallback solution, the "UTF-8" encoding was used to read the content and attempt to perform the validation, but this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents.

How do I fix this?

Marc · #2 Dec 2nd, 2007, 12:00

Have you got this:

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    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

In your <head> tags?

It would also be helpful if you can link us to the website so that we can see for ourselves

thewebkid · #3 Dec 2nd, 2007, 12:09

I always forget to do that, and no I don't have that in my HTML, thanks.

www.markverkler.org

thewebkid · #4 Dec 2nd, 2007, 12:19

Ok now it's validated. Could you look at the website and see what would be a good place to put the icon?

Marc · #5 Dec 2nd, 2007, 12:21

What does the icon look like?

thewebkid · #6 Dec 2nd, 2007, 12:57

I meant the validation image? Or should I even place it there....this:

and this

Marc · #7 Dec 2nd, 2007, 12:58

I wouldn't bother, i would just put something like:

Quote:

Valid (x)HTML and CSS

thewebkid · #8 Dec 2nd, 2007, 13:00

Thanks, It would probably look better on my personal site, rather than this one

MikeHopley · #9 Dec 2nd, 2007, 13:02

I wouldn't even bother with that. Your users don't care about validation (they don't even know what it is).

What's the point in bragging? If it doesn't help your users, it doesn't belong on your web page.

thewebkid · #10 Dec 2nd, 2007, 13:11

What about future clients that may know about it? Wouldn't they like to know that the can rely on a well designed site?

Marc · #11 Dec 2nd, 2007, 13:15

Generally client look at your portfolio to see how well you can design websites and your website. Very seldom do clients even know what web standards are. After all, they are suppose to trust you with their website.

thewebkid · #12 Dec 3rd, 2007, 03:56

True, thank you for your help.

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