Re: Just getting started on the FAQ site...

On 31/05/2008 17:04, John Prentice wrote:
Josiah Jenkins wrote:
An amazing job in such a short time !
Congratulations but, . . . my envy knows no bounds !

Many thanks! Standing on the shoulders of giants, of course - it would have been utter pain without a CMS to take a lot of the load.

Out of curiosity, I threw the URL at W3C Markup Validation.

One error only . . .

If you just heard a wet slappy sound, it was my jaw rebounding off the worktop! I'm amazed and delighted: I'd assumed the generated HTML would be so non-conformant that it wasn't even worth putting through the validator.

> I don't know what experience you have of doing a fairly major site
using 'pure' HTML but it can take *weeks* of work to get it right !

Lots...and you're completely right. I find that using syntax-highlighting editors does help. The other thing that helps is putting the W3C validator button at the bottom of the page. If I break the HTML later, someone's bound to tell me!

John

I've found that the "Web Developer" add-on to Firefox is *very* useful for doing quick checks on validation and finding where problem are.

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Joe
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