3000 HTML errors in FP

[Michael Hutch]

Hello,
I set up my sites in FP.
Some pages are really big.
I ran the sites through some html checking software, and on my 'big; pages
there are up to 3000 html errors.
I tried to do some basic html cleanup steps, and reduced the errors to 2,000.
As I dont know what I should actually be cleaning up in html code, I did not
save the changes.

What should i do?
Which html clean up options should i use/consider in the FP html clean up
tool?
What happens if I do nothing?
I am worried if I do nothing, this may affect my site's performance in the
future (re W3C quality gu).

These are my sites.
Thanks. Michel.

www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-usa.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-canada.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-uk.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-australia.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-india.com/

 

[Ronx]

I would start by changing the !doctype to HTML 4 rather than XHTML
This will eliminate most of the errors regarding self closing tags.

Then go through the errors one by one, starting at the top, paying attention
to nesting - you can't place a table in a paragraph (I noticed
</table> ... </p> in the markup, which is either a badly nested table in a
paragraph, or an extra </p> doing nothing.) Correcting one error may
correct half a dozen or more further down.

Also make sure that each and every <p> has a corresponding </p> FrontPage
is notorious for omitting the closing </p> in table cells.

You might like to use the trial for Expression Web, which will highlight all
the HTML errors, http://www.microsoft.com/expression

Doing nothing at the moment will not hurt anything - except that tomorrows
browser may not render the page satisfactorily.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

 

[MikeR]

Hello,
I set up my sites in FP.
Some pages are really big.
I ran the sites through some html checking software, and on my 'big; pages
there are up to 3000 html errors.
I tried to do some basic html cleanup steps, and reduced the errors to 2,000.
As I dont know what I should actually be cleaning up in html code, I did not
save the changes.

What should i do?
Which html clean up options should i use/consider in the FP html clean up
tool?
What happens if I do nothing?
I am worried if I do nothing, this may affect my site's performance in the
future (re W3C quality gu).

These are my sites.
Thanks. Michel.

www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-usa.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-canada.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-uk.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-australia.com/
www.diabetes-your-blood-sugar-india.com/

In addition, download and install Firefox browser, then download and install the HTML
validator from http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/

It's not perfect, but it will display most of your errors in a very readable format,
and fix a lot of them for you, if you want it to.

It puts an icon on the lower right of the browser window that you double click on to
see the errors.

I find it to be a useful tool.

Mike

 

[Michael Hutch]

Thankyou everybody.

I do have expression web as well (full version).

I'm a html beginner, so I'll read up, or get help down the road.
Definitely some things to try, and go on until then.

Michael Hutch

 

[Tina Clarke]

Micheal

Are all your sites in the different countries (that speak english) exactly
the same? If so that won't do your search engine optimisation any good ..and
you don't really need different domains for english speaking countries if
you have country specfic knowledge just make a folder under the one site for
that country with that specific information. Your homepage is far too big
and needs to be reduced

regarding clean up... if you have ew (3.0) ? I thought i saw

there is a variety of things you can do rather than going about this in a
haphazard method.

first backup your website three times

one for safely
one to work on
one to experiment with

make a new template .... and get lots of feedback on it ... make sure it has
basic seo implementions and use a page include for the menu and when its
ready make it into a dwt use a css sheet for the formatting.

Then remove the 'template' from the content you have now and clean the pages
then apply the dwt ... all that cuts down on the maintainance you have to do
....

I am simplfiying this but thats basically what you do.

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Design Time Includes
http://any-expression.com/expression-web/tutorials/insert-include-pages.htm

You need to approach this step by step and you could have a much easier life
of it with out all these coding problems

hope this helps


Tina
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[Michael Hutch]

Thanks. Tina,

SEO hasn't been a problem as I 'geo-targeted' the sites in webmaster tools.
There appears to be no duplication as far as the search engines are
concerned, and the search engines treat the region-specific information quite
nicely. I'm actually ranking well on some of the 'key phrases', like top 10,
top 5 and top 2.

The region specific information is subtile. There are minor differences
throughout each of the whole sites.


Although I've played with FP for 10 years, I am a beginner in HTML.
I will probably need some help with this down the track (or learn how to do
it, after some serious learning about html. I'll try and make sense of your
tips and links.
Appreciated.

Some pages are quite big, and I'll be breaking them up. This is my next step.

Thanks, Michael