Again, I am trying to make my blog Valid CSS and XHTML. It is very far from being that way. Considering the CSS Tutorial at w3schools totally confused me this is going to be difficult. With firefox, I can validate any page I'm at. I can also view source and ask it to clean up the html, css. I saved the template and tried doing it offline. It's not doing what I want. Almost every tag specific to blogger is not recognized in either XHTML or CSS!
$BlogMetaData$ <--These ones are not recognized in either strict or transitional. Why then can I view in firefox? I want to have my page valid. It's good practice for when I decide to start another homepage for my family. Which I will do soon. I'm thinking about A page with stuff, then a link to a next page to have conversations, like blogs do. In order to do this, I really need to understand CSS. AH!
Oh! se7en, I will take you up on designing this page as soon as you can attain the right/permission to use mickey mouse related pics. LMAO! Nah, I do wonder though, if you could use some free ones. I have found quite a few free images for use on websites. Of course I want to learn to do it myself. For my family site, when I get around to it, I will probably ask for a design for it. A front page, pic page, announcement page and a conversationish page. Hmmm. Might have to pay for that. I'm open to ideas for a family page. Not to awful creative here, so need help with that. Basically, what would you want to have on your family's page? Guess I'll need to learn about bandwidth and such. Hmm. Don't worry, when I'm ready, I'll be more than willing to pay for an awesome design and cool flash header thingy.
Moral to the story: I'm going to be viewing page sources in blogger today. Starting with se7en's as it seems he knows quite a bit about blogger templates anyway. Anyone who has links to tutorials that'd be great. I already have a binder full of what I printed on HTML, XHTML and CSS. I think I have paper on Java script too. That one is confusing also. I'd like to do some mouseover on my links with the alt text popping up when you are over a link. Not a whole button, just the words in a small line, like when you mouseover something in your MyComputer area. Ideas for where to find the how of it? I tried the w3 and all I got from it was how to change text color in a header. I know you can do it, just can't remember or figure it out.
Back to learning...see ya'll later.
*UpdateWow, validating the html on se7en's page Wow! A lot of unclosed tags. Oh and you have some li tags without any ul or ol ones. Here's the link to the validation page if you want to see. Mostly it's not ending the img, p, and br tags. Oh! damnit! For some reason, you don't show the haloscan javascript errors that I do. I wonder why that is. After all, don't we all have almost identical code for it? There's this too:Entity references start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;). If you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it as "&" (even inside URLs!). So not fair! Forgetting to end tags is no big deal and easy to fix. I wonder why the java stuff that I copy/pasted shows errors and yours doesn't. Curious. (Oh, only telling you bout the little errors in case you wanted to know. I am not criticizing at all. I love your page.)*
More updates later as I continue on to other places.
Yep, in other pages the validator complains about the javascript from haloscan. Odd. Now I'm really confus-ed. I did find technorati now. That looks like fun. Waiting for the e-mail thing for the code for my template. |