W3C compliance? Site is looking funny... 1

[zavsays]

I posted this message on the Dreamweaver Forum but didn't get the "miracle answer" I was hoping for so here it is again...

I've got a long-established site that I started building while trying to learn css. I've recently installed OSX for Mac and dowloaded the latest browsers (Camino, Safari) and I'm seeing problems with the site I didn't know where there (blank where type should be, formatting changed). This must be a W3C compliance issue.

My site is quite large and I know there's likely a cacophony of coding problems on it. I started to rebuild (clear out the pages and re-insert the text) but the outcome was weird. The text came out better - even good for the most part - but the Dreamweaver template was shifting around from page to page (banner ended up in two different places, index spread out on SOME pages). Might have something to do with the large leading I've chosen for the body type in the style sheet? But I would not have expected the template's non-editable areas to be affected.

I've got a little knowledge of coding...that is to say...I could paste code from what looks good to what looks bad but in my case, that didn't always make things better.

Has anyone else gone through this sort of thing. Is there any features in Dreamweaver MX that help with W3C that are not in Dreamweaver 4? Any validation features in Go Live? "Clean up HTML" command in Dreamweaver doesn't do the trick. I'm not looking forward to rebuilding this monster.

Any suggestions other than "read the WC3 site" would be appreciated. Are one of the W3C validators more useful than the others?

Thanks,
Zavsays

http://www.bigbandsandbignames.com/

P.S. Yes I know there is no "miracle answer"

 

[ChrisHunt]

Put your misbehaving page through the HTML validator at

http://validator.w3.org/

and put your style sheet through

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/.

That should identify any "W3C compliance issues".

There are other validators out there. The WDG one at

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

is particularly handy as it will let you validate a whole site (up to 100 pages) at once.

-- Chris Hunt
Extra Connections Ltd

http://www.extracon.com

The real world's OK for a visit, but you wouldn't want to LIVE there!

 

[zavsays]

Ah...I have no "background color" chosen in my style sheet for the text according to the style sheet validator. That's a start! Thank You.