code validating

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Michael Roberts

Hello group. I posted this message in the alt search engines group but the
replies I received tried to be helpful but were far too technical and did
not explain the consequences of putting incorrect code validation
information at the beginning of a page. So I hope I can get a clearer answer
here!
I've managed for ages with no text at the beginning of the html
page saying something like doc type public etc. I hear that some engines /
crawlers like to read this so that the code can be validated. I use
MSfrontpage (version 4.02 right now, but earlier pages were made with an
earlier version of FP) - what exactly should I write at the start of the
code and where
can I find from the frontpage programme what the form of code actually is
(it doe not show it when looking at the html tab) ?
Thanks in advance. Mike Roberts
 
Thanks for your help Kathleen. So, if I upgrade to FP2002 it will sort these
things automatically or do I have to insert the doctype manually to all the
pages?
regards Michael Roberts
 
Mike:
You can use the steps in my tutorial to automatically have a DOCTYPE in any
new pages that you create. The tutorial works in FP2000, FP2002 and FP2003.

If you upgrade to FP2002, you can use the feature in the add-in to add a
DOCTYPE to the existing pages in your web. If you stick with FP2000, you can
use the feature in the add-in that tells you which pages are missing a
DOCTYPE and then add them manually yourself.




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~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
Spider Web Woman Designs
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
 
I have to stick to FP2000 because upgrading appears not to be possible with
windowsMe.
trouble is I still cannot find out exactly what doc type I should enter
manually. Err Omi says "it cannot insert DOCTYPE when using FP2000 ". I've
looked at your tutorial ....OK, so I'm thick. But I still cannot work out
exactly HOW to establish the correct doc type. Can you please help?
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Mike:
Unless you are using frames, you want to use this DOCTYPE:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

If you are using frames, you want to use this DOCTYPE:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

Do a View | Source in your browser on this page:
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/ to see exactly where to put it.

P.S. I don't know of any reason why you can't upgrade to FP2002 on Windows
Me.

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~ Kathleen Anderson
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
Spider Web Woman Designs
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/resources/
 
Mike,

You have to decide which DOCTYPE to add to your page, (and you can add them
manually in HTML View), once you have studied the DOCTYPEs and then you
decided which to use. After that you must make sure that you HTML matches
the requirements of the chosen DOCTYPE as the browser will try to render
your page based on the specified DOCTYPE.

DOCTYPE Overview:
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html

BTW, DOCTYPEs are only used by browsers and HTML validation
sites/application, in general there is no reason search engines, etc. would
have a need to index this info, since they are only providing a link to the
sites indexed.

You should be able to install FP2002 on Windows ME.

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Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
WEBMASTER Resources(tm)

FrontPage Resources, Forums, WebCircle,
MS KB Quick Links, etc.
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Yes, FP2002 does work with ME - I use it myself. FP2003 OTOH works only in XP
pro and home.
 
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