I use fp2000 It does not have doctype, can i add this to web site

Guest · Oct 19, 2006

I use fp2000. I notice my html does not have a doc type code and I think I
am not getting the best ranking because of this. Can I add a doctype and
what should I use ? My site www.carpet-cleaning-machines.com . I will also
be upgrading soon to fp2003. Will that auto give me doctype ?

Murray · Oct 19, 2006

A valid and complete doctype will not affect your ranking, but it will
affect your site's rendering in the browsers (perhaps negatively, if you
have used invalid/proprietary markup).

Use this one for HTML 4.01 Transitional -

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

Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FrontPage] · Oct 19, 2006

If you want to make sure a DOCTYPE is included in all new pages that you
create, you can modify the template:
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/tutorials/doctypesolution.asp

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

Windsun · Oct 20, 2006

Yes, definately do that. When I was still using FP, I had this in that file
so I did not have to put it in each time:
-----------------
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" />
<title>Untitled 1</title>
</head>

I use fp2000 It does not have doctype, can i add this to web site

Guest

Murray

Kathleen Anderson [MVP - FrontPage]

Windsun