Doctype problems

jallard · #1 (**permalink**) 11-04-2003, 10:28 AM

I am having serious problems with people from all over the country being unable to access my website: http://www.willametteweb.us. They can neighter access through Explorer or Netscape; and, probably the same with Opera too.

Bu, I will be darn if I know which DOCTYPE to use. I can read about until I am throughly exhausted and still none of the DOCTYPES seem to work. What is it?

Here is what you can see in the index page:

Quote:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Williamette Webhosting</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="description" content="Willamette Web Hosting, your one-stop shopping center for all of your web presence needs. Here you will find domain names, webhosting and e-commerce packages for unbelievably low prices, along with the best customer support in the business. That's our guarantee to you, our customer!">
<meta name="keywords" content=<"amazon.com, domain names, domain registration, ecommerce, e-commerce, e-commerce packages, forum, goemerchant, home, information, lmmd-design, web design, webhosting, willamette webhosting, wwh,">
<meta name="robots" content="ALL">
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15">
<meta name="classification" content="Business, Internet">
<meta name="distribution" content="Global">
<meta name="rating" content="Safe For Kids">
<meta name="copyright" content="willamette webhosting/lmmd-design, 2003">
<meta name="author" content="Joseph Allard">
<meta http-equiv="reply-to" content="admin@willamette.us">
<meta name="language" content="English">
<meta name="doc-type" content="Web Page"">
<meta name="doc-class" content="Published">
<meta name="doc-rights" content="Public">
</head>
<LINK href="style.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet>
<body bgcolor="#B8BCBD" bottommargin="0px">

Can some please enlighten me with the proper DOCTYPE. I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

Fruit & Veg · #2 (**permalink**) 11-04-2003, 10:37 AM

I've got Firebird 0.7 and can see your site as clear as day.

SVB · #3 (**permalink**) 11-04-2003, 10:45 AM

I can see the site from Ireland in IE6.0, akthough this is written at the very top:

<"amazon.com, domain names, domain registration, ecommerce, e-commerce, e-commerce packages, forum, goemerchant, home, information, lmmd-design, web design, webhosting, willamette webhosting, wwh,">

Devil's Angel · #4 (**permalink**) 11-04-2003, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jallard

Quote:

You might want to get rid of the "<" after "content="....some of the older and pickier browsers might be having a problem with it.

jallard · #5 (**permalink**) 11-04-2003, 11:14 AM

How do you write meta tags without the "<" after "content="....?

Jazzee · #6 (**permalink**) 11-04-2003, 11:14 AM

Like this:

[code:1:6b3fcb31f4]<meta name="keywords" content="amazon.com, domain names, domain registration, ecommerce, e-commerce, e-commerce packages, forum, goemerchant, home, information, lmmd-design, web design, webhosting, willamette webhosting, wwh,">[/code:1:6b3fcb31f4]

jallard · #7 (**permalink**) 11-04-2003, 11:16 AM

Thanks Jazzee. I appreciate your time.

Fruit & Veg · #8 (**permalink**) 11-04-2003, 11:35 AM

* breathes in sharply * amazon.com in the keyword tag? Some sites can get touchy with their url/name in other sites code. Not that you're ever going to rank well for it, but you know how possessive some are...

jallard · #9 (**permalink**) 11-05-2003, 12:29 PM

Whenever I add a DOCTYPE to my index page--/index.php--it alters the "," alighment.

That is to say, "that instead of it aligning 'left,' it aligns 'center.'" When I delete the DOCTYPE and re-upload it puts everything back to where it should be. So, which DOCTYPE is acceptable? And, why would it cause problems with the source coding?

jallard · #10 (**permalink**) 11-06-2003, 10:49 AM

This is what I love about some forums. Waiting for a response is like waiting for the second coming of Christ: And, he is an "absentee landlord."

Should I expect more or less?

Fruit & Veg · #11 (**permalink**) 11-06-2003, 02:08 PM

DOCTYPE's tell the browser which 'hymn sheet' it should be singing from.

It's an HTML validation problem.

Begin here - http://validator.w3.org/

LazyJim · #12 (**permalink**) 11-06-2003, 02:14 PM

"DOCTYPE's tell the browser which 'hymn sheet' it should be singing from. "

Well put Fruity!

Jalard: for another search term to google, try "quirks mode" - this is like when the browsers decide to stop using the new revision of the hymn sheet and go back to the old one that is a bit more forgiving.

jallard · #13 (**permalink**) 11-06-2003, 02:42 PM

Well after much research and reading about DOCTYPES I am not qualified to re-write my own. Probably because I didn't fully understand it? Every DOCTYPE that I tried to use --(six in all)-- would alter the alignment of some of the source code. Making everything look aligned "centered," rather than aligned "left."

I guess what it boils down to is either re-write the source code -- the PHP, the CSS, and the HTML -- or not use a DOCTYPE.

Thanks for your help, Really!

LazyJim · #14 (**permalink**) 11-06-2003, 02:46 PM

I was going to ask if you've tried no DOCTYPE, sometimes it's the only solution!

AcRoNym · #15 (**permalink**) 11-06-2003, 04:02 PM

make it transitional