XHTML Tips

Necessary Information for the HTML/XHTML file:

<!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" lang="en">
<head>
<title>CHANGE ME</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="keywords" content="CHNAGE ME, CHANGE ME" />
<meta http-equiv="description" content="CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME CHANGE ME " />
<link href="SOMESTYLESHEET.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

By inserting this information, you will ensure that your page will validate more easily in the automated tools that we sometimes use.

Validation tools:

WatchFire

W3C Validator

Dr. Watson

The Marquee Tag:

This is an IE specific tag, although it is supported (with about a 15 second delay) in Firefox. You can do this just using standard WYSIWYG tools like Frontpage (like this), or by modifying the code (like this) OR you can also do images in the marquee, as well, with each image being a separate link (like this).

For XHTML Forms:

There are three ways to do this:

They can send an e-mail(via their default mail program- the simplest method, I might add)
Your webserver supports some form of a scripting language that can parse the form results and send them to you via e-mail (a bit harder)
The form results get processed (much the same as the previous) except that the results go straight into a database.

The sample files:

Send an E-mail
PHP Script that sends you an e-mail (rename the .txt in the filename to .php)
PHP Script that inserts into a database

For the Send an Email, remember to include ENCTYPE="text/plain" in the form tag; otherwise, you will get an attachment called POSTDATA.ATT.

It is possible to take over and hijack someone's webpages...

The following shows the difference between the beginning of the file for the main.htm ( a frame page section for a client of mine...There's six hours of my life I won't ever get back...)

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