On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:34:06 -0800 (PST) Chris Ballay <ballay05@yahoo.com> wrote: > To Whom It May Concern: > > I currently own the web site MySportsHaven.com. I was in the > process of adding Google's Adsense to my site. In order to add > Adsense I have check my site for any errors. So I went to the site > and 33 errors came up for www.mysportshaven.com. I am so lost on > where to even begin as far as fixing these problems so I can finally > get Adsense on my site. I would very much appreciate your > assistance during my time of need. Here is an example of something > confusing... > > Error Line 1 column 0: no document type declaration; implying > "<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM>". > > <HTML> > The checked page did not contain a document type ("DOCTYPE") > declaration. The Validator has tried to validate with a fallback > DTD, but this is quite likely to be incorrect and will generate a > large number of incorrect error messages. It is highly recommended > that you insert the proper DOCTYPE declaration in your document -- > instructions for doing this are given above -- and it is necessary > to have this declaration before the page can be declared to be > valid. > > Now how am I suppose to know where this error is? I am making my > site through godaddy.com so you can understand the difficulty on > know which page this error pertains to. All it says is Line 1 > Column 0. I looked at your site's instructions on using the correct > doc't type, but it was very hard to comprehend. Again, I hope you > can help as soon as possible. > > Thank you for your time, > > Chris Ballay > On the whole most applications do not produce error free web pages, but for an app to not prepend a doctype is really bad! Peeps, is this typical of godaddy.com? Seems Chris, you need to learn a little about hand coding in (X)HTML before going much further. Hand coding is the best way of understanding the errors, and i recommend you find an authoritative book on the subject. -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.Received on Friday, 10 March 2006 10:55:57 GMT
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