Re: Site assistance request

Dear Darrell,

Unfortunately the snippet you found only means that the page uses a format that was standardized by W3C, in this case XHTML 1.
All web pages use a similar declaration regarding the language used to code the pages. 
W3C develops web standards but may not help you identify who created a web page or site, or how it was created.

Coralie

> On 19 Sep 2025, at 04:18, dcporter@zoho.com wrote:
> 
> I have a website that I developed about 15 years ago, but has not been used over the past 10 years. I have the site and its contents saved on my new domain, but the site is unaccessable to me to edit.
> The page source heading says:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
> <head>
> 
> Since I do not know how I created the site, my question is (based on the heading info above) is there anyway you can tell me how the webpage was created and/or where I can go to regain access to
> edit it?
> 
> Any assistance would be much appreciated.
> 
> Darrell Porter


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Received on Friday, 19 September 2025 17:16:19 UTC