Newbie needs help

lriffs · (#1 (**permalink**))

Okay here,sorry for the such probaly obvious stupid ?
I am new to building a web site,my father asked me to build one for his charity he runs,for youth groups in our area,I built a 5 age web site using virtuoso,and I thought once I built this,bang it would be on the internet for the world to see,still laughing at that one,Well I do know now it does not work that way,and I tried to validate my site,and it said there is no "doctype"html ,and had over 30 errors on the page,I used w3 I beleive,I have no clue what I am doing and would appreciate any help on info where I can find a easy beginners web site that will teach me,or do I need to validate?Is there not a web host where you can use nice templates,or flash and still use html 4.01or higher,are they supposed to add your own codes,when you use their site builder?
At the moment my head is pounding from being on this computer for 3 days straight,any help would be great,thanks much have a great night

PiMPaRSeBiSh · (#2 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by lriffs

Okay here,sorry for the such probaly obvious stupid ?
I am new to building a web site,my father asked me to build one for his charity he runs,for youth groups in our area,I built a 5 age web site using virtuoso,and I thought once I built this,bang it would be on the internet for the world to see,still laughing at that one,Well I do know now it does not work that way,and I tried to validate my site,and it said there is no "doctype"html ,and had over 30 errors on the page,I used w3 I beleive,I have no clue what I am doing and would appreciate any help on info where I can find a easy beginners web site that will teach me,or do I need to validate?Is there not a web host where you can use nice templates,or flash and still use html 4.01or higher,are they supposed to add your own codes,when you use their site builder?
At the moment my head is pounding from being on this computer for 3 days straight,any help would be great,thanks much have a great night

Send me one of your coded pages and I'll recode it correctly and give it back to you. You can then compare it to your other pages and see your errors. Just reply here with the code in between [ code ] tags.

lriffs · (#3 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by PiMPaRSeBiSh

Send me one of your coded pages and I'll recode it correctly and give it back to you. You can then compare it to your other pages and see your errors. Just reply here with the code in between [Come Join us for the fun
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Thanks

PiMPaRSeBiSh · (#4 (**permalink**))

I meant using the bb [.code] and [./code] tags to insert your code like this:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Enter Your Title here</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body { font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; font-size: 24px; }
.whateveryouwant { text-decoration: underline; }
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div align="center" style="padding: 5px" class="whateveryouwant"><em>Come Join us for the fun</em></div>
<div align="center" style="padding: 5px"><em>~Charity Ran Vegas Casino Nights~</em></div>
<div align="center" style="padding: 5px"><em>This site inlcudes all information On:</em></div>
<div align="center" style="padding: 5px"><em>Poker</em></div>
<div align="center" style="padding: 5px"><em>Texas Hold em</em></div>
<div align="center" style="padding: 5px"><em>Driving Directions,Locations</em></div>
<div align="center" style="padding: 5px"><em>We welcome any comments just sign our Guest book or email us</em></div>
<div align="center" style="padding: 5px"><em>Be sure to check out the rest of our website</em></div>
<div align="center" style="padding: 5px"><em>~Hope To see You There~</em></div>
</body>
</html>