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Would anyone like to review my site?

I would like people to check out my Muay Thai MMA site in my sig and offer any reviews or suggestions for improvement based on layout, design, content or SEO. I appreciate all suggestions and assistance. Thanks.

Dan

Re: Would anyone like to review my site?

Hi Daniel. Good to see you here. The site looks real good and congrats on the PR.
Gerry:cool:

Re: Would anyone like to review my site?

I just looked over that link and I have no idea what that stuff means or how to fix it. Suggestions?

Re: Would anyone like to review my site?

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Originally Posted by deyounggerry (Post 904345)

Hi Daniel. Good to see you here. The site looks real good and congrats on the PR.
Gerry:cool:

Thanks Gerry. I've been posting here for a little bit but mostly in the SEO forums. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Would anyone like to review my site?

The html your site serves fails validation
the link provided to W3C html validator shows each failure and shows the line that it is in, so you can repair it
valid html generally operates the same in browsers,
invalid html throws browsers into quirks mode, quirks mode may be hugely different in each browser, the site may not function at all.
the explanations are simple. 'Document type does not allow *xxxx* here'. with a line and character number
fix it is pretty easy, you cant just put in a xhtml doctype and do nothing else

Re: Would anyone like to review my site?

Yeah, but what confused me was the suggestions that it made. Basically at the end of every line of code, it said the > was not vaild. You can't have code without closing it with a > otherwise, it will simply be a line of text.

If I understood the suggestions I would change them, but those suggestions from that site made no sense. Can you take a look at it and see if it makes sense to you?

Re: Would anyone like to review my site?

Very first one
you have chosen a xhtml doctype and you have placed

 <a name="1826138946"></a>

in the <head>, <a> cannot exist in the head,
xhtml is very strict, everything after the <a> in the head is screwed up,
even in the validator,
because its trying to interpret wrong html as quirks
fix them in order, then click the revalidate button
because each error effects everything below it in the page.
one fix might remove a dozen or more subsequent errors, the second error -> 12th error

Line 12, Column 7: document type does not allow element "title" here
<title>Dan's Muay Thai MMA.com Traveling The World Training Martial Arts.</tit…

are because the prior wrong <a> anchor closed the </head> and these elements can only exist in the head in xhtml

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Originally Posted by w3c validator

Line 1401, Column 136: end tag for "br" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
…06/jaco-small.jpg"></a></center><…✉
You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

Line 1401, Column 131: start tag was here
…2009/06/jaco-small.jpg"></a></center><br>

<br> does not exist in xhtml
<br /> is a self closed element
any <element> that in html exist alone without a matching </element>
in xhtml self close
<area /> <base /> <basefont /> <br /> <hr /> <input /> <img /> <link /> <meta />

Re: Would anyone like to review my site?

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Originally Posted by almostbob (Post 904592)

Very first one
you have chosen a xhtml doctype and you have placed

 <a name="1826138946"></a>

Line 12, Column 7: document type does not allow element "title" here
<title>Dan's Muay Thai MMA.com Traveling The World Training Martial Arts.</tit…

are because the prior wrong <a> anchor closed the </head> and these elements can only exist in the head in xhtml<br> does not exist in xhtml
<br /> is a self closed element
any <element> that in html exist alone without a matching </element>
in xhtml self close
<area /> <base /> <basefont /> <br /> <hr /> <input /> <img /> <link /> <meta />

I will try to fix this one first and then revalidate. I must have it in the head because it is a validation for a RSS feed automator that austomatically updates from my blogs (similar to mybloglog.com)

Perhaps if I move that to the bottom of the head, all the other errors will come off.

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I changed that and it fixed about 30 errors, but there are 265 errors (there were 295 before)

It appears as a lot of them are contained within posts because of either embeded images or video, and I am not sure I should tamper with that.