Re: web page help

[Ron Ebert <ebert@CITRUS.UCR.EDU>]

At 04:03 PM 10/16/99 -0400, Brad Shue wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Leon Leonardo wrote:
> > I've been assigned the task of creating a web page for
> > my physics department at El Camino College. Our
> > department consists of 3.5 full-time instructors all
> > of whom claim they will use the web page for
> > assigments, links, etc(?).

> Personal preference mostly.  If you UL it and it looks OK under Netscape
> and IE... go with it.  Don't trust your local browser to give you a real
> online look at it on your local machine at home.  UL and view online
> before you put it on the web.  RULE:  Do it twice to make sure.  Three
> times if you are anal like me.

Send your page through the W3C validator at http://validator.w3.org/. These
are the guys who set the html standards for the whole web. If your page
passes, you are assured that it is readable on any web browser, regardless
of whose and what version. It is likely that the first time through, your
page will come back as riddled with errors. The error descriptions are
somewhat cryptic, but usually involve simple stuff like asymmetric syntax
of the html code. After you've straightened out a few web pages, things
will go quicker as you'll know what to look for.

Older versions of Front Page put Microsoft's own idea of html code in and
web pages made with these never pass the validator. Front Page 2000 is
better, but still has a few problems. For one thing, it doesn't add an
alias (alt) to image html automatically like the older versions did, so you
have to put it in by hand.


Ron Ebert
UCR Physics Department
ron.ebert@ucr.edu
http://phyld.ucr.edu