I was able to get some of my pages to validate but not all of them. The only
pages that would validate were the ones that did not contain shock-wave elements.
Apparently the W3C validator does not like shockwave-flash elements or plug
ins. All of my error messages on the pages that would not validate, deal with
these
two elements. The two error messages revolve around the following words: "There
is no attribute..." (there is no attribute "SRC"<embed src="question.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia).and "element
embed. undefined..."(element "EMBED" undefined ...ckwave-flash" width="103" height="24"></embed>).
I had the webmaster, who helped with my testing, look at the validation errors and she agreed they were all related to the flash elements. Pulling scripts from other sites or from free javascript sites tends to mess with the validation making it almost easier to just produce the script yourself. Also, as usual, the pages had to be checked outside of geocitites because geocitites sends W3C screaming with errors as well. I understand the importance of validating the page....however, making web pages would be a lot more fun if I could avoid the validation process which always slows me down.
The CSS page validated with no problems.
Valid CSS information
body , td , th {
color : #ffffff;
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
body {
background-color : #030540;
}
a:link {
color : #dd9c1a;
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
a:visited {
color : #6699ff;
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
h1 {
color : #ffffff;
font-family : Papyrus;
}
h3 {
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
h4 {
font-family : Papyrus;
color : #ffffff;
}
p {
color : #ffffff;
font-family : Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
I was able to get all but one of the the pages to validate Section 508
for accessibility issues, thru Bobby. (If the Section 508 issues listed below
do not apply to your page, then it qualifies as Bobby Section 508 Approved
and you are entitled to use the Bobby
Section 508 Approved icon.) I was not able to get the Question page
to validate even thought I tried everything I could think of. It has to do
with two scripts I copied into this page. The Favorite character poll and the
infoplease search bar. The message reads as follows: Provide an explicit label
for each form control. I tried to add the following information to the code: <LABEL
for="name">Name:</LABEL>
<INPUT type="text" id="name" SIZE="50"> but
it did not seem to help. After hours of playing with this, I finally gave up.