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**dalesellers** · 06-17-2006, 06:14 PM

I built my pages in MS Frontpage. I think I need to get doc type tags on the pages to make them more code comliant. Any ideas on what correct doc type tag to use or where I might find more info about this? Here is one of my pages:

http://www.lifeleap.org/CONTACT/contact.htm

Thank you for any insights.

**areeb** · 06:37 PM

Hello ..
First of all, just a peice of Recommendation.
Please do not design websites in Frontpage.
It adds so much of extra Tags and comments and you dont have much flexibility.
The code is not at all optimized.
Use Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is actually a good choice ..

Okay, as far as your question is concerned, I think your DOC Type is HTML 4.01 Transitional .. Just add this to the very first line of your HTML Page ..

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

After adding this line, go to validator.w3.org and type your URL and see whether it is following the web Standards or not.

Regards

**terofive** · 06-23-2006, 02:52 PM

I couldnt agree more on not using frontpage. Its bad news. Use dreamweaver or better yet, get your coding skills up and hand code it.

Here some info doctype.

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/doctype/

**collyer_1** · 06-23-2006, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by areeb

Use Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is actually a good choice ..

An even better option is not to use WYSIWYG editors at all. I code by hand. It's not all that hard to learn the code and your web-sites will look way better in the end.

An acceptable use of Dreamweaver would be to help you speed up your coding and FTP-ing. It's a tool for accelerating the design process not making it into a point and click deal.

**AliKat** · 06-24-2006, 09:07 AM

Dreamweaver is fine to use as long as you are using it solely as a text editor to view the color coding tags etc, and more importantly line numbers.

**Smoking Man** · 06-24-2006, 10:23 AM

I agree that FrontPage should not be used to create pages. Coding by hand is not that difficult. And if you are familiar with the code, it makes it that much easier to modify the code, and to repair it. A good program to use (and free ), is HTML-Kit. You might want to check it out. But definitely learn to write the code yourself. It will pay off in the long run.

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