Help -Code Not Valid!!

[June]

Hi,

I submitted the index page of our site with http://validator.w3.org, following the (very helpful) threads on this forum, to see what problems it would find with the code.

It says the page is not valid, the fist comment is due to the code below which includes "FORCED", and seems to be part of the actinic code. I have included the relevant part of the comment below-

Can BASEHREF VALUE="http://www.a1cartridges.co.uk/" FORCED=1/><META NAME="ACTINICTITLE" CONTENT="NETQUOTEVAR:PAGEHEADER">

Please can you tell me how I can change/ amend this to be search-engine friendly.

My index page is a revamped brochure (fragment) page, edited in dreamweaver

Many thanks

[jont]

Hi June,

you will find that all ecommerce sites do not pass the Validation reports in some fashion due to the processing scripts they depend upon - try putting any ecommerce site through the validator and see what happens. Amazon will not even start the test and Dabs returns 201 errors. Even the mighty Microsoft returns errors on its homepage!

[webyourbusiness]

it used to be easy to get an actinic page to comply - not any more... I gave up trying, it's not worth the effort involved... make sure your non-actinic pages comply if you have any.

[magicalwonders]

Just found this thread after posting to this one:-

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=14699

Sorry about that folks!

I don't feel so bad about all the errors on my page now. Why has it become so difficult to get the code right? Any chance Actinic can improve on this for future releases?

Myles

[pinbrook]

The errors on your page, Myles, are simple HTML errors, and not actinic generated.

Actinic diesn't pass validation due to coding like <Actinic:NOWSERVING/><Actinic:CURRACCOUNT/><Actinic:LOGOUT_SIMPLE/>
and not overlapping tags.

Overlapping tag errors will have been inadvertantly added by yourself (Sorry!)

[magicalwonders]

Not sure about them being that simple Jo.

Take this one for example.

Line 87, column 210: end tag for element "TABLE" which is not open
...ht">Next/Prev links </TD></TR></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="5"

Here's the code from my act_primary that relates to this.

<TABLE cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="5" width="100%" align="center" border="0" margin="0">
<TR>
<TD class=tdback vAlign="top" width="130" rowSpan=3>NETQUOTEVAR:TOPLEVELSECTIONSTOP </TD>
<TD align="right">Next/Prev links </TD>
<TD class=tdback vAlign="top" align="center" width="100" rowSpan=3>
<P><A onmouseover="window.status='Copyright Magical Wonders';return true;"
onmouseout="window.status='';return true;"
href="file:///C:/Program%20Files/Qualcomm/Eudora/ATTACH/freestuff.php"><IMG
height="90" alt="Join our Mailing List and get Free Stuff!" src=""
width="90" border="0"></A></P>
<P style="CLEAR: both"></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD align="center" width="550" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">
NETQUOTEVAR:FORMBEGIN <A name=top><INPUT type=hidden
value=NETQUOTEVAR:RANDOM name=RANDOM> </A>NETQUOTEVAR:HIDDENFIELDS
<!-- If customer accounts are in operation following two lines allow displaying -->
<!-- User name and customer account name on every page -->
<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:LOGINLINK --><ACTINIC:NOWSERVING />
<ACTINIC:CURRACCOUNT /><ACTINIC:LOGOUT_SIMPLE />
<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:HEADER -->
<SPAN class=actxsmall>NETQUOTEVAR:HEADERTEXT </SPAN>
NETQUOTEVAR:BULK
<SPAN class=actxsmall>NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTERTEXT </SPAN>
<!-- NETQUOTEVAR:FOOTER -->
NETQUOTEVAR:FORMEND</TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD align="right">Next/Prev links </TD></TR></TABLE>

The opening table tag is there, but has disappeared from the page that is generated. What's that all about?