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11/8/2007 6:48 PM
 

Timo Breumelhof wrote

Are you using 4.7.0 or another version?

What menu component?

Could you post alink to the page?

DNN 4.5.5; my skin is using the solpartmenu, I guess.  Here's a link to the validation errors (site URL is BidLessTravel):

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bidlesstravel.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Thanks for having a look, sir.

 
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11/9/2007 2:34 AM
 

I would start with upgrading to 4.7, because it's generates more compliant code.

There are inline HTML aligns which are not valid and I even see some <font> tags (yek...;-).

Change them to CSS to make the page validate, but they will not have any influence on the SE.

Structiutally incorrect HTML does, check that.

But if your first concern is SEO then I would use another menu component.

Best would be a CSS based Unordered list menu like Housmenu or CSS nav menu

The new default menu is also better then Solpart, but not as good as an Unordered list menu for SE.

In my tests I was able to create an XHTML transitional valid page without any core changes using 4.7.

At the moment the visibility skinobject doesn't validate and some of the modules don't, but the core should.

 
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11/11/2007 1:30 PM
 

Hi Timo,

Do you know if the validation issue with the "&" at the url provider has been fixed?

Thanks.


www.nukedesigners.com W3C compliant Valid skins for dotnetnuke.
 
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11/11/2007 4:44 PM
 

I don't know what you mean.. Could you explain a bit more / supply a gemini issue number?

 
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11/11/2007 9:36 PM
 

Thanks for all the advice, guys. And I'll plan to upgrade next weekend, Timo...and go from there. I'll probably be in the market for a new skin in the not-too-distant future, one that stays away from the solpart...and got this from the skin designer, as I thought perhaps a new release might have been issued that fixed a lot of the alignment issues:

Unfortunately, I am aware of DNN's non-compliance with W3C standards. Even more unfortunately, there's very little that can be done from a skinning perspective. Almost all, if not all, of the validation errors are caused by DNN-generated code. The code in my skin packages, for the most part, is compliant.

By adding ALT attributes to my IMG tags, I could maybe bring the number of validation errors down from 70 to 65, but there's not much else I can do to address this issue, as the rest of those errors are produced entirely by DNN.

 

So I'll try the upgrade, fix my < font > and < absmiddle > and other archaic HTML, then reassess my situation. 

 
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