Convert your old HTML pages to XHTML Basic + External CSS

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Convert your old HTML pages to XHTML Basic + External CSS

Experts forecast that by the end of 2002, 70% of Internet access will be through cellular phones, PDAs, in-board car systems, etc.

The browsers for these "new" communication devices will be considerably smaller than the current browsers installed in PCs (IE, Netscape, Opera, etc.) and will not "forgive" errors in HTML.

The W3C has defined the specifications for XHTML Basic, a subset of XHTML. By adhering to these specifications and by linking to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), it should be possible to create pages for 100% of all devices accessing Internet.

The conversion process from HTML is time consuming and requires a detailed knowledge of XHTML and CSS.

Some of the steps to follow are;

Remove all frames
Remove all Java
Remove all Javascript
Export all style to external CSS
All tags & attributes in lower case
Terminate all empty tags
Remove <center> and <font ..>
Add doctype before <html>
Add link to external CSS
Quote all attributes
Check/add alt in <img..>
Check/add summary in <table..>
Check/correct minimization of attributes
Id for fragmented identifiers - not name
Use entities for special/foreign characters
Re-design tables if they contain nested tables
Run TIDY
Validate HTML against W3C HTML validation service
Validate style sheets against W3C CSS validator

At present there are thousands of millions of pages on the Web which do not follow these rules and may not load using the new browsers - not to mention the problems with voice browsers.

In addition, well known page editors/generators commonly in use are still producing invalid XHTML pages which may not load!

For further information regarding the assistance we can give you to resolve this problem, please contact:

347-3060395
328-5750318
347-2846495

My email: david.turner@vizzavi.it
Internet: http://www.unet.it