Fixing My Template (Need Help Please)

JDawggS316 · Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 20

Hello everyone, my name's Jesse and this is my first post here on these forums and I'm really looking for some help here.

I am currently using the Soul Vision v.1.0 theme. After running the W3C Markup Validator I see that there are a total of 68 Errors and 26 Warnings.

I really love this template and it works very, very well with my vision and content.

I don't know anything really about fixing or cleaning up any code (and yes I did try using HTML Tidy and it messed up my site so I had to reset it all).

Is there any one person who would be willing to help me make this W3C compliant for the sake of SEO?

Thanks!

sticks464 · Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 2309

You can post the code on the forum and someone will help.

JDawggS316 · Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 20

By posting the code do you mean the code that is reporting the errors and warnings? There is a lot of errors and so I can start by posting the header.php. When running the W3C Markup Validator it scans the whole website.

I don't want to accidently slip and show private information to the whole world so you could say I'm a little skeptical but really in need of help Embarassed

JDawggS316 · Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 20

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
<meta name="robots" content="follow, all" />
<meta name="language" content="en, sv" />
</head>

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">

</style>
</head>
<body>

<div id="headerwrap">
<div id="headerbg">
<div id="header">
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/">
<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>
</a></h1>
<p class="tagline">
<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>
</p>
<div class="Menu">

<div class="Menuright">
<ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Kingdom Horizon</a></li>
<li>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="rssfeeds">
<p><a href="<?php bloginfo_rss('rss2_url'); ?>">Subscribe</a></p>
</div>
<div class="search">
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<input type="text" value="To search, type and hit enter" name="s" id="s" onfocus="if (this.value == 'To search, type and hit enter') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'To search, type and hit enter';}"/>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="wrap">

JDawggS316 · Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 20

I didn't include my meta title, keywords and description in the above header.php.

They were right before the first </head> in the middle/top of the code.

leahmarie · Joined: 04 Aug 2009 Posts: 29

What's your site's url so that we can see the effects of the errors in the site. Don't worry about the privacy of the codes, we just want to help