how to fix table height error

[Webmaster _khanarts.com]

Dear Webado,
Please check my site www.khanarts.com and let me know how to fix table
height error.
I have one question also, if talk in percent, how much percent W3c
Validation helps in SEO.
Is there any free software, in which I can fix my errors
automatically.

Thanks & regards,

Naved Khan

www.khanarts.com
Manufacturer Exporter of Decorative Handicrafts & Area Rugs

[Christina S]

Hi Naved,

In your case, simply remove the height attribute from that table tag. You
will find it does not change the display.

Occasionally one needs to actually achieve a particular height for the table
in order for things to fit properly on the page. In those cases instead of
using height="113" in the table tag use style="height: 113px;" and it will
have the same effect but be valid. Or use height attributes on individual
td elements inside the table, the td with the largest height value will give
the overall table height.

These type of validation errors don't affect anything as far as SEO is
concerned. Occasionally they may affect rendering in some browsers.

Other kinds of much more serious errors may affect robots' ability to
properly read the content. Like javascript code that may be getting mixed up
with html because it is not encoded properly, or improperly nested or closed
tags, especially in the head section. I cannot give a percentage, it really
depends on what the errors may be.

And more than validation errors, using the wrong markup may also affect
optimization. For instance it's known that using proper header tags (h1, h2,
etc) adds semantics to the markup. Keywords and keyphrases found within
header tags have a little more weight than when they are found in regular
text. If you were to have something like this:

<div class="h1">Services offered by company ABC"</div>
it would be much better to use:
<h1>Services offered by company ABC</h1>

even though they may be displayed exactly the same way in the browser
(according to how you styled the class h1 or the header tag h1).

You can use css to style both the class h1 and the header tag h1
identically. But while the h1 tag adds importance to the text, the class h1
only styles the content and adds no special meaning or importance to the
text.

You can say then that proper use of header tags (h1, h2, ...) improves the
optimization of the page. Of course they must be used properly, not for
styling and not for tricking the robot into believing that everything is
important. Too much of that ends up being ignored altogether, you cannot
just wrap all your text in header tags. The importance is always relative to
the rest of the text, that's what a header is supposed to achieve in any
well written text document, whether we are talking about a web page or an
article in a newspaper or in a magazine.



Christina
www.webado.net

[Webmaster _khanarts.com]

Thanks for your reply. I take care of your valuable tips. I have few
questions more:
Can I use H2, H3 Tag more than once on a web page.
I use Frontpage 2002 and dreamweaver 8 to create my webpages. I
replace & to &amp; (and » to &#187; ) many times but after some I saw
the same error that please use &amp; instead of &. I don't know how
they changes itself to the old one i.e. & , »
Plersae reply.

Thanks

Naved Khan

www.khanarts.com
................................
Khan Arts India - Handicrafts Manufacturer from India

> > Please check my sitewww.khanarts.comand let me know how to fix table

[Webmaster _khanarts.com]

Please also advise software which check and correct the HTML Coding.

Thanks
Naved Khan

www.wholesale-napkin-rings.com

Wholesale Napkin Rings Supplier from India

On Dec 7, 9:07 pm, "Christina S" <web...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Please check my sitewww.khanarts.comand let me know how to fix table

[Christina S]

Sometimes Dreamweaver MX changes characters like &amp; back to &. I've
noticed if you use text reformatting it may happen. I've nto foudn the
optin where I can stop that nonsense. So I'm careful.

You can certainly use h2 and h3, down to h5 more than once each. Just makes
sure it all make sense.

Consider the hierarchy of your content sections.

h1 - once, it's at the page level.

Under that you can have a few h2's and text for ech h2.

Under each h2, you can also have a few h3's (and text foe each h3) that are
part of that section headed by that h2.

And so on.

Always within reason. You don't want to end up with every line of text
placed in a header tag, that doesn't make sense.

<h1>main header</h1>
<p>Blah, blah</p>
<h2>section header</h2>
<p>more blah blah</p>
<p>some more blah blah</p>
<h3>subsection header</h3>
<p>blah this</p>

<h3>subsection header</h3>
<p>blah that</p>

<h2>section header</h2>
<p>more blah blah</p>
<p>some more blah blah</p>

Christina

[Christina S]

The only one I know of is Tidy, and it's not 100% perfect. I simply cannoto
be because people make all kinds of errors, oissions and how can it guess
what it was suppsoed to be?

When you validate a page through the w3 validator it has the option to
produce Tidy output. It doesn't always work depending on the kinds of
errors.

Best way is to do it by hand and not rely on software. Try it, but don't
count on it, especially don't expect it to preserve your layout - you will
need to fix that most of the time.

hristina