I have spent many hours working on this. My site is almost completely XHTML 1.0 transitional. I have to say “almost” because of a few exceptions I have to work out. The twitter script is not compliant. Everything gets a bit messy when you use PHP includes from WordPress and Gallery2. Those are things I could fix over time, but there are many files and I’m not sure when I’ll get around to it. Lastly, I need to work with the “cam preview” feature on the main page of Our Home Life. It uses JavaScript which is provided by WebcamXP. I am beginning to hate JavaScript.

There was so much code to run through. I had never even added a valid doctype to these pages. I just never had the time to sort through each one, but I was determined. I had to train myself to avoid tables at all costs and learn how to make pure CSS layouts. I learned, quite painstakingly, which elements could not be nested. Working with HTML that is upwards of 12 years old is tricky – especially when it has been morphed repeatedly over the years.

In the end, it was worth all of the hard work. The physical appearance of each page has changed very little, but there is one wonderful difference:

Switching to strict will be next. This will have to come in stages, but right now, my eyes are glazing over from staring at Notepad for 2 days.