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From: Lavigne, Leesa
Date: Nov 23, 2002 9:23PM

Hi everyone. Thank you so much for all your comments. Even the technical
ones! It's so hard to find this information in the easy terms that you guys
put it.

I've done some more work on it and posted it to a site outside the State's
firewall. It is now at
http://www.loveitsimple.com/tutorials/forms/WebmasterSurvey.htm
<http://www.loveitsimple.com/tutorials/forms/WebmasterSurvey.htm>;

I passed it through the W3C HTML validator ( http://validator.w3.org/
<http://validator.w3.org/>; ) and it came up with two errors that I don't
understand.
It said the </head> and </form> were not "open" and element "BODY" not
allowed here; check which elements this element may be contained within.

Also:

<TD width="25%" for="First">First Name:</TD> ^
Error: there is no attribute "FOR" for this element (in this HTML version)

It's the only [for= ] attribute that it picked up on.

Still have to change <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
but need to log onto another computer to do so. Is on my list.

When coding the form I put double quotes around all the [id="value" ]
values. When I transfered the file to another computer to upload