I'm new to web design and in no way very serious about it as anything more than a hobby, but I have finally got the courage to change my HTML transitional to XHTML transitional. I've changed pretty much everything about my coding, but it hasn't turned out for the best. I keep getting the repeated error messages when validating my HTML and my main content column is overlapped perhaps? I don't know, it won't let me highlight text or click on links.

http://rareillusions.com/test/code3.htm

How do I fix the error messages I keep getting? because I have tried everything I can think of.
and how do I fix the stubborn main column?

on the line with:

<a href="http://modelesque.net"target="_blank"/>Ashley</a> for making this site possible


take out the / after "_blank"


also, get firefox and download the html validator plugin, and set it to SGML. it'll give u suggestions of how to fix your errors too. its useful.

Alrgiht I'll try that, but what about the main content table? It works fine in IE but not Firefox

One thing I noticed on your validation is that you have a lot of instances similar to this:
…pics3.inxhost.com/images/sticker.gif"border="0"

you need to be sure and put a space between each attribute. It should look like this
…pics3.inxhost.com/images/sticker.gif" border="0"

I think this will fix most of your validation errors. It could also fix your table problem.

You ask about eliminating the error messages on validation.
I ran your page on the W3C validatator and the first error shown was for line 44.
When you see a message like that and you can't see anything wrong on that line go back a few lines - you have probable failed to close an element. I did this and found
on line 42:

<a href="http://loz.vintaged.info" target="new"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/losalind/link.gif" border="0" alt=""/><br/><br/>

You need to close the anchor by putting </a> before the first <br />

Also be aware when using self closing tags the correct form is: <br /> i.e. a space before the backslash.

Attend to the above and try to validate again.

If you still have problems come back and I will have another look.

Hope this helps, good luck.

Thanks guys! Now I'm validated! Your advice really helped!

The look of that site is really nice. GOod work.

In future you can use http://validator.w3.org/ it will tell you most of the issues

you did a great job on the appearance! Wonderful!

Moderator please delete

maybe there's a problem in source code...