hi,

Very long complicated story but if anyone can help, Id appeciate it.

Firstly I would really need to know if anyone can tell me what these codes mean, in easy to understand language - these codes are on the view page info

1.encoding utf-8

and

2. What this code means

http://www.google.co.uk /url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCIQIDAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3AqMFaCDVncqwJ%3Awww.saithstud.co.uk %2F%2Bsaithstud.co.%26cd%3D1%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Duk%26client%3Dfirefox-a&rct=j&q=saithstud.co.&ei= SmPuTMmeNtGEhQfytsS-DA&usg=AFQjCNFzgVGDHVzsxc7AZUWL49ZXbdN94w&sig2=v4bxuN6Voz3-vYBz-T3pAA

and this is at the address:

3. http://webcache .googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qMFaCDVncqwJ:www.saithstud.co.uk/+www.saithstud.co.uk&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

On mine the address is just my web page name.

4. and the render mode is : Quirks mode

and again on mine its standard compliance mode

now compared to my web page source, its absolutely nothing like above. I noticed that coffee cups source uses the same encoding - does this mean its better ?

Its a bit difficult because just starting out on my own doing my own web page, and having my old web page .co.uk still going under someone else nd using the above codes, but obviously if they are better can I use them ?, - I dont know, but if anyone out there is up on all this, could you explain what it all means and could I do the same on my web page ? obviously changing the name in the right places ??

please someone get back to me and cake for getting this far without falling asleep.

heather.

1. Is the language encoding and utf-8 is default on how the browser(Internet Explorer or Firefox) reads the characters on the page.

2. and 3. I got nothing. Were you trying to display your cache from Google? If so, it was displaying how the page was previously indexed. Maybe they got truncated when you copied them.

4. Is because you have not declared a Doctype for the page saithstud.co.uk. See http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html. Doctype is the first thing that has to be at the top of every page.
You might want to try something like:

no the web its on isnt mine, but is above mine on the rankings. Im saithstud. com. and I want to be NO.1 (big smile ) just wondered if the code was worth putting on mine. My web source is normal. I put a gap in between the codes otherwise it wouldnt come up on this forum. So the code you put up, is that a good idea to put on mine anyway ?

But when I looked at the coding as much as I could on the internet the webcache.googleusercontent.com - there were loads of things saying it was putting out viruses ? and I thought maybe someone knew about it.

back to No. 1, though, why is the coding different then, I look at mine and its ISO-8859-1 and coffee cup is UFT8 - same browser on my computer looking - is it better to have uft8 ?

Take care

H
edited to say im not a bloke asin the picture ! LOL although not blonde since doing all this 3 weeks ago, am thinking of changing colour

No. You have iso encoding for the characters so you don't need to add utf-8. You also have a doctype so that's ok. I would add more text(at least 200 words) and add it to web directories. That will help you on the search engines.

Which is the better coding?


http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2010/03/which-is-better-utf-8-or-iso/

Btw, the site you have is in VSD and it now uses UTF-8 encoding. Why don't you upgrade?

Up-graded this morning, and playing with it now :0 - doing a new one - and not making the mistakes as the last one

Ok - shall put 200 welsh cob words up - Thanks so much

Take care

H

You're welcome Heather, good luck and Happy Holidays.