Welcome to another article on Building Better Web Pages. This article series comprehensively covers building an HTML document: easily learned, but rarely perfected.

Today’s article covers Doctype declarations in regards to XHTML and HTML.This is one of the most intriguing markup debates out there. I personally waffled back and forth between the two.

Solid Statement: Don’t be a whiny prima donna about this issue. The XHTML Doctype helps you develop good coding habits. While HTML 4.01 has its set of standards, it allows for ‘sloppy’ code that doesn’t fly in any other language or platform.

See the pitfalls to both.

Welcome to another article on Building Better Web Pages. This article series comprehensively covers building an HTML document: easily learned, but rarely perfected.

Today’s article covers Doctype declarations. While there is a wealth of information on the internet already about Doctypes, I have always clicked away without really understanding what was really going on. Besides, we can’t completely cover “Building Better Web Pages” without it. The most basic questions are “Why do I need a Doctype?” or “Which Doctype should I use?” You might figure this would be easy to explain. I think can be, but I just never see it solidly stated.