Thanks for that explanation Matt, it was very helpful! It is peculiar that the big sites you mentioned don't have a doctype statement. You'd think sites like that would adhere to the specifications very strictly. :shocked:
Other Matt, it may indeed come up again. But I've been learning this stuff for years, is I'd really like to try and do it myself, if I bother with it at all. After reading the other Matt's statement I may not worry about it. After all, I'm pretty sure that all my code is relatively clean. It has, after all, been my goal since day one to make this website as widely viewable as possible.
And when I think about it, when I validated my code, the errors it returned were very minor in nature, mostly tags I used that are no longer in the HTML specifications. I really didn't see anything that shoulda thrown up a red flag.
One last thing I should mention...Billy, I hope you aren't offended by my sudden interest in the site's coding. I trust very much that you did a fine job. My interest is not in finding problems with the code. Rather, I'm just trying to do every little thing I can do to make sure nothing stands in the way of this site's growth.