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If the world was ideal, we would never make mistakes when creating or editing a web page. Many things can and do go wrong, however, and all web page preparers experience these problems. If your bear with it, and learn to solve these problems correctly, you actually will learn better word processing skills! Frequently, the problems stem from being in a rush and not doing things properly, reasoning that "I will get back to that."

What we need to develop is good recovery skills. This involves the ability to analyze the problem and fix it. In this page, I will discuss both. In any case, it is usually advisable that you use the browser's View/Source or Word's Edit/View Source to review the codes and analyze what is there very carefully. It is not at all unusual to have several windows open at the same time. In one window, you run a browser and open your web page. in a second window, you open a text preparation tool so that you can work on your source code. If you use Word, you will still occasionally have to look directly at your source code.

When looking at your source code, it is a good idea to fix it so that all tags start a new line. This makes the whole think more humanly readable, even though it means nothing to the browser. It is especially helpful when looking for tag on/off pairs, but also some of the tags will have long attributes which push text off the screen to the right. It is hard to analyze what you cannot see. This is what I mean when I say think vertically.