It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted anything new under the Question and Answers with GrandmasterB category, but today I received a great question in my inbox that I had to share with you all. The email was from my good pal Mike Cusden (you all know him as Cuzzy) from Cuzoogle. He had run his site through the Markup Validation script at http://validator.w3.org/ and it came back with quite a few errors and warnings, his question follows:

Hey GrandmasterB, I ran my site through the Markup Validator and it came back with a ton of errors. Are any of these errors fixable? And is it something that’s relatively easy to fix?

My first reaction was one of surprise, because every theme that I design and develop is run through to make sure that the code is 100% XHTML compliant before turning it over to the client. After taking a look at the output from the validator I could see exactly what the issue was and what needed to be fixed. For reference, I have pasted a copy of the report link here for you to follow along.

The problem that Cuzzy is having is that his theme code isn’t the problem, it’s the advertising code that he’s placed on the site. If you look at the errors that appear on the Markup Validation page, you’ll notice that the first error states the following:

Line 15, Column 107: cannot generate system identifier for general entity “MarketPlace”.
…om/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822/US/cuzoogle- 

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I skipped the Q&A last week in order to get some good questions rolling in the door and to find a good day of the week to commit to the feature post. I’ve settled on Thursdays for the Q&A with GrandmasterB feature; since it allows me to get things caught up over the weekend and more time to put together a clear and concise answer. Don’t forget to send me your questions and if your question is published you’ll get a free linkback from GrandmasterB and 100 EntreCard credits for your bankroll. Now onto the question for this week.

My boy Cuzzy (Cuzoogle.com) wrote me an email the other day asking me the following question:

I have recently started a new blog and want to set up a google site map. I downloaded the plugin and activated it but I am still having trouble getting my site map to work. It says I need to make sure the file is writeable and this was where I got lost. Can you help?

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