&nbsp..... What is this mean?

**hmmm** · November 12th, 2006, 04:17 AM

By using Nvu I have prepared my my first ever web page. Although it looks fine on my IE7 and Firefox browsers I am baffled with this signs of "&nbsp"s. What are they, did I do something wrong?
Also can you please show me exactly where I am supposed to put "key words" in?
Gosh I hope I am making sense....Thank you.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html style="direction: ltr;"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-gb">
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="content-type" />
<META name="description" content="Everything you want to know about your site" />
<META name="keywords" content="keywords, keywords, keywords, keywords" />
<title>Home</title>
</head>
<body>
<img style="width: 419px; height: 73px;" alt=""
src="../../../My%20Pictures/Ayvalik%20Holiday%20House/Logo.jpg" />
           
       
           
       
           
       
           
       
           
       
           
     <a href="turkishhome.html"><img
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 22px; height: 15px;"
alt="Turkish"
src="../../../My%20Pictures/Ayvalik%20Holiday%20House/Turkish%20Flag.jpg" /></a> 

<div
style="text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><a
href="../index.html">Home</a>   <a
href="../aboutus.html">About Us</a>    <a
href="../contactus.html">Contact Us</a>   <a
href="amusement.html">Amusement</a></div>
<h1
style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); text-align: center; line-height: 0%;">Old
stone Greek house for holiday let - Unbiased and free information
service about Ayvalik and surrounding areas.</h1>
<img
style="border: 2px solid ; width: 468px; height: 309px; float: right;"
alt="Ayvalik view from the balcony"
src="../../../My%20Pictures/Ayvalik%20Holiday%20House/Ayvalik%20view%20from%20balcony.jpg"
hspace="15" />Our 100
year old, Greek stone house
is situated in the heart of Ayvalik, gem of the Aegean, Turkey. We are
currently renovating the house for holiday let from April 2007. Ayvalik
is a jewel of a town but if you want to travel further afield, all
within one or two hours distance are the Kaz Mountains; the historical
fortress village of Assos; the battlefields of Gallipoli; the ancient
city of Troy; Kozak; Bergama - home to the amazing site of the city of
ancient Pergammon; Izmir; as well as a wealth of beautiful swimming
areas
and beaches. 
 
<img
style="border: 2px solid ; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); width: 96px; height: 122px; float: left;"
alt="Ergin"
src="../../../My%20Pictures/Ayvalik%20Holiday%20House/Ergin.jpg" /><img
style="border: 2px solid ; color: rgb(51, 51, 255); width: 83px; height: 122px; float: left;"
alt="Shelagh"
src="../../../My%20Pictures/Ayvalik%20Holiday%20House/she.JPG"
hspace="10" />Travel
brochures and holiday websites sell holidays. The pictures and
descriptions of holiday destinations look
truly beautiful but sometimes belie the truth behind the glossy
photographs. We are selling a holiday too but we won’t
embroider
the facts. We will be on hand to guide you and assist you, without
obligation and totally free of any fees, should you require advice and
unbiased information, before and during your holiday AND regardless of
whom you book your holiday with. We will always be
honest about your expectations. To find out more about our philosophy
click on <a href="aboutus.html">about us</a>.
 
 
<img
style="border: 2px solid ; width: 440px; height: 330px;"
alt="Badavut Beach"
src="../../../My%20Pictures/Ayvalik%20Holiday%20House/Badavut.jpg"
hspace="15" /> <img
style="border: 2px solid ; width: 440px; height: 330px;"
alt="My son meditating over Ayvalik view"
src="../../../My%20Pictures/Ayvalik%20Holiday%20House/Thom%20meditating.jpg"
hspace="15" />
 
 
During
our two years in Turkey, we have experienced many bizarre,
frustrating and amusing facets of daily life. To read some of our
experiences please click on to our <a href="amusement.html">amusement</a>
page. We hope that they will make you
smile. We would be happy to hear any comments you may have, good or
bad, or your own Turkish anecdotes. So please <a
href="contactus.html">email</a> and share them with
us then we can publish it. 
As you can sea we
are building our web site so please bear with us....

<div style="text-align: center;">AND
please contact us if you have any questions or require
information ... DON'T forget it is totally FREE and UNBIASED!!! 
</div>
 
<div
style="text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><a
href="../index.html">Home</a>   <a
href="../aboutus.html">About Us</a>    <a
href="../contactus.html">Contact Us</a>   <a
href="amusement.html">Amusement</a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="../index.html"></a> 
</div>
</body>
</html>

**104456** · November 12th, 2006, 06:54 AM

Hi Hmmm perhaps this will clarify it for you

What is  ? Is it needed?
Short Answer
  is the entity used to represent a non-breaking space. It is essentially a standard space, the primary difference being that a browser should not break (or wrap) a line of text at the point that this   occupies.

http://www.sightspecific.com/~mosh/WWW_FAQ/nbsp.html

**hmmm** · November 12th, 2006, 07:23 AM

Thank you for your answer 104456.

Also can you please show me exactly where I am supposed to put "key words" in?

**ecross** · November 12th, 2006, 10:00 AM

Code:

<HEAD>
<TITLE>Sample Title</TITLE>
<META name="description" content="Everything you want to know about your site" />
<META name="keywords" content="keywords, keywords, keywords, keywords" />
</HEAD>

**hmmm** · November 12th, 2006, 10:54 AM

Thank you for your answer ecross.

Can I please Ask you to spare few minutes for me. Is there any chance you could copy and paste your "code" into my above "page code" where it suppose to be in...if you could highlight it too it would be a great help.

Should one put this sort of codes into every page or only the Home page please?

Thank you.

**ecross** · November 12th, 2006, 11:21 AM

Yes, I'll place the code into your post above in bold. If it really matters to you, your page doesn't validate and contains errors. Check out the following link and upload the page.

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/

**hmmm** · November 12th, 2006, 12:42 PM

Thank you so much for your help ecross.
Should one put this sort of codes into every page or only the Home page please?

Well...it is awfull to be REAL NOVICE. Thank you for the link you have provided for me. It is a complete new language for me, I have to study it well.

**Train** · November 12th, 2006, 12:50 PM

Each page will be different.

A google search for HTML tutorials
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=HTML+tutorials

is how I got started.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/ Helped me a lot when I got started. Also bought a html book for quick reference.

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