Title: Doc type
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# Doc type
* [hairball](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hairball/)
* (@hairball)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doc-type/)
* I’m new to WP and theme design. I would like to know best Doc type to use for
wordPress XHTML Transitional or XHTML Strict ?
* Also, I was looking at [this tutorial](http://www.cypherhackz.net/archives/2006/12/13/make-your-own-wordpress-theme-part-1/)
and been trying to figure out a 3 column w/footer that was designed using Style
Master CSS Editor.
* ```
intheholler
here is the header
(left column)
(right column)
here is the main content
```
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* [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
* (@moshu)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doc-type/#post-623395)
* Transitional is more than enough for you.
* Don’t sweat with third party layouts.
Start with dissecting 2-3-10 existing
themes until you understand how they work. [http://themes.wordpress.net](http://themes.wordpress.net)
* Also, see: [Theme_Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
* [cevarorm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cevarorm/)
* (@cevarorm)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doc-type/#post-623595)
* OK I’m taking your advice and using Transitional.
* **BUT**
* After doing the tutorial [here](http://www.cypherhackz.net/archives/2006/12/13/make-your-own-wordpress-theme-part-1/)
I found that there were error in the code and the way the pages are structured
don’t seem right. For someone just learning this is **not** a very good tutorial!
* Me being a noob really wouldn’t recommend this tutorial to anyone to follow.
* Is there a tutorial thats like the default template for Word Press ?
* example is all this necessary ? :
* `Tag Archive
for archive Search for at - `
* [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
* (@root)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doc-type/#post-623596)
* Well it must do something 🙂
* [cevarorm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cevarorm/)
* (@cevarorm)
* [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doc-type/#post-623597)
* 🙂 your bright… 50 – 60 watts
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