Joomla 1.5 editing head information - html

Question

I was recently brought in to fix up a website that was originally published using Joomla v1.5. There are a few problems regarding the structure of the main page.
I would like to update the doctype to the newer html5 standard from xhtml transitional. Also, on every page of the site, there is a < link > tag that appears before the < head > tag. Does anyone know how I can make these edits?
When I go to edit the template html code, all I see is the following:
<?php
// no direct access
defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );
include_once (dirname(__FILE__).DS.'libs'.DS.'ja.template.helper.php');
if( defined('_DEMO_MODE_') ) {
$tmplTools = JATemplateHelper::getInstance($this, array('ui', JA_TOOL_SCREEN, JA_TOOL_MENU, JA_TOOL_COLOR, 'main_layout', 'direction'));
} else {
$tmplTools = JATemplateHelper::getInstance($this, array('ui', JA_TOOL_SCREEN, JA_TOOL_MENU, 'main_layout', 'direction'));
}
//Calculate the width of template
$tmplWidth = '';
$tmplWrapMin = '100%';
switch ($tmplTools->getParam(JA_TOOL_SCREEN)){
case 'auto':
$tmplWidth = '97%';
break;
case 'fluid':
$tmplWidth = intval($tmplTools->getParam('ja_screen-fluid-fix-ja_screen_width'));
$tmplWidth = $tmplWidth ? $tmplWidth.'%' : '90%';
break;
case 'fix':
$tmplWidth = intval($tmplTools->getParam('ja_screen-fluid-fix-ja_screen_width'));
$tmplWrapMin = $tmplWidth ? ($tmplWidth+1).'px' : '771px';
$tmplWidth = $tmplWidth ? $tmplWidth.'px' : '770px';
break;
default:
$tmplWidth = intval($tmplTools->getParam(JA_TOOL_SCREEN));
$tmplWrapMin = $tmplWidth ? ($tmplWidth+1).'px' : '981px';
$tmplWidth = $tmplWidth ? $tmplWidth.'px' : '980px';
break;
}
$tmplTools->setParam ('tmplWidth', $tmplWidth);
$tmplTools->setParam ('tmplWrapMin', $tmplWrapMin);
//Main navigation
$ja_menutype = $tmplTools->getParam(JA_TOOL_MENU, 'css');
$jamenu = null;
if ($ja_menutype && $ja_menutype != 'none') {
$japarams = new JParameter('');
$japarams->set( 'menutype', $tmplTools->getParam('menutype', 'mainmenu') );
$japarams->set( 'menu_images_align', 'left' );
$japarams->set( 'menupath', $tmplTools->templateurl() .'/ja_menus');
$japarams->set('menu_images', 1); //0: not show image, 1: show image which set in menu item
$japarams->set('menu_background', 1); //0: image, 1: background
$japarams->set('mega-colwidth', 200); //Megamenu only: Default column width
$jamenu = $tmplTools->loadMenu($japarams, $ja_menutype);
}
//End for main navigation
$layout = $tmplTools->getLayout ();
if ($layout) {
$tmplTools->display ($layout);
}

Answer 1

You can edit the template with Tools->Template Manager->check template->Edit->Edit HTML or Edit CSS.
It can be quite scary to do this through an HTML editor, but its available.
To my knowledge you need Super Admin rights for this