Do you Validate your website's pages for errors?

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Hi Warriors,

What i've noticed recently, is the fact that many people do not validate their website pages.

And I am trying to understand why?

For those who are unfamiliar with what validating a web page (ie validating your HTML or CSS code) means, it basically refers to using a program or an online service to check that the web page that you created is free of errors.

In particular, an HTML validator checks to make sure the HTML code on your web page complies with the standards set by the W3 Consortium (the organization that issues the HTML standards).

There are various types of validators - some check only for errors, others also make suggestions about your code, telling you when a certain way of writing things might lead to (say) unexpected results.

The W3 Consortium has its own online validator which you can use for free.

It may be found at: The W3C Markup Validation Service

A CSS validator checks your Cascading Style Sheets in the same manner; basically, most will check them to make sure that they comply with the CSS standards set by the W3 Consortium.

There are a few which will also tell you which CSS features are supported by which browsers (since not all browsers are equal in their CSS implementation).


So why don't you validate your pages?
#site #validation #w3c
  • Profile picture of the author Quentin
    To be honest Shlomi just too hard as it all changes. Now there is going to be html 5 and all the other systems so compliance just gets to take too much time.

    Also IE does not comply to the standards much especially IE 6

    If you use things like Wordpress etc they mostly comply and so will work with the changes anyway so just let them do all the work.

    Quentin
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  • Profile picture of the author Stefan Vee
    Hi Shlomi,

    I do. ALWAYS!

    The reason why IMO many webmasters don't is because they never learned html, so they don't care about it and/or aren't able to correct a detected problem.
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  • First, Validating your pages fix many of the cross browser issues, I am not saying that it fix all, if you built your site wrong, i mean, design, placement of site elements, etc... it wont help.

    But it does fix most of the HTML and CSS errors. and it is tested.

    You say that there are many validators out there, yes its true, but will you use a coding language that only small portion of the browsers know how to read, or you will use a well known standard that most of the browser agreed to follow? W3C is a standard!!!

    And about making money, It is also a known fact, that SE prefer clean pages with no errors, if you can rank higher, you're more likely to be noticed by potential customers, so i just do the math:

    clean site + love from SE = better chances to get in front of the eyes of more potential customers = $$$$

    That's my opinion.

    Shlomi
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