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html coding

by cashtech29
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Hello all.
I have a web page that I have built in Dreamweaver, it looks very nice and is
cross browser friendly.
I've checked it with over 20 different browsers.

When I look at the validation code, the results are pretty bad but is looks very nice across the browsers.

Is this that important?
Can it be easily fixed/

Thanks for any feedback...
#coding #html
  • Profile picture of the author Steven Fullman
    Hi,

    This site:

    The W3C Markup Validation Service

    ...will tell you exactly where, why, and how your HTML is broken...

    Give it a go

    Steve
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    Not promoting right now

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    • Profile picture of the author WareTime
      Try this for fun. Google your keyword. Take the top 10 sites. Run them through the validator. How many of them validate? You can see the importance of valid html.

      That's not to say that complete crap is great, but anything done with any wysiwyg html editor in the last 5 years is perfectly fine. It may not win any awards with the css nazi's, but you'll get ranked just fine.

      As long as the bot can crawl your site, it doesn't matter if it's great html or not. Just search "lynx viewer" You can use one of those to see what the search engine sees. As long as you can read your site and you can navigate the pages, its fine.

      Another plus about the viewer is it's a good way to spot if you are hacked. Sometimes a hacker will put invisible (at least to the viewer with a modern web browser) links. Lynx will show you these. YAP (Yet another plus) is that the page will show you in what order the things appear to the bots. In otherwords, now you'll see why the page titles in your wordpress blog are in all your serp entries, which is also a good reason to make sure you fill in your meta description.

      Sorry to take off on a tangent, but I thought the lynx info was helpful.
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      • Profile picture of the author cashtech29
        No tangent at all...
        Great info.
        So it sounds like I need not be concerned with the small stuff...

        Thanks for the replies...

        EJ
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  • Profile picture of the author Abledragon
    I absolutely agree that 'perfectly formed HTML' is not a necessity for getting indexed and ranked.

    However, I find that it's not that difficult to get validated by the W3C.

    First, and one of the most important steps, is to get your DOCTYPE declaration in sync with the release of HTML you're using (HTML 4, XHTML, etc)

    Second step (at least with CoffeeCup) is to use the 'code cleaner' tool. I don't know Dreamweaver but I assume it has a similar tool.

    Once I've done these two steps I run my page through the validator and I usually get a couple of errors, which the validator will point out to me.

    These errors are almost always because I've forgotten to add a value to a tag. E.G. the title tag.

    I correct those errors, re-run the validator and almost always now get a clean bill of health.

    However, it's absolutely true to say that's not always been the case.!

    In case it's of any interest I wrote a blog post about my initial rude awakening when I first started validating my pages and how I managed to get things straightened out.

    You can find it here:

    http://www.wealthydragon.com/blog/20...ock-this-week/

    Cheers,

    Martin.
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