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Why you should validate your website and how to do it!
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Sooo, you've got the best looking website in the world, but how can you tell whether it's valid or not? And what does 'valid' even mean? Does it even matter?
What is validation?
Validating your website is the process of ensuring your code complies with the programming standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Why Validate?
Validating your website provides lots of benefits - it's more likely to display in the same way in different browsers and technologies (think PDA and WAP - not just PC and mac!), it means that your content:code ratio is probably higher which is important in search engines, it future-proofs your design to an extent, it's clearer code to make changes to, it makes the content more accessible and the list goes on...
How to Validate
- To validate your (X)HTML - go to http://validator.w3.org/
- To validate your CSS - go to http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
- To validate your website links - go to http://validator.w3.org/checklink/
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