Validate Your HTML

[Grinch]

Anyone nowadays can create a website and post it to the net. Programs like Coffecup and Frontpage make it extremely easy to create and publish websites. But does that mean your site falls into the standards set by W3(World Wide Web Consortium). The W3 is the organization that sets the standards for HTML, CSS and other web languages. So to see if your site meets the standards set by the W3 go to this site http://www.w3schools.com/site/site_validate.asp and enter in your URL. It will go through your code and point out any discrepencies. If you can fix these discrepencies you can add a tag to your website letting your visitors know that you put time and effort into your site to make it up to par with the standards set by W3.

Just to let you know, programs like FrontPage will not make your site compliant. FP uses tags and attributes that the W3 does not like. So you will actually have to go into your code and make changes. You can go here http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_reference.asp and learn how to properly use html tags. This will only benefit you as a web page designer. Of course having a program do it for you is always easier then hand typing code but I always think if your going to do it, you might as well do it right.

You can also validate your CSS if you use it.