Comments on: Why You Should Validate Your Website

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:13:13 +0000

I always like to validate my sites as best as possible mainly due to my OCD of everything working properly. I’ve never really thought too much into why I’m doing this but this post has been quite useful to encourage me to carry on doing so! It’s hard work sometimes but definitely worth it.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 23:09:58 +0000

I agree, although it’s hard to prove to SEO guru’s, I found valid pages (especially markup over CSS) always rank better in Google.

I put the main validators available for free over at http://www.webauditapp.com

Adding some SEO reporting too but only validation for now.

By: Trinity Web Group

Trinity Web Group — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:41:25 +0000

Website with W3C validation get better rank in search engines that increases web traffic to your website and increase exposure of your website. Your website will be less affect if browser updates in higher version.

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:52:05 +0000

I’m looking into it. Thanks for the head’s up!

By: L8u8k8e8

L8u8k8e8 — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:59:20 +0000

Don’t know if you knew or not, but this site doesn’t validate anymore. I’m going through the process of validating my site now thanks to articles like this.

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:05:05 +0000

Thanks dani, I’ll give it a shot.

By: dani

dani — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:22:53 +0000

good reasons..
I guess validome.org — another xhtml validator, is a great and more strict..give it a try..

By: mlankton

mlankton — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:40:28 +0000

That’s why I don’t use poll plugins or google search on my site. None of them will validate.
Thanks

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:47:25 +0000

Hi mlankton,

Thanks for the comment m8.

It seems you managed to nab my website while I was fiddling around with the AddThis plugin (which I talk about in a recent article).
It seems their default code doesn’t validate. I fixed it, thanks for the head’s up and the comment!

By: mlankton

mlankton — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:23:33 +0000

This page doesn’t validate

I got my site to validate XHTML 1.0 Strict last week. I served it properly as application/xhtml+xml for a couple of days, but after I was unable to get any of the ads to work in xhtml I went back to serving text/html. Hopefully the advertisers get their act together and start putting out XHTML compliant code.

My css is next. I have like 6 errors in my css, which will be an easy fix. However, I use a couple of Yahoo style sheets for the navigation, and they are full of errors, so my css will never validate with the theme I am using.