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Validation

OMGosh I ran a page of my site through a validator. Silly me. It’s bad enough that the page had so many errors, (many of them duplicated ones), but then when I read up on the meaning of the errors… I had to read & reread to understand what was being said. I’m not even sure that I can fix all the errors now that I know they are there.
Thus, for those of you with “validated code” I take my hat off & bow in awe.
Ahhhhhh back to the lessons for me.

This entry was posted on Monday 28th March 2005 at 11:36 by Nikki and is filed under Standards. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Validation”

Comment by Nikki from United States
28th March 2005 at 11:38
I see I forgot to click on Standards which is where this post was meant to go.
Comment by Jewel from Great Britain (UK)
28th March 2005 at 17:12
I’ll move it for you
That is the whole reason for using css and xhtml nowadays. It is a whole lot easier to validate than with old-fashioned sites. I had to completely re-code JWG last year, as all the old stuff would never have validated in a month of sundays. It may be easier to start again with a simple css layout, and just copy and paste your content in after removing all font tags etc. I actually used Dreamweaver to strip out all the formatting from the content that I wanted to move. I will check whether any free editors also do this, if you havent got Dreamweaver. I dont actually use Dreamweaver anymore now myself, as I am much taken with HTML-Kit, a free editor. If that will do the job, you can download it here:
HTML-Kit
Scroll down for the download link in the left column.

PS: When validating, start at the first error that appears, and fix that. Many others that follow will be linked to that, and should disappear as well. Keep going until all errors go. Also, tell the validator to show source, ( it arrives at the bottom of the page). That way, you can track down the problems, line by line. Very often, dozens of errors can be fixed by simply adding a forgotten close tag, or something equally simple.
Comment by *Kerry* from Great Britain (UK)
29th March 2005 at 21:15
LOL Tell me about, I always check my pages in ace html validator and uurgghh terrible, lol. I also once tried the css validator and didn’t understand a blooming word, lol, getting there though.

kerry xx
Comment by Jewel from Great Britain (UK)
30th March 2005 at 19:35
Exactly, Kerry. It is terribly daunting at first, as I can personally testify, but perseverance brings it’s own rewards…..honestly….
Oh, by the way, what do you think of AceHtml? I downloaded it ages ago, but never actually got round to using it, as I subsequently discovered HTML-Kit. Can it clean up your code for you? Say you have an old page that you want to convert, and you want to strip out all the formatting tags to put them into a stylesheet. Will it do that? Dreamweaver is pretty good for that sort of stuff, I must admit.