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You can look here:
[directory.google.com...]
But if you have Mozilla or even Firebird, you could install Checky and validate against several validators at once.
CSE HTML Validator is excellent, available in a free lite version, and the pro version can do a whole site in a batch mode - and it integrates with Homesite. Recommended. HTH.
Well, some of us do anyway. There have been several discussions about whether to design to standards or not.
W3C validator is what I use for most cases.
Should I worry about these errors?
I didn't know about using a validator until today (just joined here)but have always checked my sites in other browsers. If they view fine and are indexed with the SE's should I fiddle?
Thanks ;)
Not all errors need fixing. If you've got just 8 that is pretty clean code -- though that depends on what the 8 are.
But make sure each time you upload the site you haven't introduced a 9th that will kill the site stone dead. Read:
[webmasterworld.com...]
for a cautionary tale. A fault like that won't show up in search engines (ie them not indexing you) for a month or two.
...absolutely the best?
That's subjective.
If you download a software program that can reformat your code and "fix" it, please take my advice: Don't "automatically" fix anything.
Some might be just typos and therefore very easy to fix. Some might be non-standard, or browser-specific, HTML that can be replaced with some CSS.
Thanks for the input.
Louise
On another note - while the lack of alt tags does not affect how your pages are viewed by browsers it does affect how the SEs evaluate and rank your page.
Back on topic,
Cosmin I just reread your post and you mention that you're looking for a software package - as opposed to an online tool.
Some development tools like Dreamweaver have code checkers built into them. How good they are I cannot say.
That could be serious. If the search engine cannot determine where the <head> ends and the <body> begins then it will fail to index your document properly.
Just do a Google search for >> meta name="content" << to see how any pages with mashed HTML tags can get badly indexed.
