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Author: iatbm
Post Subject: Do you validate your design ?

Do you check your html, xhtml and css through w3c validation checker ?

Do you think that it is important that designs are 100% valid ?
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Author: seo
Post Subject:

I check occasionally but not religiously. I do not think that it helps SEO much, but I do think that it serves you. Making a standard compliant html cleans up your html and makes it easier to maintain.
Author: iatbm
Post Subject:

No it really does not help SEO. It makes html clean I agree but come on if you make target="_blank" .... then you cannot validate your xhtml design. That is stupid, but most rules are Wink
Author: seo
Post Subject:

quote:
Originally posted by iatbm
No it really does not help SEO. It makes html clean I agree but come on if you make target="_blank" .... then you cannot validate your xhtml design. That is stupid, but most rules are Wink
code:

<a href="document.html" rel="external">external link</a>

 function externalLinks()
{
    if (!document.getElementsByTagName)
    {
        return;
    }
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
    for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++)
    {
        var anchor = anchors[i];
        if (anchor.getAttribute("href") &&
            anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external")
        {
            anchor.target = "_blank";
        }
    }
}
window.onload = externalLinks;


http://www.sitepoint.com/article/standards-compliant-world
Author: iatbm
Post Subject:

too much code .... slower site ... not worth just to have valid design
Author: seo
Post Subject:

quote:
Originally posted by iatbm
too much code .... slower site ... not worth just to have valid design
You can put this in an external css code. After that, you can just replace target="_blank" with rel="external".
Author: rmwebs
Post Subject:

I do yes, however when it comes to having to do it to a forum system i dont as i feel it would be such a complicated task to perform.
Author: iatbm
Post Subject:

unless you use punbb.org Wink It is xhtml/css compliant !
I just cannot show how much I like that piece of software
Author: domainaddicted.com
Post Subject:

I check every so often, its really not that important to me.
Author: htmlmaster
Post Subject:

I always code to be valid. The first time I did it as a challenge and ever since it's been reflexive. I advise it to everyone because valid sites are usually cross-browser compatible (except for IE because IE just sucks with CSS).
Author: iatbm
Post Subject:

Yes too many hacks ... and if you want your beautiful site to work with IE validation is not 100%
Author: seo
Post Subject:

quote:
Originally posted by iatbm
Yes too many hacks ... and if you want your beautiful site to work with IE validation is not 100%
You can make it work, but you often need to find a workaround and approach html coding a little differently.
Author: Zerabira
Post Subject:

I put a site through a validator once and never returned after seeing all the errors. I've got too much to do without worrying about that right now. Very sloppy I know but I'll worry about it if it becomes an issue. What are the major concerns with not completely compliant code?
Author: seo
Post Subject:

quote:
Originally posted by Zerabira
What are the major concerns with not completely compliant code?

The site doesn't look consist in different browsers and OSs.
Author: dojo
Post Subject:

No. I don't care about this and nor do my clients. I make unique layouts and make sure the sites look very good and function as they should in mozilla firefox and IE. Validating the code is not something I pay too much attention. I don't have the time for this
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