How to Validate an Entire Website – XHTML, CSS, RSS & Links
So you’ve just build your complete website and its almost read to go live…. but have you validated it making sure its compliant to w3c standards?
Where to validate
Of course you can head straight over to the w3c.org website where you can:
But fingers crossed someone has already or they are working on creating an all inclusive validator to do all of these things in one go.
Dont forget to spell check!! I advise you use the default spell checker in what ever software you are using to create your website, another way you could check is by using an online checker such as http://www.wellho.net/demo/spell.php how ever please bare in mind that this is a free service and only checks single pages.
In my travels i also stumbled accross the WDG HTML Validator, which is available at http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ not only can you check a websites validation, you can check to see if the entire site is validating, this is also very hand as one of its features enabled you to see if your internal pages are linking to pages that dont exist.
Why validate?
Well there are many reason too validate, take a look at the following website for an explanation of reasons to validate – click here to read more.
Give it a go, it worked well for me.
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