A valid web site has W3C valid web pages

Valid web page markup is important to every company website

What makes a website valid and why design a web site that validates to W3C standards?

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What is a valid web site? Is a valid web site important? How to validate a web site and why validate?

What makes a valid web page?

Validating a web page is easy. To test a web page for valid markup, simply copy the url (only the www.myvalidwebsite.com - in the address bar), then press the link - to the markup validator and paste the address of the page into the input area. Press "Check" and wait for the results. You might be surprised by the number of professionally designed sites that claim to be W3C valid, that fail validation miserably. With so many graphic artists claiming to be professional web designers, it's not surprising that business owners are confused about what good web site design means. Validate this web page?

If a professional web site design company won't or can't, follow the W3C procedure to design valid web pages for their own site, how much professional credibility can they have? Will they care about the quality of your site? Will your site's search engine ranking and usability really matter to them? Why would you hire a professional web site designer who doesn't play by the rules? Before you do, validate their site. You can validate the first 100 pages of any web site with the WDG HTML Validator service, another free markup validation service. There is no valid reason, that any web designers sites won't validate. Valid web pages are important for good business website design and an accessible web site. If you don't know how to write a good web page, do some basic research to find a web designer who already understands how to write a valid web page.

All SEO web site Designers web pages validate as valid XHTML 1.0. Every web page on every web site we design, is either valid HTML 4.01 or will validate as XHTML 1.0, (even our flash web pages!) When xhtml 2.0 becomes a valid specification, we'll upgrade our site. If you can't design a web site that follows the W3C valid web page design rules, how can you call yourself a professional web site designer?

Please read: What is a website and How a web site finds new customers, before you waste a lot of money building one.

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What is W3C validation? — Does W3C valid web page markup matter?

The World Wide Web Consortium provides very explicit technical specifications for publishing valid web pages. The major search engines rely on valid hypertext markup to crawl, index and rank web pages quickly. Although most don't penalize poorly written web sites very much, they probably should. Web pages that validate will usually be re-visited more often. W3C provides a free html markup validation service to assist web site developers and web site owners maintain valid web pages. If your web site doesn't validate, your web site may be completely inaccessible to people using a specific browser, or that have functional disabilities.

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How many valid web sites are there?

How important is validation? Before writing this web site, our web site design team tried to validate web pages from 100 different professional web site design web sites and search engine optimization or SEO company web sites. Using the search terms; website designers, good web site design and professional web design as search input phrases from several search engines, we performed a validation test on at least the top ten list, for each search phrase.

A valid web site is rare, even among web site designers. We can confirm that less than 10% validate using the FREE, W3C markup validation service. You can validate any web page on any publicly accessible site. As a W3C supporter, our professional credibility is on the line with every site we build, so validation is important to all of us. All our website web pages validate as xhtml 1.0 Strict.

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Using valid CSS on web pages is important

Valid cascading style sheets will allow every browser to display web pages the way they were intended to look. Separating content and style, allows the page to load faster by reducing code bloat. Since CSS1 and CSS2 are already valid W3C recommendations, there is a free css validator from W3C, available for your use. W3C is still working on a new set of specifications for CSS3 that is already available and should soon become a valid recommendation. You can read about CSS3 and some of the important changes by visiting CSS3 Info Site or W3C CSS3 working group for a good explanation. Our CSS3 stylesheets can now be validated automatically.

Valid web pages get good search results

Getting good search results is the goal of every business website. High quality information always gets results. However, if search engines can't understand a web page, they will not give it the ranking it deserves. A good web page is valid, so a good search engine optimizer will ensure that all your pages validate. If you simply want beautiful web pages that only your friends can find, don't worry about validation. If you need a successful web site, make sure it's valid, accessible and provides all the information customers want. That's how a web site finds new customers and becomes profitable.

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Before you make the mistake of designing an award winning web site:

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