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What is a valid web site ?
Is a valid web site important ?
How to validate a web site or
why validate?
Before writing this
valid site , our
business designers attempted to
validate web pages
from 100 different
professional web site design and
search engine optimization or
SEO firms .
Using the search terms;
website designers ,
design good web sites and
professional web design as
search input phrases in several search engines , we performed
a formal validation test on at
least the top ten list , for each search phrase
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SERP )s, from each
search engine.
A valid website is rare , even among website designers.
How many valid web sites are there?
We are not surprised to confirm that
less than 10% validate
using the FREE,
W3C markup validation service . You can
validate any web page on any publicly accessible site !
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
claiming 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
so confused about
what good web site design actually means .
Validate this web page?
If
a professional web site design firm 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 results 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 also validate
the first 100 pages of any
website 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 necessary for
good website design and
an accessible website .
All SEO Website Designers
web pages validate as
valid XHTML 1.0 .
Every web page on every website we design, will validate as either
valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0, (even our
flash media webpages!) If you can't design a website that follows
the W3C valid web page design rules , how can you call yourself
a professional web site designer ?
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The World Wide Web Consortium provides
very explicit technical specifications for publishing
valid web pages . Most major
search engines rely on proper hypertext markup to crawl, index and rank pages quickly
and easily. Although most don't penalize poorly written websites very much, they
probably should.
Web pages that validate will usually be re-visited more often.
W3C provides a
free html markup validation to assist website
developers and website owners maintain valid sites.
Without valid web pages, your website may be completely inaccessible to people using
specific browsers , or that have
functional disabilities .
Valid cascading style sheets will allow each browser to
display web pages the way they were intended to look . Since
CSS1 and CSS2 are already valid W3C
recommendations , there is
a free validator for css from w3c , available
for your use. W3C is still working on
a new set of specifications for CSS3
that will hopefully be available soon. You can read about CSS3 and some of the
important changes by visiting
CSS3 Info Site for a good explanation.
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The more sophisticated the search engine, the more important
valid pages on your website becomes. Every search engine
organization is working to constantly improve
the quality of their search results .
Websites that have
too many markup errors are already being
de-indexed by some search engines
and dropped from their databases.
In the future,
invalid , poor quality websites could lose ranking position in
dramatic fashion.
Valid web sites are very simple for search engines to crawl,
index and rank.
Validated web site design is your assurance of
longevity at the top of the search results. You can't begin to
solve your customers' problems , if they can't
find your business information pages on a search engine results page!
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SERP
You should note
that
some search engines , place little
value on valid web pages . In our opinion,
this violates the premise that the world wide web
was built on.
However, others appear to place a high value on valid markup and give bonus ranking points
for properly written, valid pages . Someday,
Google may actually start to follow their
own webmaster guidelines and put some real effort into
formal, valid markup verification for their page ranking
algorithm. But don't hold your breath!
Should wish to follow a step-by-step process for cleaning up an invalid site,
see the W3C
recommendations for fixing invalid websites .
A W3C standards compliant web site has some
surprising benefits.
A valid site is easier to maintain ,
upgrade, expand and therefore far less costly in the long term. Operating costs in
terms of bandwidth usage, are lower due to increased efficiency. Using valid markup
allows
any competent person to
maintain the site validation .
A valid foundation means you're not dependant on any one service provider
to maintain the site. Valid web pages load faster because the web browser doesn't
need to compensate for poor page code. This can really
help visitors to navigate around your site more quickly.
A user friendly website is simply,
good business .
Most company web sites are designed,
re-designed and then re-designed again. Each time a new designer uses invalid markup ,
the process starts from scratch, or the site gets less
usable and accessible with each re-write. Insisting that your
site be
written in valid html markup , has the
important meta tags and
good links , is
always a good business site decision . If
your site doesn't validate ,
a professional business web designer didn't build it.
To put valid markup into perspective :
If your company purchased
a newspaper ad and the only words
spelled correctly were
the company name and the business owner's name , you would certainly refuse to
pay for the ad .
Then why would you pay a web designer who can't write a properly spelled
web page , when it can continue
to embarrass your company for years?
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