Should You Validate Your Web Site?

You often hear how important it is that your site validates according to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). What the W3C does, it provides guidelines for valid web design. These guidelines also maximize you website's potential to appear properly in browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

The validator doesn't ensure that your page will view correctly, but it does ensure that you are using the correct syntax on you pages, whether it be html or css. Incorrect syntax may work fine in IE, but it could cause problems with other browsers such as Mozilla or Netscape.

Validated source code often tends to look neater, if anyone is viewing your source code for any reason.

However, correct mistakes can take significant time, particularly for beginners. For this reason, you may decide to simply test your pages in a wide variety of browsers to ensure cross-compatibility and usability.

If you would like to validate your website (even if just to check, and not to correct any problems at this time), you can check both your HTML pages as well as any Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) you use.

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