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jacquie · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject: HTML Validation Service

If you have made a pig's ear of your template you can use this validation service to check over your blog:

http://validator.w3.org

Type in the URL for your blog (not the template)

W3C are the World Wide Web Consortium who produce the standards for HTML and related stuff.

If you get stuck with what the errors mean just ask here.

Tips for changing and validating your template:

1)Only change one thing at a time - there is nothing more frustrating than making a whole bunch of changes and getting a load of error messages and you aren't sure which bits are causing them. If you only change one thing and something goes wrong you don't have far to look for the culprit.

2) One small error can cause alarmingly huge looking problems, but you probably only missed a closing tag or something so it's easy to make it all better again.

3) When validating if you are given more than a 100 errors to put right, again do only a few at a time. This will enable you to focus on just one thing at a time, and fixing one thing can quite often fix a few more that the the first error was causing. Also it's psychologically good for you to revalidate often and see the error count going down satisfactorily.

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