Thanks for the useful post ladynred. This thread will benifit all the newbies.

Well formed and validated websites will also have an impact on SEO. It's obviously not a "make or break" but as we all know every little bit helps!

In my opinion, web standards are guide for an efficient way to create a website to be able to preempt unnecessary errors and faults in the website.

Yes,very good stuff!
Thanks!

I had a hard tme converting all my sites to xhtml and css, but I had to do it because the w3c validator showed a lot of errors on my site

Web standards are definitely important, because it will help search engines to crawl your pages better

quality

I am sending emails But no reply,,, please pm me back

emailing who ?

check out www.dhtmlgoodies.com i thought that was a really cool website for scripts

Has anyone ever actually tried this other than me? This is acid2
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...ne=1&verbose=1
Needs a char type listed, some browsers trigger quirks without it.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...usermedium=all
INVALID CSS!
The still in progress acid3, valid coding, invalid CSS
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/v...usermedium=all
The tests to make sure web browsers display the standards correctly aren't using the standards, so since Opera displays it how they ask it to be displayed it is actually breaking the standards somewhere.

Oh and you forgot just one link (a major one): http://www.w3.org/



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9ice One, please keep it Up.9ice thread.

nice links
thank you very much for the info.
nice

One such standard is w3c .You can check your website on w3c.org and it will tell you what changes you need to make to make it w3c certified website.It will help you in getting better position in search engines .Also it would help to make your website browser independent ie; your website will look exactly the same on every browser once it is w3c validated .

your website will look exactly the same on every browser once it is w3c validated .

Not necessarily, you can have a perfectly valid site and still have a mess cross-browser. There's a LOT more to web standards than just the W3C.

W3c is just a component of web standards which is a larger term ,as far as browser thing is concerned you can check for yourself, once you validate a page on w3c it would look same on every browser ,atleast this is what i have seen.

once you validate a page on w3c it would look same on every browser

Then what you've seen is very limited, because it's simply not true.

Yeah this is always something we should talk up on. For instance.. I always did a break as this:

<br>

But a few months ago I realised it wasn't correct code, so I changed almost all my sites code to:

<br />

The reason for this is because the normal break code doesn't have a end tag so its not valid. By adding the / we make the code valid.

I know this is pretty simple, but it's a perfect example.

- Joby.

The closing on tags like that is only necessary if you're using the XHTML doctype.

Oh really? I was teaching the basics of HTML to someone, the other day and it said on a learning website that the closing tag was needed.

****, I think I just wasted my time.. Lol