Why You Should Validate Your Website.

It is very inportant to validate your website because it helps in many ways. From making it load right / the same in all browsers to helping you in the SEO area.
What exactly is validation? It's the process of checking the syntax of your HTML code to find places where you've violated the rules of the language. The official rules for writing HTML are defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Those rules include strict definitions stating which HTML and tags are legitimate parts of the language, and how you should structure your HTML and CSS documents.

Here i provide some essential tools for validatign your website :

1. W3C Markup Validation : This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc. If you wish to validate specific content such as RSS/Atom feeds or CSS stylesheets, MobileOK content, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools available.


2.W3C CSS Validation : This service will validate your CSS. If you want to validate your CSS style sheet embedded in an (X)HTML document, you should first check that the (X)HTML you use is valid.


3.Feed Validation : This tool will validate all versions of RSS feeds as well as Atom feeds. This will ensure that readers will not have problems while receiving your feed.


4.[Firefox] Web Developer Toolbar : The Web Developer toolbar extension for Firefox has tools to check HTML and CSS validation. You can use this addons on a daily basis.


5.[Browser Independent] W3C Validator Favelets : A quick and easy way to give just about any major browser a way to validate HTML and CSS is by using favelets. Favelets are bookmarked snippets of JavaScript to add extra functionality.

6.Development Editor : Most development editors offer validation tool. Adobe Dreamweaver is my editor of choice and it provides validation tools.


So validating your pages is a wise precaution, particularly if you write the HTML and CSS code by hand. Clean, well-written HTML,CSS is important if you want to ensure a good search engine ranking. It also helps guarantee that your page will be displayed properly on older, or more obscure browsers that are less forgiving.