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iatbm
Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 343
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: Do you validate your design ? |
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Do you check your html, xhtml and css through w3c validation checker ?
Do you think that it is important that designs are 100% valid ? |
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seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 1999
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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I check occasionally but not religiously. I do not think that it helps SEO much, but I do think that it serves you. Making a standard compliant html cleans up your html and makes it easier to maintain. _________________ Travel News Online College Degree |
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iatbm
Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 343
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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No it really does not help SEO. It makes html clean I agree but come on if you make target="_blank" .... then you cannot validate your xhtml design. That is stupid, but most rules are  _________________ Soccer Forum
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seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 1999
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| iatbm wrote: | No it really does not help SEO. It makes html clean I agree but come on if you make target="_blank" .... then you cannot validate your xhtml design. That is stupid, but most rules are  |
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<a href="document.html" rel="external">external link</a>
function externalLinks()
{
if (!document.getElementsByTagName)
{
return;
}
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i=0; i<anchors.length; i++)
{
var anchor = anchors[i];
if (anchor.getAttribute("href") &&
anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external")
{
anchor.target = "_blank";
}
}
}
window.onload = externalLinks;
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http://www.sitepoint.com/article/standards-compliant-world _________________ Travel News Online College Degree |
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iatbm
Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 343
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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too much code .... slower site ... not worth just to have valid design _________________ Soccer Forum
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seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 1999
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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| iatbm wrote: | | too much code .... slower site ... not worth just to have valid design | You can put this in an external css code. After that, you can just replace target="_blank" with rel="external". _________________ Travel News Online College Degree |
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rmwebs
Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 71 Location: http://whichbb.com/forum
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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I do yes, however when it comes to having to do it to a forum system i dont as i feel it would be such a complicated task to perform. _________________ http://whichbb.com/forum |
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iatbm
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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unless you use punbb.org It is xhtml/css compliant !
I just cannot show how much I like that piece of software _________________ Soccer Forum
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domainaddicted.com
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 25
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| I check every so often, its really not that important to me. |
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htmlmaster
Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 164
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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I always code to be valid. The first time I did it as a challenge and ever since it's been reflexive. I advise it to everyone because valid sites are usually cross-browser compatible (except for IE because IE just sucks with CSS). _________________ www.nerdcouncil.com - Forums are finally done!!! |
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iatbm
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Yes too many hacks ... and if you want your beautiful site to work with IE validation is not 100% _________________ Soccer Forum
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seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 1999
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| iatbm wrote: | | Yes too many hacks ... and if you want your beautiful site to work with IE validation is not 100% | You can make it work, but you often need to find a workaround and approach html coding a little differently. _________________ Travel News Online College Degree |
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Zerabira
Joined: 01 May 2006 Posts: 105
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| I put a site through a validator once and never returned after seeing all the errors. I've got too much to do without worrying about that right now. Very sloppy I know but I'll worry about it if it becomes an issue. What are the major concerns with not completely compliant code? |
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seo
Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 1999
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Zerabira wrote: | | What are the major concerns with not completely compliant code? |
The site doesn't look consist in different browsers and OSs. _________________ Travel News Online College Degree |
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dojo
Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Romania
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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No. I don't care about this and nor do my clients. I make unique layouts and make sure the sites look very good and function as they should in mozilla firefox and IE. Validating the code is not something I pay too much attention. I don't have the time for this _________________ Webmaster Tips & Tricks - Music forums - Movie forums |
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