Do you check the spelling of your web content? Do you proofread for grammar errors? Do you check your site for broken links?

Many web designers do all these things regularly on their websites, but they never validate their HTML. This seems odd to me, because while poor grammar and spelling can turn off readers and bad links are also annoying and can cause SEO problems, bad HTML can break your entire page. And I would think that a page that is broken would be even less appealing to most readers than a page with an occasional typo or broken link. There are many reasons why validating your HTML is important, and while the error messages that HTML validators generate can be somewhat obscure at times, it is possible to interpret them so that you can fix your pages.

So, if you're guilty of not validating your HTML regularly, reconsider this and take some time today to validate your HTML. Your site will thank you for it.

Validating Your HTML is Important originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 at 05:39:15.

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