[Mystry]

if you are building a website here is where you can check it for errors wwwconsortium ...and here is where you can find info on this subject... wwwconsortium homepage

[Perna]

Thanks, Mystry! My free HTML authoring software, HTML-Kit from Chami, http://www.htmlkit.com has a built in checker too for while you're working which is nice.

[Mystry]

Cool Perna...humour me and check your site there...pretty please...lol...I checked psych central and it found 117 errors in the code...

[Perna]

The "errors" are just differences in opinion, I think; true errors in code would mean it wouldn't work. There's no site "police" telling you how to make your website :-) The W3C people are just a group of people who have their idea of standardization based on how their members like things and how Microsoft and other big programming groups are making new features work in browsers or not supporting old programming features, etc. There's lots of places that will check sites for you to see if they're one thing or another. I know there are lots of people who write on Web accessibility http://www.skally.net/alinks.html for those who don't see well or have other physical/computer-related problems, too.

[Mystry]

so sorry i asked my friend...

[Perna]

No, I love learning about structure and getting things "right". I'm a stickler for spelling and grammar correctness :-)

http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.ht...idation_basics

I'm taking an XML course at the moment from O'Reilly, the computer "book" people: http://www.oreillyschool.com/ and I like how they teach and the authority they have. They're in a lot of these kinds of groups. Have you read much about the W3C? http://www.w3.org/

I'm glad there are groups like W3C trying to standardize things.