Comments on: W3C Markup Results: Some surprising finds

By: Stuart Rutter

Stuart Rutter — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:24:44 +0000

I think it’s a shame that web standards are not more widely adopted. I have worked as a UI developer for the last 9 years and appreciate the intricacies required to write valid code. The biggest surprise for me has been the BBC’s website closely followed by the public sector and universities. I wonder if the results are down to badly published content via CMS systems rather than the HTML framework surrounding the content. Any thoughts!!

By: Paintworkz Web Design

Paintworkz Web Design — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:55:01 +0000

Its really surprising when we find such in the top listed sites. And it always gives up a bad wave ongoing on it.

By: James

James — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:10:13 +0000

Funny that you commented today I was going to play around with XHTML today and at least make a start on the site. I am actually the SEO person but our designer has to many jobs on so I am going to try and develop my skills a little bit. We shall see!

By: Vancouver Island SEO

Vancouver Island SEO — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:43:52 +0000

@James
Ya I know the feeling, I made the switch around 15 months ago and haven’t regretted it since. I only work with Transitional which makes it much easier to get used to. If your debating which go with Transitional as you can use both a rel nofollow tag and a target blank tag. Some links just aren’t worth passing weight, or authority to But one thing is for sure your coding quality will definitely go up as it is much pickier

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Tevine » Post » Validation: Who bothers? — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:41:39 +0000

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By: multippt

multippt — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:36:21 +0000

It is sad to know that many people do not really bother about standards. (Well, at least some do bother.)

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By: James

James — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:46:29 +0000

Yeah we try and keep our main pages valid. Though to be honest its just html 4.01 trans at the moment, we really need to redevelop it with xhtml etc but its all time an money though. You would think some of the companies/organisations would make an effort though, some of them probably have massive budgets for when they develop their websites and it is not THAT hard to make the site valid.

By: Vancouver Island SEO

Vancouver Island SEO — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:27:40 +0000

I’ve always found it humorous how badly coded most sites are. Its almost like there built not to rank, and not to be compatible with anything other then IE. I’ll admit I probably have a few pages that don’t fully validate, but I always try to make a conscious effort to do excessive testing. Cheers.