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important when it comes to working with these programs.<br />
Future-Proofing.<br />
Before your code will validate, you need to explicitly say which version of<br />
HTML you had in mind when you created it. This future-proofs your code, as<br />
each version of the standard doesn't change once it's been decided on: a<br />
valid XHMTL 1.1 page will always be a valid XHTML 1.1 page, even if everyone<br />
else has moved on to XHTML 5. Once you've validated your site once, you<br />
can put it on the web and be confident that people are going to be able to<br />
read it for a long time to come.<br />
Finding Errors.<br />
If there's a mistake in your website's code, validation gives you an easy way<br />
to track it down and fix it. Before validation, people had to test their site after<br />
each change and look carefully to make sure that nothing had gone wrong.<br />
Writing valid code lets you use programs that will examine what you've<br />
written and point at the exact place where the code doesn't validate.<br />
A List of Validators.<br />
Here are a few validators that you can try. Most HTML validators are online,<br />
but there are a few that you can download and use on your own computer.<br />
The W3C validator: http://validator.w3.org.<br />
The WDG validator: www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator<br />
CSE validator: www.htmlvalidator.com (downloadable)<br />
You might also be interested in visiting the W3C's main site at www.w3c.org,<br />
as well as the Web Standards Project at www.webstandards.org.<br />
Chapter 14: Content Management Software.<br />
If all this talk of coding and designing scares you off, you might want to know<br />
that there is an alternative to all this. You can install a kind of software called<br />
a Content Management System (CMS) that allows you to put content up on<br />
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