Validate Your Code in 3 Easy Steps

The mark-up validator has been updated.

This is good news for all of us in the ongoing pursuit to ensure our code validates.

The new Mark-Up validator allowed me to validate an URL or a file-upload, plus has a ‘direct-input’ field where text can be copied-and-pasted too. These are certainly going to beneficial.

Yes, the former two options are included with Chris Prederick’s extension – but there are locations where it is not available – therefore the w3.org validator is surely the easiest option to use!

For those who check their links work, the W3 now have a Link Checker.

This is a great service that allows you to ensure that all URL’s are correctly encoded plus link to actual websites. I can recall a time when this was a serious problem to one of my early attempts at web design!

The number one validation service at W3C is the CSS Validator.

This service has no-doubt proved invaluable to many web-designers around the world.

Amazingly, they also provide a service that combines a Server Log analysis engine with batch validation, link checking and other quality-oriented processing, for step-by-step improvement and maintenance of Web Site Quality.