Note: Before you comment, please read my posts and pages. That way you will not waste your time. If you absolutely feel the need to post how much you do not care I suggest you post those feelings in your own personal website rather than leaving a comment here expressing those very feelings. Your comment is just as pointless as you claim this website to be.
Also, when I post a list, the websites are in fact not valid. If the webmaster chooses to fix their code to make their website valid that is fantastic. But rest assured when I posted your website on here it was not valid, or I would not have posted it. It is really very simple. I would take screencaps but I do not have the time or patience for that.
July 18, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Your website would be so much more funnier if you had an *actual* stamp to display. Just a suggestion. :)
July 18, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Most of the websites in this list are using pre-made themes that would have been valid before each of the site owners added their own code and whatnot to them.
The validation links in the footer are only there because the theme makers put them there, not because the site owners think their sites are valid.
You should look into that.
July 19, 2008 at 12:54 am
Like a big, fat FAIL sign Rachael? I’d totally go for that! :D
July 19, 2008 at 10:28 am
Yes, Lucy, just like that! Because, you know… a plain ol’ list doesn’t really have enough impact. If the owner of this website is “naming and shaming” people, well, they’ve got the naming part sorted… they just need to emphasise on the shame part.
July 22, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Hey! Thanks!
(I always tend to keep going back to check and make sure that my coding is validated – but I haven’t recently)
Its always those damn input fields that I forget to put the / in!
But I do have to disagree with Rachael. Not like validation is the end-all be-all of web development.. So there’s really no shame in not having a valid site, especially if someone isn’t using their own layout and just have uploaded a pre-made theme. It’s not the site owners fault that the original author didn’t validate (unless of course the site owner butchered the layout themselves, which I know many of them tend to do).
But yeah, thanks for linking to me and letting me know about that! I’d probably not have noticed it for a while otherwise!
July 23, 2008 at 10:38 am
Whitters: ahem that was S-A-R-C-A-S-M.
July 23, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Vera: And I’m somehow not allowed to disagree with sarcasm? Or state my own opinion? And even if it was sarcasm, considering both of her comments on the subject, it doesn’t seem very likely. Sarcasm is a tricky thing – it doesn’t translate well over the Internet since one cannot see the authors expression/hear their tone of voice.
July 23, 2008 at 2:51 pm
[...] it was causing about 111 validation errors and apparently that’s like, really, really important to some anonymous people on the internet. [...]
July 24, 2008 at 5:19 pm
No, but LYING is shameful… It doesn’t matter if you’re using a premade. If the premade was invalid from the start, the loud, proud, valid link shouldn’t be there. And if the premade was valid and you butchered it, you should be able to take out the “valid” link by yourself, no?
July 24, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Do you honestly not have anything better to do?
*laughs*
Thanks for the plug. I honestly don’t particularly care whether my site is valid or not. I have more important things to deal with in my life at the moment than making sure my xhtml is perfect and my site loads in every browser known to man.. you know, such as making sure my mentally ill mother is okay, and mourning the death of a family member.
*rolls eyes*
July 25, 2008 at 1:29 am
Oh, I agree with you there. I just think that most people who are downloading premade themes… The validation link is pretty much the last thing on their mind. I fully support people pointing this out (just as this site is doing). Some people, however, take it too far and act like a non-valid site makes you a horrible web developer.
I guess I just fail to see how someone making a mistake which causes errors (for example, my 10 errors were caused by one misplaced /) automatically makes them a liar because they have the validation link. Its not like these people are touting around like “I have a valid website!” everywhere they go.. Its usually a link that’s barely even noticeable.
But yeah, just my $0.02.
Oh, P.S. I think one of your noscript tags is messing up your validation. I know you don’t have the valid link up on your page, but I thought you might like to know (its only 2 errors, should be fixed pretty easily). :)
July 25, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I don’t have the link up because I don’t see the point. People should just automatically make their markup valid by standard. I do know that I have errors, though, they’re on my big to-do list. ;)
July 25, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Wow. Lame.