Comments for Your Site Is Not Valid

Comment on 01 by Kristine

Kristine — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:34:02 +0000

Whoopie, I fixed the one itsy bitsy error that invalidated my site. Thanks for the heads up. (a little late)

Anyhoo, thanks for the linkage! :-)

Comment on 05 by Rachael

Rachael — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:31:51 +0000

Try browsing a different circle of blogs and you’ll soon find more invalid sites. :)

Comment on 04 by Success

Success — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:39:18 +0000

Keep up the great work. Once you are done here I suggest you take on the spelling errors of the internets. They’re a few and could really use your help.

Comment on 04 by Joe

Joe — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:39:05 +0000

Your latest post has a broken link (kitta.net.) Fortunately for you, broken links don’t throw an error in the validator.

Comment on 03 by Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:07:08 +0000

Wow. Lame.

Comment on 03 by Rachael

Rachael — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:48:25 +0000

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. ;)

Comment on 02 by Angela

Angela — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:31:28 +0000

Too bad my site doesn’t say it’s valid. It just has a link to the XHTML and CSS at the bottom. Nice try though :).

Comment on 03 by Whitters

Whitters — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:29:57 +0000

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?

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). :)

Comment on 03 by Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:23:19 +0000

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*

Comment on 03 by Rachael

Rachael — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:19:54 +0000

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.

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?