Most of the people want to popularise their site. but they forget the website standard and they might not be aware of drawbacks. Having a website with international standard is one way to popularise the organization.

What is w3c?

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the Internet. Complying with W3C standards is voluntary, but failing to do so can result in serious penalties from the major Search Engines.

What is Validation?

Validation is a process of checking your documents against a formal Standard, such as those published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for HTML and XML-derived Web document types, or by the WapForum for WML, etc. It serves a similar purpose to spell checking and proofreading for grammar and syntax, but is much more precise and reliable than any of those processes because it is dealing with precisely-specified machine languages, not with nebulously-defined human natural language.

It is important to note that validation has a very precise meaning. Unfortunately the issue is confused by the fact that some products falsely claim to “validate”, whilst in fact applying an arbitrary selection of tests that are not derived from any standard. Such tools may be genuinely useful, but should be used alongside true validation, not in place of it.

Why Validate?

Well, firstly there is the very practical issue that non-valid pages are (by definition) relying on error-correction by a browser. This error correction can and does vary radically across different browsers and versions, so that many authors who unwittingly relied on the quirks of Netscape 1.1 suddenly found their pages appeared totally blank in Netscape 2.0. Whilst Internet Explorer initially set out to be bug-compatible with Netscape, it too has moved towards standards compliance in later releases. Other browsers differ further.

How do I use this service?

Most probably, you will want to use the online Markup Validation service. The simple way to use this service to validate a Web page is to paste its address into the text area on the validator’s home page, and press the “Check” button.

Url for validate your website :

http://validator.w3.org/

After clicking the check button if you get an error in your page, you will see an error message of “Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Strict!” in red color, else you will get a message lke “This document was successfully checked as HTML 4.01 Strict!” in green color. Along with error message they will give suggestion, like actual syntax for the error – you can easily rectify these errors.

check the below url which has been already validated with w3c validator with zero error.

http://www.ipott.com/jsp/newsLetter.jsp
http://www.ipott.info/
http://www.ipott.in/

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