The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) validators and tools

The Basics – what you should run on all your web pages. And this is exactly I am doing for websites I’ve created. I do not use these tool for a TRU Open Learning. The site is built using ACM software and code is not valid. But it worth to check code inside acm panel. Small flaws in code can bring a big problem. For example, old em tag especially when it’s not closed made some pages pushed down the screen.

  1. The MarkUp Validator. – Also known as the HTML validator, it helps check Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML, SVG or MathML.
  2. The Link Checker – Checks anchors (hyperlinks) in a HTML/XHTML document. Useful to find broken links, etc.
  3. The CSS Validator – validates CSS stylesheets or documents using CSS stylesheets.

The above three can be used all-in-one by running the Log Validator. Unlike the others, this tool helps improve the quality of a whole site, step by step, by finding the most popular documents that need to be fixed in priority.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 10th, 2009 at 12:12 pm .