Why Validate?

So why do I put a validate link on my pages? Is it to show how well made my pages are? Hardly. It's a quality control system. It checks that my markup is valid XHTML and ensures I haven't forgotten to close any tags or included any proprietory markup. It doesn't check my speeling or grammar, but shows that I care about any surfers that have slinked over to any of my sites.

Ok, not all my sites validate. MacIDOL has more errors than I can count. It's a combination of my "just-get-it-working" mantra that drove me to build it within my limited free time and I didn't know any better...

My enlightenment means that what I once considered great; now just grates me. Not a reflection on the hundreds of amazing artists that freely share their music. Just a damnation of my sloppy coding. Now I have seen the light, I can't wait to start giving MacIDOL a Web Standards makeover. A redesign to Web Standards will make the pages load faster, they will be a lot easier to maintain and I hope the artists and music lovers will get more from the site.

The proposed changes will not be a 5 minute job. I want to introduce some really cool new features and the jamroom system, needs more than just a few tweaks to get it, complying with all rules of Strict XHTML. The site and artists deserve it though and I won't get a horrible polystyrene scrape whenever I view source. I plan to cover the forthcoming changes at this site, so stay tuned and in the meantime, fill up your iPod with some fantastic music, and what ever you do, do not pass it through the W3C's validator.... Thanks

Validate your markup (if you dare)