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Web builder, test your own web yourself

The two strongest reasons for testing your web pages with an html testing and validation program, link checker, and anchor checker prior to making them available to the www community are:

• Your web pages may contain html tag errors or nonstandard tags that would cause them to display improperly on your targeted browser.

• Your web pages may not contain either required or optional html tags that are important to search engines or spiders in the future. Without proper usage of the tags that crawlers search on, your pages may not be listed in future indexes and jump pages: therefore, it won’t be easy for participant to find your web.

If you haven’t created your page on a strict html, syntax-checking authoring system, submit it to one of the online html syntax validation systems or use one or more of the programs found at the following sites.
After you get the report from one of the syntax checkers, revise your web page if necessary. Most of these syntax checkers check for the html 2.0 DTD and html 3.2 DTD. So any tags you use that don’t conform may be marked as errors. If you want to continue to use tags that are specific for certain browsers, do it knowing that your page may not look the way you expect on other browser.
You can check the following links to find html validation checkers, link tester, form tester, syntax checkers, anchor checkers and lots more: http://www.yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/information_and_documentation/data_formats/html/validation_checkers/.