I've been creating web pages in my spare time since A-Level IT, which was ooooooh back in '99, maybe earlier. But until now, I've never ensured that they meet standards...
I originally used the wonderful (hah!) Microsoft Word to create pages upon pages of nonsense. I then switched to Macromedia Dreamweaver, with a hint of Flash. Today I still use Dreamweaver, but I take note of the code it produces too, often editing pages in pure a code format.
Some of you may be aware of the W3C, or World Wide Web Consortium. Amongst all their offerings, is the Markup Validation Service, located here. It validates a webpage's markup basically.
Now, before you start checking slickhouse.com and all it's sections, I am aware that most pages don't validate for many reasons. Most.
My latest creation for slickhouse.com is both this blog and the archive. You'll notice to the right I've added a little logo just below the menu - this shows that the blog validates, i.e. there are no errors with the code and it meets standards blah blah blah. Which is nice, seeing as this is a messy hack of the default word press.
The index page of the NEW archive also validates: archive.slickhouse.com. This was a nice surprise, as I'd created it from scratch.
My next task is to ensure that all pages within archive.slickhouse.com validate... and then I'll begin on the rest of slickhouse.com! The index page alone has many errors...
Once you've read this, I recommend a short trip to the archive, as it documents both the history of slickhouse and all past projects.