This Forum Has Been Archived
*Click Here To Visit The NEW Forum*

 

 


What's the purpose a W3C validator icon on my site?

Designing your own website? Need help? Ask your questions and share your favorite resources here... Tables, Forms, Color Scheme & Layout, Scripts, Programs & Resources

Moderators: angienewton, tknoppe, terrapin719, lisamariemary

What's the purpose a W3C validator icon on my site?

Postby lindastacy » Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:19 am

Other than making myself feel validated =D> for getting my web page to validate "no errors," is there any reason to place a W3C "valid icon" on my site? Does anyone besides me care?

(I used some form of of the word "valid" more times in that one sentence than I otherwise used it in the entire last year.) :roll:
User avatar
lindastacy
Moderator
 
Posts: 94
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:54 pm

Re: What's the purpose a W3C validator icon on my site?

Postby lisamariemary » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:24 am

Hmm...that's a good question! Hey guys - anyone got some wisdom to share with us on this?
User avatar
lisamariemary
Elite Member
 
Posts: 754
Joined: Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:29 pm
Location: Alabama

Re: What's the purpose a W3C validator icon on my site?

Postby tknoppe » Sun Jul 12, 2009 10:34 am

Well most folks probably won't have a clue what it means, other than a few geeky types that visit your site. Wouldn't hurt anything to put it on there, but remember, with every new plugin, widget or anything at all new that you add to your site - you have to re-validate your code.
User avatar
tknoppe
Elite Member
 
Posts: 1026
Joined: Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:36 am
Location: Missouri, USA

Re: What's the purpose a W3C validator icon on my site?

Postby cwboaze » Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:59 pm

lol, geeky.

The W3C Valid icon does a couple things.

1. Shows you have a quality site that follows guidelines
2. You follow safe browser methods and code
3. Search engines do see this tag, (link) and give points towards rank
4. Your personal satisfaction
5. The Right to say you have a W3C Validated Website, means a lot in the design/programming world (at least it used too).

Now, I personally have only W3C Validated 2-3 of my sites in the history of developing. (10+ years).

So, I don't see it as too much of a important for a regular website, to do
business or represent information.

Now, if your developing a site for major use, along with networks, and such. You are going to want to validate it, as when making API's and other programs into your system, they almost require validation, to provide safe (bots,programs,systems,scripts).

My Personal Opinion: I couldn't care less about the validation unless it's a very high traffic site and or will be very public. It's overrated!!, now they also offer a W3C CSS Validation, which has some pretty good benefits and I use that validation on 9/10 of the sites/scripts I build.

It's overrated, Period.
User avatar
cwboaze
 
Posts: 71
Joined: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:49 am
Location: Danville, Virginia. USA

Re: What's the purpose a W3C validator icon on my site?

Postby lindastacy » Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:01 pm

That's kind of what I thought.. it probably means more to me than to anyone else. Plus I haven't validated the whole site... just the home page and a couple others.
User avatar
lindastacy
Moderator
 
Posts: 94
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:54 pm

Re: What's the purpose a W3C validator icon on my site?

Postby cwboaze » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:00 am

Here's a example, this was just launched a couple days ago.

http://www.resourcespace.org/index.php

bottom right, on every page. He needs to validate this to spread the word of a safe application.
User avatar
cwboaze
 
Posts: 71
Joined: Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:49 am
Location: Danville, Virginia. USA


Return to HTML, Web Design & Programming

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

cron