by 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.