Is your website valid?

I was trying to improve my site recently, after reading a post at Scribbling.net called "Nine things you can do to make your web site better." That lead me to wondering if the html code to my site was valid. First off when a web browser looks at your website the first line it reads tells it what to do with all other lines of html it reads. In that first line you will find ...w3.org... And this got me wondering what happens when search for that web address myself? Well, w3.org leads you to the "World Wide Web Consortium." The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.* This is were I found a link to their validator. Boy was I in for a surprise! After entering my URL into the validator it came back with over 200 errors! I have since corrected all errors and can gladly say that this site is W3C approved and VALID! Why is this important? In order for any website to function like the web designer intended, the html code must contain no errors. If there is even one error, web browser "A" will show the site one way and web browser "B" will show it differently. Which can be frustrating for visitors to your site. For example, links not working, text not showing up properly(seeing only the top/bottom half of any text), text smashed together and not readable and the list goes on. So if you have a website you might want to run it past the validator and make sure your visitors can read your site no matter what web browser they are using. If you have any questions about your findings leave a comment with your URL and email address and maybe I can help you fix your site. *excerpt for the W3C site.