Why Does Valid HTML Code Matter?

[bargainbloodhound]

Learning to use valid html code is one of those website building techniques you decide to use. It is a big step requiring the use of validators, doctype declarations and often lots of extra work.

Benefits of valid HTML Code

* Valid code renders faster than invalid code!
* Valid code will render better than invalid code!
* Browsers are becoming more standards compliant, and therefore it is important to write valid standards compliant HTML.
* The search engines understand better/prefer standards compliant code!

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[mandy]

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