| W3C stands for World Wide Consortium. The mark | | | | - Your web page would be easily accessed through |
| up validation service as provided by W3C allow the | | | | different devices like PC's, laptops, PDA's,cellular |
| users to check HTML documents that they are up to | | | | phones etc. |
| the mark of HTML or XHTML standards. It provides | | | | - Validation is one of the simplest way to check that |
| guidelines to the web designers to make a very | | | | website is built up as per web standards. It ensures |
| structured website that should be cross browser | | | | that current and future browsers will handle it as it is |
| compatible. | | | | designed without any mismatch. |
| Everyone talk and ask for W3C validation of XHTML | | | | - It also make the web pages easy to be maintained. |
| web pages, but No one actually understands the | | | | - Not only for expert web professional, but it is also |
| importance of it. Let's know why your web pages | | | | very helpful for freshers in web designing world as |
| should be W3C XHTML standards compliant: | | | | validation also checks mark up errors.HTML is the |
| - If your web pages are W3C compliance, then your | | | | basic web language. All the other web programming |
| website would be easily accessed by your potential | | | | ASP.Net, PHP etc. result into HTML page which is the |
| customers. | | | | end product reaching to the users. Some HTML |
| - User Experience will be improved. Always | | | | statements which look correct on Laptop browser |
| remember, if your customers enjoy navigating | | | | may not look correct on mobile browsers. Here |
| through your website, then you are going to be | | | | where the problem arises. So, XML Mark up is where |
| benefited in some or the other way. But if your user | | | | everything is marked up very correctly. We can say |
| has poor experience with website, then you will be | | | | that HTML is for displaying data and Mark up is for |
| into big loss. | | | | describing data. In today's when there are so many |
| - W3C validation would minimize the amount of | | | | browsers available in the market. Some browsers run |
| coding on your pages thereby emphasizing the | | | | on computers, laptops but not on mobile phones. So, |
| content. Hence it would increase your chances of | | | | mobile phones do not catch up a bad mark up and |
| getting indexed and come into top search rankings. | | | | your page would not be accessible to them. Web |
| As, spiders crawl on web pages with relevant | | | | professionals always go W3C validation for achieving |
| content. | | | | results today and tomorrow. |