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How to Validate an Entire Website - XHTML, CSS, RSS & Links

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

So you’ve just build your complete website and its almost read to go live…. but have you validated it making sure its compliant to w3c standards?

Where to validate

Of course you can head straight over to the w3c.org website where you can:
• Validate your XHTML
• Validate your links
• Validate your CSS
• Validate your RSS/Feed

But fingers crossed someone has already or they are working on creating an all inclusive validator to do all of these things in one go.

Dont forget to spell check!! I advise you use the default spell checker in what ever software you are using to create your website, another way you could check is by using an online checker such as http://www.wellho.net/demo/spell.php how ever please bare in mind that this is a free service and only checks single pages.

In my travels i also stumbled accross the WDG HTML Validator, which is available at http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/ not only can you check a websites validation, you can check to see if the entire site is validating, this is also very hand as one of its features enabled you to see if your internal pages are linking to pages that dont exist.

Why validate?

Well there are many reason too validate, take a look at the following website for an explanation of reasons to validate - click here to read more.

Give it a go, it worked well for me.

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How to Test your Websites Loading Speed

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

After stripping and streamlining my xhtml, css, javascript, php and images for the design and launch of the new website i thought id do a little hunting for a decent website speed checker.

I managed to find ‘Web Page Analyzer‘ which is a free web page analysis tool that calculates page size, composition, and download time and gives speed recommendations based on best practices for usability, HCI, and website optimisation.

This was not only good for showing the data that i was after but it highlighted files that were larger than first expected and pointed out a couple of small but non important errors.

Give it a go.

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Changing the Favourite Icon on your Website

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Personalise your site by creating your very own icon, removing the standard browser icon such as the I.E or Firefox logo. This will change the icon not only on the browser tabs but when a user adds your site to their favourites.

Heres how it can look

Favourite Icon

So heres what to do

Step 1 - Design your icon
Simply design and image that you want to use (standard is  16 x 16 px).

Step 2 - Convert your image to a .ico file
Once you have created this icon simply convert this to an icon. There are a number of ways to do this. Download/Purchase software to create .ico files alternatively visit http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ and create your own free icon by simply uploading your image and downloading.

Step 3 - Upload your logo
Once this has been done and you will need to put your favourite icon in the root of your website. e.g. www.mysite.com/favicon.ico make sure you keep the file name as “favicon.ico”.

Step 4 - Add the following code
In your webpage document simply add the following code anywhere within the <head>…..></head> tags.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" mce_href="favicon.ico" />

or if you need it to work on a number of pages within folders simply link to the file direct.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.minimalistics.co.uk/favicon.ico" mce_href="http://www.minimalistics.co.uk/favicon.ico" />And its as simple as that!

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