W3C for amateurs?

I'm a rank amateur and can only do very simple web pages so far.

I've been checking one of my pages with http://validator.w3.org/
and it's horrible, like 157 errors, not even what they call a valid page,
etc.

Yet it shows up fine in Seamonkey.

But for us amateurs, is there some kind of checker software that can not
only check our web pages, but CORRECT them to compliance with W3C?

 

Brain 1.0.

 

Seems to be the same in usenet -
you didn't include a URL for the site
or the validation report,
no idea of what any of the 157 messages are.

Worse than usual, most likely very amusing if it's all errors and not
some warnings.

Guessing mostly,

alt for images,

x isn't allowed here,

dreamweaver or frontpage custom bits.

It's the same in MSIE, Opera, Lynx, Safari and so on?

So how much work is SM or any other browser doing to allow / correct for
the validation errors.

Not really, Lint/HTML Tidy, but you have know HTML to bable to fix
validation issues or not and what some automatic code tidy app may do.

http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

You can tidy up the code but not fill in what's missing in any case.

If you use (almost) any app to draw pages on screen, the HTML produced
is likely never to validate.

Are you maybe wanting / expecting the wrong thing from the validator? As
a rank amateur it sounds as though you are.

From alt.html,
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/validation.html
HTML validation” is a good tool, but just a tool

Getting Started
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

There are lists of other links posted every so often, search
http://groups.google.com/group/24hoursupport.helpdesk/topics

Me

 

This is not an online validator, but try
http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/

 

The poster formerly known as 'The poster formerly known as Nina DiBoy'

Thanks.

Does Google downgrade your ranking if the site is crummy html-wise?

 

So what is the URL? It would help a lot by seeing the validation report
and see if there is anything that needs fixed compared to making things
neat tidy and validated.

No, There is info on Google on how it ranks pages and sites with rank
checking tools,
http://www.google.com/search?q=google+page+rank

Google PageRank
http://www.google.com/technology/

Crummy HTML only makes the browser do more work by tring to account for
errors. You are more likely to put people off from the site all on your
own by making simple common mistakes.

Me