W3C validator Is it Possible For VB

W3C validator is it possible for a VB forum if so how ? any help will be thankfull


Kollam003

I dont know the answer to that - but I believe so. I personally, dont worry about that validation too much.

Blue Pearl Design has some that are XHTML 1.0 transitional
http://www.bluepearl-design.com/index.php

Does that count?

Though, I must note, that they have removed the validator link from their 3.6.8 version of it. I'm unsure if that is due to their installing VBSEO, or other mods... but the at least the b020 skin had the link on it.

It's about working through the code and resolving all the errors. It can be hard work, though.

Dave is correct. It can be accomplished, but it can also require a lot of effort. It's just a matter of cleaning up the code that has been added to the original vB package.

dont have any idea about codes :D

dont have any idea about codes :D

Neither do I but I managed to work it out, I had 44 errors in one of my styles, fixed up 2 pieces of code and all the errors went.

Its not to hard, its just time consuming, and some pages will never pass, TV and Radio mod will never pass it has over 200 errors that the coder needs to fix, I brought it up and he said he didnt care lol.

Downloads II passes with flying colours, blog and Forums may need a little tweaking if you have chopped around in there putting adsense in and what not.

Have a play around with it, sometimes one bit of stray code can fix multiple errors.

The errors are numbered make shure you select show soarce before checking for the errors, this way you work your way down from the top, look for the error line number, then go down to the source and look for that number, and that is the template its in.

Is it really worth it? I dont know, its just piece off mind really, I spent 2 days getting most of my errors off all my pages, and I trashed 1 style and had to reinstall it ,but that was me getting sloppy.

'Is it worth it' is the question that always arises.

Will a browser render a page with multiple errors? Usually, although some browsers will do better than others. So the question should actually be, 'When will we see validation become necessary?'

As for the code errors that we all create, validation is nice because it teaches the proper way to code. Coding is like everything else, there is a right way and a handful of wrong ways to go about it.

I just made a change to the index page on one of my forums. That change drug in 132 errors. I spent about 25 minutes correcting the errors and now the page validates again. Did I waste my time? I don't think so, but there will be others that will disagree.

'Is it worth it' is the question that always arises.

Will a browser render a page with multiple errors? Usually, although some browsers will do better than others. So the question should actually be, 'When will we see validation become necessary?'

As for the code errors that we all create, validation is nice because it teaches the proper way to code. Coding is like everything else, there is a right way and a handful of wrong ways to go about it.

I just made a change to the index page on one of my forums. That change drug in 132 errors. I spent about 25 minutes correcting the errors and now the page validates again. Did I waste my time? I don't think so, but there will be others that will disagree.


Mike I am with you on this, I think it will help with SEO purposes, how much I dont know, I am new to this website thing, Only started running my first site 3 months ago.

I have never coded before, but like you said I think this does teach you to code correctly, I Knew nothing about any coding before,but with all the hacks I have installed and using the Validator I have learnt a lot in a short space of time, the Validator has allso taught me that there are a lot of dodgey coders out there.

My ultimate goal is to display the XHTML 1.0 validation script on my pages, but I cant see this happening with my current version of Photopost throwing out errors and TV/Radio mod throwing out over 200, other than that all my other pages pass.

On another note guys if you are getting an error for Missing xmlns attribute for element html. The value should be: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml. here is the fix, http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=237836 replacemant variable fix is very quik and easy , mine was a little differant I had to search for <html dir="ltr" lang="en"> and replace with <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> this is located in your styles and templates under replacement variables.

For the lazy ones that dont want to go thru the simple steps you can use this http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=153476 this error is fixed for Vbulletin 3.7 so I believe.

i'm not sure about the fact that is that to be validated ? but i have read in many articles that it improves our ranking very much , but i'm not sure about it

amazon has 1000 sum errors on its frontpage. think about it.

amazon has 1000 sum errors on its frontpage. think about it.
Yep, there's no doubt a lot of huge sites are full of errors.

I've read differing opinions on how a search engine spider handles broken code, so there seems to be no definitive answer there, either. But it seems as if bad code doesn't really cause much too trouble, because as you've indicated, huge sites are getting indexed without problems.

Of my forums, I've only taken the time to get one of them to validate. And it doesn't load or display any differently than the forums that do not validate. For me, it's just the satisfaction of knowing that one forum is done correctly. I'll address the others when time permits, because it's not that big a deal. For now, anyway.

For now its probably not a big deal, but I would say in the coming years it will be more important, as more and more sites pop up on the web fighting for SEO dominance, and market share and as the Internet will eventually become mainstream, and cough^ "replace TV". Search engines may bring in a quality control and grading system, for page ranking.

This is only my opinion and I am no genius, but it kinda makes sense for them to head down a path like this, because keywords and things of this nature, as the Internet grows will become less relevant, and things like hits, page displays and validation may become more relevant, I would assume.

Please don't think for a second I know what I am talking about ha ha :D, because I am a tradesman by day and I don't use computers 24/7 only in my free time,you can take my comments with a grain of salt if you like, but I think this could be the way it heads.

that may become like that in future since more and more sites are comming and quality bar may become a relevant thing for future

I wonder just how much validation is already affecting some sites as far as ranking is concerned.
Take vBFAQ for instance. Currently script/code errors. No page ranking. Perhaps.

I have never coded before, but like you said I think this does teach you to code correctly, I Knew nothing about any coding before,but with all the hacks I have installed and using the Validator I have learnt a lot in a short space of time, the Validator has allso taught me that there are a lot of dodgey coders out there.
Pretty much my experience too.

I recall one of the Google engineers talking about Google having to be very tolerant of coding errors. Personally, I think the critical thing is that text and coding should be easily/accurately identified and seperated. The algo is analysing text content - as long as it can find it!