Excellent article on the merits and advantages of clean markup from Webdesigner Depot:

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009...in-web-design/

Nice article, indeed.

I was introduced to clean, semantic markup while working at Yahoo! years ago and have never looked back.

~R~

Originally Posted by WebFeathers

Nice article, indeed.

I was introduced to clean, semantic markup while working at Yahoo! years ago and have never looked back.

~R~

you've got 4 validation errors on your site though

Originally Posted by WebFeathers

Nice article, indeed.

I was introduced to clean, semantic markup while working at Yahoo! years ago and have never looked back.

~R~

It has the "404 Error" on my end!

you've got 4 validation errors on your site though

3 errors, all caused by the <noindex> tag, and 1 warning, to be precise. The 'noindex' should really go into the meta tags:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
NONE of which is really a big deal. Perfect validation is NOT a requirement.

you must be using a different version of the w3c validator or something then
http://tinyurl.com/dec3lw

apart from the no index error there is:
1. use of align which should be controlled by css
2. target - deprecated for this doctype
3. html attribute for border that should be removed to the presentation layer of css

not biggies but not indicators of 'clean, semantic' markup either

perfect validation is not a requirement, but it does usually go hand-in-hand with clean, semantic markup!

Thanks for the post LadynRed! A lot of good information on that site.