Posted by Ray White on February 9, 2010 Comments (1)

You finally did it. You finished your first web page in HTML. You are so proud of yourself. You can’t wait to see it online. You anxiously upload the file to your server. You open a browser and type in the url of your new page. ACK! Why does it look like THAT?

It’s usually a minor thing. You probably forgot to close a tag or missed a bracket somewhere. But where? That’s gonna be pretty hard to find even if you knew where to look.

Here’s a simple solution.

WDG HTML Validator

Go to the above website and put the url for your web page in the text box. When you click the Validate it! button, the site will scan your source code. The site will then return a report of errors that it finds in your source code. It even tells you where they are! It makes proofreading your source code a whole lot easier.