{"id":408,"date":"2004-11-08T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/quality-tips-for-webmasters.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-15T13:55:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T12:55:02","slug":"quality-tips-for-webmasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/quality-tips-for-webmasters.htm","title":{"rendered":"Quality tips for webmasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--109991950837190683-->I&#8217;m no web site designer, but anyone who has seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/\">my main website<\/a> recently will have noticed that it is undergoing a few changes.  I hope to extend the new style to my other websites soon (including this blog), but time is not on my side.<\/p>\n<p>During my code validation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/\">W3C Markup Validation Service<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/jigsaw.w3.org\/css-validator\/\">CSS Validation Service<\/a> I came across the W3C&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/qa\/tips\">Quality Tips for Webmasters<\/a>.  There is some useful stuff there to help novice (and experienced) developers to produce better websites.  Worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m no web site designer, but anyone who has seen my main website recently will have noticed that it is undergoing a few changes. I hope to extend the new style to my other websites soon (including this blog), but time is not on my side. 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