This presentation is for those who are unfamiliar with what validating a web page means. It involves using a program or an online service to check that the web page as created is free of errors and meets the standards.

3. • What is Validation?
• Why Validate Your Websites?
• Validation Techniques
• The Importance of W3C Validation
• Validation Tools for Your WordPress Website
• Validating a Wordpress Theme
• Conclusion
AGENDA

4. WHAT IS VALIDATION
• Validation is a process of checking documents
against a formal Standard, published by
Standard organizations.
• It serves a similar purpose to spell checking
and proofreading for grammar and syntax, but
is much more precise, because of it’s dealing
with machine languages.

5. WHAT IS VALIDATION
• W3C – World Wide Web Consortium has it’s
own standard for internet (web) based
documents, which includes: HTML, XHTML,
CSS etc.
• Similarly Apple has it’s own IOS standard for
Mobile APP validation and WordPress has it’s
standard for plugin / theme validation.

6. WHY VALIDATE A WEBSITE
• In simple terms, validation ensures that your
website complies with the standards accepted
by most web designers.
• This allows your site to be accessible to more
people, across more web browsers, operation
systems, and search engines.

7. WHY VALIDATE A WEBSITE
• The base issue that the non-validated
websites face are, they rely on auto-
correction methodology of the web browsers.
• But in certain instance, if the browser doesn’t
have the capability to do so, the website
breaks down it’s user experience.

8. WHY VALIDATE A WEBSITE
• The purpose of W3C’s appearance in the early
90s was to develop certain standards for
HTML to follow.
• This was important because different vendors
had begun creating their own versions of
HTML and W3C worked to agree the vendors
on supporting the standards and principles
made by it.

9. WHY VALIDATE A WEBSITE
• Now we are on 2014 and now every standard
organization is following the rulesets of HTML
standard prepared by W3C.
• So, validation of a web page means making
the page's code compliant with the World
Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) standards.

10. WHY VALIDATE A WEBSITE
• There are many reasons to write valid HTML,
XHTML, and CSS and to check for valid links.
Here are some of them:

11. WHY VALIDATE A WEBSITE
• SEARCH ENGINES
• BETTER, FASTER RENDERING
• A CONSISTENT DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL
• AVOID UGLY PAGES
• BE STANDARDS COMPLIANT
• WRITE IT ONCE

12. VALIDATION TECHNIQUES
• Validators detect problems in your web page and
style sheet. It could be a tag that was opened and
never closed.
• It could be a misspelled piece of code or
forgotten element the tag or style requires to
work properly.
• You become a detective, hunting and solving the
little problems occurring in your web page.

13. VALIDATION TECHNIQUES
• Validation doesn't just mean putting your
pages through some web driven testers. It
also means test-driving it with friends,
relatives, co-workers, and strangers.
• Everyone has a different system and way of
working, so ask for others to test-drive your
styles or themes before you make them
public.

14. IMPORTANCE OF W3C VALIDATION
• As we already discussed, W3C validation is the
process of checking a websites code follow
the formatting standards put up by the World
Wide Web Consortium otherwise known as
W3C.

15. IMPORTANCE OF W3C VALIDATION

16. IMPORTANCE OF W3C VALIDATION

17. IMPORTANCE OF W3C VALIDATION
• W3C validation not only functions as a code
debugging tool to check for coding errors, it
also makes sure that websites are formatted
using international and professional W3C
standards.
• There are also many other reasons why your
website should undergo web page validation
including:

18. IMPORTANCE OF W3C VALIDATION
• Improved User Experience
• Browser Friendliness and Accessibility
• Allows You to Debug Your Pages
• Results in Better SEO
• Easy Coding and Maintenance

19. WORDPRESS WEBSITE VALIDATION
• To validate your WordPress site, here is a
quick checklist:

20. WORDPRESS WEBSITE VALIDATION
• Validate HTML/XHTML
• Validate CSS
• Validate Links (check for dead links)
• Validate Feeds
• Check across different browsers (include handheld devices)
• Re-validate HTML and CSS
• Have friends, relatives, co-workers check your site
• When ready, you can post your site on the WordPress
Forum's for review

21. VALIDATION SOURCES
• HTML – Validation
The W3C's HTML Validation Service (URL and upload)
• Link Checker
http://validator.w3.org/checklink
• QA Tools
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/
• Watson Addy's Validator
http://watson.addy.com/

22. VALIDATION SOURCES
• HTML Validator Pro
http://html.validator.pro/
• OnlineWebCheck.com
http://www.onlinewebcheck.com/
• CSS Validation
W3.org's CSS Validator (URL, upload, and direct paste in)
• WDG and HTMLhelp.com's CSS Validator and
Checker
http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/

23. VALIDATION SOURCES
• Walidator
http://www.walidator.com/
• RSS Feed Validator
http://feedvalidator.org/
• Redland RSS 1.0 Validator
http://librdf.org/rss/

24. VALIDATING A WORDPRESS THEME
• Along with W3C's standards, WordPress has
its standards, too:

25. VALIDATING A WORDPRESS THEME
• PHP Coding Standards includes using single &
double quotes correctly, using full PHP tags at
all times, using white space properly, utilizing
Conditions and so on.

26. VALIDATING A WORDPRESS THEME
• HTML Coding Standards refers to writing valid
HTML code; using attribute values with
lowercase characters, wrapping the attribute
values with quotes, using white space with
logical indentation, etc.

27. VALIDATING A WORDPRESS THEME
• CSS Coding Standards includes structuring the
stylesheet properly, using lowercase names
(with hyphens for separating words) in
selectors, ordering the properties nicely,
commenting and such.

28. VALIDATING A WORDPRESS THEME
• JavaScript Coding Standards calls that we
use braces appropriately, name functions and
variables with camelCase, defining an
anonymous function if jQuery is going to be
used, and so forth.

29. VALIDATING A WORDPRESS THEME
• Theme Review Standards includes writing
quality code (naturally), separating
functionality by using plugins, utilizing
template tags and hooks properly, supporting
WordPress-generated CSS classes, securing
the theme, licencing appropriately, organizing
the theme files properly, writing a sufficient
documentation... There's just too much!

30. CONCLUSION
• Without any questions, it is a mandatory task
for every web designers and web developers
to validate their websites before releasing for
the web.
• As long as you validate your web pages and
maintain them to stay valid, you will only
benefit from it.

32. REFERECES
• Code.tutsplus.com
• Wordpress.org

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