I can’t believe how far I’ve fallen behind on the times when it comes to HTML and XHTML. 8 years’ worth, but maybe that’s because I haven’t really been paying attention to it all. But I have this feeling that if my page is not XHTML validated, then search engines are going to refuse to list my pages. And in today’s world, it’s all about SEO, no matter how seemingly insignificant things may be. Call me paranoid, but I would like to have a better ranking on Google despite how the current search results on Google lead many to believe that Google sucks these days. I remember when they could find anything and everything. These days, Yahoo! is actually pulling ahead in regards to actually bringing me search results that I actually wanted to find, instead of a front page full of crap from Google.

Anyway, behold! Validated! (as if I just passed my driver’s license test for the first time)

You can check if the current page is validated too. Just look for the “Valid XHTML” link on the right navigation panel. Hopefully, this new page meets the correct coding.

And it took me a couple of hours to get everything “Transitional”. It was good thing, though, that I didn’t have too many posts to go through. While cleaning up my site, I noticed my new theme was causing display problems for a number of my posts, so my next step is to fix those. Sigh. All for the love of perfection.

4-15-07 Update

I decided to use a new plugin, so this information is incorrect at the present time. Oh well. You can read why I threw all the effort out the window.
(http://www.ninenines.net/ninesblog/index.php/blog/2007/xhtml-invalid-again)