CNN: 43 Errors, 26 warnings

Oh goody, another very widely used site fails to care about validating their pages. Who are these people that they get to build these sites anyways?

I always have high hopes for sites like this, the guys who built the site really have a place to show off their coding skills. Instead, this site is riddled with ampersand issues, blank alt attributes, and the sin of them all...missing alt attributes. To me, this is one of the fundamental skills that us as web developers learn, or teach ourselves. But, I guess some of us fail to notice the small details.

Maybe those that work on sites with this much traffic, make so much money that they really don't care anymore....I think I will convince myself that this is the answer.

Goodnight. Read More!

Walla Walla University: 905 Errors, 594 warnings

This is one that has bothered my for a really long time. They launched their new website quite a while ago, and along with that came over 900 errors. Since the launch, there has been no work done to fix the issue, and the errors remain.

This site has extensive use of query strings, so again, not escaping & to &amp; is a huge problem. There are also issues of not closing break tags (<br> should be <br />) and they are using tons of onMouseOver attributes, which drives me crazy. Not only is the lowercase version not being used, but they failed to follow the rules of unobtrusive javascript!

And, to make things even worse, there are quite a few images that are missing alt attributes. Now that is just unforgivable. Read More!

Google: 61 Errors, 16 warnings

Lets take a look at one of the most widely used pages, and see how many validation errors they are sporting.

A whopping 61 errors are shown when the page is validated. Mainly from not changing & to &amp;. This is a big problem on many websites, including Blogger, where there are query strings using &amp; signs, and they don't get converted to &amp; which will make the page finally validate.

Is it just me, or do people not even check if there page is valid these days?! Read More!