Why Validate?

Why Validate?

This document attempts to answer the questions many people have regarding why they should bother with Validating their web sites and tries to dispel a few common myths.

Table of contents

1. History of this document
2. Why Web professionals choose to validate
   
   
   1. Validation as a debugging tool
   2. Validation as a future-proof quality check
   3. Validation eases maintenance
   4. Validation helps teach good practices
   5. Validation is a sign of professionalism
   
   
3. Frequently asked questions
   
   
   1. “My site looks right and works fine - isn't that enough?”
   2. “Lots of websites out there don't validate -including household-name companies”
   3. “Validation means boring websites, and stifles creativity”