Let’s get this straight – here we have someone who argues passionately about standards in various public fora but he now says that his sites don’t validate? Sounds like a hypocrite.
Let me explain. Of course my sites, such as my home page, my blog and my hobby sites all validate. What I’m talking about are the sites that populate my CV. Why do none of them validate?
Mostly I blame other people.
I hand over a perfectly validating template and then an ASP coder or a web editor starts shoving all sorts of crap in there. They mix up XHTML and HTML syntax in the same document, they don’t encode ampersands, they forget alt attributes, the nest elements incorrectly, they don’t understand character sets. So after a few months all the pages have been hacked about and nothing validates anymore.
So what am I to do when a job spec asks for examples of validating web sites?