Don’t believe the mark just above this line. This page is not CSS checked. I wish it were so, but it isn’t. For those who don’t know, the mark above is a sign of validation that your site conforms to the CSS standards set forth by an organization known as the World Wide Web Consortium. The idea here is that all web pages should conform to a standard, therefore reducing the errors that run rampant on websites.

For the past five years, I have been creating websites using only HTML design code. Within those past five years, this way of coding websites is becoming a no-no. The proper way is to use one language (XHTML) to define your content, while you use another language (CSS) to style those various types of content. The result is nothing short of magnificent compared to the old way of doing things. There is much more flexibility and beauty in the page, it loads faster, and renders fewer errors on various browsers. The problem is, I’m used to doing things another way.

I have recently decided to force myself to learn the contemporary way of coding websites by hand (as opposed to relying on Adobe Dreamweaver). I am sitting at Panera now, and I just finished my first page that uses CSS in partnership with XHTML exclusively.

Check it out.

Oh, and yeah, while I didn’t put the graphic on the page, it has been validated