Web Design Tools?

[robot180]

(This is a real tip!)

If you think that validating your code is time consuming, try the Firefox web designers toolbar plugin. It has a lot of very useful features for web designers. One menu allows you to easily validate your html, css, WAI standards, and a few others. I use it all the time. All you have to do is click the menu, click the type of validation, and it pops up in a new tab, or new window if you want.

I think everyone should validate code, especially when it is that easy. I suggest validating it constantly while coding for two reasons. The first is that if you wait until you are done and find out that there are tons of mistakes, you may give up fixing them. The second is that I found that after making a few websites while constantly validating them, you start to write more valid code by default. Now, I can write code and never get errors.

The only problem I run into is when I copy and paste text to post on the site and it has appostraphies in it ('). That produces an error in the html validation. I always have to go back and fix that.