Where could I find a service to help clean-up my site's Html validation results. I'm lacking skills on Html valiadtion, but need to take care of errors on my site. Any suggestions for a novice?

What browser are you using?  If it's Firefox, get the HTML Tidy extension; restart FF; and run your site thru that - it will show where your errors are and how to fix them.

Validation is requires detail knowledge of xhtml coding. And thats not done automatically, you can use http://validator.w3.org/ validator and Tidy validator to detect errors. But going one by one without knowledge will take you some time.

Only problem with the w3org validator is that it doesn't show you what the errors are, nor how to fix them -- I don't recommend that to anyone.

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Only problem with the w3org validator is that it doesn't show you what the errors are, nor how to fix them -- I don't recommend that to anyone.

Well, exactly as i said. If you don't understand coding ...

W3C is older and much more accurate in detecting errors. Tidy does not spot half of the serious errors. W3C for example ignores escaping url names but tidy picks them up. If you want a great site, start with table less layout, Xhtml and validate in both ... its not that difficult really.

W3C is not more accurate and I can prove that beyond a shadow of a doubt - especially since HTML Tidy was written by W3C after they came out with their old validator.

FF Tidy will automatically fix most, if not all, of the code warnings, at the click of a button. Sometimes it takes two goes to get them all.

HTML Validator

The errors and warnings are generated by Tidy. This program is originally developed by the Web Consortium W3C.

Tidy is a helpful program that tries to help people to correct their HTML errors. It finds HTML errors and classifies them in 2 categories:
- warnings: HTML errors that Tidy can fix automatically
- errors: critical HTML errors that Tidy cannot fix or understand.

If you have only Warnings, press on the "Clean up" button and Tidy will do his best to propose you a cleaned version of your page.

Most sites that I see have only warnings and no errors or only a few errors.

Get the warnings fixed, Big Bear, and then get back about the errors. You'll get some personal help. Probibly, some kind person will edit the small bits of code for you to copy and paste in, provided it's not excessive. A dozen errors would not be excessive.

Regards,
Laurie.