Hello, I am having slight doubts about the W3 validator... Because it considers "error", mistake even these: -lack of alt text (of course, we don't need it for all images, but it shows up as an "error")... -it doesn't like empty DIVs, like: <a href="link.htm"><div id="blue"></div></a> (DIV is linked) -it sees <br> single tags as "error"... should have used <br/> or <br /> instead? So the whole thing is a bit weird, as it always finds "bugs" for sites that are actually well coded... We get this for lots of sites, not just ours... also major sites... Of course, I try to minimize these "defects" as Google might find them "errors" too, so that might influence ranking... What is your opinion?
w3 validation is for semantic design. "STICK TO THE RULES " .. we will get the output what we need even though we not stick to the html rules. no need to dobt about w3 validation. alt tab is good for search engines to find images. div is used to contain some objects like text or image.. so it shd not be empty. thats all basic rules of HTML. if you want to follow just follow or not just avoid validation. no problem in that
BTW what doctype you're using... That might be a problem, cause html 4.01 and xhtml 1.0 have some different tags rules...