There are a lot of bull$*t web designers out there trying to scare you into thinking you need to pay them THOUSANDS of dollars up front and HUNDREDS of dollars a month for them to build and host your simple site.
They start by pulling up the W3C Markup Validation Service site and entering your site’s URL and then rubbing their head with their furrowed brows as they point to your “47 errors and 3 warnings.”
“47 ERRORS AND THREE WARNINGS!? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? CAN YOU HELP ME? AM I INVISIBLE TO GOOGLE? HOW MUCH WILL IT COST TO FIX IT? CAN YOU HELP ME PRETTY PLEASE???? PLEASE!!!!!!”
The all-seeing, all-benevolent bull$h*t web artist tells you,
“Well…maybe…but it will be hard…and it will take time…and…what is your budget?”
Look. Do you know where I got those numbers? Those are the numbers that came up on my site last night after I was adding pages and videos and photos and other goodies to my own WordPress site over the course of about a week. I ran my site through the validator, which is a good tool, then sent the report to my programmer and WHAMMO – my site is now clean as a whistle!
Does it take skill to clean up those errors quickly? Yes.
Does it require moving your whole site and redoing it on some bull$h*t artist’s proprietary platform? No! HELL NO!
If you site does not pass and you’d like my programmers to clean it up hit the Contact Us form and we’ll run it through the validator and give you a simple quote and timeframe for how quickly we can get to it.
But if some dude or chick tries to imply your site is hopeless because a couple of errors pop up and your only chance of being found on the web is to pay them big bucks tell them to go pound sand and give me a shout.
Remember, Life is good. It’s gooder when you’re not being snow-balled by some cheesy web dude.
