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Checking For Errors and Usability
Testing your web pages is an important part of the web page authoring process. Once you've completed your web page, look at it in your browser and make sure there are no obvious HTML coding errors or misspellings. If possible, view your page with more than one browser. For example, the Prodigy browser is very forgiving when it comes to coding errors such as missing ending quotation marks and multiple BODY tags. Netscape, on the other hand, will not tolerate these kinds of errors and will not display your page properly.
Once you have your pages uploaded to your web space, take some time and check all of the hypertext links on your page to make sure that they work. Also check to make sure that all your images load. Sometimes these kinds of errors are not apparent until your page is online where you can adequately test it.
After you've done that, the next step is to run your page through an HTML Validator. An HTML Validator is a software utility that will check the HTML code of your page and identify any coding errors or invalid HTML. If you page can pass through one of these validators, you can be assured that all your visitors won't see any problems caused by improper HTML coding.
There are several online and offline tools available to help you find HTML coding errors on your web page. You can find many of these tools from our "Cool Tools" page.
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