Perfect Code...Until it hits the Server that is

So lets say you have recieved your finalized Website from your Designer, complete with the W3C Validation report for your final product verifying no errors in the code.

You upload the documents to a hosting server and publically announce the site's launch to the public when...wait! what is THAT?!!! A second Validation shows errors, and multiple ones at that!  Did your Designer miss something?

Turns out, the probable answer is a resounding NO! You see, there are many commercial servers that code things in their own way, they want their own annaliticis as to how their server is being accessed, so they plug in their own tracking code into a Design's HTML documents.

So how do you make sure your Designer is actually not the problem, and that there has indeed been additional code added to a Site's design?

try following these simple steps
1. Run the pages through the W3C Validator yourself prior to upload

2. Ask your Designer to key in a sign off that can be looked at in the document to show just where their work stops and add-on auto-generated code starts. this can be as simple as this example, coded just prior to the </html> line of a document

<!--codeded by David Peters, Inertial Zen Designs dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm-->

by coding in a digital signature in like this, which will not be visible on the displayed site's front end, your Designer is showing their pride in the work presented to your Company.