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This week's goal:

Some would say that what any person wants in life is to be validated. We each want to be assured our work is really good.Of course, it is unusual to find convincing validation in our lives. As web authors, however, at last we can get validation, at least for our coding.

Now that you have done so much work on your web site, you will want make sure it is as good as possible. Once it is finished you usually will want to attract as many viewers as possible. This week you will master ways to validate and promote your site. As we near the end of the semester, we are going to do some teamwork to help each other promote our sites.

What to do this week:

1. Read the article by Alan Richmond at Web Developers Virtual Library about Validating HTML.

2. Read one or both of the articles about search engines at Search Engine Watch or at Submit-It.

3. Read the comments in the "Validation" link below. The Readings link includes other articles about search engines that you may find useful.

4. Try submitting some of your pages to the W3C Validation Service and either Dr. HTML or Web Mechanic. Compare the results. If you learn something especially useful from validating or if you have a lot of problems, send a message to the ListServ sharing your experience.

5. Go to the directory of student sites for this class. Check the web site of the persons listed immediately before and after you. Send these two classmates as many "keywords" as possible for their web pages. (Send these messages directly to your classmates and not to the ListServ. If you are the last name on the list, count the name at the top of the list as ahead of you. If you are the first name on the list, count the name at the bottom as immediately before you.)

5. Try to find one web ring that relates to the topic of your site or a site that you would like to ask to link to yours.

6. Write a press release about your web site. Either do this in html and post the draft on the web where classmates can read it and respond, or send it as an attached text document in a message to the ListServ. Please read the draft press releases from your classmates and send suggestions to them.