Mac WWW Checklist: HTML

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HTML Authoring & Design

This is only intended to aid you in catching possible problems with html documents. These are not absolute rules, so use your own judgement when applying them.

Tags

	Have you included the `<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W30//DTD W3 HTML 2.0//EN">` SGML prolog? (Only if you are 100% HTML 2 Compliant)
	Have you included the `<HTML>`, `<HEAD>` and `<BODY>` tags? And the corresponding close tags?
	Have you used tags only to define text semantically and not stylistically?
	Have you used stylistic tags only to enhance, but not define, meaning?
	Have you used heading tags only for text that defines the beginning of a section or sub-section?

Design

Images

	Have you included the `ALT` attribute for images?
	Have you used `ALT=""` for extraneous graphics and image maps?

Testing

	Have you checked the html document using a validation utility?
	Have you looked at your document using a text-only browser (or a text preview tool such as the one in Lindsay Davies' BBEdit HTML Tools)?
	If you use any non-standard HTML tags (IE. `FONT`, `TABLE`) have you looked at your document using a strict HTML graphic browser?
	Have you looked at your document on a monitor set to grayscale? 8-bit color? 4-bit color?
	Have you followed every link accessed by your document, or used a link testing tool?

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