I’ve recently been working on a WordPress project in which I made the mistake of starting with a commercial theme that, while beautiful and feature-rich, was a complete mess in terms of code quality. HTML validation is always a requirement on my projects, but a poorly-written WordPress theme combined with WordPress’ own tendency to butcher code by inserting poorly nested <p>’s (more on that later) can make validation a real chore. The W3C’s Validator is [...]

A response to another developers blog which discusses the fact that WEB DEVELOPMENT IS HARD, or at least very different from desktop development.